My posts for each day of Funguary!
This event is hosted by feefal and is primarily a drawing challenge in which people draw a mushroom for each day of February. I'm doing each day's drawing, but I'm not one to post my art often, so I will likely end up only be posting a couple of my favorites.
However, I still want to talk about the mycology of these mushrooms, so I'm going to make a post each day in which I talk about some of the cool science behind the mushroom of the day. We've got mushrooms that glow, mushrooms that digest themselves, and mushrooms that cause internal bleeding, so should be fun!
Science tidbits:
Feb 1st: Veiled Lady
Feb 2nd: Chicken of the woods
Feb 3rd: Spotted cort
Feb 4th: Burn Morel
Feb 5th: Enoki
Feb 6th: Inky Cap
Feb 7th: Wrinkled Peach Mushroom
Feb 8th: Destroying Angel
Feb 9th: Parrot Waxcap
Feb 10th: Guepinia
Feb 11th: Devil's Cigar
Feb 12th: Cremini
Feb 13th: Fly Agaric
Feb 14th: Crepidotus
Feb 15th: Puffball
Feb 16th: Mycena Chlorophos
Feb 17th: Pink Waxcap
Feb 18th: Turkey Tail
Feb 19th: Red Basket Stinkhorn
Feb 20th: Pixie Parasol
Feb 21st: Birds Nest Fungi
Feb 22nd: Oyster Mushroom
Feb 23rd: Fairy Ring Mushroom
Feb 24th: Purple Pinwheel
Feb 25: Trumpet of Death
Feb 26th: Indigo Milkcap
Feb 27th: Scarlet Cup
Feb 28th: Caesars Mushroom
Art:
Feb 1st Art: Veiled Lady
Feb 12th Art: Cremini
Mushroom of the Week No. 1
The witches cap mushroom, or Hygrocybe conica, starts off a vivid red-orange with patches of yellow. As it ages it slowly turns black naturally, or bruises black due to injury. This is actually one of the most helpful factors in identification, though the fungi itself is not sought after for its edibility. It cannot be cultivated in labs presently, suggesting that it requires something special from its environment, possibly a mycorrhizal relationship. For this it needs to be investigated further.
Some concept art for a current project being made with the lovely @that-onecookiehead :)
heeeyyy @madoxeal feel like doing a two artists one base with me? :3
tbh either character would fit either of us x-x
just depends who wants to do the side profile lol
I WAS looking for morels, didn't find them but did find these guys!
I think top right is a wood ear mushroom, and bottom right is for sure a cedar apple rust fungi, but I don't know about the others
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They're so neat!!!!
Most species that would come to mind when you think of fungi are basidiomycetes, fungi that produce their spores in cells called basidia. This phylum of fungi contains most of the “fleshy” fungi, including all fungi with gills or pores. Some “fleshy” fungi however, like the Scarlet Cup, are Ascomycetes. Mushrooms like morels and saddle fungi are also a part of this phylum. Ascomycetes produce their spores in sac-like structures called asci, unlike the basidia of the basidiomycetes. See the diagram below for more clarification on the difference between asci and basidia!
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Most mushrooms spread their spores by releasing them to the wind, but not stinkhorns. Stinkhorns contain their spores in a stinky goo called gleba. The Red Basket Stinkhorn’s gleba is located on the inside of its lattice. Flies are attracted to the foul smell of the stinkhorns and flock to it, getting the gleba on them and spreading the spores to wherever they go next.
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