May I Ask What The Third Flag In Your Little Pinned Post Is? I’ve Never Seen It Before

Found these neat mushrooms, not sure what they are but I can't wait to eat them!

Time to go big *uses time travel and ocean summoning to pull all the water that ever existed on Earth and dumps it in your inbox*- Flooder anon

*drowns*

Some concept art for a current project being made with the lovely @that-onecookiehead :)

Ghost pipe flower

The Ghost pipe flower is a pale white flower that lacks chlorophyll. Instead of photosynthesizing, it gets its nutrients by tapping into the network of fungi beneath the forest floor. Sometimes they are referred to as fungus flowers due to their resemblance of pale mushrooms.

I HATE PLANTS

-plant hate anon

ITS YOU D:<

@overwhelmedfernfrond come collect your anon I think they've wandered off again

Funguary Masterpost

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

Gasp >:0

Funguary Day 13: Fly Agaric

The Fly Agaric is quite possibly the most iconic mushroom there is. It was traditionally used as an insecticide. The cap was broken into pieces and sprinkled into saucers of milk. It contains ibotenic acid which both attracts and kills flies, thus, giving it its name. 

See the rest of my posts for funguary here!

Mushroom fact of the Week!

Lichens are extremely durable. In 2005 NASA sent lichen to space to test how it stood up in the freezing cold vacuum. It was left outside in space for a period of time, and within 24 hours of rehydration had resumed all normal photosynthetic activity

Cross section of Xanthoria elegans, one of the two lichens sent to space!

attempted @millastaria’s art style! :3