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For those of you who have dreamed about combining mushrooms and 19th century fashion, please consider:

Fungal Dress with Leg of Mutton Sleeves.

#Mushrooms #Mushtodon #Fungi #FungiFriday

A shelf mushroom, about 5 inches high and 4 inches wide is growing on a birch about 4 feet up the trunk. You can see it bursting through the papery bark. The mushroom is unusually shaped looking like a a croissant with its ends pointing downward growing atop a more normally shaped hoof shaped mushroom. The mushroom has intricate bands and thinner stripes of various shades of brown, many of them tan and cream soda colored. On top of the mushroom is a drawing of a woman’s head, complete with flaring fashionable hat.

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333d

The photographer and the photograph. (Photograph of me by my husband)
#mushtodon #photography

A person lying on their stomach on a boardwalk in a forest, so they can reach down and take a photograph of something under the boardwalk. The boardwalk ends oddly a few feet beyond the person.

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A tiny little parasol mushroom growing from black soil with some scattered fallen leaves nearby

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329d

Bright Smurf, Big Smurf (they can't hold you down)

#Fungi #Mushtodon #Nature #Photography #Smurf

A dense cluster of fungi growing on a rotting tree stump in a forest during autumn. The mushrooms are growing in layered, overlapping groups. Their caps vary in color, transitioning from a light yellowish-tan or golden-brown at the edges and in the center of the younger, upper mushrooms, to a darker, rich brown in the larger, more mature specimens below.

Many caps exhibit a slight concentric ring pattern or a change in color towards the center. They have a generally convex to flattened shape and appear smooth and somewhat moist or velvety.

The fungi are attached to a dark, textured wood surface, which is the tree material they are feeding on. The surrounding area is the forest floor, scattered with leaf litter in various shades of brown and yellow.

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These mushrooms I saw on a walk yesterday were almost orange.

(Some relevant hashtags because I've been told to include them: Hiya, #mushtodon and #mosstodon folks!)

A cluster of bright orange mushrooms among moss. Fall foliage in the background.

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334d

*waves hello*

#sillyScribbles #mushtodon #fungi #nonsense

A close up photo of a pale, round, mushroom growing on a mossy tree stump, brightly lit by the sun. It has a smiling face & arms scribbled on, and is waving at you. The focus is tight on the central mushroom with both the foreground and background blurred. On the right hand side is another round mushroom, attempting a photo-bomb but out of focus. They are also smiling and waving at you.

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318d

A little mushroom in its own little room.

#mosstodon #mushroom #mushtodon #nature

A little mushroom with an orange stalk and light brown cap growing on a weathered tree stump that's partially covered and surrounded by moss with a vivid green color. The tree stump has the form of a stair with two steps and has a hole in the horizontal center of the upper step. The mushroom is right in there with moss growing on top of the upper step creating a "roof" for the mushroom. There's two dark brown mushrooms on the side of the stump.

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2y

Common names for this mushroom include “Apricot Jelly” and “Salmon Salad,” but I always think of those wax bottle candies and those ridiculous wax candy lips I had as a kid.

[Guepinia helvelloides]

#Nature #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mushtodon #Pilze #FungiFriday

Top down view of a light orange, salmon colored mushroom. It resembles a squished shamrock in that it has three wavy heart-shaped (though that’s a real stretch) lobes spreading out. In its center is a powdery white tube that acts as a stem. The entire mushroom is approximately 3 1/2 inches across. The mushroom is on the forest floor with nearby leaves and pine needles.

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317d

Heathland fungi

#Fungi #Mushtodon #Nature #Photography

Three large mushrooms growing in a field of dry, sparse vegetation under a moody sky. The one on the right is the closest and largest, featuring a broad, pale cap that is slightly upturned at the edges, revealing some darker, concentric ring-like markings on its surface. Two other mushrooms, similar in appearance but smaller and slightly out of focus, are visible to the left and further back.

In the background, there's a horizontal band of dark, blurry trees or shrubs, and above that, the sky features soft, streaky clouds with patches of pale blue and touches of warm light, from a setting sun. The overall lighting is diffused and soft, contributing to the quiet, natural atmosphere of the image.

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2y

Common names for the same mushroom can run the gamut from alarmist to mundane.

Is this a:
A. Common Earthball 💤 😑
B. Pigskin Poison Puffball!!!!!! 🙀☠️

Yes.
[Scleroderma citrinum]

#FungiFriday #Fungi #Mushrooms #Nature #Pilze #Mushtodon

A somewhat round, leathery mushroom that sort of resembles a potato is in a large expanse of bright green moss. The earthball is tan with cracked markings and has a nickel sized tear on its top exposing the inside black spores of the fungus.

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303d

Witsteelfranjehoed

#Autumn #Fungi #Mushtodon #Photography

A top-down view of a cluster of small, brown-capped mushrooms growing on dark, decaying wood. The overall color palette is dominated by deep browns, rich oranges, and earthy tones.

Scattered throughout the scene are dry, fallen deciduous leaves, in shades of vibrant orange, russet, and warm brown. These leaves are nestled among the fungi and pressed against the wood, further emphasizing the seasonal theme.

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2y

This is the kind of summer where I feel like I’m constantly looking down to see the massive variety of shapes and colors of the fungi that is popping up.

Violet Cort [Cortinarius iodes]

#Mushrooms #Mushtodon #Fungi #Pilze #Nature #NewEngland

A mushroom about three inches tall grows from leaf litter on the forest floor. It is a classic umbrella shape mushroom with a small purple and tan on its cap. The rest of the cap is a soft lavender. It is perfectly round. The stem is harder to see but shares the same colors as the stem.

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2y

I gasped when I saw this

#mushtodon #fungiverse #sporespondence #mushrooms #mosstodon

the exposed roots of a large maple tree on the side of a stream bank. Water can be seen under the roots. Several large orange mushrooms are blossoming out of the roots.

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1y

Waxcaps are tiny bursts of color you often see at this time of the year. Red, yellow, green, gray, purple… but it’s the orange ones I most enjoy. Especially when in a mound of lush moss.

They can be a bear to ID as many species have a large range of color over their short lifespans. Field guides often differ in the colors they depict.

I’m happy just to see them on my hikes.

Honey Waxcap
[Hygrocybe reidii]
Maybe

#FungFriday #Fungi #Mushrooms #Pilze #Nature #Mosstodon #Mushtodon

Sitting on a bright green mound of moss is an out of focus pinecone with its open end angled toward the camera, and a small mushroom. The mushroom is about 1.5 inches high with an orange waxy looking stem and a reddish orange waxy looking cap. In the background are various low woody shrubs and leafed trees.

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1y

It’s MEGA Mushroom Monday!

American Parasol
[Leucoagaricus americanus]

#MushroomMonday #Mushrooms #Nature #pilze #Fungi #Mushtodon

Top down view of three large mushroom caps and a person’s outstretched hand alongside them to show how large they are. The mushrooms vary in size from 4-7 inches across. And they overlap each other. They are light tan with a brown umbo (protrusion) in the center. Each has flecks on the top which circle the umbo.

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1y

With the poison ivy leaves out of the way, I was able to get back to the Varnish Shelf mushrooms to log a final photo of this year’s life cycle.

Varnish Shelf [Ganoderma Tsugae]
Pic 1: November 13, 2024
Pic 2: June 7, 2024
Pic 3: May 29, 2024
Pic 4: May 20, 2024

#nature #FungiFriday #fungi #mushrooms #pilze #Mushtodon

This photo was taken 5 ½ months after the initial photo in this series. It shows the trunk of a hemlock tree with 6 plate like mushrooms growing out of the bark, some at eye level, some knee and ankle level. They are dark maroon and tan, cracked and slightly droopy, their attachment points weakened on the tree. At the base of the tree are autumn leaves and bright green moss.

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1y

Indoor farming. Oyster mushrooms grown in coffee grounds #urbanfarming #mushrooms #mushtodon

A twisted mass of long stemmed mushrooms growing out of a bag on a windowsill.

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#Photography "Special Topic Days" tag list! 📍

Together with awesome folks, I am working on making a list with all the special tags for photography.
Not "just" all the tags, but the ones that have a special topic-day.
When you see the list, you (probably) will understand what I mean...

If you know any of these kinds of photography tags that are missing, do let me know, and I will try to add them all to the list! ✅

This is what we have collected so far:

Monday:
#MonDog
#MountainMonday
#MonochromeMonday
#FotoMontag (new pix only!)
#MacroMonday
#MinimalismMonday
#Mohntag
#MallardMonday
#MuscovyMonday
#MushroomMonday
#MotoringMonday

Tuesday:
#TongueOutTuesday
#ThickTrunkTuesday (or Thursday)
#MardiPatisserie (tasty treats)
#TextureTuesday
#ChickenChoosday
#TakoTuesday
#ToesOutTuesday 🐇
#ToeBeanTuesday
#TreesOnTuesday / #TreeTuesday
#TrainTrackTuesday
#TurtleTuesday
#Extendienstag / #DuckTuesday
#TilesOnTuesday
#Toothday
#TabbyTuesday
#Bienstag

Wednesday:
#WaterfallWednesday
#MeerMittwoch / #SeaWednesday
#MERcredi
#RoseWednesday
#WaterwayWednesday
#WoodlandWednesday
#WhiskersWednesday
#MähMittwoch / #DefaidodonDay / #DyddDefaidodon / #Defaidodon / #Ewesday
#WildlifeWednesday
#WaterWednesday
#WavyWednesday
#WildflowerWednesday
#FluffyButtWednesday
#MacroMittwoch
#Wrensday
#WolfWednesday
#Wedsneigh
#WoodslandWednesday

Thursday:
#ThickTrunkThursday (or Tuesday)
#Doorsday
#ThrowbackThursday / #TBT
#ThursdayBins
#ThistleThursday
#Birdsday / #Birbsday

Friday:
#FensterFreitag / #WindowFriday
#FootpathFriday
#ForestFriday
#FlowerFriday
#FungiFriday / #Mushtodon / #ShroomScrolling
#FernFriday / #FernsOnFriday / #Feniverse / #Farnsehen
#FrüchteFreitag / #FruitFriday / #FruitsFriday
#FingerPostFriday
#FencepostFriday
#StaircaseFriday

Saturday:
#Caturday
#InsektenSamstag / #InsectSaturday
#SchiffSamstag / #SchiffSamstag / #ShipSaturday
#StatuenSamstag / #StatueSaturday
#SpookySaturday
#SaturdaySinage
#SquirrelSaturday

Sunday:
#SilentSunday / #StillerSonntag
#StandingStoneSunday
#CemeterySunday

Please, if I missed any, do let me know! I hope to make this list as complete as possible. 📸

Edit: this Toot will get edited when new tags are shared.

A vintage-style sepia photograph, presented as if on a film strip with sprocket holes and artificial scratches, captures a concentrated moment. Cynni is crouching on natural, rocky terrain among sparse bushes at Burgers' Zoo, fully focused on framing a picture. They look intently through the viewfinder of a black Nikon Coolpix P500 digital bridge camera, which they hold firmly with both hands. Their expression is one of deep concentration as they peer through the lens. Their left arm, featuring a complex stylized text tattoo, is bent, and a few rings are visible on their fingers gripping the camera body. They wear a dark short-sleeved t-shirt, camouflage cargo pants, and a dark baseball cap with white sunglasses perched on top. A Nikon-branded camera strap hangs around their neck. The background is a natural-looking zoo enclosure with other blurred figures of visitors visible in the far distance. The composition is a candid, close-up shot emphasizing their focus.

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One of my favourite things about rainy spells in autumn is the profusion of weird fungi. These popped up the other day, and so did a bunch of basket fungus. #mushtodon

Close-up photo of five egg cup fungus fruiting bodies, showing the radial markings on the inside of the front three cups and the paper-like covers still on the rear ones. Inside each of the cups are 5-6 spore-laden discs (the "eggs") and some rainwater. Under the fungus cluster is mulch comprising wood chips, bark, and leaves.

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Couldn’t decide which one to post so I picked all four! #fungi #FungiFriday #lichen #Moss #Mosstodon #nature #mushrooms #mushtodon ❤️

Beige wood mushrooms growing out of a stump. They range in size from 1 inch to almost 3 inches across. There’s also a variety of moss and lichen surrounding them.

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MUSHROOM MUSHROOM MUSHROOM
i really like mushrooms and i am learning my way around them - especially the ones endemic to my area

my main fascination is with photographing and identifying, and noting the changes and relationships between the parts of our forest and field biomes, and the fungi moss lichen and slime molds coming and going with the seasons and with the ebb and flow of forest growth/death/regeneration

but on no account should you ever eat or even handle any mushroom that is unknown to you. especially on my say-so. i know i don’t know nothing!

and if i threaten to eat anything truly silly, i’m probably joking

BADGERRR
#mushtodon

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What I saw VS What I painted - Black Paper Edition ✨

#MastoArt #TraditionalArt #MixedMedia #FantasyArt #Nature #Mosstodon #Mushtodon #Forest #Painting

A photo of a mossy, twisting tree trunk with mushrooms growing on it, in a sunny, rather dry forest.

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A mixed media painting on black paper of the same trunk, but placed in a darker, more lush environment. Luminescent blue mushrooms grow on the trunk’s mossy center, softly illuminating most of the scene with cold light. Only the left of the trunk, where purplish shelf mushrooms grow, is touched by soft, warm sunlight.

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These goldenhaired inkcaps (Parasola auricoma) only last for a few hours. I had lucky timing. #nature #mushroom #mushrooms #mushtodon #fungi

A top-down view of three tiny goldenhaired inkcaps clustered together in green grass in the sun. The open ones have a soft grey-gold-brown coloring and a perfect pleated parasol shape.

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A side view shows a peek of grey-brown gills and a lighter-colored, kind of waxy-looking stem.

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A section torn out of the cap shows a little more of the fine gill structure and the texture of the stem.

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#fungi #mushtodon #mushrooms #mosstodon #trees #photography

Macro photograph of yellow-brown, half-moon-shaped saprophytic fungi stacked on top of each other in small groups of three or four on the trunk of a tree, the lamellae clearly visible from below. Green moss and grey lichen also grow on the same trunk.

Photographie macro de champignons saprophytes brun jaune, en forme de demi-lune et empilés les uns par dessus les autres en petits groupes de trois ou quatre sur le tronc d’un arbre, les lamelles bien visibles du dessous. De la mousse verte et du lichen gris poussent aussi sur le même tronc.

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Like something you’d see in the pastry case.

Varnished Polypore, Hemlock Reishi
[Ganoderma tsugae]

#FungiFriday #Mushrooms #Mushtodon

A dozen shelf mushrooms, ranging in size from 5-10 inches and an inch high, grow from the bottom of a dead hemlock. The mushrooms are quite fresh. Their colors bright and glistening. The inner attachment to the bark of the tree are a deep brown/red, transitioning to yellow and then to a creamy white at the edges. In most of the mushrooms the edges are somewhat billowy at the edges and more sunken toward the tree.

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I picked up this twig with a mushroom growing on it today, and some guy coming along the trail said, "That is awesome! Is there a smaller one next to it, too?" I looked closer and saw the smaller one. I hadn't noticed it in my own hand, and this guy had spotted it from 3-4 meters away. He must be a good hiking companion. Second photo for scale with a bit of my finger.
#mushrooms #mushtodon

A twig held up in the sunshine, with a small mushroom and a minuscule mushroom growing on the side. They have narrow stems and wide thin caps, brown on top and beige on the underside.

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The same mushrooms zoomed out, this time with a bit of my finger showing. The bigger mushroom is less than half my fingertip. The smaller one must be about 1-2 mm wide.

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