A backlit mushroom, the sunlight highlighting the gills under the cap. Around the base of the stipe are strands of sphagnum moss. In the background a single golden orange leaf in full sunlight.
#Fungi #Mushroom #ColourADay #OrangeSun From October, a wonderfully backlit mushroom in a bed of spaghnum moss.
A galaxy with non-smooth features from the Galaxy Zoo: Hubble project, classified by 108 volunteers.
A galaxy with non-smooth features, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the GEMS survey.
It is at redshift 0.69 (lookback time 6.45 billion years) with coordinates (52.90662, -27.76750).
108 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.
Mycena chloroxantha
Mycena chloroxantha photographed recently in Oxapampa, Peru. The round cells are cherocytes which make up the universal veil - whitish, spiny acanthocytes are also visible. Described in 1983 from Brazil by Rolf Singer.
Mushroom Observer # 628987 / iNat 341877230
#fungifriends #mycology #mycena
A fungus photo a day: Entoloma/pinkgill mushroom, taken yesterday. Drops of rain on its stipe. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography
Happy #InternationalWomensDay Founded to investigate science, literature and antiquities, @ria.ie encouraged debate between scholars of diverse background & interests so long as they were male. Our blog, 'Skirting the issue', looks at the first women of the Academy www.dib.ie/blog/skirtin...
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This is Mycena rosoflava. A species of agaric mushroom in the family Mycenaceae. It is a wood-inhabiting mushroom native to New Zealand.
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Historical botanical illustration depicting two main Anthophyta species: Fig. 1 shows Tradescantia umbraculifera with elongated leaves and small clustered flowers; Figs. 2–6 feature Alstroemeria campaniflora, highlighting long, narrow leaves, trumpet-shaped flowers, and a detailed stem. Additional close-ups include floral and seed structures. The drawing is finely detailed in black ink on a cream background, with scientific labels and references to a 1901 South Brazil botanical expedition.
🌿 Pteridophyta und Anthophyta /
Wien: K.K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1908.
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Photo of a grey-green lichen growing flat on pinkish rock. The lichen is covered in prominent octopus sucker like discs which are the apothecia (spore producing structures).
Green Rock Posy Lichen. NWT, Canada.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends
Lichen is about 4cm in longest dimension.
Photo of a blue-green lichen growing on a birch tree. The lichen is in sort of an octopus shaped mound, with frilly edges instead of tentacles. It’s covered in numerous disc shaped apothecia which have blue-grey edges and dark brown centres.
Physcia sp lichen on a birch tree.
NWT, Canada. Photo covers about 5cm, left to right. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends
Photo of a Cladonia podetium that is comprised of a thick stalk that’s grey in colour and covered in green scales/squamules plus apothecia at the top that are brown in colour with a bubbly/lumpy surface.
Cladonia sp lichen. NWT, Canada.
Lichen is about 3cm high. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends
Photo of a round, orange lichen on mottled colour rock. The lichen is comprised of numerous branching arms, radiating out from the centre.
Elegant Orange Sunburst Lichen. NWT, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends
Close up photo of a group of Cladonia podetia. Each podetium is light grey in colour and shaped roughly like a golf tee. The top/bowl of each podetium is ringed with numerous small, roundish bright red blobs. These blobs are called apothecia - they are reproductive, spore producing structures.
Cladonia lichens. NWT, Canada.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends #mushroom adjacent:) Photo covers about 4cm, left to right.
Photo of about a third of a large, round, yellow lichen growing flat on reddish/purplish rock. The right half of the photo is lichen, the left half is bare rock. The lichen consists of a middle with a sugared, grainy appearance…hundreds of tightly packed branches radiate outward from the centre.
Polycaulinia sp lichen. #Newfoundland, Canada. Photo covers about 6cm top to bottom. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends
This #IWD2026 we’re shining a light on the incredible women who’ve been nominated, highly commended or won an NBN Award for Wildlife Recording since 2015💛 Huge thanks to all. Know an inspirational woman who records or verifies wildlife? Nominations for #NBNawards26 are open! bit.ly/NBNawards26n...
#fungifriends #mushrooms #mycology #nature #fungi #biology #photography
We found a really big outcrop of Sarcoscypha coccinea (Scarlet elf cups) in a place I’ve never looked before. There were dozens of them but only a few were accessible, being hidden in deep undergrowth under brambles and nettles.
Dark blue background featuring the OU logo and a series of book covers. Text reads: 'Join the conversation with books chosen by the Women@OU Book Club. Free for OU students and staff.'
Happy #InternationalWomensDay! ♀️
Celebrate women’s voices & professional growth with the Women @ OU Book Club Collection on Libby and OverDrive - featuring inspiring, thought-provoking reads explored in their monthly book club. Free to access with your OU login 👇 https://ow.ly/ruJt50Yl4NG
#IWD2026
Historical illustration titled "The birds of North America" (1895), showing four birds near water. The main focus is a large white heron with long legs and a pointed yellow beak, standing in shallow water with a full, textured tail. Nearby are three smaller birds: a brown, slender-legged bird with a long beak in the water; a gray bird perched on a low branch; and a black-and-white bird perched on a higher branch. Surrounding them are green marsh plants and flowers, with a pale sky and two birds flying in the background. The image is detailed with soft, natural colors.
🪶 The birds of North America
New York, U.S.A.: Published under the auspices of the Natural Science Association of America, 1895, c1888.
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In support of stand up for science here is an image of galaxy M51. Beautiful night. Clear and no moon
Illustration from an 1858 British fungi guide showing seven detailed mushroom species: a) Common Mushroom with a white cap and visible gills, some sliced to display the interior; b) bright yellow Common Chanterelle; c) Common Morell with a textured, honeycomb-like cap; d) Many cleft Earth-Star resembling a brown, spiked star shape; e) Carmine Peziza, a cup-shaped red fungus on wood; f) Fly Agaric, a tall mushroom with a red, white-spotted cap and white stem; g) Flat horned Sphaeria, a cluster of slender, branching fungi with black and white tips on mossy wood. Each species is labeled with names and scientific terms.
🍄 The instructive picture book, or, Lessons from the vegetable world
Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, 87 Princes Street, 1858.
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Attune in Nature for System Change
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Attune in Nature for System Change
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War is the biggest environmental crime on Earth. Every bomb dropped poisons the air, the soil, and the water. Cities burn, ecosystems collapse, and generations inherit landscapes filled with toxins, rubble, and trauma. War doesn’t only kill people. It destroys the living systems that sustain life itself. In a time of climate and ecological emergency, escalating conflict is a direct assault on the planet and on our shared future. Extinction Rebellion stands against war. Extinction Rebellion stands against ecocide. A livable world cannot be built on endless violence. Peace, justice, and ecological protection are inseparable.
War is the biggest environmental crime on Earth. Every bomb dropped poisons the air, the soil, and the water. Cities burn, ecosystems collapse, and generations inherit landscapes filled with toxins, rubble, and trauma…
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After four days of hesitating, the president of France has joined the prime minister of Spain in saying that the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 attack on Iran is a violation of international law.
But they are still the only 2 EU leaders to have done so. Will others join?
🌱 In February we were proud to welcome several new members to the Agroecology Coalition 🌍
With them we are strengthening further our shared commitment to transforming food systems through agroecology.
Discover all our members: agroecology-coalition.org
#Agroecology #FoodSystems
Ancient rock crystals from Australia suggest that the early Earth might not have been as different as scientists had thought from the planet that exists today
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Turkey Tail fungi on log
Turkey tail on today’s #Towpathstroll
#UKCanals 🍄🧪
Found today February 14th 2026 - A scarlet elf cup fungus presenting itself just perfectly for Valentine's day.
On Valentine’s Day, 1990, at the request of Carl Sagan, NASA turned Voyager 1's camera back toward home for one last look. From 3.7 billion miles away, it captured this: a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. Here is how Carl Sagan beautifully described it: “Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
"The Pale Blue Dot"
The Earth as seen from 3.7 billion miles away by Voyager 1 on #ValentinesDay in 1990:
📸NASA
Recent rain in Oakland was enough to conjure up the Hygrocybes. All bright and shinny + one goth (H. singerii) #goth #mushrooms #mycology #fungusfriends
