Spot the difference! This Gymnopus foetidus specimen from Madingley Wood is impressively well-preserved and closey resembles its original illustration. It is also one of Kew’s oldest sampled fungal holotypes, having been collected in 1795. That makes this mushroom 230 years old!
Open book with a colour illustration of a bolete on the right-hand page. The description is in Polish.
Black and white illustration of various fungi
Detail of a colour illustration of various insects and cordyceps fungi growing out of them.
Here are some books we came across during a project in the mycology library last week. Our Library and Archives collections do not only cover plants, but also fungi and lichens. Some have very beautiful illustrations. Others (like the cordyceps) are rather gruesome... 🍄🍄🟫🍄🟫 #KewLA
A tall image of a cluster of parasol mushrooms
Parasol mushrooms from one of several albums of collectible cards written by Dr Jac P Thijsse for the Verkande company in the Netherlands in the 1920s-30s #FungiFriends #MycoBookClub
At stake are issues of justice and justice-mattering and how fungal epistemics ... aim to address these, cutting together-apart critiques of anthropocenic metaphor, flattened ontologies ..., and decolonizing the field of futures-thinking with non-Northern Western encounters with mycelium. [Abstract]
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
a fascinating newly published article on #fungi and how they have attracted the attention of new materialist! 🍄
#Mustread #histfungi #mycelial-thinking #mushrooms #philosophy
www.iltascabile.com/scienze/stre...
on @il_tascabile a nice post on witches, fungi and pseudo-sciences! a fascinating reading 🍄
Book cover: TOADSTOOLS AND MUSHROOMS OF THE COUNTRY SIDE By EDWARD STEP, F.L.S.
Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews.
#Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
#MycoBookClub
Underside of mushroom.
In this study of entomopathogenic fungi from China, two new genera and thirteen new species within Clavicipitaceae are described and illustrated.
doi.org/10.3897/myco...
Horse Chestnut seedling having broken ground now extends with its first leaves already forming
Horse Chestnut seedling having broken ground now extends with its first leaves already forming
Shared Vision- dustytoad 🍄📷
A cluster of yellowish-green Common Lime leaves backlit agains a blue sky to reveal the internal structure
Much as I love spring flowers, there's something heart-achingly beautiful about emerging leaves back lit by the sun - their fleeting fragility a potent sign of renewal...
Common Lime at Thorpe Hall, Peterborough
#wildflowerhour #photography #spring #naturewriting
A cluster of oddly formed pearl oyster mushrooms grow off the side of a bare log, bits of punkwood stick to their caps, and their alabaster gills flow and swirl across their undersides. All photos by me
Here are some nice mushrooms
Podcast from @bioneers.bsky.social The Universe Beneath Our Feet: Mapping the Mycelial Web of Life with Toby Kiers & Merlin Sheldrake "Imagine an underground web of mind-boggling complexity..." bioneers.org/universe-ben...
A number of fellowships related to plants and gardens are available from the Oak Spring Garden Foundation. Fellowships include a $10,000 award. Apply by May 31, 2025. osgf.org/fellowships
Thinking with Plants and Fungi: A Conversation with Rachael Petersen, May 29, 2025, 12pm CT. Free online conversation from @theplantinitiative.bsky.social with Rachael Petersen, Program Lead of Harvard University’s Thinking with Plants and Fungi Initiative www.eventbrite.com/e/thinking-w...
