Calostoma Cinnabarinum
Calostoma Cinnabarinum produces this weird jelly.
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We have a wide variety of wild mushrooms on our farm, but you could grow your own. People do! Craterellus Ignicoloris is characterized by its small size, its fairly well developed false gills, which often develop pinkish shades with maturity, and its yellow-orange cap, which develops a perforation in its center and becomes vase-shaped. Some…
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The oldest and largest living organisms on earth are also fungi. They recently found fungi fossils in Russia which are 547 Million years old! Tylopilus is a genus of over 100 species of fungi separated from Boletus. Its best-known member is the bitter bolete (Tylopilus felleus), the only species found in Europe. More species are found in North America,…
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Radiation-loving mushrooms were even used to clean up the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan. Trametes Versicolor – also known as Coriolus Versicolor and Polyporus Versicolor – is a common polypore mushroom found throughout the world. Meaning ‘of several colors’, versicolor reliably describes this fungus that displays different colors. These colors are important in Trametes Versicolor identification. For example, because its shape and multiple colors are similar…
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The mushrooms on Coal Creek are awesome, but there are 13 species that glow in the dark! More than 70 species of bioluminescent mushrooms exist on Earth, and though some may be drab during the daytime, all are mesmerizing at night. The Boletus Roody mushroom has a blood pink or purple cap that is flat…
Phellinus Robiniae
Dr. Brian Douglas of The Lost and Found Fungi Project says fungi are as beautiful as orchids and just as important to protect. “I think we need to teach people, and invite people in to admire fungi.” The beautiful Phellinus Robiniae can be found wherever black locust and closely related trees are common. It is a tough, perennial mushroom that…