Last week, as I was sitting down to photograph a small field of deliquescing Ochre Jelly Babies, I noticed a large matchstick looking club fungus sticking up out of the ground. My first thought was that it was one of the famous Cordyceps mushrooms which parasitize insects, for instance by hijacking the brains of certainContinue reading “Mushroom Report: The Snaketongue Truffleclub.”
Monthly Archives: July 2021
Snow Fungus: A Tropical Edible in Indiana
I mentioned in a previous post that Snow Fungus, Tremella fuciformis, deserved its own post. Firstly because, although you wouldn’t know it from the looks of it, it is considered a choice edible, and is actually cultivated to the tune of over 100,000 metric tones a year1. Despite having little appreciable flavor, you can findContinue reading “Snow Fungus: A Tropical Edible in Indiana”
Do mushrooms grow underwater?
Fungi are one of the most diverse and omnipresent forms of life. There are likely millions of species, the vast majority of which are unidentified and poorly understood, performing all kinds of crazy ecological roles we haven’t even begun to study. But they do have one limitation: mushrooms don’t grow underwater, right? You won’t seeContinue reading “Do mushrooms grow underwater?”
recycled paper clips 