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View fullsize Tiny delights of Mycena tenerrima fruiting from a coast redwood cone, both which inspired this poem ~ or was it them that conjured the poem and I was just quiet enough to listen? What are our creations but the grand coalescent expression of all that
View fullsize I’ve been very quiet on here for the past couple of months. I’ve been attending to many things large and small in preparation for a major life transition which I have recently taken my first, stouthearted steps into. I am humbled and hon
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View fullsize Dune shrooms! The sand dunes of Chincoteague Bay are incredibly special ecosystems that harbor a plethora of dynamic communities. The majority of monitoring, research and general public appreciation focuses on the diverse array of shore birds or art
View fullsize Like something out of a littoral dream, fungal mycelium crawls forth from the tissue of two marine invertebrates: a red beard sponge (Clathria prolifera) and a rubbery bryozoan (Alcyonidium hauffi). We found these beings in the intertidal zone of Che
View fullsize A recently completed illustration of a cross section of an ectomycorrhiza - one of this wild, sensuous earth’s most exquisite intimacies.
View fullsize One of the highlights of my summer solstice was finding this stunning Gibellula on the underside of an Urtica dioica (stinging nettle) leaf! Gibellula is a genera of parasitic Ascomycete fungi that specialize on arachnids. You can clearly see in thi
View fullsize A photo compilation of some recent hypogeous wonders from my fieldwork with the @fungaldiversitysurvey. Hypo(under)geous(earth) fungi are soil dwelling fungi that produce macroscopic fruit bodies either completely or partially buried in the soil. O
View fullsize Ever since I can remember, my dreamscape has been incredibly potent, sharply vivid, lucid, disorienting, full of chaos and pleasure and mythological beings and cryptic messages about events past, present and future (many of which come to fruition). M
View fullsize splendors of the serpentine wrapping me in a spell of mottled, blue-green geologic veneration. something… unspeakable so I walk in silence and let it be spoken by sargents cypress whose roots weave like nimble fingers through the metamorp
View fullsize A big appreciation post for these tiny ones that go largely unseen even to the curious eye. It is a goal of my work with the @fungaldiversitysurvey to focus on these minute yet absolutely stunning Ascomycetes… aka spending a lot of time crawli
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View fullsize I have longed to meet one of the many stalked puffball species, and the last place I foresaw having my first encounter would be in an inconspicuous pot on my back porch! One rainy day I noticed a small, spherical, white rock-looking addition to one o
View fullsize Uroctonus mordax under 395 nm UV light and in natural light It took me about seven years of living in California to see the western forest scorpion. Maybe I wasn’t looking in the right places or at the right times. But just this weekend I was
View fullsize Myco (Greek mukēs): fungus Hetero (Greek heteros): other, different Trophy (Greek trophē): nourishment To put it simply, mycoheterotrophy is the strategy of using fungi to meet nutritional needs. Mycoheteroteophic plants can be either fully or par
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