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So, did you get any edible species…? Because *that* would have been the best ecology lab ever.
The two corals and the yellow Pholiota on my book are edible (though the corals were past their prime and the Pholiota is not thought to be terribly tasty). We found quite a lot of “edibles” but were all made to promise not to taste anything, just in case, to avoid any ugly legal repercussions for the instructors. 😛
this post is freakin sweet
Why thank you 🙂
I can’t look at fungus of any sort without thinking of what kind of beetles might be there. Probably some cool little staph beetles and maybe some sort of erotylids or tenebrionids. Either way sounds like a good class to assist with.
Actually, we spent a considerable time picking apart/cutting open a number of mushrooms near the end of the day, poking around in feeding chambers. I found a few lep larvae and some pretty, spotted mites in some puffballs, and saw what I presumed to be beetle damage on many shelf fungi, but never found any actual beetles, sadly.
Wonderful fungi. Our drought is now into its tenth week and there’s not one fungi to be found.
Egad, that’s a long drought. I hope wetter times are ahead for you…
Corals are definitely the Fonzies of the fungi world.
They are very Cool and Sexy, indeed.
The only thing I like to photograph more than insects are fungi!!!! I am creating my own personal field guide and challenge myself to learn their ID. I just photographed a new one to me called a Honey Mushroom. I would faint or my head would start spinning at the mushroom overload you experienced…WOW. That purple coral mushroom is incredible!
This is something you should share, methinks. Photographs and field notes, all online…it would be Teh Awesome. And yeah, that purple coral fungus pretty much made my head explode, it was so cool.