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white mushroom, agaricus bisporus or champignon, with mycelium in soil, side view of soil interspersed with mycelium on black background.
A high scale magnification photograph of the conidia and conidiophores of a Penicillium species fungus. At the end of the long conidiophore are the phialides that form the spores. Some species of Penicillium are used in cheese making, others produce the antibiotic penicillin. The photograph was taken with a light microscope fitted with Nomarski differential interference contrast optics that give high contrast at maximum aperture for optimal resolution.
This summer and autumn species is considerd to be inedible. Many authorities give this genus family status as Crepidotaceae, while others include the genus Crepidotus within the family Inocybaceae; this should be a warning that these little fungi are not for eating, as some Inocybe species are deadly poisonous.
bunch of natural sponges
Fresh oyster mushroom on table, macro view
Phallus impudicus Pers. syn. Ithyphallus impudicus (L.) Fr. Gemeine Stinkmorchel Phallus Impudique, Satyre puant, Oeuf du diable, Stinkhorn. Fruit body initially semi-submerged and covered by leaf-litter, egg-like, 3–6cm across, attached to substrate by a cord-like mycelial strand. The outer wall of the egg is white to pinkish but there is a thick gelatinous middle layer held between the membranous inner and outer layers. The egg is soon ruptured, as the white hollow stalk-like receptacle extends to 10–25cm high, the pendulous, bell-shaped head is covered by a meshwork of raised ribs covered in dark olive slime which contains the spores. This slime has a strong sickly offensive smell which attracts flies from large distances, the slime sticks to the legs of the flies and thus acts as a means of spore dispersal which takes place very rapidly, exposing the underlying mesh of the cap. Spores pale yellow.
a parasom mushroom with a big cap with vertical gills closeup in a grassland in a forest in autumn
Geastrum triplex is a fungus found in the detritus and leaf litter of hardwood forests around the world. It is commonly known as the collared earthstar, the saucered earthstar, or the triple earthstar
death cap in a forest undergrowth
wild mushroom at park of glasgow scotland england UK
slices of a mouldy bread. isolated white background
Small mushrooms in autumn
Closeup on the spongy pores on a bolete fungus
Fomitopsis pinicola (Swartz ex Fr.) Karsten. Fichtenporling Unguline marginee. Fruit body perennial; no stem. Up to 38cm across, 20cm wide, 15cm thick, convex to hoof-shaped, with a thickened, rounded margin; upper surface with a sticky reddish-brown resinous crust, then grayish to brown or black; hard, woody, smooth or glossy-looking. Tubes up to 6mm deep per season; cream to buff. Pores 5-6 per mm, circular; surface cream-colored. Flesh up to 12cm thick, corky, hard, woody; cream to buff, sometimes zoned. Spores cylindrical ellipsoid, smooth, 6-9 x 3.5-4.5µ. Deposit whitish. Hyphal structure trimitic; clamps present. Habitat on dead conifer stumps and logs and occasionally on living trees. Found throughout Europe and most of North America except the South from Texas eastward. Season all year. Not edible. Comment The most commonly collected polypore in North America. The cap colors are rather variable (source R. Phillips).\n\nThis beautiful Species is nowadays quite common in the Netherlands and growing on different Trees.
Other types of mushrooms have pores instead of gills. Like gills, pores produce spores, but they appear as small, sponge-like holes instead of thin blades. The little holes lead to tubes inside the cap. As spores mature, they eventually fall from the tubes out of holes and into their environment.
Stock photo showing elevated view of plates of Trametes versicolor (Turkeytail bracket fungus) growing on a rotten tree trunk stump.
Close up of Pink oyster mushroom as background
Days of rain, in Alaska, have cause an invasion of mushrooms. A natural process in decay, these mushrooms offer an amazing example of natural beauty.
A photo of coral mushroom growing on the forest Floor.
Concretion formations in a rock in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah during the fall. Concretions are precipitated mineral deposits that form in the spaces of sedimentary rock.
Maitake, a common mushroom in Japan
forest mushrooms
Seashell background texture lots of sea snails mixed
Fomitopsis pinicola (Swartz ex Fr.) Karsten. Fichtenporling Unguline marginee. Fruit body perennial; no stem. Up to 38cm across, 20cm wide, 15cm thick, convex to hoof-shaped, with a thickened, rounded margin; upper surface with a sticky reddish-brown resinous crust, then grayish to brown or black; hard, woody, smooth or glossy-looking. Tubes up to 6mm deep per season; cream to buff. Pores 5-6 per mm, circular; surface cream-colored. Flesh up to 12cm thick, corky, hard, woody; cream to buff, sometimes zoned. Spores cylindrical ellipsoid, smooth, 6-9 x 3.5-4.5µ. Deposit whitish. Hyphal structure trimitic; clamps present. Habitat on dead conifer stumps and logs and occasionally on living trees. Found throughout Europe and most of North America except the South from Texas eastward. Season all year. Not edible. Comment The most commonly collected polypore in North America. The cap colors are rather variable (source R. Phillips).\n\nThis beautiful Species is nowadays quite common in the Netherlands and growing on different Trees.
Earthfan fungus Thelephora in Maliau Basin Conservatory Area Sabah Borneo, Malaysia
Convoluted brain coral.
Close up of a highly poisonous death cap mushroom during the day in a German forest
2015 08 08 Whiffin Spit-1016-2_Laetiporus Cincinnatus, Chicken of the Woods
Micrograph of a moss leaf, Dicranum, with elongated cells, and an elongated midrib (costa) that may be the water conducting cells of the leaf, with polarization at 100x.
Autumn mashrooms
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