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Agnes 🍄
@tiredtoadstool.bsky.social
a very tired toadstool | 26 | she/they | 🇸🇪🏳️‍🌈 | mostly talks about mushrooms, the last dinner party and various fandoms
✨for light and life✨
🍄 Shroom-Stastic Saturday 🍄

for the last non-fungi fungi fact let's take a look at Slime Moulds! organisms that regularly get mistaken for fungi but are a very diverse group of protist

pictured are my favourite ones, Wolf's Milk (Lycogala Epidendrum) and "the blob" (Physarum Polycephalum)
November 29, 2025 at 11:16 PM
the fff is simply gonna have to be a Shroom-Stastic Saturday once again ✌️😔
November 29, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Autumn’s Waning 🍂
November 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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At Thanksgiving and always, I'm thankful for the writers, artists, editors, & creatives who work so hard on our #StarWars books, comics, & magazines. I'm even more thankful for the readers & fans who read & support these titles. Thank you all for everything. Have a happy & delicious Thanksgiving!
November 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
🍄 Fungi Fact Friday 🍄

Vanilla! Specifically Flat-Leaved Vanilla (Vanilla Planifolia), is an orchid and one of the most common sources of vanilla flavouring. Like other orchids, Vanilla uses fungi in their seed germination process
November 22, 2025 at 12:49 AM
🍄 Shroom-Stastic Saturday/Sunday 🍄

Orchids!
Almost all orchids are at some stage in their life-cycle myco-heterotrophic. Commonly they use fungi in the germination of the seeds, gaining the energy needed by taking carbon from the fungus produces, but giving nothing in return
November 16, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Get ready for a Shroom-Stastic Saturday, again 🍄😅 a non-fungi fungi fact will be here when I am not struggling to keep my eyes open 😅
November 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Ghost Plant (Monotropa Uniflora) also known as Ghost Pipe or Indian Pipe is NOT a fungus at all! But a non-photosynthesising flower that is what is called a myco-heterotroph

Non-Fungi Fungi Fact November perhaps? 😌
November 8, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Once again postponing todays fff, this time because I can barely keep my eyes open after a very busy day
November 7, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Happy Halloween dear fungi friends!

👻🍄 Fungi Fact Friday 🍄👻

Ghost Fungus (Omphalotus Nidiformis) is a poisonous mushroom with bioluminescent properties
October 31, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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🎃Green Pumpkin Patch Cottage🎃

Acryla gouache painting on watercolor paper

Size: 3.5 x 4 inches
$75 (US shipping included)
DM to claim (Venmo/PayPal preferred)
October 8, 2025 at 3:42 AM
💀🍄 Fungi Fact Friday 🍄💀

Fatal Dapperling (Lepiota Subincarnata) which is alos known as Deadly Parasol is a deathly poisonous mushroom found in europe, asia and north america
October 25, 2025 at 12:21 AM
!! it's time for !!
🪦🍄 Shroom Statistic Saturday 🍄🪦

Funeral Bell (Galerina Marginata) also called Deadly Skullcap, Autumn Skullcap or Deadly Galerina is a mushroom that is a deadly if eaten, as one might glean from the common names
October 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
It's been a weird week so I'm postponing this weeks Fungi Fact to tomorrow. Get ready for a shroomy saturday 🍄
October 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Sulphur Tuft (Hypholoma Fasciculare), also called Clustered Woodlover, is a common saprobic mushroom that grows on decaying deciduous trees. sometimes exhibiting bioluminescence!
October 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Birch Webcap (Phlegmacium triumphans) also known as Yellow Girdled Webcap is a mushroom that grows with birch, common in europe and asia and also found in north america
October 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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The Blue Foot (Hydnellum Cyanopodium) or Bleeding Blue Tooth mushroom is a rare fungus only found in the pacific nortwest of north america where it grows with sitka spruce and pine trees
September 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Polyporus Radicatus is a saprobic mushroom that grows on dead roots of hardwood trees (living or dead) found in north america
September 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Tulasnella Aurantiaca is a gelatinous looking fungus, that grows on dead deciduous wood. Common in north america and found in europe as well
September 12, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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I'm really obsessed with dead leaves and tiny spindly fungi at the moment

#art
September 7, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Using this piece by @reallygoodwizard.bsky.social in my introductory lectures for my design students.
August 31, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Birch Brittlegill (Russula Betularum) is an inedible mushroom most often found with birch. Both its common and scientific name pointing towards this fact, Betularum meaning "of the birches"
September 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Sunshine Amanita (Amanita Aprica) is a poisonous mushroom found only in the apcif nortwest of america it's mycorrhizal and grows in association with douglas fir and pines
August 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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The Rosy Conk (Rhodofomes Cajanderi) is a polypore mushroom that's most common in north america but has been found in south america, africa, asia and oceania as well
August 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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The Trunctuate Club Coral (Clavariadelphus Truncatus) also known as Truncated Club or just Club Coral is a quite widespread but increasingly rare edible mushroom
August 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM