"my daughter's doing great :)" maam your son has eaten nothing but peanut butter and apples by choice for the last week. he says hes fine.

Walking in an intact Irish rainforest (extremely rare) is like stepping into another existential dimension, full of magic and wonder.

You're transported, body and soul.

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Amethyst deceiver emerges from the patchwork of leaves and mosses on the rainforest floor.

A mycorrhizal fungus (forming mutually beneficial relationships with trees/other plants), it occurs in forests across the northern hemisphere, but also in Central and South America.

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Kool & The Gang − Celebration
by Christoph  
...not about the R&B band of past glories and their big­gest hit, but in­stead ce­le­brates the true "cool kids", mush­rooms and their "hy­po­ther­mic nature", stu­died by Cor­de­ro et al. (2023).
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Some nicely liquefying Shaggy Inkcaps 🍄📷

Went out to the trails for a final hike. Still too dry in the Monterey area for fungus but I found this polypore. Don’t know if it’s a stereum or a trametes. 🍄📷

Candle snuff fungus, or Xylaria hypoxylon, looking spooky 👻🍄
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