Amanita muscaria (fly agaric) is a cool mushroom & all (reindeer guard their patches so they can trip on it!) but I'm tired of every pop-culture mushroom being the same red-cap with white-warts design. For your consideration, other pretty mushrooms 🧵
Coprinus comatus (shaggy ink cap) -- their cap is this textured white to black gradient that looks like a scene kids hair and I'm obsessed. AND they melt into useable ink after being picked!
Omphalotus illudens (jack-o'lantern mushroom) -- they're bright orange, looking like chanterelles (excep they are poisonous) UNTIL YOU TURN OUT THE LIGHTS and they glow GREEN.
Entoloma hochstetteri (blue pinkgill or werewere-kokako in Maori) is one of the few naturally occurring bright blues in nature <3 And its spores are pink! Look at how DAPPER they are.
Phallus indusiatus (Veiled Lady) is so DAINTY. The skirt reminds me of a bird cage veil. It's edible, and used in Chinese medicine and haute cuisine. There are also similar species with the same kind of "skirt" in different colours!
Gliophorus psittacinus (parrot toadstool) look like green glass over bright yellow gills. They're edible, but don't taste like much and are a bit slimy, so it's best just to admire their gorgeous glassy sheen. They grow in mossy patches, lawns and cemeteries.
Perhaps the most mesmerising, the Schizophyllum commune (Splitgill Commune). They have 23,328 biological sexes (distinct mating types) -- individuals of any mating type are compatible for mating with most other mating types. They remind me of ballgowns and fractals.
Marasmius Haematocephalus makes me think of careful origami. They can shrivel up during dry conditions and wait for rainy weather during to rehydrate and spring back to life. Their name comes from the Greek word “marsmos”, which means drying out. Resilient!
Psychadelic mushrooms often turn blue when bruised, but none are as impressive as these blueing boletes! They look like pretty inconspicuous until they are cut, when their blue pigment shines through!
Anyway I had to spend a lot of time with my coworkers this week and I talked about mushrooms a non-neurotypical amount -- so thank you internet for letting me info dump here in hopes of maintaining my facade of normalcy at the day job 😅
If anyone is feeling generous and wants to fuel my mushroom obsession, I added a bunch of new mushroom books to my Throne wishlist 🍄 throne.me/gnome_anne/wis…
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