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“Feels Like Home” is now available as a fine arts print!

Printed on lightly textured archival cotton paper; handsigned, stamped, dated, and named in the back~

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Apropos of nothing in the news. I've made Beef Wellington a couple of times in the the misty recesses of the past. I don't eat mushrooms so I would have definitely removed them from my plate when dishing up.

#Mushrooms #Australia

The recent rain woke up one of our fall 2020 golden oyster logs. I was sure we were not going to see any more mushrooms from this log, it was super productive over the last two years and has lost a lot of bark. We have a new set of blue oyster logs that we expect to see do well soon, but no new goldens.

The golden isn't my favorite mushroom for taste/texture, but I'll probably go ahead and make some more golden logs next fall, can't beat it on productivity.

Neolentinus lepideus

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Neolentinus_lepideus.html

Ecology: Saprobic on well-decayed conifer stumps and conifer wood, including treated lumber; causing a brown rot; growing alone or in small groups; summer and fall, or year-round in warm climates; widely distributed in North America—but present in western areas primarily on lumber. The illustrated and described collection is from Florida.

Cap: 2-15 cm across; convex with a slightly inrolled margin, becoming broadly convex; dry; whitish with small, brown, appressed scales.

Gills: Broadly attached to the stem or beginning to run down it; close; short-gills frequent; white; edges serrated.

Stem: 2-10 cm long; 2-4 cm wide; more or less equal; dry; scaly, with white, recurved scales that become reddish brown or darker toward the base; with an ephemeral, easily-lost ring; whitish; very tough.

Flesh: White; very tough; unchanging when sliced, or turning dull yellow in the stem.

Odor and Taste: Odor fragrant, reminiscent of anise; taste not distinctive.

Spore Print: White.

Microscopic Features: Spores 8-11 (-14) x 3-4.5 m; subcylindric; smooth; thin-walled; hyaline in KOH; inamyloid. Basidia 4-spored. Hymenial cystidia not found. Pileipellis a cutis of hyaline, smooth elements 2.5-7.5 m wide. Hyphal system dimitic at maturity. Clamp connections conspicuous.

“Starlight Bloom”, gouache & coloured pencil, 2024

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Stereum ostrea

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Stereum_ostrea.html

Ecology: Saprobic on the dead wood of hardwoods; growing densely gregariously (but usually individually, without fusing together), often from gaps in the bark; causing a white rot of the heartwood; often serving as a host to algae; sometimes parasitized by jelly fungi; apparently sometimes associated with Phlebia incarnata (see the note on the linked page); spring, summer, fall, and winter; widely distributed in North America.

Fruiting Body: 1-7 cm across; usually shaped like a funnel that has been sliced down one side, but often fan-shaped, semicircular, or irregularly kidney-shaped; densely velvety or hairy at first, but often smoother by maturity; with concentric zones of red, orange, yellowish, brown, and buff shades (sometimes developing greenish shades in old age as a result of algae); without a stem.

Undersurface: Smooth; whitish to grayish or pale reddish brown.

Flesh: Insubstantial; tough.

Chemical Reactions: KOH red (or at first red, then black) on all surfaces.

Spore Print: White; difficult to obtain.

Microscopic Features: Spores 5.5-7.5 x 2-3 ; smooth; cylindric; amyloid. Pseudoacanthohyphidia (thin-walled elements with 2-5 very small apical projections; true acanthohyphidia have numerous, long projections all over and look like bottle brushes) present.

Mycena inclinata

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Mycena_inclinata.html

Ecology: Saprobic on the well decayed wood of hardwoods; usually growing in dense clusters (but sometimes growing alone or scattered); spring and fall (or over winter in warmer climates) widely distributed east of the Rocky Mountains, and occasionally reported on the West Coast.

Cap: 1-5 cm; broadly conical, becoming broadly bell-shaped and usually retaining a central bump; vaguely lined or grooved radially; bald; tacky; the margin usually featuring tiny, fringe-like "teeth" when young, and in age often becoming somewhat tattered, or splitting; color variable (brown to yellowish brown, brownish or tan, but often developing yellow stains and areas); fading to dingy whitish with exposure to sunlight.

Gills: Narrowly attached to the stem; close or nearly distant; sometimes with well developed cross-gills when mature; whitish to pale grayish, sometimes becoming yellowish or pinkish in age; not bruising or staining.

Stem: 5-10 cm long; 2-4 mm thick; equal; hollow; bald or with tiny fibers and flakes, especially when young; whitish near the apex, yellowish to yellow in the midsection, and brown to reddish brown below.

Flesh: Insubstantial; pale.

Odor and Taste: Odor mealy to foul and mealy; taste mealy.

Chemical Reactions: KOH negative to brownish on cap surface.

Spore Print: White.

Microscopic Features: Spores 7-10 x 5-7 ; amyloid; broadly elliptical; smooth. Pleurocystidia absent. Cheilocystidia abundant; of the "broom cell" type, with rod-like projections and nodes. Pileipellis elements diverticulate, with short nodes and rod-like projections.

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Pluteus aurantiorugosus

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Pluteus_aurantiorugosus.html

Ecology: Saprobic on decaying hardwood logs and stumps; growing alone or in small groups; summer and fall; widely distributed in North America, but encountered more frequently east of the Rocky Mountains. The illustrated and described collections are from Illinois and Québec.

Cap: 2-5 cm; convex at first, becoming broadly convex to nearly flat, sometimes with a central bump; dry or moist; bald, or slightly granular; the margin not lined, or only faintly lined, at maturity; bright scarlet to orange when young, fading to orangish yellow in age.

Gills: Free from the stem; close or nearly crowded; short-gills frequent; whitish, becoming pinkish; often with yellowish edges.

Stem: 3-6 cm long; 0.5-1 cm thick; equal; finely hairy and fibrous; whitish to yellowish above, but flushed with the cap color below; basal mycelium white or yellowish.

Flesh: Pale yellowish; unchanging when sliced.

Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.

Spore Print: Pink.

Microscopic Features: Spores 5.5-8 x 4-5 ; ellipsoid; smooth; hyaline and uniguttulate in KOH; inamyloid. Hymenial cystidia infrequent; widely lageniform; thin-walled; to 50 x 15 . Pileipellis a cystoderm with inflated terminal elements. Clamp connections absent.

Leccinum caespitosum

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Leccinum_caespitosum.html

Ecology: Mycorrhizal with conifers (especially hemlocks, Douglas-fir, spruces, and firs); growing alone or gregariously, usually partially submerged in the soil or completely underground; spring through fall; montane western North America, the Appalachian Mountains, and the European Alps.

Fruiting Body: 1.5-3 cm across; round or nearly so; outer surface whitish at first, bald or a little silky, bruising blue and eventually becoming brown overall; pseudostem present as a tiny, stublike extension; interior composed of oblong chambers that are initially whitish but turn dark brown with maturity; columella extending well into the interior from the pseudostem.

Odor: Not distinctive.

Microscopic Features: Spores 18-22 x 13-15 m; oval, with a short appendage (a portion of the sterigmatum); widely longitudinally ribbed; reddish brown in KOH.

[EDIT: All three gone in one go! But there’s still others left, so don’t hesitate to have a look via the link below! :3 ]

A few of the tiny, low-price originals are still available, among them these three bioluminescent funghi~

Check out what’s left: https://lindenshieldarts.com/products/mini-black-paper-originals

Even if you're not a "pro" photographer, print your damn #photos from time to time. It's such a wildly different experience from looking at three consecutive tiles in your phone's photo library. Touch and hold your photos. It's magical. #Photography #Art #Mushrooms

And after just the right amount of rain...

I AM ALL OVER 'EM!!! Morchella esculenta in its native habitat.

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Dandenong Ranges National Park, VIC, Australia

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Otidea leporina

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Otidea_leporina.html

Ecology: Saprobic, growing terrestrially in woods under hardwoods or conifers; often clustered, but occasionally growing alone or scattered; summer and fall (winter and spring in warmer areas); widely distributed in North America.

Fruiting Body: Rabbit-ear-shaped, spoon-shaped, or more or less cup-shaped, with a cleft down one side; up to 7 cm high and 4 cm across; inner surface pale brownish to yellowish brown; outer surface similarly colored or paler, very finely hairy; stem if present whitish, small, and rudimentary; odor not distinctive or fragrant; flesh brittle.

Microscopic Features: Spores 12-14 x 6-8 (8-11 x 5-6 in var. minor); smooth; elliptical; with two oil droplets. Asci eight-spored; up to 170 x 12 . Paraphyses narrow, with hooked or curved ends (see illustration).

It was so refreshing working in Procreate again after months of painting traditionally only.

This piece is inspired by an amazing tree stump I came across on a recent hike.
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