Tiny-tiny fungi: 19th Nov 2019
It took me a while to find a name for this very small fungus. Paecilomyces farinosus... which is parasitic on buried moth pupae. Alternatively,00 it could be a white variant of the yellow stagshorn… though I’d say it’s too small and singular.
A Small World, one of the titles in #2019picoftheweek challenge. For details see MariaAntonia
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Oh my! Me thinks we are to be graced with fungi twice in one weekend! I’d say get out the moth balls if your research is correct, as it looks like moths are set to be a bumper crop this year!
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Sorry about that. But it was that title, A Small World; I could find nothing else to fill it. And they’re not your usual sort of fungi.
And alas, I might need to repeat the repetition to fill the title Macro. Sorry about that. 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Don’t be. I’m beginning to enjoy my weekend fungi frolics.
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That’s just as well cos I’ve been bringing home in excess of 100 photos of fungi on each walk since September. Don’t fret, I’m only posting one a week… except when I do it for the photo challenge too.
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Ooh, what a funny little fungus! How on earth did you spot it? Lovely photograph, Crispina
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I’d seen it before, growing amongst the moss. But the previous attempts to get in close enough and stay focused didn’t work so well. You can see by the size of the fungi compared with the leaves, just how small this is. And the title in the challenge is A Small World.
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Yes, I could see how tiny it was – like threads almost. They are weird things, fungus.
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You might guess, I’m really taken with them. Too often when out with the camera I end up pixie-led. Off the path, unable to find my way out of the undergrowth, time… gone.
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And you know what happens when distracted souls stray off the path into the deep wood … Only magical things 🙂
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Yea, and I bring the photos home to prove it.
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🙂
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It works for the A Small World prompt! I love how you try to classify your fungi. In my experience, it’s not an easy thing to do. (Although, usually for me, it’s the wildflower names I’m trying to figure out.)
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On this occasion there weren’t many options because of the size. Other fungi… wow, so many all look alike and you have to smell them, and cut them… and I won’t do any of that. But I’m getting so I can usually place a fungus in its wider family. But no means as knowledgeable as I am with wildflowers, but they’ve been my interest since I was a child.
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It’s funny how something that sounds gross can be so pretty! Nicely done Crispina! 😀 ❤
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Thank you, Deborah.
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Your knowledge of this blows me away…
Lovely little “critters’ aren’t they?
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All from books, I do assure you. 🙂
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Still…you share with us your learnings!
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That’s me. My kids grew up with encyclopeadic knowledge cos whatever I was reading, whatever the research, I just had to share it with them.
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Of course. That’s our job – and we hope a fraction of what we share actually makes it into their noggins! 😉
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In more recent years that have acknowledged my input. But they’l also realised this is my compulsion. Yea well, other kids had parents addicted to booze. 🙂
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There are definitely worse things than the compulsion to fill them with knowledge!
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Sure is. At least while so filling them I wasn’t ignoring them… I only did that while I was reading, or researching, or… 🙂
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That is true!
And they also need to know that they can’t have you 100% of the time…
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We had no problems on that
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Interesting fungi, but they’re often so frustratingly difficult to identify 🙂
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Small and white: 3 possibilities. One has a pin-head. Rule that out. One grows to 6 cms and is usually clumped. Rule that out. Left with this. But seldom is it so easy. As you’ll see on Sunday’s Post.
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Well apparently there is always fungus among us!! LOL! Always interesting. In the Philippines when I meant to do a science report on algae I had growing in petri dishes stored in a dark environment; I had to change to doing it on water molds as that is what I got. LOL!! It was fun though.
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Yep, they truly are everywhere. Life is supported by fungi. It would be a barren world without them. And on Sundays I try to honour that (though sometimes on Saturdays too!)
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What a great response to the prompt of “small world” — those are so tiny! I probably wouldn’t have seen them, or recognized them as fungi. You have a great eye, Crispina.
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For years this minisule fungi have fascinated me. I’ve tried before to get good shots, but so much depends on the environment and the weather. This time, struck lucky. Six good shots. I had then to decide which to use
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How nice that something you were hoping and waiting to find finally worked out so well!
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Thanks, Joy. You could say that for both of us, since you got published, which I know you’ve been working so hard toward 🙂
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I hadn’t been thinking of that, but good point, and thanks!
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🙂
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Aww, they’re kind of cute.
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I can imagine them dancing, rather like Disney’s version of Fly Agaric (in the form of Mandarin scribes) in Fantasia.
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I’ve never seen Fantasia, like a bad American!
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Well, there are now 2 versions. The original, and the anniversary version. I’m keen on musicals, plus animations, so… marry the two together….
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