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Hello weirdos, good to find you amidst the wreckage.

This will likely be rather rudimentary for experts and professionals, and the map itself isn’t pre-1950 but I recently visited northern Italy and had my interest piqued by Aquileia; which lead me to begin looking for info on trade routes from which Baltic amber was able to reach ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome and The Caucasus....

Hello all, there’s a new community for identifying different types of fungi! Feel free to come join us!

I’m just starting to get back into growing mushrooms and have a few Oyster blocks ready to fruit. Problem is the temperature in my house/grow tent is usually in the high 70’s or low 80’s (f), and the humidity is in the 30% range. I figured a swamp cooler could help with both of these problems....

My wife discovered somebody nearby selling a few small rhizomes of this plant just a few months ago....

My friend said “that plant’s feeling horny!”...

I am trying to grow Oakmoss lichen (Evernia prunastri) at home, which is a highly valued lichen in the perfume industry due to its woody and sweet odor....

I have been making an effort to actually identify the contaminants that grow in my petri dishes. In this case the contaminants are those dark green spore islands....

https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/2b9599f5-64dc-4f25-b22f-6492ab481bae.jpeg...

I was experimenting with culture isolation and became a bit distracted with other things. This agar plate was prepared in October and left in a drawer, so it has been about 3 months since then....

Burrowed this from reddit: www.reddit.com/r/shrooms/comments/rwp7u9/_/

My first attempt at growing Blue Oyster mushroom...