Researchers explain how mushrooms can live for hundreds of years without getting cancer (phys.org)
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I have some pink spawn which was being expanded out in jars of rye berries and popcorn kernels. There’s been good growth and since a couple weeks ago the jar appeared to be completely colonized (at which time I left one jar sitting and moved another jar to a couple fruiting bags). It’s been sitting on the basement floor...
Every summer in my neighborhood, this one tree will fruit a silky rosegill and we have standing permission from the homeowner to harvest it. This year, looks like there are two. I wish I’d passed by the tree earlier this week before the big one started to shrivel.
doi: dx.doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2023.1229693
MEA with yeast extract at 1g/500mL, 9 days of growth...
At the suggestion of another member I tried expanding my spawn on popcorn kernels. This involved boiling for about 20 minutes, drying, then pressure-canning for 90 minutes at 15psi. After cooling my spawn was divided between the jars, which were allowed to grow for a little over two weeks. On Monday I transferred the contents of...
TL;DR: both clusters are the same, but I will redo the test...
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I’ve lost track now of how long since I started on this, but I think it’s been 2-3 weeks since I transferred my original spawn to grain jars? All of the jars have been fully colonized except for one jar of pink oysters, which fought against some kind of contamination but seems to have gotten going again. It had some good...
Last week I was checking on one of my compost bins and noticed that there was a group of these mushrooms growing on a clump of composting leaves. Given the heat, I’m surprised to see them growing in the bin. Any help identifying them is most appreciated....
Saw this at the base of a 300 year old oak.
Little smaller than my hand.
TL;DR: Urea is a great supplement for substrates and culture media!...
I don’t know anything about mushrooms. Found these in my garden, Washington state (Puget sound)
I love how tiny and delicate they are! Northern West Virginia.
These are some older photos of what I believe is Hericium cirratum, a species related to Hericium erinaceus (otherwise known as Lion’s Mane Mushroom)....