#earthbalance

[lindagoesmushrooming]

Scleroderma citrinum (Common Earthball) and Piptoporus betulinus (Birch Polypore)

#scleroderma citrinum #common earthball #piptoporus betulinus #birch polypore #mushrooms #fungi #mycology #mushroom photography #nature #nature photography #original photographers #photographers on tumblr #forestcore #goblincore

[orofeaiel]

Potato Earthball Mushroom

#artists on tumblr #original photographers #original photography #pacific northwest #nature #nikon #washington #pnw #orofeaiel #mycology #mycophile #potato earthball #mushroom #macro photography #goblincore #fungus among us #fungi #spores

[mostlythemarsh]

Common Earthball

#earthball #woods #fungus

[mushroomgay]

London, UK, October 2022

Common earthball (Scleroderma citrinum)

A beautiful common earthball just on the brink of maturity, splitting to open to release the dark spores inside.

#mycology #wild fungi #inedible fungi #earthball #earthballs #common earthball #common earthballs #scleroderma #scleroderma citrinum

[on-my-way-to-the-woods]

F tripped over an earthball on our walk so I took it home to play with. It's texture is so fun, like a dense, crispy sponge

#mushrooms #mushroom hunting #earthball #Scleroderma sp.

[lost-harts]

October 2023

#cottagecore #dark cottagecore #forestcore #rangercore #naturecore #fungi #mushroom #toadstool #earthball #nature photography #autumn

[burnt-scone]

A tiktok about Puffballs existing, and someone shows one that is already turning and the center is going brown.

Me: comments that as a little kid friends and I would kick them when ready to spore and they would fly through the air and poisonous cloud falling out. Technically I helped more grow the next year.

A bunch of people who forgot they were already poisonous and like bags of spores: You should've harvested them and ate them, I've heard they're so good.

Me: well that's a great idea.

Warning: Puffball spores are dangerous. They cause inflammation of the lungs, fever, fatigue, muscle pain. I don't know if it's fatal for humans, but I've heard of dogs dying.

So like if you have puffballs in your yard and you have dogs, harvest them when fresh, if their edible (white all the way through no discoloration like yellowing/browning) eat 'em or ask if anyone you know wants 'em. You don't want your dogs playing with them especially once they spore.

Eating a spoiled Puffball can result in death.

Deathcaps when first growing are a little ball that can sometimes be mistaken for a Puffball. Then there is a poisonous Puffball called a Earthball. It has a purplish inside and a thicker Peridium(skin.)

Puffball:

Puffball Spoiled:

Deathcap ball:

Earthball:

#mushroom #puffball #puffball mushroom #mushrooms #deathcap mushroom #earthball mushroom

[glittxrghoul]

Tumblr on its best way to make me fall on love with people online again, who probably live on the other side of this earthball

oh, tumblr

#💌 #youre sweet #earthball

[dansnaturepictures]

1st October 2023: Walk from Bolderwood in the New Forest and bits at home

Photos taken in this set today: 1, 4 and 9. Some of a varied and colourful array of fascinating mushrooms on the forest floor, very autumnal. 2 and 10. Views on the great walk round. 3. Hawksbit. 5. One of four Woodlarks it was a true pleasure to see late on in the walk, striking, bold and sweetly coloured birds. It was another occasion during my week off where they were a very pleasant surprise, a bird I love. 6. A fallen chestnut ensconced in heather. 7. A dazzling Common Lizard which we got an exquisite view of on bracken, a precious and captivating moment with a reptile that has been a star of my week off after seeing the many at Thursley on Tuesday. A wholesome moment. 8. One of a few New Forest Ponies seen well this afternoon.

Other bird highlights on the walk were an exciting Great Spotted Woodpecker early on, Swallow, Chiffchaff, Chaffinch, a Marsh or Coal Tit I couldn't quite get a clear enough view for long enough to tell which, cheery Stonechat, Starlings, Mistle Thrush and there was a nice moment as I heard a whoosh as a Woodpigeon burst into the air and then saw the bird. Elsewhere another Small Copper butterfly of late, a micro moth, slug and a bee were nice to see. I enjoyed seeing a lot of sweet little tormentil, water lily on a pond, surprise centaury a very pretty flower to see, some gorse in flower, bog myrtle leaves I believe, foxglove leaves, seas of holly berries and apples, nice plants and fruit to observe. Enigmatic yellow stagshorn one of my favourites and another common earthball this week were mushrooms I know that we saw. At home today I enjoyed views of many Starlings, Collared Dove, House Sparrow, Goldfinch including young, I heard Blue Tit calling nicely and excitingly saw the Robin which has returned to the garden always a lovely moment. I heard Robin on the walk too. Sedum, fuchsia, chamomile, the Black-eyed Susans as they fade a bit and other flowers were nice to take in when in the garden today.

#photography #woodlark #great spotted woodpecker #england #bolderwood #fungi #mushrooms #yellow stagshorn #common earthball #uk #world #nature #europe #weekend #sunday #october #autumn #2023 #goldfinch #home #starling #robin #birdwatching #happy #walking #walk

[vandaliatraveler]

North American mushroom hunters circle August on their calendars, when the sheer proliferation of fungi reaches its peak in the mid to late summer woods. In a healthy Appalachian forest, fungi emerge in a mind-boggling procession of forms and colors from every square inch of dead and living matter: patches of leaf litter, the mossy crooks and crannies of boulders, dead tree stumps, and nearly everything else fixed in place. And underlying all these magical fruiting bodies is an extraordinary network of filaments (”hyphae”) that binds all life in the forest, metabolizing proteins into soluble nitrates essential to plant life and even sending signals to divert resources to plants in distress: the Mycelium Network . Indeed, a forest cannot exist without fungi.

Above is just a small sampling of those extraordinary beings - not quite plant and not quite animal - that give life to our forests, photographed during a hike yesterday at Coopers Rock State Forest. Earthballs, chanterelles, corals, amanitas, boletes, and so on. Collectively, nature’s version of the world-wide web. 

#appalachia #vandalia #west virginia #coopers rock state forest #life on our planet #fungi #mushrooms #hyphae #mycelium network #symbiosis #mycorrhizal fungi #bolete #amanita #coral fungi #earthball #moss agaric #appalachian chanterelle

[kozi-ism]

More mushrooms from camping this summer~

#mushrooms #deceiver mushrooms #red bolete mushroom #earthball #fungi fan club #fungi

[bunnywoman]

some little guys i met on my walk 🍄🍂

#mushrooms #fungi #if u can identify any of these id love to know :) #shrooms #common inkcap #common earthball #inky caps

[mostlythemarsh]

Release

#earthball #fungus #woods #camp

[drhoz]

#2061 - Scleroderma sp. - Earthball

Photos by Jasper Dean.

Puffball fungi that tear open when mature, to expose the powdery sporemass to the environment. Surprisingly, in the Bolete Order. Like most boletes, mycorrhizal, usually with shrubs and tree, and in fact some species are used as inoculants to encourage sapling growth.

#scleroderma #australian fungi #earthball #sclerodermataceae #cooleenup island

[thecreakingdoor]

Found my first Collared Earthstar fungi the other day (Geastrum triplex). The First Nation’s Blackfoot Confederacy called collared earthstars ka-ka-toos – meaning 'fallen stars' – and believed them to be indicators of supernatural events. . . . #earthstar #collaredearthstar #weirdfungi #fungiisfun #autumnismagic #mushroomhunter #fungiofinstagram #geastrumtriplex #lincolnshire #wildfungus #walkinginthewoods #fungiuk #weirdthings #earthball #foragingisfun #donteathis https://www.instagram.com/p/Clo8mRFr-SC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#earthstar #collaredearthstar #weirdfungi #fungiisfun #autumnismagic #mushroomhunter #fungiofinstagram #geastrumtriplex #lincolnshire #wildfungus #walkinginthewoods #fungiuk #weirdthings #earthball #foragingisfun #donteathis

[love-elizabeth]

Some of my favorite mushroom finds from the walk I took around the apartment complex after Hurricane Ian struck. The last pic shows the debris that was all throughout the neighborhood. We got really lucky here in this part of Orlando! 🌀 🔎 🍄 #florida #mushroom #hurricane #hurricaneian #macro #nature #naturelovers #nature_brilliance #fiftyshades_of_nature #earthball #brittlegill #flocculoseinkcap #coprinellusflocculosus (at Orlando, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjLcpQIuGFD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#florida #mushroom #hurricane #hurricaneian #macro #nature #naturelovers #nature_brilliance #fiftyshades_of_nature #earthball #brittlegill #flocculoseinkcap #coprinellusflocculosus