January 31, 2012

Yes! Slime molds are amazing.

wnycradiolab:

Can I spend the rest of the day looking at slime molds, please?

There are more for your viewing pleasure here and here.

October 13, 2011
It’s been a banner year for fungi (just look at those beautiful shelf fungi from the Forest)! Do you have any questions about the fungus amongus? Head over to the New York Times’ City Room blog where NYBG instructor and mushroom expert Gary Lincoff will be answering your burning questions about the mushrooms, slime molds, and fungi that populate the city.

It’s been a banner year for fungi (just look at those beautiful shelf fungi from the Forest)! Do you have any questions about the fungus amongus? Head over to the New York Times’ City Room blog where NYBG instructor and mushroom expert Gary Lincoff will be answering your burning questions about the mushrooms, slime molds, and fungi that populate the city.

September 12, 2011

Thank you Irene and Lee! Because of this summer’s record-setting, hurricane-induced rains, The New York Botanical Garden has become a wonderland for resident mycologist Roy Halling. He first brought us these fairy tale Boletus hortonii, and on Friday, Halling joined Flora Lichtman on Science Friday to discuss the year’s mushrooming (heh) fungus population.

July 20, 2011
More information on this “animated” newly described fungus, here.
sciencecenter:

Who lives in a rainforest, under a tree?
Why, Spongiforma squarepantsii, of course. The newly-discovered species of fungi has more in common with the cartoon character than just a name, though - the fungi can be wrung out like a sponge and still retain its shape, a rarity among mushrooms.

More information on this “animated” newly described fungus, here.

sciencecenter:

Who lives in a rainforest, under a tree?

Why, Spongiforma squarepantsii, of course. The newly-discovered species of fungi has more in common with the cartoon character than just a name, though - the fungi can be wrung out like a sponge and still retain its shape, a rarity among mushrooms.

(via natureconservancy)

May 8, 2011
"Lichen can often seem dull and uncharismatic, but these two species turned out to be quite intriguing. They’re like sugar gliders and flying squirrels or wombats and groundhogs. They’re fungal examples of convergent evolution."

Duke biologist Brendan Hodkinson, who worked with NYBG scientist James Lendemer, to discover that two lichens from opposite ends of the globe evolved to become nearly identical.

April 29, 2011
Rare Pennsylvania fungus is named for Philadelphia botanist

NYBG Doctoral student James Lendemer names a newly discovered fungus after the don of rare plant research, Dr. Alfred “Ernie” Schuyler of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.

March 31, 2011
Unbelievable mushroom photographs by Virginian Warren Krupshaw.
Via The Telegraph (U.K.)

Unbelievable mushroom photographs by Virginian Warren Krupshaw.

Via The Telegraph (U.K.)

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