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“Fairy Arch”, gouache and coloured pencil, 2025
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Can you guess what the glowing green flowers at the base are inspired by?
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Helvella lacunosa
https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Helvella_lacunosa.html
Ecology: Probably mycorrhizal; growing alone, scattered, or gregariously in woods under conifers—often in disturbed ground (roadbanks, landscaping sites, and so on); in eastern North America usually found in wet, mossy areas in cold conifer bogs; summer and fall; originally described from Europe, and widely distributed there, although more common in montane and boreal regions; reported from Asia and Central America; in North America widely distributed, especially in northern and montane regions. The illustrated and described collections (aside from Schaeffer's illustration of the type) are from Michigan.
Cap: 1-4 cm across and 1-5 cm high; irregularly lobed and convoluted, or occasionally loosely saddle-shaped or cushion-shaped; black to very dark brown; bald but wrinkled; the margin usually attached to the stem in several places; undersurface bald, gray to grayish brown.
Stem: 1.5-4 cm long; 5-15 mm thick; sometimes whitish when young, but soon grayish to dark gray; deeply and ornately ribbed and pocketed—the ribs rounded, or sometimes sharp and double-edged.
Flesh: Thin; brittle; chambered; whitish to grayish.
Odor: Not distinctive.
Microscopic Features: Spores 13-18 x 9-11 m; broadly ellipsoid; smooth; with one oil large droplet; hyaline in KOH and in water. Asci 200-250 x 10-15 m; 8-spored. Paraphyses 200-250 x 2.5-10 m; filiform, with rounded to clavate apices; smooth; hyaline to brownish, often with granular contents. Excipular surface a palisade of clavate, hyaline to brown terminal elements.
You might remember me mentioning that I currently participate in another exhibition at Wyrd #Strasbourg and as part of this exhibition, where all pieces have to be created by at least two artists, several of us filled a sketchbook together. I had the honour of doing the very first page and ofc I cheated a little and painted on black paper that I then glued/taped in there.
Craterellus ignicolor
https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Craterellus_ignicolor.html
Ecology: Mycorrhizal with oaks, beech, and birches; growing gregariously or in clusters in moss or sphagnum in damp, shady areas; apparently widely distributed in eastern North America; summer and fall. The illustrated and described collections are from Illinois and Michigan.
Cap: 1.5-5 cm wide; planoconvex when very young but soon developing a central depression and, eventually, becoming vase-shaped, with a perforated center; with a wavy and often irregular or scalloped margin at maturity; slightly moist when fresh, but soon dry; bald or, when young, with a canescent sheen from tiny, appressed, whitish fibrils; bright orange to orangish yellow or brownish yellow, fading with age to dull yellowish.
Undersurface: With fairly well developed, thick, blunt false gills that run down the stem; becoming cross-veined; pale yellow to grayish at first, developing pinkish to faintly purplish hues at maturity and, eventually, becoming very pale tan.
Stem: 2-6 cm long; 3-10 mm thick; equal or tapering to base; becoming hollow; bald, with a somewhat waxy texture; bright orange-yellow to orange; basal mycelium bright yellow.
Flesh: Thin; whitish.
Odor and Taste: Taste not distinctive; odor not distinctive, or slightly fruity.
Spore Print: Pinkish yellow to yellow.
Chemical Reactions: Iron salts grayish to negative on undersurface; negative on flesh. KOH negative on cap surface.
Microscopic Features: Spores 9-12 x 6-8 ellipsoid; smooth; faintly ochraceous in KOH; with minutely granular contents; cyanophilous. Basidia 4-sterigmate; 65-75 long. Hymenial cystidia not found. Pileipellis not differentiated. Elements of upper surface 5-7.5 wide; hyaline in KOH; smooth; clamped at septa.
Aureoboletus mirabilis
https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Aureoboletus_mirabilis.html
Ecology: Mycorrhizal; associated with hemlocks; growing alone, scattered, or gregariously on well-decayed, mossy hemlock stumps and logs—or terrestrially in the vicinity of hemlock stumps; fall and winter; distributed from northern California to Alaska. The illustrated and described collection is from Oregon.
Cap: 8-16 cm; convex, becoming broadly convex or slightly bell-shaped; dry; granular-felty, becoming finely scaly with age; brownish red to brownish purple; the margin with an overhanging, sterile portion.
Pore Surface: Bright to dull yellow when young; becoming olive yellow as spores mature; not bruising; about 1 pore per mm at maturity; tubes to 2 cm deep.
Stem: 7-10 cm long; 1.5-3 cm thick; club-shaped, especially when young; solid; yellow at apex but elsewhere dark brown to dark reddish brown, streaked with paler areas; not bruising; bald below and sometimes overall, but usually coarsely reticulate over the upper portion.
Flesh: Whitish to pale yellowish; sometimes purplish under the cap cuticle; not staining on exposure.
Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.
Spore Print: Olive brown.
Microscopic Features: Spores 16-22 x 6-8 m; fusiform; smooth; golden in KOH. Basidia 4-sterigmate; about 40 x 12.5 m; clavate. Hymenial cystidia 60-80 x 7.5-12.5 m; cylindric to fusiform; smooth; thin-walled; hyaline in KOH. Pileipellis a trichoderm; elements 4-8 m wide, smooth or slightly encrusted, hyaline to golden in KOH; terminal cells subclavate, or cylindric with rounded apices.
@oraculix ooh, we’re science-ing! #lichensubscribe #mushtodon
#FractalFriday meets #FungiFriday meets #Mosstodon.
It's been raining for days on end, which means that the moss is happy, growing shiny and bright green. In this case on a bracket fungus that grows on a tree stump hosting 3 generations of them.
Cortinarius malicorius
https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Cortinarius_malicorius.html
Ecology: Mycorrhizal with conifers, especially pines; growing scattered or gregariously, often in wet areas or with sphagnum; fall (and winter on the West Coast); widely distributed in North America but more common in the Northeast.
Cap: 1.5-5 cm; convex or nearly conical at first, becoming broadly convex, flat, depressed, or broadly bell-shaped; fairly dry; silky to finely scaly; yellowish or orangish at first, often with olive tones, becoming orangish brown to cinnamon brown overall.
Gills: Attached to the stem but sometimes pulling away from it in age; close; orange at first, becoming cinnamon to rusty; covered by a yellowish to orangish cortina when young.
Stem: 2-7 cm long; up to 1 cm thick; more or less equal; dry; silky with orangish to yellowish (later cinnamon) fibers; yellowish, often discoloring olive brown to brownish below; sometimes with a rusty ring zone.
Flesh: Yellowish or olive.
Odor: Radishlike.
Chemical Reactions: KOH on cap surface red or reddish black.
Spore Print: Rusty brown.
Microscopic Features: Spores 6-7.5 x 4-4.5 ; ellipsoid; moderately roughened. Cheilo- and pleurocystidia absent, but inconspicuous marginal cells present on gill edges. Pileipellis a cutis. Contextual and lamellar elements pinkish purple to purplish in KOH.
[EDIT: The right one already found a home, thank you so much! Still one left though~ ]
Two new original paintings are up for sale!
Gouache and coloured pencil on watercolour paper, based on personal photos
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