Fungi – Soil Food Web Student

How long is a piece of fungus?

Ever struggled to estimate the length of an organism under the microscope?

Here are a couple of techniques that don’t just rely on eyeballing….

Spore printing for mushroom identification

This year we have fewer autumn colours as so many drought-stressed trees in a bid for survival economised on their water use by dropping their leaves early without dressing themselves in the yellows, oranges and reds.But now, here in the UK, those with deep roots are putting on an end-of-season display, and we have hadContinue reading “Spore printing for mushroom identification”

A glimpse at the sex lives of fungi

For several weeks I wondered: What is it that I am seeing here?There were lots of little off-shoots of the single strands of mycelium, at fairly regular intervals. Someone had suggested the fungus started branching off in search for food, but this did not fit the pattern I saw. Branching fungal strands, hyphae, maintain theirContinue reading “A glimpse at the sex lives of fungi”