MycoRant

Fungal Visions is a site devoted to YouTube videos about fungi. The latest addition is an awesome demonstration of how to make a realistic paper mushroom. It looks like you’ll need the right kind of paper. This paper folding video was originally spotted on a twitter post. Although the video is titled Perfect origami mushroom, I hesitate to call it origami, at least in the traditional sense. But who gets to define origami? Not me.

So if you like videos that have anything to do with mushrooms, molds, yeasts, mycoses, hyphae, ballistospores, education, cultivation, ascii, pileotomy, mycorrhizae, Amanitas or Skank Foot Fungus Flour, check out Fungal Visions. You won’t have to wade through a bunch of non-fungal stuff.

Not only is there material of scientific interest, there’s weird stuff too. For example behold this guy who claims to be able to eat a “ceremonially prepared”  A. phalloides mushroom!

Tags: Amanita phalloides, Fungal Visions, mycology videos, origami, paper mushrooms, video