Mushroom photographer Taylor Lockwood has returned from his expedition to Brazil and the Amazon River region. While there he was able to get some great new photographs of interesting mushrooms, including the recently discovered bioluminescent species. He reports that there was quite a bit of of local traffic in the area where these mushrooms are [...]
Tags: Amazon, bioluminescence, Brazil, Mycena, mycoremediation, Pleurotus, Taylor Lockwood
Renowned mushroom photographer Taylor Lockwood is heading for Brasil (apparently also known as “Brazil”) soon on a mycological photo expedition. I learned this after I heard back from Taylor after I had sent him a message suggestion he consider contributing some fungal imagery to the Phylomon project (recently renamed “Phylo”). He showed some interest in [...]
Tags: Amanita rubescens, Brazil, Leccinum scabrosum, photography, Phylomon, Taylor Lockwood
Word of the discovery and description of seven new species of glow-in-the-dark fungi appeared on Twitter on the same day as it was published (Oct 5, 2009). (If you are not following mycology news on twitter you are missing out. You can start by following MycoRant. If you think twitter is a fad, remember–that’s what [...]
Tags: bioluminescence, Brazil, Mycena