In the mycology lab at the J. Craig Venter Institu... ...enter Institute, Stephanie Mounaud and her fellow fungus folk put a little bit of holiday spirit in their... ...istmas tree is made of different kinds of growing fungus !Fungal Christmas tree. Top: Talaromyces stipitatu...
http://m.neatorama.com/2012/12/24/Funky-Fungal-Holiday/
The following is an article from Uncle John's Heav... ..., and she thought there might be a connection.THE FUNGUS AMONG US(Image credit: Flickr user Jasja Dekker)E... ...Image credit: Flickr user Jasja Dekker)Ergot is a fungus that infects rye, a grain more commonly used in p... ...hy, making them a perfect b...
http://m.neatorama.com/2012/10/15/Salem-Witch-Trials-The-Fungus-Theory/
Researchers from Yale University recently disc... ...ador that is most magical indeed, for this little fungus dines on polyurethane, a very common type of plas... ...n type of plastic.
Here's more on this amazing fungus :
The fungi, called “Pestalotiopsis microsporeâ... ...nvironmental Microbiology’,...
http://m.neatorama.com/2012/05/31/the-mushroom-that-dines-on-plastic/
Photo: David Hughes/Penn State U... ...011, scientists discovered
a species of fungus that turns ants into zombies. Aptly called the... ...to zombies. Aptly called the
zombie-ant fungus (Ophiocordyceps unilateralis s.l.), the organism... ...mass grave
near the ant colony. There,...
http://m.neatorama.com/2012/05/03/fungus-attacks-zombie-ant-fungus/
There is an entire ecosystem in a previously-overl... ...in a matrix of almost-inivisible filaments of the fungus Marasmius. Jake Snaddon from the University of Ox... ...been studying this in-between layer of leaves and fungus .
When Snaddon shifted his focus to these hanging...
http://m.neatorama.com/2011/12/22/the-rainforest-mezzanine/