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MLBS: Biology of Fungi

A roaring creek in South West Virginia, near Mountain Lake Biological Station.
Mycologists helping the Bio of Fungi class search the forest for mushrooms.
Mycelium under leaf litter in a hardwood forest.
A tiny mushroom at the base of a tree, most likely a Russula.
The aptly named cauliflower fungi, in the Sparassis genus.
A Lactarius mushroom in the lab, the lactating fungi!
Two different fungi growing on a decaying log.
A slug travels through dead mans fingers rising out of the base of a hardwood.
Old man of the woods is a common fungi of the south.
Xeromphalina kauffmanii is a tiny fungi found on decaying hardwood logs.
An ear fungi in the lab, there are a few large cup fungi that look a lot like ear fungi.
A Tylopilus plumbeoviolaceus towers over small cup fungi on the forest floor.
A toothed polypore mushroom.
Saprobic fungi feed on decaying plant matter, from forests to deserts.
An ear fungi in the leaf litter.
Cordyceps are fungi that feed on insects and produce nitrogen unlike other fungi.
Some fungi prefer freshly dead wood and others thrive on long dead logs.
The stages of an opening mushroom cap.
The coral fungi are one my favorite forms a mushroom can become.
Coral fungi in the lab, Clavaria vermicularis.
Rytas Vilgalys and graduate students conduct a survey of fungi in a white pine dominated forest.

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