Some nice beneficial soil fungus pictures from the side of a pot getting out of control.
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I have opened bags of soil and found similar fungus. I just stirred it up and went on.
The pallets sit outside at the store and get rained on and soaked. Then in warm weather the stuff starts growing in the bag.
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Yes it’s just normal soil fungi, it’s colonising the organic matter mainly anything woody.
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Gross 
: I’m tryina eat here!! 
Gotta scope? Thatd be freaky under 200x
I’ve wondered if my wood boxes promote or discourage good and bad fungus.
3rd use about a year old
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It depends on the type of wood.
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Right… its a pine box. To carry them to their final destination. But I also have tamarack spruce and cedar, common softwoods.
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I’m not checking and forgot but isn’t it the lignin in wood that some fungi love so much?
Some fungi won’t grow without wood others eat anything organic. Depends what mushrooms you want to grow.
But this white fungi dominates all my soils here it just had a chance to colonise the surface which few can do again to this level.
Probably find the exact species if I looked must be one of the main beneficial soil fungi looking at how fast it grows and dominated.
But even good fungi can be bad in the wrong conditions and looking at those boxes with a microscope probably other stuff dominates but I do see some white fungus on the edges.
Anyone know this type of species, got to be a saprophytic type?
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All i knoe of lignin is its hard to eat so germs get help from fungi, I hope I remembered that rigjt
Isn’t pine good at fighting fungal infections, a lot of sap compared to say an oak.
I see some woods even refuse to rot from some hard wood tropicals, well until the day they do rot but takes a lot longer, I bet in the old days the choice of wood was a lot more importantly than today for a seafaring chest or something that got the elements more
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Then the bacteria hitch a ride with the fungus where theyre not as mobile. Like a subway train. Crazy
I’d need to check but only some species produce liganase enzymes and that means others who don’t can’t compete so they dominate.
A survival strategy of sorts but one that limits competition.
Why some hallucinogenic mushrooms don’t grow unless you add wood and others do without. Some special ice on animal dung, some are exothermic meaning they generate heat in the breakdown why my compost heap is slowly smoking away lolol.
Got to love fungi, very interesting guys.
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Funny we get liberty caps and grey nipples in the woods but Lbm’s and others in the pastures. So yeah. I guess
The strongest are always wood and dung species, I think the dung gets broken down by bacteria before the fungi can eat it but been a while since I knew all that stuff.
In fact I think it’s exothermic bacteria that break down the dung heating it up in the process.
Now that you mention it seen a lot of old binoculars with their protective lense coating eaten away probably this fungi.
The space station had a problem with fungi too, when they studied it they found it can handle a hundred times the human lethal dose of radiation.
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That’s a problem for Bugbee, that and light leaks on MIR
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