Krzysztof Dmowski @xaphanpl

**LindenShieldARTs** @lindenshieldarts@mastodon.social · 9h

LindenShieldARTs @lindenshieldarts@mastodon.social

The full spread after showing bits and pieces here and there.

A photo of an open sketchbook placed on a wooden table, surrounded by coloured pencils, leaves, and branches for decoration. The spread features several coloured pencil drawings of mossy rocks, luminous mushrooms on forest ruins, round-leaved plants.

#mastoart #traditionalart #sketchbook

**mel** @daemonicusprince@meow.social · 1d

mel @daemonicusprince@meow.social

#MushroomMonday

some young rich golden shelf mushrooms, slightly covered in needles, branch out from a deep emerald green mossy tree root

a cantankerous bulbous old conk protrudes from the side of a tree, wearing an expression a bit like Roz from Monsters Inc.

tucked away in a mossy tree stump, an object I'm not entirely certain is a mushroom? with a scored surface similar to a wooden ball that had been manually shaved away by a student sculptor, but perhaps a tiny mushroom whose surface had been nibbled at by a slug or something else, but not quite "natural" looking

the end of a sawed branch, with two specimens of fungus growing from it; the top cream white, and the bottom pastel brown; perhaps an age gap between the same species? lots of blurry mosses & lichens in the background

#mushrooms #mushtodon #photography

**LindenShieldARTs** @lindenshieldarts@mastodon.social · Mar 11 *

Mar 11 *

LindenShieldARTs @lindenshieldarts@mastodon.social

[EDIT: The right one already found a home, thank you so much! Still one left though~ ]

Two new original paintings are up for sale!

Gouache and coloured pencil on watercolour paper, based on personal photos

Adopt them: https://lindenshieldarts.com/products/mixed-media-originals-amanita

A photo of two paintings placed on a wooden table, surrounded by paint brushes, coloured pencils, and leaves for decoration. Both paintings feature amanita mushrooms in the forest, the left one in a sunny setting, the right one in a misty setting.

#mastoart #traditionalart #mixedmedia

**LindenShieldARTs** @lindenshieldarts@mastodon.social · Mar 10 *

Mar 10 *

LindenShieldARTs @lindenshieldarts@mastodon.social

Probably one of my favourite studies to date, based on a personal photo snapped on a hike (ofc ).

Gouache on watercolour paper

A photo of a gouache painting, placed on a table and surrounded by paint brushes and plants for decoration. The painting features two small, cream-coloured mushrooms growing on a rock next to a shallow stream, the water glinting in the sunlight. A wall of moss and some tiny ferns are visible in the background.

#mastoart #mosstodon #mushtodon

**nathanlovestrees** @nathanlovestrees@disabled.social · Mar 8

Mar 8

nathanlovestrees @nathanlovestrees@disabled.social

@loren found this cool stick

A stick with grayish/black cup lichen (it might be Physcia aipolia, Hoary rosette lichen) growing on it.

The other side of the stick with patches of an orangish fungi growing. It resembles coral or the folds of a brain.

#lichensubscribe #mushtodon #fungiverse

**nathanlovestrees** @nathanlovestrees@disabled.social · Mar 7

Mar 7

nathanlovestrees @nathanlovestrees@disabled.social

well split my gills it’s #FungiFriday

The underside of four split gill mushrooms growing in a field of moss on the side of a fallen tree branch.

#sporespondence #mushtodon #fungi

**LindenShieldARTs** @lindenshieldarts@mastodon.social · Mar 6 *

Mar 6 *

LindenShieldARTs @lindenshieldarts@mastodon.social

Four little paintings created for a challenge last September~
Which one is your favourite?

Gouache and coloured pencil on black watercolour paper

The little mossy pillar is still up for adoption!
Make it yours: https://lindenshieldarts.com/products/mixed-media-original-mossy-growth

A photo of four little square paintings on black paper, placed on a wooden table and surrounded by a paint brush, leaves, and Icelandic moss for decoration. The top left painting features yellow glowing mushrooms on purple moss; the top right one features a deep green fern-like plant with glowing red sporophyte-like outgrowths; the bottom left one features a mossy tree stump with mushrooms and a sprout on top; the bottom right one features an old mossy pillar with glowing blue flowers next to it.

#mastoart #traditionalart #originalart

**Pixel is the smallest dragon** @pixouls@post.lurk.org · Mar 5

Mar 5

Pixel is the smallest dragon @pixouls@post.lurk.org

Fungi Kinship Zine Workshop was a delight!

We had some great conversations about why is there so much mycophobia in books to why do some fungi grow completely differently in the wild vs. cultivation or how can we connect with fungi without wanting to eat them?

The library did a great job of providing us art and fungi reference books, and we brought a few of our own books plus zines! We did stretches to take us through the lifecycle of a fungus, a meditation on our daily lives work fungi, and got to make zines with collage materials from outdated resource books and nature magazines.

You can find the zines we pulled for the workshop here: https://pad.riseup.net/p/zineWorkshop

A drawing of a mushroom on tree with the sun setting in the distance, a poem surrounded by doodles of various fungi

A zine that features colorful cut outs of fungi that use paper printed with the texture that fungi would grow on

Myself showing the quote about fungal kinship to the front of the group

A drawing of a mushroom cluster has been cut and pasted on the top of the zine. Over it the words "fungal kinship" have been written.

#fungi #mushtodon #sporespondence

**LindenShieldARTs** @lindenshieldarts@mastodon.social · Mar 4

Mar 4

LindenShieldARTs @lindenshieldarts@mastodon.social

Something for the #mushroom and #moss lovers~

Gouache and coloured pencil on black watercolour paper

A photo of a black paper painting placed on a wooden table, surrounded by paint brushes, coloured pencils, and leaves for decoration. The painting features a seemingly floating hollow tree trunk, overgrown with moss and different kinds of colourful mushrooms, some bioluminescent. A few spores and tiny fairies, mere orbs of light, hover around the trunk.

#mastoart #traditionalart #originalart

**Falk Appel** @FalkAppel@sueden.social · Mar 2 *

Mar 2 *

Falk Appel @FalkAppel@sueden.social

Weird creature in the woods #mushtodon

big branch hanging in some trees with 2 mushrooms like some ears

**Lindy** @sleepylindy@library.love · Feb 28

Feb 28

Lindy @sleepylindy@library.love

A very cool Jelly Roll Fungus for #fungifriday

A very unique looking purple-brown mushroom on a tree branch. This type of mushroom has no stems, and the fruits grow in wrinkled clumps that almost look like little wet raisins.

#mushrooms #fungi #mushtodon

**LindenShieldARTs** @lindenshieldarts@mastodon.social · Feb 27 *

Feb 27 *

LindenShieldARTs @lindenshieldarts@mastodon.social

Surprise notepad drop!!!

[EDIT: All sold out already, omg, thank you! It hasn’t even been an hour, wtf, haha! Will try to do a small restock soon!]

I originally designed these for the handwritten thank you notes I add to all my orders but decided to get a few extra in case you too would like to add a touch of forest magic to all your notes~

Grab one: https://lindenshieldarts.com/products/enchanted-forest-notepads

A photo of a notepad placed on a table, surrounded by a pencil and plants for decoration. The notepad features a frame of purple moss interspersed with glowing blue mushrooms, heart-shaped teal green leaves, and lots of little plants.

#mastoart #forestart #mushtodon

**☆ Lisa ☆** @ldlundstrom@mastodon.social · Feb 26 *

Feb 26 *

☆ Lisa ☆ @ldlundstrom@mastodon.social

#bloomscrolling #mosstodon
#fungi #mushtodon
Thanks @Moss

Mushroom and moss on old root with a brown oak leaf on the ground

Big mushroom and smaller mass of mushrooms with moss on old log/roots

**Dr Ro Smith** @Rhube@wandering.shop · Feb 25 *

Feb 25 *

Dr Ro Smith @Rhube@wandering.shop

Found a mushroom in my window box. Any #mushtodon folks want to venture an ID?

I am in the north of England. And don't worry, I have no intention of eating it.

A small white mushroom with a slightly pointed top next to a fuchsia in a window box.

#mushroom #mushrooms

**mel** @daemonicusprince@meow.social · Feb 24

Feb 24

mel @daemonicusprince@meow.social

a bundle for #MushroomMonday , from a quick walk before the week of rain

a single sprout of some green plant that vaguely resembles cilantro, cradled inside a bright orange bowl mushroom, centered in a blurry background of mosses and dead leaves

a young and tiny conk mushroom with white rim and gold top, alone among a much wider scene on the underside of a mossy fallen tree suspended above the ground

the top surface of an older dried-out conk mushroom, mostly a parched light brown, but with spots of darker brown moisture from the beginning of a rain

an older, larger, and more venerable mushroom with glossy black topside and cream-white underside, separated by a golden rim in a very wavy & flowing pattern, decorated by various forest detritus

#photography #nature #NaturePhotography

**Dan McCullough** @danmccullough@ecoevo.social · Feb 21

Feb 21

Dan McCullough @danmccullough@ecoevo.social

Some days you just feel like smashing a Giant Puffball with a shovel.

(Not that you need a reason to whomp a volleyball-sized mushroom with a metal stick, but passing it off as a way to demonstrate the science of spore dispersal always made me feel like I had found my calling.)

I miss teaching.

Standing at the left of the photo is me, wearing a blue polo and tan shorts. I’m holding a shovel over my shoulder while talking to 15 people, who are in a semi circle. We are in a meadow with leafed trees in the background. In the grass in front of us, is a giant puffball mushroom about the size of a soccer ball. I am getting ready to smash the puffball with the shovel, sending the blackened spores into the air. The looks on the people are a mixture of anticipation and total “what is Dan going to do to us this time?”

The same spot in the meadow is now empty (I have moved the people out of range of the spores) except for me. My backside is visible as I am slamming the shovel into the puffball which has exploded into a dust cloud of millions of spores. In the very center of the photo is an airborne section of the puffball.

#FungiFriday #Mycology #Mushrooms

**LindenShieldARTs** @lindenshieldarts@mastodon.social · Feb 18

Feb 18

LindenShieldARTs @lindenshieldarts@mastodon.social

For the first time in months I went hiking again and it felt so good I almost cried.

Small greenish grey lichen cups amid star-shaped reddish green moss.

A cluster of saprophytic white and yellow/green mushrooms on a tree stump, seen from above and surrounded by a leaf-strewn forest floor.

A line of conifer trees through which a sunlit meadow is indistinctly visible. In the bottom half of the photo a little stream.

A close up of icicles growing out of a mossy rock. A bit of sky and trees is visible indistinctly in the background.

#mosstodon #lichensubscribe #mushtodon

**𝕯𝖊𝖓𝖞** @fuckwork@kolektiva.social · Feb 17

Feb 17

𝕯𝖊𝖓𝖞 @fuckwork@kolektiva.social

Clathrus transvaalensis

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Clathrus_transvaalensis.html

Ecology: Saprobic; growing alone or gregariously in urban locations, including lawns and golf courses as well as other cultivated areas, and in woodchip beds; January through April; South Africa. The illustrated and described collection is from Gauteng, South Africa.

Immature Fruiting Body: Like a whitish to pinkish or brownish "egg"; when sliced revealing the stinkhorn-to-be encased in a gelatinous substance.

Mature Fruiting Body: 5-10 cm high; 4-7 cm wide; consisting of a mesh of arms, with the lower meshes elongated vertically (almost appearing like supporting columns) and the upper meshes smaller, creating roundish to polygonal spaces.

Arms: Up to about 1 cm thick; hollow; outer surfaces sometimes slightly flattened; densely transversely wrinkled (accordion-like in appearance); grooved between meshes; creamy whitish (especially below) to pinkish or pale salmon.

Volva: Sac-like, encasing the base of the fruiting body; whitish to pinkish, with brownish stains.

Flesh: Composed of tiny tubes; pinkish; brittle.

Spore Slime: Brown; produced on cushion-shaped structures located at the intersections of the arms.

Microscopic Features: Spores 4-5 x 1.5-2 m; subcylindric; smooth; hyaline in KOH. Sphaerocysts of the arms 15-48 m; irregularly subglobose; smooth; walls 0.5-0.75 m thick; hyaline in KOH. Hyphae of the volva 2-4 m wide unless swollen at septa (up to 7 m); smooth; hyaline in KOH.