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Agnes 🍄

@tiredtoadstool.bsky.social
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a very tired toadstool | 26 | she/they | 🇸🇪🏳️‍🌈 | mostly talks about mushrooms, the last dinner party and various fandoms ✨for light and life✨

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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Shingled Hedgehog (Sarcodon imbricatus), found this one in abundance this summer/autumn. A pretty good mushroom for stews, I dried a lot of what I picked and use it as seasoning. The bigger the more bitter the taste, so these should be picked when small!
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Chanterelle (Cantharellus cibarius), the golden child! One of my favourite ways to eat chanterelles is on homemade pizza or just simply fried in butter with garlic, salt and pepper on some toast
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Lurid Bolete (Suillellus luridus), same with this one, fried it for a long time on medium-low heat because unlike the rest of the mushrooms in this post this one will very much upset your stomach unless cooked properly
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
St George's mushroom (Calocybe Gambosa), first time for me! So just fried it up in just butter with some salt and pepper, tasted kind of like fried flour. This is one of the earliest edible mushrooms to show up in the spring
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
🍄 Fungi Fact Friday 🍄 New year, new fungi facts! Sometimes! I'd love to continue for a third year, but I feel like changing it up a little. In what way I'm not sure yet. But for today, this first fff of 2026 I'm just gonna share some great mushrooms I saw and ate last year!
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
it could possibly be confused with Chicken of the Woods (Laetiporus Sulphureus), but Orange Polypore is not edible and should be left alone due to it's endangered status picture of a young specimen that could look more like the Orange Polypore
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
🍄 Fungi Fact Friday 🍄 Orange Polypore(Aurantiporus Croceus or Hapalopilus Croceus), in swedish called Saffransticka which translates to "Saffron polypore" named for the saffron yellow of the fruiting body 💛
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
🍄 Fungi Fact Friday 🍄 Witches Cauldron (Sarcosoma globosum), also sometimes called Charred-pancake Cup is a rare mushroom. In swedish it's called Bombmurkla, which translates to "Bomb morel" and if I could launch this like a bomb so it would explode in population I would!
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
🍄 Fungi Fact Friday 🍄 Scarlet Waxcap (Hygrocybe Coccinea) also called Scarlet Hood or Righteous Red Waxycap, is a strikingly red mushroom that is becoming increasingly rare due to habitat loss
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
lactase is extracted from Kluyveromyces, K. Lactis being most common, and added to milk, allowing for it to split the lactose molecules into glucose and galactose. people with lactose persistence, who have enough lactase enzyme, a similar process occurs in their digestive system
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
🍄 Fungi Fact Friday 🍄 Lactose intolerant? Meet Kluyveromyces Lactis (pic.1) and Kluyveromyces Marxianus (pic. 2-3), two yeasts that help us lactase lacking fellows enjoy dairy products!
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
"the blob" has been cultivated by both scientists and everyday people, famously solving maze problems and being kept as a "pet" lol seriously the people on r/slimemolds are so fun
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
protists are any eukaryotic organism that is not animal, plant or fungus. this huge grouping includes other, mostly single-celled, organisms like algae and amoeba. historically they're part of the kingdom Protista
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
🍄 Shroom-Stastic Saturday 🍄 for the last non-fungi fungi fact let's take a look at Slime Moulds! organisms that regularly get mistaken for fungi but are a very diverse group of protist pictured are my favourite ones, Wolf's Milk (Lycogala Epidendrum) and "the blob" (Physarum Polycephalum)
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
shoutout to some other vanilla species, because they have pretty flowers! Vanilla phalaenopsis, Vanilla roscheri, Vanilla humblotii and Vanilla poitaei
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
🍄 Fungi Fact Friday 🍄 Vanilla! Specifically Flat-Leaved Vanilla (Vanilla Planifolia), is an orchid and one of the most common sources of vanilla flavouring. Like other orchids, Vanilla uses fungi in their seed germination process
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
The fungi "partner" can be from a range of species like from the genus Rhizoctonia, Sebacina, Tulasnella or Russula species. Tulasnella Violea and Ceratobasidium Cornigerum being quite commonly associated with orchids
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
🍄 Shroom-Stastic Saturday/Sunday 🍄 Orchids! Almost all orchids are at some stage in their life-cycle myco-heterotrophic. Commonly they use fungi in the germination of the seeds, gaining the energy needed by taking carbon from the fungus produces, but giving nothing in return
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
The Ghost Plant associates only with mushrooms in the family of Russulaceae, which includes species like Blue-green Cracking Russula (Russula Parvovirescens), Yellow Swamp Brittlegill (Russula Claroflava), Wooly Milk Cap (Lactarius Torminosus) and Indigo Milk Cap (Lactarius Indigo)
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
🍄 Shroom-Stastic Saturday 🍄 Ghost Plant (Monotropa Uniflora) also known as Ghost Pipe or Indian Pipe is NOT a fungus at all! But a non-photosynthesising flower that is what is called a myco-heterotroph Non-Fungi Fungi Fact November perhaps? 😌
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
another is this excerpt from James Drummond, describing how he could read the newspaper by the light of the Ghost Fungus. and a mention of how the aboriginal people seemed frightened of it, although his use of "poor creatures" when referring to them is...well, very 19th century...
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
descriptions and recollections of this fungus by two men active in mycology in the 1800s tickle me. a piece from Mordecai Cubitt Cooke's book is my favourite one, it reads almost like a gothic novel lol
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Happy Halloween dear fungi friends! 👻🍄 Fungi Fact Friday 🍄👻 Ghost Fungus (Omphalotus Nidiformis) is a poisonous mushroom with bioluminescent properties
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
💀🍄 Fungi Fact Friday 🍄💀 Fatal Dapperling (Lepiota Subincarnata) which is alos known as Deadly Parasol is a deathly poisonous mushroom found in europe, asia and north america
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
!! it's time for !! 🪦🍄 Shroom Statistic Saturday 🍄🪦 Funeral Bell (Galerina Marginata) also called Deadly Skullcap, Autumn Skullcap or Deadly Galerina is a mushroom that is a deadly if eaten, as one might glean from the common names
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
🍄 Fungi Fact Friday 🍄 Sulphur Tuft (Hypholoma Fasciculare), also called Clustered Woodlover, is a common saprobic mushroom that grows on decaying deciduous trees. sometimes exhibiting bioluminescence!
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
🍄 Fungi Fact Friday 🍄 Birch Webcap (Phlegmacium triumphans) also known as Yellow Girdled Webcap is a mushroom that grows with birch, common in europe and asia and also found in north america
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
🍄 Fungi Fact Friday 🍄 The Blue Foot (Hydnellum Cyanopodium) or Bleeding Blue Tooth mushroom is a rare fungus only found in the pacific nortwest of north america where it grows with sitka spruce and pine trees
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
🍄 Fungi Fact Friday 🍄 Polyporus Radicatus is a saprobic mushroom that grows on dead roots of hardwood trees (living or dead) found in north america
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
🍄 Fungi Fact Friday 🍄 Tulasnella Aurantiaca is a gelatinous looking fungus, that grows on dead deciduous wood. Common in north america and found in europe as well
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
🍄 Fungi Fact Friday 🍄 Birch Brittlegill (Russula Betularum) is an inedible mushroom most often found with birch. Both its common and scientific name pointing towards this fact, Betularum meaning "of the birches"
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
🍄 Fungi Fact Friday 🍄 Sunshine Amanita (Amanita Aprica) is a poisonous mushroom found only in the apcif nortwest of america it's mycorrhizal and grows in association with douglas fir and pines
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
🍄 Fungi Fact Friday 🍄 The Rosy Conk (Rhodofomes Cajanderi) is a polypore mushroom that's most common in north america but has been found in south america, africa, asia and oceania as well
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
🍄 Fungi Fact Friday 🍄 The Trunctuate Club Coral (Clavariadelphus Truncatus) also known as Truncated Club or just Club Coral is a quite widespread but increasingly rare edible mushroom
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
🍄 Fungi Fact Friday 🍄 Shaggy Bracket (Inonotus Hispidus) is a polypore mushroom that's rare and listed as vulnerable in sweden, but being more common on the island gotland in the baltic sea
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
🍄 Fungi Fact Friday 🍄 Rosy Earthstar (Geastrum Rufescens) is a mushroom that can be found in europe, north america as well as japan
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
🍄 Fungi Fact Friday 🍄 Primrose Brittlegill (Russula Sardonia) is an inedible mushroom found in coniferous forests, especially with pine, all over europe
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
the moon kept me company on my journey home
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
it is still friday somewhere! just not here lol but all the same welcome to another 🍄 Fungi Fact Friday 🍄 Apple Bolete (Exsudoporus frostii) or Frost's Bolete is a mushroom that forms mycorrhizal associations with mostly hardwood trees in north and central america
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
the peridioles are attached to the "nest" by a little mycelial string called a funicular cord, this may wither away as the fungus matures
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
🍄 Fungi Fact Friday 🍄 Common Bird's Nest Fungus (Crucibulum Laeve) also known as The White-egg Bird's Nest is a tiny saprobic fungi that look like little bird's nests
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
🍄 Fungi Fact Friday 🍄 Sexy Footpath/Pavement Lichen (Xanthoparmelia Scabrosa) is a lichen with not only a very interesting name but some interesting properties too
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
it's finally here! 🍄 Shroom Statistic Saturday 🍄 Pink Domecap (Calocybe Carnea/Rugosomyces Carneus is ) or Pink Fairhead is a pretty common mushroom found in meadows, fields and grass lawns in europe, asia and north america
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
🍄 Fungi Fact Friday 🍄 Red Coral (Ramaria Araiospora) is an edible fungus found in the himalayas and north america, being quite popular in parts of mexico
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
🍄 Fungi Fact Friday 🍄 Oyster Rollrim (Tapinella Panuoides) is a mushroom that grows on dead wood and plant matter. found in america, europe and asia
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
fried them in butter and they tasted a lot like fried batter, weirdly flour-like taste and just a little chewy but not very mushroomy 🍄‍🟫 I quite liked them, definitely gonna cook with them in the future! #fungifriends
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
🍄 Fungi Fact Friday 🍄 St. George's mushroom (Calocybe Gambosa) is an edible mushroom that typically occurs in spring throughout europe and north america
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
🍄 Fungi Fact Friday 🍄 Black Velvet Bolete (Tylopilus Alboater) is a an edible mushroom but really I think it's just a velvet loving goth disguising themself as a mushroom 🖤
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
🍄 Fungi Fact Friday 🍄 Gymnopilus Purpuratus, a mushroom with no common name that I could find although Purpuratus is at least a colourful specific name it can be found in south america, europe, australia and aotearoa (new zealand) and grows on tree stumps and dead wood debris
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Agnes 🍄 @tiredtoadstool.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
🍄 Fungi Fact Friday 🍄 Poison Pie (Hebeloma Crustuliniforme) also called Fairy Cakes 🧚‍♀️ is a poisonous mushroom so the Fairy Cakes nickname is a little odd, I guess a lesson in not eating food offered by the fae
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