What's Your Favorite Fungus That Isnt A Mushroom

what's your favorite fungus that isnt a mushroom

Oh ho ho this is a wonderful question!

So things in the fungi family that aren’t mushrooms are molds, yeasts, rusts, mildews and… smuts. Ignore that last one. They’re basically just corn parasites, and someone saw one and decided to call it a smut.

I’m gonna be real, I probably like yeast the most. Because I can use it to make tasty cinnamon buns! As ashamed as I am to admit it, I don’t know very much about fungi that don’t have fruiting bodies that could be considered mushrooms. My greatest shortcoming.

There are some fungal adjacent organisms I love and know about though, like mycoheterotrophs, fungus-like protists and lichen!

Has spearmaster been mushroomed yet?

Nope, (although have said what mushroom I’m gonna do) but they are about to be! For this one, I went for purely aesthetics. I basically had no other comparisons, but the spotted violet court too perfect for Spears. The only thing I could sort of find is that the spores are a rusty colour, which reminded me of Spearmaster’s pearl, and the stems are often a lighter purple than the cap and tend to have a bulbous base which reminded me of their spears. Anyways, just look and you’ll see why I chose this mushroom:

Spearmaster is the spotted violet court (Cortinarius iodes) mushroom!!!

putting you in a blanket away from the horrors

Thank you 😭

Turns you into a marketable plushie

PEEETAAAAHHH DONT TURN ME INTO A MARKETABLE PLUSHIE

Following the logic of the viscid/spotted violet court mushroom, we can only assume baby Spearmaster looked like this

My room has a giant mushroom table in it (the mushroom is meant to be the fly agaric Amanita muscaria mushroom) that is filled with mushroom identification and mycology books. The table looks weird because I made it myself in grade nine woodworking class (which was a way better elective than jewlery making anyways 😠) and I walked home from school carrying it on my shoulder.

I have four mushroom identification books, two books about mycology, a third that is specifically about the wood wide web (the relationship between mushrooms and trees) and two waterproof mushroom identification brochures. In case anyone doubted that I’m a giant nerd.