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Found this image on Flickr with a Wiki-friendly CC-Compatible license. But, I have no idea what it is. Help? --Cantthinkofausername 05:54, 1 January 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cantthinkofausername ( talk • contribs)
Penicillium candidum is a synonym of Penicillium camemberti, as the first sentence of this article says. I think they should be merged. But are there any (fungi-specific) rules about such situation? 95.221.26.229 ( talk) 22:52, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
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Currently, the template links "inedible" to mushroom poisoning, which is really not a good idea. It lumps together species who merely have a taste or texture that makes them unpalatable (paper or wood are inedible, but they are not, on average, toxic!) right up with actual toxic species or those who cause non-deadly intestinal symptoms. Circéus ( talk) 17:42, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
I have created templates to link to {{ MycoBank}} and {{ IndexFungorum}}. The first template can take two names, but Index Fungorum only one, though I can easily add more. By default the first name displayed in both case is the title of the page. See Geastrum triplex and Spongiforma thailandica for examples. Circéus ( talk) 13:48, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I hope this is a good place to ask this. Here are two photos of a fungus I found growing in my back yard last fall. I've been googling around, but can't get a good start on identifying what it is, so I'm posting here. Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm in Denton, Texas, if that helps. - GTBacchus( talk) 03:48, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. I have found some concerns which you can see at Talk:Yeast/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells ( talk) 17:03, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
I know that there is already Category:Fungus stubs, but I think that there should also be a category called Category:Mushroom stubs. Joe Chill ( talk) 01:46, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
Just came across this wonderful image- surely it would fit in somewhere? The only place we really discuss this kind of thing is in our article on fairy rings, and this wouldn't really fit in there. Anyone know of anywhere we could place it? J Milburn ( talk) 18:11, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
New mycologist article here: Robert Delafield Rands Sasata ( talk) 09:30, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Today's_featured_article/requests - we should try and get one of the amazing-looking fungi mainpaged (the request page can only have five requests at a time, so request have to be placed very quickly after Raul moves them to the TFA queue...) :) Casliber ( talk • contribs) 05:07, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
Dang, it got bumped. But nevermind, I'll leave the pale green box here for a later date: Casliber ( talk • contribs) 01:03, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
Boletus edulis, commonly known as porcini or cep, is a basidiomycete fungus, and the type species of the genus Boletus. Widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere across Europe, Asia, and North America, it does not occur naturally in the Southern Hemisphere, although it has been introduced to southern Africa and New Zealand. Several closely-related European mushrooms formerly thought to be varieties or forms of B. edulis have been shown using molecular phylogenetic analysis to be distinct species.
The fungus grows in deciduous and coniferous forests and tree plantations, forming symbiotic ectomycorrhizal associations with living trees by enveloping sheaths of fungal tissue around their underground roots. The fungus produces spore-bearing fruit bodies above ground in summer and autumn. The fruit body consists of a large and imposing brown cap which can reach 25 cm (10 in) in diameter and 1 kg (2.2 lb) in weight. Like other boletes, it has tubes extending downward from the underside of the cap, rather than gills; spores are released at maturity through the tube openings, or pores. The stout stipe, or stem, is white or yellowish in colour, up to 25 cm (10 in) tall and 7 cm (2.8 in) thick, and partially covered with a raised network pattern, or reticulations.
Prized as an ingredient in various foods, B. edulis is an edible mushroom held in high regard in many cuisines, and is commonly prepared and eaten in soups, pasta, or risotto. The mushroom is low in fat and digestible carbohydrates, and high in protein, vitamins, minerals and dietary fibre. Although it is sold commercially, it has not been successfully grown in cultivation. Available fresh in autumn in Central, Southern and Northern Europe, it is most often dried, packaged and distributed worldwide. ( more...)I've been thinking about making this useful page even more so by setting it up as a table, and adding more columns with more information. I use the page as it is fairly often, but the proposed changes would really enhance its value for me, hopefully for others too. Obviously some tweaks are required, like getting the rating and date columns to sort properly. The incoming links column is mostly blank because I didn't want to actually count the highly linked pages. Any additional info that should be included? I'm not sure if there would be issues with have a table that's so big, but that can be figured out later. Does anyone know of other projects that do something similar? Sasata ( talk) 20:59, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi everyone,
Could someone with journal access have a look at
Nattrassia mangiferae and
Scytalidium? The PubMed article linked out from Scytalidium is referring to Scytalidium dimidiatum, which I think is some sort of alternative name for Nattrassia mangiferae? I suspect the PubMed reference probably needs to be included into Nattrassia mangiferae (which would rather nicely expand the stub and maybe put it into the category of parasitic fungi?) Thanks
Ka Faraq Gatri (
talk) 08:53, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
If Psilocybe australiana is variant of Psilocybe subaeruginosa then the pictures shown look nothing alike, not even in Psilocybe.
They look more like Cortinarius sp. There are several species in that genus that will have a purple tinge, some of which will loose a bit of their purple colouring after it has been picked and is probably confused with blue bruising.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybe_australiana —Preceding unsigned comment added by MrMayolicious ( talk • contribs) 03:25, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
I haven't had time to take tons this year, but there are a few. IDs may eventually get more specific when I get a chance to visit the local mycologists again. Noodle snacks ( talk) 11:52, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
There's a new WP:JCW report. Out of the 500 most highly cited missing journals, here's a few that fall into your scope, or near your scope.
See the writing guide if you need help with those. Some of these might be better as redirects ( Guide to redirects). Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 04:58, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
Unknown mushroom species from Tennessee. Gills dark, no distinct odor, flesh remains white when cut. Kaldari ( talk) 02:47, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello. I realise oomycetes aren't fungi, but I seem to recall a general move to sort of adopt them into the Project a little while back? With that assumption I'm hoping for some feedback on an expansion of Phytophthora alni that I've been working on. I'm pretty much totally ignorant when it comes to oomycetes and fungi and this is my first major expansion so it'd be great to know what you think before inflicting it on the general public(!). My current working text is here: User:Ka Faraq Gatri/sandbox2. Thanks Ka Faraq Gatri ( talk) 09:06, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
At Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Mycena leaiana var. australis.jpg, I posed the question Why are there no views of real fungi at Pileus (mycology)? Can someone respond?-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 22:00, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of life#Templates for external links. -- Snek01 ( talk) 17:17, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
This photo was posted on the species identification board of the German Wikipedia. Unfortunately we do not have any experts on Australian mushrooms there, so I thought you might have more success at identifying this species. The habitat is eucalyptus forest.-- Toter Alter Mann ( talk) 11:33, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
Given this is a fairly important concept in mycological nomenclature that is not easily encapsulated within other article, I wrote a quick and dirty stub covering the basics. Circéus ( talk) 20:10, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
I gave up and just went and added an "unpalatable" parameter to "edibility". It uses the "inedible" icon. See it in action at Amanita citrina. Circéus ( talk) 21:15, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
None of the WP mushroom articles seem to cover the relationship of animals to mushrooms. Which animals consume mushrooms? How do they know which ones are safe? How often do they make mistakes? What are the consequences? Dogs, cats, pets and mushrooms?
Which animals react to various mushrooms the most similar to humans? Can a human stranded in the wild get useful guidance about safe/edible mushrooms from observing animals?
A mushroom was nibbled at the edge by an animal. The next day, a chipmunk ate the whole thing. Did the chipmunk taste-test the mushroom first, wait a day for a bad reaction, then decide it was safe to consume?
Which WP articles should contain such information?- 96.237.78.13 ( talk) 13:07, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
The article fungivore is patiently waiting to be expanded. Sasata ( talk) 14:07, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
I'm making a start with an article in my userspace about the more general topic of fungi being eaten and grown (see User:Smartse/fungivory). Any help would be appreciated, as it is going to be a bit of a monster article, if you want to deal with a section by yourself that might be easiest. If anyone has or knows of any pictures showing mushrooms that have been eaten or are being eaten by animals they would be good to include. Smartse ( talk) 21:56, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
I just found out about the popular pages toolserver, and am submitting a request to get the Fungi Wikiproject in on the action. Sasata ( talk) 02:48, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
If anyone knows about this genus of mushrooms, your help at this deletion discussion would be appreciated. Thanks, P. D. Cook Talk to me! 21:57, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
Per discussion, with Circeus at Talk:Gyromitra_infula, I've transferred a bunch of material about gyromitrin biochemistry and toxicity to gyromitrin, with the plan to replace the transferred material with a summary section. At some point, the same should be done with other mushroom toxins. Any objections, comments? Sasata ( talk) 18:53, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, I am looking for some online taxonomy website, where I can browse fungi taxons. -- Juan de Vojníkov ( talk) 17:42, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
OK, thx. But it seems not to have lot of informations, especially about distribution and etc. But anyway thx.-- Juan de Vojníkov ( talk) 22:12, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Can anyone ID this fungus, which I presume to be an earthstar of some kind that I found in Panama? Smartse ( talk) 22:31, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
Does anyone have any idea who Cessati was, in the following sentence from Julius von Sachs' History of Botany?:
The name seems to have no web presence at all, which makes me suspect a typo... but for what?! Hesperian 12:45, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
That's it! I just found a paper that begins:
Sachs almost certainly should have written Bassi, but it is clear now that he meant this Cesati, who was up to his elbows in fungal plant pathology, and could easily have been confused with his fellow countryman. Thanks, Sasata; my shout next meetup. ;-) Hesperian 23:41, 23 September 2010 (UTC) And thanks too Stemonitis for taking the trouble here. Hesperian 23:44, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
I was checking some references, when I come across this one at Forest & Shade Tree Pathology This seems to be a fairly large site with lots of good info published by an expert [3]. This page fungi particularly I thought would be of interest to your wikiproject. Blackash have a chat 04:34, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
Featured picture delist discussions rarely receive the necessary attemtion, and this one has been contested. Input welcome. J Milburn ( talk) 23:54, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
The Penicillium entry in Wiki says the following: "Sexual reproduction involves the production of ascospores, commencing with the fusion of an archegonium and an antheridium, with sharing of nuclei. The irregularly distributed asci contain eight unicellular ascospores each."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillium
Chittles ( talk) 01:22, 10 October 2010 (UTC)My textbook and at least one other website source indicates that Penicillium does not have a sexual reproductive cycle. Can someone confirm and make the correction? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chittles ( talk • contribs) 01:17, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
I changed Mycotroph into a disambiguation page (no content deleted) and got reverted. The page only has short descriptions and links to mycorrhiza and myco-heterotrophy. I think disambiguation makes sense for this page, but would like the biologists and botanist and other plant-whizzes to comment on the article's talk page. Thank you, D O N D E groovily Talk to me 13:38, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
We now have 100 selected species at Portal:Fungi- this means we have 100 good articles on a single species of fungi illustrated by a free image of that species. So, how long until we have 100 featured articles? J Milburn ( talk) 12:24, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
There have been a couple of questions at the science reference desk recently about mushrooms which you lot might be able to help with. This one is about a mushroom from Canada, and this one is probably from Australia. SmartSE ( talk) 21:42, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello, my friends: A group of us are working on clearing the backlog at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_lacking_sources_from_October_2006. The article in the above header has been without sources for the past four years and may be removed if none are added. I wonder if you can help do so. Sincerely, and all the best to you, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 07:34, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
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Found this image on Flickr with a Wiki-friendly CC-Compatible license. But, I have no idea what it is. Help? --Cantthinkofausername 05:54, 1 January 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cantthinkofausername ( talk • contribs)
Penicillium candidum is a synonym of Penicillium camemberti, as the first sentence of this article says. I think they should be merged. But are there any (fungi-specific) rules about such situation? 95.221.26.229 ( talk) 22:52, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
This message is being sent to each WikiProject that participates in the WP 1.0 assessment system. On Saturday, January 23, 2010, the WP 1.0 bot will be upgraded. Your project does not need to take any action, but the appearance of your project's summary table will change. The upgrade will make many new, optional features available to all WikiProjects. Additional information is available at the WP 1.0 project homepage. — Carl ( CBM • talk) 03:20, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
Currently, the template links "inedible" to mushroom poisoning, which is really not a good idea. It lumps together species who merely have a taste or texture that makes them unpalatable (paper or wood are inedible, but they are not, on average, toxic!) right up with actual toxic species or those who cause non-deadly intestinal symptoms. Circéus ( talk) 17:42, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
I have created templates to link to {{ MycoBank}} and {{ IndexFungorum}}. The first template can take two names, but Index Fungorum only one, though I can easily add more. By default the first name displayed in both case is the title of the page. See Geastrum triplex and Spongiforma thailandica for examples. Circéus ( talk) 13:48, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I hope this is a good place to ask this. Here are two photos of a fungus I found growing in my back yard last fall. I've been googling around, but can't get a good start on identifying what it is, so I'm posting here. Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm in Denton, Texas, if that helps. - GTBacchus( talk) 03:48, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. I have found some concerns which you can see at Talk:Yeast/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells ( talk) 17:03, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
I know that there is already Category:Fungus stubs, but I think that there should also be a category called Category:Mushroom stubs. Joe Chill ( talk) 01:46, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
Just came across this wonderful image- surely it would fit in somewhere? The only place we really discuss this kind of thing is in our article on fairy rings, and this wouldn't really fit in there. Anyone know of anywhere we could place it? J Milburn ( talk) 18:11, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
New mycologist article here: Robert Delafield Rands Sasata ( talk) 09:30, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Today's_featured_article/requests - we should try and get one of the amazing-looking fungi mainpaged (the request page can only have five requests at a time, so request have to be placed very quickly after Raul moves them to the TFA queue...) :) Casliber ( talk • contribs) 05:07, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
Dang, it got bumped. But nevermind, I'll leave the pale green box here for a later date: Casliber ( talk • contribs) 01:03, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
Boletus edulis, commonly known as porcini or cep, is a basidiomycete fungus, and the type species of the genus Boletus. Widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere across Europe, Asia, and North America, it does not occur naturally in the Southern Hemisphere, although it has been introduced to southern Africa and New Zealand. Several closely-related European mushrooms formerly thought to be varieties or forms of B. edulis have been shown using molecular phylogenetic analysis to be distinct species.
The fungus grows in deciduous and coniferous forests and tree plantations, forming symbiotic ectomycorrhizal associations with living trees by enveloping sheaths of fungal tissue around their underground roots. The fungus produces spore-bearing fruit bodies above ground in summer and autumn. The fruit body consists of a large and imposing brown cap which can reach 25 cm (10 in) in diameter and 1 kg (2.2 lb) in weight. Like other boletes, it has tubes extending downward from the underside of the cap, rather than gills; spores are released at maturity through the tube openings, or pores. The stout stipe, or stem, is white or yellowish in colour, up to 25 cm (10 in) tall and 7 cm (2.8 in) thick, and partially covered with a raised network pattern, or reticulations.
Prized as an ingredient in various foods, B. edulis is an edible mushroom held in high regard in many cuisines, and is commonly prepared and eaten in soups, pasta, or risotto. The mushroom is low in fat and digestible carbohydrates, and high in protein, vitamins, minerals and dietary fibre. Although it is sold commercially, it has not been successfully grown in cultivation. Available fresh in autumn in Central, Southern and Northern Europe, it is most often dried, packaged and distributed worldwide. ( more...)I've been thinking about making this useful page even more so by setting it up as a table, and adding more columns with more information. I use the page as it is fairly often, but the proposed changes would really enhance its value for me, hopefully for others too. Obviously some tweaks are required, like getting the rating and date columns to sort properly. The incoming links column is mostly blank because I didn't want to actually count the highly linked pages. Any additional info that should be included? I'm not sure if there would be issues with have a table that's so big, but that can be figured out later. Does anyone know of other projects that do something similar? Sasata ( talk) 20:59, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi everyone,
Could someone with journal access have a look at
Nattrassia mangiferae and
Scytalidium? The PubMed article linked out from Scytalidium is referring to Scytalidium dimidiatum, which I think is some sort of alternative name for Nattrassia mangiferae? I suspect the PubMed reference probably needs to be included into Nattrassia mangiferae (which would rather nicely expand the stub and maybe put it into the category of parasitic fungi?) Thanks
Ka Faraq Gatri (
talk) 08:53, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
If Psilocybe australiana is variant of Psilocybe subaeruginosa then the pictures shown look nothing alike, not even in Psilocybe.
They look more like Cortinarius sp. There are several species in that genus that will have a purple tinge, some of which will loose a bit of their purple colouring after it has been picked and is probably confused with blue bruising.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybe_australiana —Preceding unsigned comment added by MrMayolicious ( talk • contribs) 03:25, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
I haven't had time to take tons this year, but there are a few. IDs may eventually get more specific when I get a chance to visit the local mycologists again. Noodle snacks ( talk) 11:52, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
There's a new WP:JCW report. Out of the 500 most highly cited missing journals, here's a few that fall into your scope, or near your scope.
See the writing guide if you need help with those. Some of these might be better as redirects ( Guide to redirects). Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 04:58, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
Unknown mushroom species from Tennessee. Gills dark, no distinct odor, flesh remains white when cut. Kaldari ( talk) 02:47, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello. I realise oomycetes aren't fungi, but I seem to recall a general move to sort of adopt them into the Project a little while back? With that assumption I'm hoping for some feedback on an expansion of Phytophthora alni that I've been working on. I'm pretty much totally ignorant when it comes to oomycetes and fungi and this is my first major expansion so it'd be great to know what you think before inflicting it on the general public(!). My current working text is here: User:Ka Faraq Gatri/sandbox2. Thanks Ka Faraq Gatri ( talk) 09:06, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
At Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Mycena leaiana var. australis.jpg, I posed the question Why are there no views of real fungi at Pileus (mycology)? Can someone respond?-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 22:00, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of life#Templates for external links. -- Snek01 ( talk) 17:17, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
This photo was posted on the species identification board of the German Wikipedia. Unfortunately we do not have any experts on Australian mushrooms there, so I thought you might have more success at identifying this species. The habitat is eucalyptus forest.-- Toter Alter Mann ( talk) 11:33, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
Given this is a fairly important concept in mycological nomenclature that is not easily encapsulated within other article, I wrote a quick and dirty stub covering the basics. Circéus ( talk) 20:10, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
I gave up and just went and added an "unpalatable" parameter to "edibility". It uses the "inedible" icon. See it in action at Amanita citrina. Circéus ( talk) 21:15, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
None of the WP mushroom articles seem to cover the relationship of animals to mushrooms. Which animals consume mushrooms? How do they know which ones are safe? How often do they make mistakes? What are the consequences? Dogs, cats, pets and mushrooms?
Which animals react to various mushrooms the most similar to humans? Can a human stranded in the wild get useful guidance about safe/edible mushrooms from observing animals?
A mushroom was nibbled at the edge by an animal. The next day, a chipmunk ate the whole thing. Did the chipmunk taste-test the mushroom first, wait a day for a bad reaction, then decide it was safe to consume?
Which WP articles should contain such information?- 96.237.78.13 ( talk) 13:07, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
The article fungivore is patiently waiting to be expanded. Sasata ( talk) 14:07, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
I'm making a start with an article in my userspace about the more general topic of fungi being eaten and grown (see User:Smartse/fungivory). Any help would be appreciated, as it is going to be a bit of a monster article, if you want to deal with a section by yourself that might be easiest. If anyone has or knows of any pictures showing mushrooms that have been eaten or are being eaten by animals they would be good to include. Smartse ( talk) 21:56, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
I just found out about the popular pages toolserver, and am submitting a request to get the Fungi Wikiproject in on the action. Sasata ( talk) 02:48, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
If anyone knows about this genus of mushrooms, your help at this deletion discussion would be appreciated. Thanks, P. D. Cook Talk to me! 21:57, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
Per discussion, with Circeus at Talk:Gyromitra_infula, I've transferred a bunch of material about gyromitrin biochemistry and toxicity to gyromitrin, with the plan to replace the transferred material with a summary section. At some point, the same should be done with other mushroom toxins. Any objections, comments? Sasata ( talk) 18:53, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Version 0.8 is a collection of Wikipedia articles selected by the Wikipedia 1.0 team for offline release on USB key, DVD and mobile phone. Articles were selected based on their assessed importance and quality, then article versions (revisionIDs) were chosen for trustworthiness (freedom from vandalism) using an adaptation of the WikiTrust algorithm.
We would like to ask you to review the Fungi articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (♦) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.
We have greatly streamlined the process since the Version 0.7 release, so we aim to have the collection ready for distribution by the end of October, 2010. As a result, we are planning to distribute the collection much more widely, while continuing to work with groups such as One Laptop per Child and Wikipedia for Schools to extend the reach of Wikipedia worldwide. Please help us, with your WikiProject's feedback!
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Hi, I am looking for some online taxonomy website, where I can browse fungi taxons. -- Juan de Vojníkov ( talk) 17:42, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
OK, thx. But it seems not to have lot of informations, especially about distribution and etc. But anyway thx.-- Juan de Vojníkov ( talk) 22:12, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Can anyone ID this fungus, which I presume to be an earthstar of some kind that I found in Panama? Smartse ( talk) 22:31, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
Does anyone have any idea who Cessati was, in the following sentence from Julius von Sachs' History of Botany?:
The name seems to have no web presence at all, which makes me suspect a typo... but for what?! Hesperian 12:45, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
That's it! I just found a paper that begins:
Sachs almost certainly should have written Bassi, but it is clear now that he meant this Cesati, who was up to his elbows in fungal plant pathology, and could easily have been confused with his fellow countryman. Thanks, Sasata; my shout next meetup. ;-) Hesperian 23:41, 23 September 2010 (UTC) And thanks too Stemonitis for taking the trouble here. Hesperian 23:44, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
I was checking some references, when I come across this one at Forest & Shade Tree Pathology This seems to be a fairly large site with lots of good info published by an expert [3]. This page fungi particularly I thought would be of interest to your wikiproject. Blackash have a chat 04:34, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
Featured picture delist discussions rarely receive the necessary attemtion, and this one has been contested. Input welcome. J Milburn ( talk) 23:54, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
The Penicillium entry in Wiki says the following: "Sexual reproduction involves the production of ascospores, commencing with the fusion of an archegonium and an antheridium, with sharing of nuclei. The irregularly distributed asci contain eight unicellular ascospores each."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillium
Chittles ( talk) 01:22, 10 October 2010 (UTC)My textbook and at least one other website source indicates that Penicillium does not have a sexual reproductive cycle. Can someone confirm and make the correction? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chittles ( talk • contribs) 01:17, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
I changed Mycotroph into a disambiguation page (no content deleted) and got reverted. The page only has short descriptions and links to mycorrhiza and myco-heterotrophy. I think disambiguation makes sense for this page, but would like the biologists and botanist and other plant-whizzes to comment on the article's talk page. Thank you, D O N D E groovily Talk to me 13:38, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
We now have 100 selected species at Portal:Fungi- this means we have 100 good articles on a single species of fungi illustrated by a free image of that species. So, how long until we have 100 featured articles? J Milburn ( talk) 12:24, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
There have been a couple of questions at the science reference desk recently about mushrooms which you lot might be able to help with. This one is about a mushroom from Canada, and this one is probably from Australia. SmartSE ( talk) 21:42, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello, my friends: A group of us are working on clearing the backlog at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_lacking_sources_from_October_2006. The article in the above header has been without sources for the past four years and may be removed if none are added. I wonder if you can help do so. Sincerely, and all the best to you, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 07:34, 16 November 2010 (UTC)