Fungi herbarium at home

[SheffieldLass]

Originally Posted by Chris Yeates

I hope you are not being serious Andreas . . . . if you are you have no right to call yourself Mollisia

of course one of the great advantages of the 'small fungi' is that - in their many guises - you can study them 365 days a year . . . .

I suspect I have just walked into an open goal

Chris

Chris
I can confirm plenty of fresh, live micro fungi around right now ... I went to a microscope workshop today led by the best microfungi mycologist in the region (you'll know who!) and all sorts of things were found on bits of pine litter, dead twigs etc. Some were so tiny that you'd (or should that be 'I'd' miss them with the hand lens, they were not that much bigger than their spores ..

So John will just have to get his head down and process them himself ... maybe Sheffield will get a massive snow-in this winter and he'll have no excuses. Just as long as most of the snow misses North East Yorkshire this winter. I don't want snow up to the rooftops for 6 weeks like last year ....

Melanie

[fairplay]

If it does snow Melanie, you could always try this:Taylor & Francis Online :: Alpine myxomycetes in Scotland - Botanical Journal of Scotland - Volume 50, Issue 1

Neil.

[FungiJohn]

Originally Posted by SheffieldLass

So John will just have to get his head down and process them himself ... maybe Sheffield will get a massive snow-in this winter and he'll have no excuses. Just as long as most of the snow misses North East Yorkshire this winter. I don't want snow up to the rooftops for 6 weeks like last year ....

Melanie

But Melanie I have plenty of excuses!

There's the bathroom suite to sort out, a new fitted kitchen, extend the pond and the other 500 jobs on the 'to do' list my wife has prepared for my retirement. It's hard fitting in fungi at times

John

[SheffieldLass]

Originally Posted by FungiJohn

But Melanie I have plenty of excuses!

There's the bathroom suite to sort out, a new fitted kitchen, extend the pond and the other 500 jobs on the 'to do' list my wife has prepared for my retirement. It's hard fitting in fungi at times

John

If you get snow that means you can't get to the diy stores. So that gets you out of the kitchen and bathroom jobs. Also digging the pond is out, and that is a late summer job anyway, you don't want to be disturbing the hibernation frogs. So that just leaves those 500 other jobs. And 450 of them can't be done when there is snow around. Or if they can, then have a small suitable 'slip' in the snow which is best recuperated by spending plenty of time with your feet up (at the microscope station) .... and that'll also mean you have to postpone a futher 49 jobs. So that leaves one final important job that you can't find a way out of, but which can be done in a trice ... so sorted. You just need to pray for very localised snow, and get your cupboards/freezer stocked up ready.

Oh yes, I'm an expert in excuses ... that's why, 2 years on, I still haven't got a working kitchen ... sink is in the workshop, fridge is in the hall, cooker is wrapped under dust sheets, single electric ring is on a single base unit that gets relocated around the kitchen, and the living room is full of boxes of kitchen equipment, flat pack kitchen units, even the sofa has boxes with fixtures and fittings on it ... the only comfy chair is in my study, next to the microscope, and why the study was the first room made habitable Could also explain why I spend a lot of time walking in the woods ...

Melanie

[FungiJohn]

Originally Posted by SheffieldLass

If you get snow that means you can't get to the diy stores. So that gets you out of the kitchen and bathroom jobs. Also digging the pond is out, and that is a late summer job anyway, you don't want to be disturbing the hibernation frogs. So that just leaves those 500 other jobs. And 450 of them can't be done when there is snow around. Or if they can, then have a small suitable 'slip' in the snow which is best recuperated by spending plenty of time with your feet up (at the microscope station) .... and that'll also mean you have to postpone a futher 49 jobs. So that leaves one final important job that you can't find a way out of, but which can be done in a trice ... so sorted. You just need to pray for very localised snow, and get your cupboards/freezer stocked up ready.

Oh yes, I'm an expert in excuses ... that's why, 2 years on, I still haven't got a working kitchen ... sink is in the workshop, fridge is in the hall, cooker is wrapped under dust sheets, single electric ring is on a single base unit that gets relocated around the kitchen, and the living room is full of boxes of kitchen equipment, flat pack kitchen units, even the sofa has boxes with fixtures and fittings on it ... the only comfy chair is in my study, next to the microscope, and why the study was the first room made habitable Could also explain why I spend a lot of time walking in the woods ...

Melanie

I can clearly see you are an expert in this area Melanie, I'll give it a go. Now where is that Cortinarius, and the Inocybe and I musn't forget those Hebeloma

John

[flaxton]

Originally Posted by fairplay

If it does snow Melanie, you could always try this:Taylor & Francis Online :: Alpine myxomycetes in Scotland - Botanical Journal of Scotland - Volume 50, Issue 1

Neil.

When it costs £110 I think I will leave the snow line to someone else

Mal

[SheffieldLass]

Originally Posted by SheffieldLass

Just as long as most of the snow misses North East Yorkshire this winter. I don't want snow up to the rooftops for 6 weeks like last year ....

Melanie

Dohh, woke up this morning to a sprinkling of snow .... it wasn't listening, I ordered it for Sheffield, not Scarborough ...


Melanie

[Chris Yeates]

pity this thread has wandered off-topic (and I know I walked into it as well)

could have been a useful contribution to an important aspect of mycology . . . never mind

C

[FungiJohn]

Originally Posted by Chris Yeates

pity this thread has wandered off-topic (and I know I walked into it as well)

could have been a useful contribution to an important aspect of mycology . . . never mind

C

I would still like other peoples view on this Chris and could edit the thread to become a reference!

John

[mollisia]

Hello,

Originally Posted by FungiJohn

Hello all

I seem to have collected a large number of unidentified material over the years and was wondering how other people 'managed' their dried material.

John

I don't exactly know what your question is. Do you want to know what others do with their unidentified material, or do you want to know just what others do with all their dried material? Or is all our dried material unidentified, because you only keeps these collections?

best regards,
Andreas