From sambonsovo8 from gmail.com Thu Jul 17 14:55:27 2008 From: sambonsovo8 from gmail.com (Nsovo Sambo) Date: Fri Jul 18 08:14:17 2008 Subject: [Mycology] Bio stuff Message-ID: <325ed320807171255s18363b9fne21c40bf938c21dd@mail.gmail.com> Hello, i have just registered to this news ground and it is the first i've ever been to. I was fasinated by the info about the endoparasite Dendricum. I saw one documentary on National Geographic channel. In that documentary i saw/heard them say something about what happens to the snail if i should consume the parasite the second time [something about it living longer and having some crazy eyes] From dspahr3d from aol.com Sat Jul 19 06:30:58 2008 From: dspahr3d from aol.com (kilgoretrout) Date: Sat Jul 19 07:25:30 2008 Subject: [Mycology] Re: Glow-in-the-dark Fungi References: Message-ID: <459602b8-bc47-4688-a2bc-3cb674500775@l42g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> On Jun 30, 2:21?pm, "Royden Richardson" wrote: > Tom, > > I happened to find some glowing fungus this past weekend while at a camp > site approximately 25 miles north of Kingston Ontario. ?I couldn't > believe my eyes, but I have two witnesses. ?I have never encountered > this before in all my years of camping, hiking and flying my float plane > throughout northern Canada. ?When I googled glowing fungus yours was the > first hit. ?Did you ever find out what the luminescence is about and how > it occurs? > > Royden > > Royden Richardson > > Managing Director > > FairLane Asset Management > > Tel: 416-9751916 ?Fax: 416-9751933 > > www.fairlane-am.com ==================== Royden, They call that "foxfire". What species? David From dspahr3d from aol.com Sun Jul 20 08:00:43 2008 From: dspahr3d from aol.com (kilgoretrout) Date: Sun Jul 20 14:59:11 2008 Subject: [Mycology] Re: Glow-in-the-dark Fungi References: Message-ID: <4fb78585-cb75-49c9-914f-e8b567ce42f4@56g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> On Jul 19, 7:30?am, kilgoretrout wrote: > On Jun 30, 2:21?pm, "Royden Richardson" > > > > > am.com> wrote: > > Tom, > > > I happened to find some glowing fungus this past weekend while at a camp > > site approximately 25 miles north of Kingston Ontario. ?I couldn't > > believe my eyes, but I have two witnesses. ?I have never encountered > > this before in all my years of camping, hiking and flying my float plane > > throughout northern Canada. ?When I googled glowing fungus yours was the > > first hit. ?Did you ever find out what the luminescence is about and how > > it occurs? > > > Royden > > > Royden Richardson > > > Managing Director > > > FairLane Asset Management > > > Tel: 416-9751916 ?Fax: 416-9751933 > > >www.fairlane-am.com > > ==================== > > Royden, > > They call that "foxfire". What species? > > David- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - A natural substance that glows in the dark was called foxfire. There are a number of fungi that create foxfire. I think Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn dug a tunnel at night using foxfire. There is a book called "The Foxfire Book". David From muscaria from pacbell.net Thu Jul 31 00:16:37 2008 From: muscaria from pacbell.net (Darvin DeShazer) Date: Thu Jul 31 10:25:12 2008 Subject: [Mycology] Mushroom Observer Message-ID: An Invitation to Work Together on MushroomObserver.org (http://mushroomobserver.org) Are you interested in helping to create a worldwide mushroom database? Would you like to participate in a mushroom related website that allows anyone to contribute their own mushroom photos, participate in conversation about those contributions, and search the site for photos and comments? There are many mushroom related sites out there and even more mushroom related discussion happening on various mailing lists, chats etc. Unfortunately, mailing lists and their attachments are transitory. Personal and even amateur group websites are hard to keep track of or search consistently and few allow general participation. Sites hosted on third-party websites like yahoo groups are at risk of getting unplugged or co-opted in someway that may not be in keeping with the original intent of the site or simply falling into the dustbin of neglected websites. The community supporting the MushroomObserver.org website would like to invite all interested parties to get involved in creating a common on-line meeting ground for mushroom enthusiasts. It makes sense to have one common site to compare photos and get feedback from others. We would be happy, with your help, to shape MushroomObserver.org towards better achieving that goal. Much of the ground work is already done. - Anyone can add their own images of mushrooms. - Anyone can make a comment or suggest a new name for any mushroom observation. - Anyone can contribute to a shared database of mushroom descriptions. - Anyone can make species lists for a location, event or any other purpose. - Anyone can generate a list of fungi found by clicking the check boxes. - Anyone can compare all photos of the same species. - Anyone can vote on any species name. - Anyone can see a location map of where the collection was made. - Anyone can get the full source code for the website and participate in its development. - There are no financial hooks. Conceptually the site is similar to Wikipedia, but with an emphasis on recording individual records of people finding and identifying mushrooms. At the moment (July 2008) there are over 350 registered users and more the 15,000 images from all over the world. Mushroom Observer is not intended to replace the websites for existing mushroom groups. These serve a very valuable purpose of providing a common place for people in a given area who know each other to organize local events and share their local experience. Mushroom Observer strives to complement such sites by providing a larger context for these groups to share and record their discoveries in a lasting way, and compare their findings with findings from other similar groups. It is a living mushroom field guide on the web which we are all building together. We hope you can join us! Darvin DeShazer & Nathan Wilson PS - Apologies if you are receiving this multiple times or if you are already aware of (and hopefully participating in) Mushroom Observer. With all the diverse groups out there we decided it would make sense to reach out and contact everyone at once. Also feel free to edit & publish this in any appropriate newsletter. _