Pedro Crous

@funguscrous.bsky.social

Group Leader - Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute. My lab in evolutionary phytopathology study speciation and systematics of phytopathogenic fungi

4/ From forest floors to lab benches to conference halls, this collaboration is a powerful reminder of how global partnerships drive science forward, especially in uncovering the hidden world of fungi. 🍄💡

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One of my highlights of the past mushroom season was finding this Dendrocollybia racemosa 🍄📷 It grows in fruiting bodies of Russula species, where it then forms black sclerotia from which the fruiting body grows the next year. I found it growing between a Collybia species with the same ecology.

The branched stalk of Dendrocollybia racemosa growing among the slender fruiting bodies of a Collybia species.View through the stereomicroscope of a brownish piece of old mushroom with black sclerotia from which the fruiting body of Dendrocollybia is growing. Three fruiting bodies of a Collybia species are also growing from the old fruiting body.

Eustilbum aureum Another resincolous fungus! Some weird stuff has happened with how to sort this fungus, but I think it's settled now. Looks a lot like a stubble lichen morphologically, but are (insertae sedis) placed more closely to powdery mildews.

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