{"id":2298,"date":"2013-05-18T20:42:16","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T12:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=2298"},"modified":"2013-05-27T19:46:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T11:46:32","slug":"fabulous-fungus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/18\/fabulous-fungus\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabulous Fungus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130513-005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2220 alignright\" alt=\"20130513 005\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130513-005-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130513-005-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130513-005.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This fungus has emerged just outside the carpoart and is over 50cm wide. \u00a0It is even more fabulous than I thought it was, because it apparently glows in the dark and could be used in the treatment of cancer tumours. \u00a0It is the Omphalotus nidiformis or<b><\/b><i><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/i>Ghost Fungus and according to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Omphalotus_nidiformis\" target=\"_blank\">wikipedia <\/a>it is poisonous, with consumption leading to severe cramps and vomiting. \u00a0The toxic properties of the mushroom are attributed to compounds called illudins which since <a href=\"http:\/\/jnci.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/82\/19\/1562\" target=\"_blank\">1990<\/a> have been\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycologia.org\/content\/103\/3\/458.abstract\" target=\"_blank\">studied <\/a>as a potential anti-cancer drug. \u00a0Unfortunately some clinical trials of a derivative \u00a0had to be suspended after\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fungimag.com\/spring-08-articles\/7_Medicinal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">unexpected retinal toxicity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The chemical structure of illudins differs from that of other conventional<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130519-040.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2433 alignright\" alt=\"20130519 040\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130519-040-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130519-040-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130519-040.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><em>chemotherapeutic agents. While illudins are toxic to most tumorcells after prolonged exposure (&gt; 48 hr), with shorter exposure times (&gt;2 hr), they show selective toxicity for human myelocytic leukemia, lung, ovarian, and breast carcinoma cells of various species of origin.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>An avid fungi blogger has a good <a href=\"http:\/\/australianfungi.blogspot.com.au\/2007\/05\/14-omphalotus-nidiformis.html\" target=\"_blank\">description on his page<\/a> and advises that the bio-luminescence is due to a chemical reaction between fungal enzymes and oxygen. \u00a0 I will have to go out after dark and see if it is glowing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fungus has emerged just outside the carpoart and is over 50cm wide. \u00a0It is even more fabulous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,19,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fungi","category-property","category-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130519-037.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2298"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2583,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions\/2583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}