{"id":2429,"date":"2013-05-20T21:50:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T13:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=2429"},"modified":"2013-05-27T19:45:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T11:45:27","slug":"not-so-fabby-fungus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/20\/not-so-fabby-fungus\/","title":{"rendered":"Not so Fabby Fungus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130519-013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2400 alignright\" alt=\"20130519 013\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130519-013-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130519-013-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130519-013.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Well, it is not as attractive as the <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/18\/fabulous-fungus\/\">Ghost Fungus<\/a>, but it may actually be more beneficial as it is a mycorrhizal fungus, an important component of soil life and soil chemistry. \u00a0We have them all around the property, especially in and around the <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Picture-011.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">ex-gravel pit<\/a>, they start as short clubs but they develop into smooth mounds <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/14\/ayres-rock-fungus\/\">like the one<\/a> I photographed last year. \u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mushroomexpert.com\/pisolithus_tinctorius.html\">Pisolithus tinctorius<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>is frequently found in\u00a0fungi mixtures for forestry and gardening to assist plant or tree growth. \u00a0 In Australia and the US it is called the dog poo\/horse dung fungus\u00a0and in Europe it is known as the\u00a0Bohemian truffle. \u00a0The puffball&#8217;s black viscous gel has been used as a natural dye for wool and clothes.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mushrooms that are mycorrhizal are involved in a symbiotic (mutually beneficial) relationship with the tiny rootlets of plants&#8211;usually trees. \u00a0The cells of the mushroom&#8217;s\u00a0mycelium\u00a0surround the tree rootlets with a sheath, and the mushroom helps the tree absorb water and nutrients while the tree provides sugars and amino acids to the mushroom. The organisms may need each other to survive. It is estimated that about 85% of plants depend on mycorrhizal relationships with fungi (Kirk et al., 2001;Dictionary of the Fungi).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mushroomexpert.com\/pisolithus_tinctorius.html\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it is not as attractive as the Ghost Fungus, but it may actually be more beneficial as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2400,"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-2429","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\/20130519-013.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429","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=2429"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2455,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions\/2455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}