{"id":2498,"date":"2013-05-25T19:53:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T11:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=2498"},"modified":"2013-05-27T19:45:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T11:45:13","slug":"fluted-funnel-fungus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/25\/fluted-funnel-fungus\/","title":{"rendered":"Fluted Funnel Fungus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130524-014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2496 alignright\" alt=\"fungus funnel paxillus\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130524-014-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130524-014-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130524-014.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This funnel shaped fungus is either the <a href=\"http:\/\/bie.ala.org.au\/species\/Paxillus+infundibuliformis\" target=\"_blank\"><em>paxillus infundibuliformi<\/em>s<\/a>\u00a0or the deadly poisonous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mykoweb.com\/CAF\/species\/Paxillus_involutus.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>paxillus\u00a0involutus<\/em><\/a> and I am not going to test it to find out. \u00a0Both have a cap up to 150mm wide with rolled rims, are ochre in colour, and have forked gills that extend down the stem. \u00a0 The first one is common in Eucalyptus forest and the second,\u00a0though primarily a Northern Hemisphere species has been unintentionally introduced to Australia,\u00a0with pine, beech and oak\u00a0trees, and we are next to a pine plantation.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wikipedia:\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paxillus_involutus\" target=\"_blank\">Paxillus involutus<\/a> forms mycorrhizal relationships with \u00a0trees which benefit from the symbiosis as the fungus reduces their intake of heavy metals and increases resistance to <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130524-005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2497\" alt=\"paxillus infundibuliformis\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130524-005-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130524-005-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130524-005.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><em>pathogens. \u00a0Previously considered edible and eaten widely in Eastern and Central Europe, it has been found to be dangerously poisonous and responsible for deaths. It had been known to cause gastric upsets when eaten, but was more recently found to cause potentially fatal autoimmune hemolysis. \u00a0An antigen in the mushroom triggers the immune system to attack red blood cells. \u00a0Serious and potentially fatal complications include acute renal failure, shock, acute respiratory failure, and disseminated intravascular coagulation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elfram.com\/fungi\/fungi_b\/ausinf_a.html\" target=\"_blank\">(Austro)paxillus infundibuliformis<\/a>, is peculiar to Australia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This funnel shaped fungus is either the paxillus infundibuliformis\u00a0or the deadly poisonous paxillus\u00a0involutus and I am not going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[26,19,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130524-014.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498"}],"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=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2580,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions\/2580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}