{"id":3097,"date":"2013-06-22T15:02:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T07:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=3097"},"modified":"2013-06-23T16:25:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T08:25:26","slug":"lichenomphalia-chromacea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/22\/lichenomphalia-chromacea\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Navel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130615-035.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3022\" alt=\"20130615 035\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130615-035-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130615-035-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130615-035.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This little mushroom is the\u00a0yellow navel fungus or the\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elfram.com\/fungi\/fungi_k\/lichchrom_a.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lichenomphalia chromacea<\/a> (<\/i>it used to be called the\u00a0Omphalina chromacea). \u00a0It is a member of the fungi group\u00a0Basidiolichens, which rely on symbiotic associations with algae.\u00a0\u00a0You can&#8217;t always see the algae as it is often in damp areas and surrounded by moss, like these ones. \u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dec.wa.gov.au\/images\/stories\/nature\/science\/fungus\/fungus0707.pdf\">Lichenomphalia<\/a> is the fungal component of a lichen (a symbiosis between an alga and a fungus). The fungus produces spores, whilst the algae Coccomyxa, produces photosynthetic products.<\/p>\n<p>The Yellow Navel caps start out convex with a scalloped margin and a central depression. \u00a0As the fungus matures, the cap flattens and then<a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130620-024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3160 alignright\" alt=\"yellow navel\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130620-024-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130620-024-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130620-024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> becomes funnel-shaped, which is when it looks like a navel or belly-button which gives it its name. \u00a0These were less than 10mm across, but the species can grow up to 25mm across. \u00a0It is native to Australia and\u00a0found in native forests in the south-east and south-west.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to read more, there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lutzonilab.net\/publications\/lutzoni_file215.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">scientific paper<\/a> about these <em>symbiotic associations and the concentration of mutualistic species in specific taxonomic groups that suggest that mutualism is an important evolutionary mechanism in the evolution of fungi, cyanobacteria, algae and land plants. \u00a0&#8230;.Such a group of fungi, the genus Omphalina, was recently proposed as a model system for study of evolutionary mechanisms associated with lichenization&#8230;&#8230;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130620-020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3161 alignright\" alt=\"yellow navel\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130620-020-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130620-020-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130620-020.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This little mushroom is the\u00a0yellow navel fungus or the\u00a0Lichenomphalia chromacea (it used to be called the\u00a0Omphalina chromacea). \u00a0It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3161,"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-3097","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\/06\/20130620-020.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097","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=3097"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3198,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions\/3198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}