Spore Printing
A bit of a lesson here…....
If you’re ever trying to figure out certian species of mushrooms….
spore prints are a MUST!
As you can see…I set the cap of this gilled mushroom onto half a white/half a black piece of paper. Often a mushroom will have white or such pale colored spore that the black paper is a must also. And sometimes? The spore is so DARK that the white paper is in need!
I’m still getting an ID for this brown spored mushroom that I found growing in my yard a couple days ago.
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Colors spore comes in?
Pink
Black
Purple
White
Brown
Rust
...sometimes the colors are darker/lighter to make them seem another shade.
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Spore, by the way, is the way mushrooms send out their seeds. Each tiny dot of color is it’s own continuing life-cycle of each fungi they’re carried away from.
Spore Printing belongs to the following groups:
Bits and Pieces and Fungilicious Available for sale asGreeting Cards, Matted Prints, Laminated Prints, Mounted Prints, Canvas Prints and Framed Prints
Dennis Gay
Yowza Carla!
Thank you so much for this very well presented lesson.
Spore printing is something I have yet to do and something that I wish I had done on some occasions when it seemed nigh on impossible to identify a subject any other way.
Good for you kiddo!
GB
Dennis
Carla Jandelle... replied
well thank YOU Dennis! the whole first year i photographed mushrooms i don’t think i ONCE took a spore print…....no WONDER i didnt’ know what i was looking at. lol
LavenderMoon
You all over it, Carla… amazing! Whoda thunkit??
Carla Jandelle... replied
haha! weeellllllll….all the mushroom people who yelled at me ‘What do you MEAN you didn’t take a spore print???’...lol
P3T3
What do you do with the spores?...Do you grow them? Nuture them, raise them from a tiny spore into something of a wonder of nature…......and then eat them!!
Carla Jandelle... replied
some spore are easily trasferred this way to grow later? i’ve not done it yet as i don’t have the supplies to do it successfully
but remember Pete? These are eggs…the actual mushroom is only the fruit…..the BODY is in the wood/ground/plant it’s growing on
Heloisa Castro
wonderful work Carla
Carla Jandelle... replied
thank you Heloisa! just trying to help some when some people wonder if it’s an edible ‘Flammulina velutipes’...or a DEADLY ‘Gallerina autumnus’.....sometimes it can make ALL the difference in life or death!
Kris Faul
nice one!
Carla Jandelle... replied
thanx Kris! originally i’d thought this mushroom was an Amanita? but found out purely because of spore color….....it’s NOT! :o)
robmac
Make for a nice picture for whatever the reason, spot on
Esther's Art a...
Thank you so much Carla, I will keep trying. The last one I did , I hqad no result. I don’t know the reason. I might try again this weekend. Cheers Esther Ps Love this image , great example !!!!
Carla Jandelle... replied
thanx Esther and good luck with the attempts! i know sometimes they’re too dry or even too immature to produce spore sometimes? i’ll get some that i can get SEVERAL spore prints over and over…and others that won’t give me one!
Esther's Art a...
Ahhhhh Thank you for telling me this . I thought I did things wrong. I’ll keep trying then :o) Cheers Esther