Calling #fungifriends for day 4 of #bluenature, the blue pinkgill! The skyblue mushroom (Entoloma hochstetteri) is the first of the series so far to be blue due to pigmentation by azulene. It’s also the only mushroom to be featured on money - New Zealand’s $50 note! 📷 Mary Smiley (CC BY-SA 3.0) - ThreadSky

longnecked.bsky.social • 99 days ago

Calling #fungifriends for day 4 of #bluenature, the blue pinkgill!

The skyblue mushroom (Entoloma hochstetteri) is the first of the series so far to be blue due to pigmentation by azulene. It’s also the only mushroom to be featured on money - New Zealand’s $50 note!

📷 Mary Smiley (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Comments

notbird.tgirl.gay•99 days ago

So pretty, is it edible tho?

drgreenie.bsky.social•99 days ago

They’re all edible, just not necessarily survivable lol

notbird.tgirl.gay•99 days ago

Not really, some mushrooms are too hard to eat i think

doreenbell-dotan.bsky.social•99 days ago

Look at this one.
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/4834381

longnecked.bsky.social•99 days ago

That looks adorable and amazing at the same time!! Thank you for sharing!

donovanwashere.bsky.social•99 days ago

Amazing!! I found a blue one too this fall in NC. 💙

qmannjd0970.bsky.social•99 days ago

Well that’s a bright blue. I haven’t seen this before. Learned something new today.

p-money865.bsky.social•99 days ago

The 100$ bill should have chanterelles

thorlabby.bsky.social•99 days ago

Stunning

mauipaddler.bsky.social•99 days ago

That is fascinating…I didn’t know a fungi existed that was so blue. Thanks for expanding my knowledge!

backtoskoolie.bsky.social•99 days ago

💙✨🤗✨💙

blujess.bsky.social•99 days ago

I’m obsessed 😍💙

tkg-nc.bsky.social•99 days ago

Now that's a real blue mushroom, shame blue oysters cant get that kind of color.

gostagsgo.bsky.social•99 days ago

Whoa!

commiemommya7.bsky.social•98 days ago

If I saw this IRL, I would think I had had mushrooms

geldenkuypers.bsky.social•99 days ago

celiumbound.bsky.social•99 days ago

Cool

travisgaetz.bsky.social•99 days ago

🔥

kamaljit.bsky.social•99 days ago

Reminds me of the Smurfs

shocked-american.bsky.social•99 days ago

wow

handle.invalid•99 days ago

Electric? Nature is just amazing. Thank you for your beautiful pictures.

johsar.bsky.social•99 days ago

Wow

yungspreadeagle1.bsky.social•99 days ago

tazmanian blues !

dyingtodeath.bsky.social•99 days ago

blue balls

hzokre.bsky.social•98 days ago

🍄

tinybagel.bsky.social•99 days ago

💙

liaelisabeth.bsky.social•99 days ago

This is THE first time i saw a blue one. 💙

psher.bsky.social•99 days ago

I love the interesting facts on this!

mccody.bsky.social•99 days ago

And about as hard for me to find in my wallet as a $50 note....

observers.news•99 days ago

What happens if you accidentally ate one of those?

longnecked.bsky.social•99 days ago

Unfortunately we don’t know! I found one source that says someone ate it and was “fine”, but it’s purely anecdotal.
https://youngadventuress.com/2024/03/new-zealands-blue-mushroom.html

observers.news•99 days ago

I wouldn't be surprised when someone discovers that it has some medical use.

longnecked.bsky.social•99 days ago

Yeah! I think it is, or at least was, being studied to see if it can be used as a natural blue food dye.

lyricdesigns.bsky.social•99 days ago

Gorgeous!

huesopedroso.bsky.social•99 days ago

Maravilla

earthlingcards.bsky.social•99 days ago

We get some nice Entoloma species here in Australia

philobotomy.bsky.social•99 days ago

poisonous?

longnecked.bsky.social•99 days ago

We actually don’t know! But a lot of species from the same genus (Entoloma) are poisonous

forisht.bsky.social•99 days ago

That's quite astonishing, beautiful.

sean-druid-magic.bsky.social•99 days ago

wow

embalmamama.bsky.social•99 days ago

I learn something new every day.

torialamode.bsky.social•99 days ago

I misread this as fuglyfriends and thought I found my people then I kept reading and got progressingly confused as to what this has to do with ugly friends until i re-read it... Very cool fungi though!