Made myself feel better by sorting through my oyster mushroom videos to find the very prettiest part.
#nature #fungi

@tippitiwichet Woah!

@elbutterfield Lol, that's exactly what everyone in this house said when we realized we could see the spores. Nature is so pretty.

@tippitiwichet I learned how to make spore prints to identify mushrooms when I was living in the Pacific Northwest. I am still amazed at the micro-world.

@elbutterfield I hear you. I'm a housewife with a microscope. I've made only one spore print so far, on a microscope slide, and I was a dummy and crushed it with a slide cover. But I have two shiny relatively new mushroom identification books, and I'm already filling my photo folders with various fungi bits, I'll get around to many spore prints soon, I'm sure :)

@tippitiwichet I am a fan of kitchen science. Very fun to simply place the caps on white paper plates and cover with a bowl.

@elbutterfield I did do that once, but it was an oyster mushroom and then later I read in one of my new books that their spores are white, which explains the failure, lol.