Recent Tweets

Powered by Twitter Tools

RSSLoading Feed...

Please be sure of your mushroom’s identity before eating

SFChronicle has an article on musroom poisining over this holiday season. Please be sure of what you are have found before eating. Waiting for that spore print is worth it when in doubt (at [...]

Throw away that field guide, just use echolocation

ResearchBlogging.org

 

 

This isn’t fungal, but sounds pretty cool – ability to identify plants by echolocation.

 Yovel2008_Figure9  

 

 

 

Yovel, Y., Franz, M.O., Stilz, P., Schnitzler, H., Bourne, P.E. (2008). Plant Classification from Bat-Like Echolocation Signals. PLoS Computational Biology, 4(3), e1000032. [...]