Portal:Fungi/Did you know/18


 * ... that the German lichenologist and taxonomist Ferdinand Christian Gustav Arnold had a personal herbarium of 150,000 specimens?
 * ... that Verpa bohemica is a saprobic species of fungi distinguished from other species by its enormous spores?
 * ... that the cap of the thimble fungus, Verpa conica, resembles a thimble?
 * ... that the hallucinogenic mushroom Psilocybe naematoliformis was first discovered in a tropical rain forest in the Uxpanapa Region of Veracruz, in southeastern Mexico?
 * ... that phylogenetic relationships between the mushroom Bovista nigrescens and species of Lycoperdaceae were established based on ITS and LSU sequence data from north European taxa?