Portal:Fungi/Did you know/22


 * ... that Lactarius pallidus is typically found half-buried in leaf litter at the base of beech or birch trees?
 * ... that the mushroom Cortinarius triumphans has a cap which is slimy in wet weather and sticky in dry?
 * ... that detection of fungal infection by the wood-decay fungus Fuscoporia torulosa can be performed in six hours using the polymerase chain reaction?
 * ... that applying potassium hydroxide to the blue and yellow Australian mushroom Cortinarius rotundisporus will turn it pinkish-purple?
 * ... that the first reported sighting of the bird's nest fungus Cyathus helenae was on mountain scree in the Canadian Rockies?