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Ant snacking from the extra-floral nectary of Chamaecrista fasciculata!

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Some fun herbarium and embroidery projects of Winter/Spring. 🍀

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@adeelzafarpbg @HafizAtharPak @SidneySturmer @tanya_cheeke @mycorrhiza_ims @mycoremke @1pantunes Definitely not AMF vesicles though because the hyphae is septate.

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@adeelzafarpbg @HafizAtharPak @SidneySturmer @tanya_cheeke @mycorrhiza_ims @mycoremke @1pantunes Arbuscules would be more branching and wouldn't have septate hyphae.

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@HafizAtharPak @SidneySturmer @tanya_cheeke @mycorrhiza_ims @mycoremke @1pantunes Dark septate endophytes perhaps?

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@SidneySturmer Thanks, I will try PVLG!

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Anyone know what kind of #mycorrhizae these are? Second photo is 56x so they're pretty tiny. Is this what r. irregularis looks like??? This came from an attempted monoculture of funneliformis which I'm thinking got contaminated with something else. 😅

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アーバスキュラー菌根菌の胞子
Glomus spだとは思うんですけど、胞子の形態からは特定できず・・・

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@mycoremke Ok, thanks for the help and for your ideas!

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This is a long shot, but does anyone know what this root fungus is? This is a trypan blue stained rudbeckia hirta root involved in a #mycorrhizae experiment.

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Another shot of one...

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@tanya_cheeke Wowww, that's it!!!! Thank you!

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Anyone have an ID (or a guess!) for these pink bumpy #mycorrhizae spores? Sorry for no scale bar. In the scheme of things, I'd say they are medium to large against the average AMF spore.

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@1pantunes Definitely it. Thanks for the insight!

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Have any fungi people come across these weird clustery hyphae things? These were found during root staining of 1 yr old greenhouse-based plants inoculated with #AMF . Pic 1 is 10x, pic 2 is 20x. We are all unsure how to categorize it in the lab!

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@DvRiD8f52XatGLr Yep, that's definitely it. Thanks for the answer! 🍄

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🪡 bird stitch of the week 🐦

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@SidneySturmer Thanks! I'll do some digging on invam's website tomorrow for pictures of Septoglomus spores.

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Has anyone seen these irregularly shaped dark red/brown spores before? #mycorrhizae #amf

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@DvRiD8f52XatGLr Agreed. And mine are just phone pictures, so you're right about the color probably not being accurate. Look at them in this picture. They definitely have a brighter orange like the ones you shared! 😊