Myco-morsels
The podcast of Edinburgh & Lothians Fungus Enthusiasts: a bit of a mix of fungal ecology, biology, taxonomy, identification and stories, conversations and other interesting myco-morsels.
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Episodes
Friday Feb 07, 2025
Friday Feb 07, 2025
Fungi have a number of nutritional strategies or lifestyles and the most common is that of feeding on dead organic matter.
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Friday Jan 31, 2025
Friday Jan 31, 2025
Basidiomycota: the group that contains all the popular fungi.
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Friday Jan 24, 2025
Friday Jan 24, 2025
Ascomycota: the biggest fungal phylum and the home of many of the species you might come across.
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Friday Jan 17, 2025
Friday Jan 17, 2025
Here I talk with Chris, one of the members of the ELFE Coordinating Team.
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Friday Jan 10, 2025
Friday Jan 10, 2025
There are two sets of features to look for on fungi to help you identify them: macroscopic and microscopic. The first to look at are the macroscopic features. This episode focuses on brackets.
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Friday Jan 03, 2025
Friday Jan 03, 2025
There are two sets of features to look for on fungi to help you identify them: macroscopic and microscopic. The first to look at are the macroscopic features. This episode focuses on mushrooms.
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Friday Dec 27, 2024
Friday Dec 27, 2024
Here, we look more closely at the main structure of fungi: the mycelium.
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Friday Dec 20, 2024
Friday Dec 20, 2024
In this episode, Cameron - chairperson of ELFE - tells us a few short stories.
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Friday Dec 13, 2024
Friday Dec 13, 2024
Today we're doing a quick overview of how to start identifying fungi - what to pay attention to and what features to look at.
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Sunday Oct 27, 2024
Sunday Oct 27, 2024
In this episode we take a brief dip into fungal ecology - how fungi relate to their environment and to each other - and they have some really interesting ecologies.
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Are you interested in fungi?
Intrigued by mushrooms but don't know much about them?
Myco-morsels will introduce you to the world of fungi, breaking down the science into bite-sized chunks and telling some interesting stories along the way.
Join us to learn about these fascinating organisms.
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