Blue Elfcup. Thr mycelium leaves the wood ot grows on blue as well.

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• 0101010001110100@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Super cool, thanks for sharing.

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• FARTYSHARTBLAST@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wow, this is beautiful! Thank you for posting.

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• mx_smith@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If that wood burns is the flame blue?

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  • roguetrick@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The pigment is an organic molecule so it'd burn the same color as other organic molecules as the fire breaks it down https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylindein. Flame color is based on the elements in the flame. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_test

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  • risottinopazzesco@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t think so, as being colored blue at room temperature and burning blue are different things. If you think about it, when you burn colored paper you don’t get a correspondingly colored flame.

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• Orbituary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The blue wood is the mycelial network growing before fruiting into the cups. Effectively, thr rhozomatic growth of the mycelium spreads into the wood substrate until conditions are right for it to pop up.

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• Disregard3145@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Can the blue wood be stabilised and used in woodworking projects? I guess even then having fungal dust in the air is probably all the worse for your lungs

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  • d3m0nr4v3r@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I doubt it. All the blue wood that we saw was very soft and mushy. I think the mushroom probably needs the wood to be soaked and somewhat broken down already. And then it breaks it down even further. But I suppose it might look really cool in some resin projects!

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