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Alpine Jelly Cone (i.imgur.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by magpie@mander.xyz to c/mycology@mander.xyz

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Found a few weeks ago, always wondered when these came up in my area.

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[–] Sal@mander.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Cool! I just read their wiki page and it says

A snowbank fungus, it is most common at higher elevations after snowmelt in the spring.

Snowbank fungus is a new term for me. Not sure yet what makes a fungus thrive through snow. Maybe they have anti-freeze proteins?

Does your area get a lot of snow?

[–] the_artic_one@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They don't grow in snow while temperatures are still freezing or anything, they grow using the moisture from melting snow once the weather starts to warm up. They just pop up so quickly that you'll often find them poking out of snowbanks which haven't fully melted.

[–] Sal@mander.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago

I see. So it is not necessarily that their mycelium are better at surviving the freezing temperatures, but rather that either they fruit quicker once conditions are acceptable or that their fruiting bodies are more cold tolerant. Thanks, it's interesting.

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