Spore prints

Spore Prints

If you've ever made a spore print of a toadstool, then you might like to try making a similar one for a fern. This is one I made last night, from a piece of a Dryopteris fern growing in our garden. All you need to do is to find a fern frond with sporangia ripening on its undersurface, like the one below. This one is a little too young - you need to find one where the little grey, kidney-shaped cover (called indusium) over the sporangia has begun to shrivel and split and you can seen the dark…

Autumn is the perfect time to find fabulous fungi in the forest and create frame-worthy spore prints for your home or classroom.

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Learn what a mushroom spore print is, why you would make one, how to save and store your spore prints and how to make a mushroom spore print step by step.

Easy to do, and the results are spectacular.

When I tried making these prints I was totally amazed at how easy it was. The secret is to use the freshest mushroom caps po...

Did you know you can identify mushrooms using a "spore print?" Gather wild mushrooms to create this unique mushroom spore print artwork!

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Physarum polycephalum - plasmodium (vegetative stage).

Learn an easy way to make a mushroom spore print. Whether you are using it for identification or for growing mushrooms, spore printing is a skill you need.

Spores Print by Margaret Oomen.

I put this spore print and dried amanita muscaria in a frame! nice experiment. 🍄👯‍♀️

Enjoy this easy tutorial for a fun mushroom art project! Mushroom spore printing is often done to differentiate between similar-looking species, but can be a very fun and simple nature study to do.

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Mushroom spores are invisible to the naked eye, but there’s a cool trick you can do to visualize them. It’s called… by fabulousfungi