Several years ago, I received a catalogue in the mail selling fungus. For the most part, they weren't eating mushrooms, they were... working fungus. If you owned, say, a large parcel of land and needed to inoculate 500 downed trees with spores so they would decompose quickly, this was your company. Or if you just love the look of shelf fungus, or want some bright yellow color on your forest floor, this was where you could get it.
I can't find the company on-line, and it wasn't this company. The catalogue disappeared ages ago, and I never got a second one. How does one get on a mailing list for fungus anyway? It boggles the mind a bit.
I don't know what it is about fungi, but I find them fascinating. Oh, did I ever linger long over that catalogue, but really what's a girl with 50 by 100 foot city lot going to do with a case of fungal spawn?
Seeing this white, fuzzy, don't-really-know-anything-about-it stuff on my walk home yesterday made me think about Helle at Gooseflesh's art. She makes the most interesting coral and sea creature crocheted art. So if I were to make some white fuzzy fungi what medium would I make it from? Felt? Yarn? Crochet? Needle felt? Oh, what a lovely puzzle!