How to Create a Moist Chamber Culture to View the Biodiversity Growing on Live Tree Bark

You don’t need to be a professional to do this experiment. Our own researchers in the Fungi, Myxomycetes, and Trees Research Program use this same technique to observe and discover new species of fungi, myxomycetes, and more! The short video below will give you an idea of what the procedure entails. For more detailed information, […]
World Record Largest Myxomycete Found On BRIT Campus

And there it was—a myxomycete fruiting body about 30 inches by 22 inches, round like a pancake and filled with spores, found in BRIT’s front yard growing on bark mulch in bioswale #3. This discovery was recently published in the 2016 Summer Issue (Volume 9, No. 2) of FUNGI magazine, a popular publication for amateurs and professional […]