WTF?! Wheres the Funga?

Funga- The biodiversity of fungi within a particular place. “In life sciences funga is a recent term for the kingdom fungi similar to the longstanding fauna for animals and flora for plants. The term was considered to be urgently needed in order to simplify projects oriented toward implementation of educational and conservation goals.”

Find out more about the Funga movment here

Here we highlight some of our most beloved captures from deep time in wet, fecund funga-filled forests. Fungi are such a potent embodiment of eccentricness, queerness, diversity and exuberant expression! Their shapes make us smile and their patterns make us ponder.

I hope these photos instill inspiration and wonder in you as they do us!

 

“Microwildenesses exist in a handful of soil…. A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.”

~ E.O. Wilson