August 27, 2009

3 Days in the Life of a Mushroom

Or more appropriately, 3 Days AS the Life of a Mushroom. This is a terrific time lapse video that I've been using to highlight the short, sweet, and sad I think, life of a mushroom. (Of course the mycelium is still alive in the rotted wood, and may continue to shoot up these Coprinus mushrooms for some time to come.) The added music is a nice touch.

3 Day Fungus from nshack on Vimeo.



Thanks to nshack for taking the time (3 days time!) to create this.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Very nice video and it reminds me of my lucky mushroom hunting days when I find perfect mushrooms that I know were too small yesterday but will start to rot tomorrow.
This is btw my first visit to your blog and I liked it very much!