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As winter slowly comes to an end down here in Argentina 🇦🇷, it's the perfect time to prep this golden enoki 🍄 to keep it going until next year.

​To do this, I prepped a PDA slant in a 50ml Falcon tube 🧪 and another tube with sterile water, then inoculated both with agar wedges from a fully colonized plate 🧫.

​The agar slant will sit in the incubator for a few days before hitting the fridge ❄️, while the sterile water tube goes straight into the fridge. Both techniques are great for preserving genetics 🧬 for years.

Found these tiny mushrooms growing directly out of a moss-covered tree trunk in Buenos Aires, Argentina. They were absolutely tiny, the second photo shows my finger for scale. I’m not looking for an ID necessarily, just thought they were interesting enough to share. The last photo shows the larger patch of bark where I found them.

I’ve been getting into lichens recently and took these photos around Buenos Aires using a 30× magnifying glass over my phone camera.

It’s pretty amazing how much detail becomes visible at this scale. I especially liked the textures and all the apothecia on some of these.

Just wanted to share a few of my recent finds. Still learning my way around lichens, but I’m having a lot of fun looking at them up close.