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Icing sugar fungus

Beauveria bassiana

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) marleyi, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

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Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.

United States	1,576
Alaska	610
Canada	133
Oregon	100
California	96
Ontario	95
Pennsylvania	84
Virginia	81
Maryland	69
Australia	61

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

Human edibleListed as edible by a harvested source. This is a research trait, not foraging advice.FungiTastic metadata
Animal-pathogen fungusListed by a harvested fungal ecology source as an animal pathogen.FUNGuild fungal ecology database

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

Kingdom	Fungi Including Lichens · Fungi
Phylum	Ascomycete Fungi · Ascomycota
Class	Sordariomycetes
Order	Hypocreales
Family	Cordycipitaceae
Genus	Beauveria

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
Traits: FungiTastic metadata (BSD-3-Clause repository; dataset terms require verification)
Traits: FUNGuild fungal ecology database (License not stated by source)
How much to rely on each source

Remember the name next time.

Practise Icing sugar fungus with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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