On Octobe 9, mycologist, associate professor of the Department of Botany and Mycology of the Voronezh State University Gavriil Melkumov, together with representatives of the university, conducted a traditional excursion “Fungi planet. Oak forest mycobiota”. Along with the scientist, students and employees of the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, the Faculty of Philology, the Faculty of Philosophy and Psychology, and the Faculty of Law went for a walk.
“This year we managed to expand the audience participating in the mycological excursion. It's great that the "quiet hunt" allows uniting members of different faculties, and fungi are becoming a favourite object of study” said mycologist Gavriil Melkumov.
The tour took place in the territory of the state natural reserve of regional significance "Voronezh upland oak forest". It was the end of a series of events dedicated to the celebration of the All-Russian Mushroom Picker Day. In honour of this event, a mycological exhibition was held at VSU. Gavriil Melkumov also spoke about mushrooms as part of his speeches on the TV channels Vesti-Voronezh and TV-Gubernia.
During the excursion, the participants found various taxonomic groups of fungi and protists with different trophic confinements – saprotrophs, parasites, and symbiotrophs.
“We managed to find 42 species of basidiomycetes and marsupials, as well as 6 taxa of an interesting fungal group, myxomycetes. During the tour, many interesting fungi species were found: Bisporella citrina, which has bright yellow apothecia;Chlorociboria aeruginascens, which has an emerald colour and provides green colour to the wood; Macrotyphula fistulosa, forming tubular basidioma; Coprinopsis picacea, with flaky remnants of the cortina on the pileus” said mycologist Gavriil Melkumov.
