David Satori

Mycologist · Conservationist · Teacher

Rewilding mycology through education, cultivation, and conservation

Myceliate is a conservation organisation specialising in the restoration of endangered fungi. We work with landowners and the public to enhance knowledge of fungal biodiversity and promote sustainable stewardship of fungal habitats. Using mushroom cultivation techniques and citizen science programmes, we help expand the range of endangered species so that all of us can contribute to the restoration of these keystone organisms.

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David Satori

David Satori is a mycologist, conservationist, teacher, and an avid enthusiast of the natural world. He holds a master’s degree in Plant and Fungal Taxonomy, Diversity, and Conservation, and works as a Plant Conservation Researcher at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. He is the founder of Rewilding Mycology, an advocacy organisation dedication to the conservation of fungi.

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Healed by Fungi? I’m really happy to have been f

It’s been an incredible few years having the cha

Reticularia lycoperdon, also known as ‘moon poo’, or for the more sensible among us, you can settle for ‘false puffball’ in its reproductive phase on an oak tree. Both common names hide this species’ true nature, as its not actually a fungus, but rather a slime mould which exists in a completely separate kingdom of life. Slime moulds are fascinating in and of themselves, and

Moon poo goes through two phases: (1) a ‘plasmodial phase’ where it moves around like an amoeba, feeding on bacteria, fungi, moulds, yeasts, inorganic particles and spores; and (2), a sporangial phase. Here it's in its sporangial phase, turning into a smooth glob that has a custard-like consistency and a strange muddy-plastic taste (please take my word for it and don’t go around licking slime moulds).

It can be found in England, Wales, Ireland, Europe, and... Mexico. Fair enough. ‘Caca de luna’ is the first name that made me aware of it, and I think it was @giulifungi that I heard it from. Like decomposer fungi, slime moulds play an important role in circulating minerals, carbon, and nitrogen in ecosystems.

Rewilding starts in the soil. It's becoming common

A thousand years and counting? Britain is home to

Mushrooms create rain. Or, at least, they play a s

Dead wood is a habitat that hosts a tremendous amo

Cross section of a southern bracket, Ganoderma aus

Like a shoal of piranhas, this saprotrophic myceli

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