While fungi are more related to animals than they are to plants, and the more you know about both the less similar they seem, I still put fungi and plants in the same posts 'cause they're both non-protist eukaryotes. Also, there aren't that many major phyla of either groups and lots of major animal phyla, so it'd just make more sense to have animalia separate from fungi and plantae.
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Green Elf Cup Genus and species: Chlorociboria aeruginascens, class: Leotiomycetes, phylum: Ascomycota. Representative for: Ascomycota. |
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| not so> Lego trick, it doesn't have to be lego: while I prefer to make my builds 100% lego, sometimes I don't have the right pieces or enough of them in lego, so I have to use rip-offs. This was one of those cases. I didn't have long enough brown plates for my mycelium-stained log, so I used this Greenbrier piece instead. |
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| Bridal Veil Stinkhorn Genus and species: Phallus indusiatus, order: Phallales (stinkhorns and allies), phylum: Basidiomycota (club fungi). Representative for: Basidiomycota. |
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| Lego trick, connection via axle: I connected these two pieces with an axle. This technique comes in handy when you need to connect pieces with opposite facing studs. |
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| Mold Phylum: Zygomycota (zygote fungi). Representative for: Zygomycota. |
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| Lego trick, gradual growth: you can see in this photo that I used 1/1 plates below the spore-producing organs (flowers with black studs) to mimic growth. You can also see I used a studded pin to attach a spore-producing organ when there wasn't a stud for it to go on. |
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| Chytrid Phylum: Chytridiomycota (chytrids). Representative for: Chytridiomycota. The photos for this LEGO® chytrid are grayscale because chytrids are microscopic, and all photography at that scale is in black and white. |
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| Lego trick, clickity-clack: If you hold onto the central part of this chytrid, you can shake it and turn it into a clacker! |
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| Common Milkweed Genus and species: Asclepias syriaca, clade: Dicotyledons (dicots), clade: Angiosperms (flowers). Representative for: Angiosperms. |
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| Lego trick, pin power: these studded pins are really good for connecting to pieces without using any studs. If you aren't satisfied with the pins' stud-on-each-side quality, you can add a tubular 1/1 brick on the non-studded side. |
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| Sphagnum Moss Genus: Sphagnum (peat moss), class: Sphagnopsida, phylum: Bryophyta (mosses). Representative for: Bryophyta. |
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| Lego trick, I can do this: I used garbage cans for the spore-producing organ of this moss, since it looks like similar to the spore producing organ of several mosses. I also added these 2/1 plates with grabbies for leaf things. |
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| Ostrich fern Genus and species: Mateuccia struthiopteris, order: Polypodiales (most ferns), phylum: Polypodiophyta (ferns). Representative for: Polypodiophyta. |
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| Lego trick, Dino dig: since ferns were a key organism during the time of dinosaurs, I decided to put a theropod skull on the back of my fern. Also, because my fern would be kinda boring otherwise. |
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| (tropical looking) Pine Genus: Pinus, order: Pinales, Clade: Gymnosperms. Representative for: Gynosperms. |
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| Lego trick, ecological extras: added this 2/1 brick with a hole for a pin since it looks like a woodpecker hole. Pine trees are essential to birds and other creatures, so planting them if you have space and time is a good idea. I added this cartoon of a Pileated Woodpecker mom feeding her kid. |
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