I think you might be. Whatever its hype, Twitter (and its ilk) does enable a previously unheard of level of sharing of minor details. This fungus is exactly th

I think you might be. Whatever its hype, Twitter (and its ilk) does enable a previously unheard of level of sharing of minor details. This fungus is exactly the sort of thing which would normally go missing in the vaults of a museum because the five people who ever saw it didn't recognise it as anything interesting. This is such a common phenomenon that trawling through museum collections is a non-trivial source of new species identifications. The fact that an image normally only seen by a few people should be shared to thousands, and hence a discovery made based on it, is significant because there were few avenues by which it could happen pre-social media.