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I may be wrong but I suspect that there are many undescribed types of fungi out there and describing a new species isn't that unusual and there is nothing of in

I may be wrong but I suspect that there are many undescribed types of fungi out there and describing a new species isn't that unusual and there is nothing of interest in the fact that the photo in question was on twitter.

mkr-hn 6y ago
They named it troglomyces twitteri because, as far as they know, this is the first time one has been discovered through Twitter.
jpindar 6y ago
Many HN readers believe that there is nothing on Twitter except politics and pictures of food, this is a counter example.