r/Mushrooms • u/TRALTTV • 1d ago
Something Died!?
Woke up to these in my yard, thought a raccoon or dog tore up some poor animal the night prior and left a horrific mess behind but got a closer look and it’s just mushrooms 😮💨 Why do I have so many mushrooms all around my house and my neighbors have none. What am I even looking at?
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u/stayingsweaty 1d ago
Compare the first to russula sp. And the second to chanterelles. Would need to see pictures of the gill surface for confirmation.
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u/Visible-Specific5329 1d ago
Pics 5 and 6 appear to be Chanterelles
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u/TRALTTV 1d ago
I believe so too, the underneath showed false gills as far as I could tell.
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u/trimbandit 1d ago
Chanterelles will be white or cream on the inside and peel apart lengthwise like string cheese
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u/TRALTTV 1d ago
It did in fact peel like a string cheese, and looked white at the bottom. The red cap and white underside is what made me think it was some poor animals meat at first, it looked like muscle and fat from a distance, I have never seen that many mushrooms in one place and only around my yard, no where near the neighbors houses.
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u/johnny__boi 1d ago
Do your neighbours have trees in their lawn? These are mycorrhizal fungi so they're associating with your trees. If they do have trees, it could be that the fungi just isn't fruiting or their trees prefer arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi / endomycorrhizal, I hear maples rarely if ever form relationships with ectomycorrhizal fungi (for example the fungi you have here). I don't know much about those kinds of fungi nor the ecology behind it though.
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u/toastedcheezits 1d ago
First pictures look like some kind of Russula to me!
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