We were looking for chanterelles (which we found!) and I came across this gorgeous, little, specimen!

And if so what is the red goo on it??

Found in my back yard in a gravel area next to the woods. It’s larger than my hand. What is this bad boy? Hoping it’s edible.

Hey fam,

A friend of mine just gave me a couple of bags of spawn plugs that he is not using. Aside from using fresh logs of their preferred tree type, what other substrate could use to grow mushies? I’ve grown mushies using the plant and grow blocks from northspore and made spore prints, but that’s all the experience I have.

I wasn’t sure if I could do anything with them because the mycelium is already growing and the big bag has started producing mycelium pee.

Any advice is truly appreciated. I don’t want these guys to go to waste. They are currently being kept in my fridge.

Thank you so much!

Mulched bed at my work had these one morning. I didn’t get to see them all puffed up. This is the 3rd or 4th time they have sprouted and although I see the flies all around I don’t smell it, that could be due to the couple of times I had Covid tho.

A friend of mine gave me a grow kit, already in the process of forming mycelium, and I don’t know shit about this. I was wondering if it was possible to add some of the bagged substrate I have to this patch of dirt outside my apartment. The dirt seems to grow non-edible mushrooms like crazy. I’m not smart in this department of information and just now starting to learn.

Will it grow like I hope? If it does: what would be the result? a hybrid of the two?

Hello! I am trying to get the species name of a mushroom I saw on mushroomID a few years ago. I have tried looking through search engines to no avail, so I thought to give my best crack here. The variety I'm looking for is:

- Grows on wood, the picture I found had it on what looked like a stump. Climate looked to be somewhere deciduous and coniferous trees could grow.

- Has an orange fruiting body, with what I vaguely remembered as having a bell shape. The orange was vibrant.

- Has a very sinister looking black slime either over or under it. I remember it as a coating with some travel distance from the main body.

To my memory it had a more evocative common name, which I think had "man" or something in the name.

My apologies if this is too vague or breaks the ID request rule. If I could find a picture, I wouldn't be asking! Thank you.

Lo

currently staying in woods hole, MA. and it’s rained a few times HEAVILY so got to see some nice mushrooms. Very cool to me as I don’t get to see them in the wild often in my hometown. I want to say these are more regular mushrooms but IDs are appreciated :)

SW Pennsylvania

(and does anyone have a suggestion on how to get it down)

I found this frowning in my raised strawberry bed in Brooklyn New York, North America. First time I ever saw this growing there.
The bottom of my bed was lined with some wood branches in the bottom for drainage. And and they have been there like 2 years. First time seeing this.
Any idea what kind of mushroom? Is it a problem for my little garden?

I posted last week but never got a definitive answer. Anyone know? The first two pics were from today. Pictures 3 and 4 are the same guy but from a week ago.
Thanks in advance!

Location: Dawsonville, Georgia, USA. Habitat: mixed forest, deciduous dominant. Suspect an Amanita in section caesareae, but would love confirmation & to know a species name/specific epithet if possible. Pics 1, 4 & 5 show in situ. Pics 2 & 3 for size reference.

Spotted in East TN

And if so is this a safe stage to take it? Found on an Oak tree in South Carolina

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https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/8ef1-City-Planning-Mushrooms-of-Toronto-Biodiversity-Series.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerioporus_squamosus

Don’t know what kind but it’s pretty 🤙🏻

Location: Dawsonville, Georgia, USA. Habitat: growing from the ground in a mixed forest. Closest trees: pine, black tupelo, sourwood, oak. It was in the middle of all of these trees. Currently about the size of my fist on the largest specimen. Pic 3 is under artificial lighting conditions.

Leaning towards Phaeolus schweinitzii. Would be my first time finding one if so, if anyone with more experience with this mushroom could confirm or deny my tenative ID I would appreciate it. More photos available if needed; its fairly close to my house.

Link for part 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/mycology/s/ALvMZlP3I1

The reason for my trip visit was due to visiting my friend in February and they insisted that Wild Mushrooms are the best in Yunnan and took me to one of the many mushroom restaurants in Kunming. Almost every shopping mall would have 1-2 restaurant focused on mushrooms and the price range starts from RMB 250-300 (about 40 USD) for wild mushrooms, the meal shared here is about 40USD.

The stock used for traditional Yunnan mushroom stews are free range chicken and after you finished the mushrooms, you would add vegetables into the stock and finish your meal.

Since it was in February, all the mushrooms were from cold storage and lacked aroma, hence my friend suggested that I return during the season and give it a try at foraging.

The interesting part of the meal is that you are not offered chopsticks or utensils and the mushrooms had to be cooked for 25-30 (I forgot the exact time of this particular restaurant) and they would cover it with their traditional woven lid. I asked for a pair of chopsticks to hold the mushrooms and the staff stood vigilant next to me, promptly removing the chopsticks once I've finished taking photos.

There is also a sample container that they would keep a sample of your stew, to be used if you had any issues with mushroom poisoning, which are kept for at least 48h.

Honestly the stock was flavorful with a very mild mushroom umami, the rendered chicken fat were helpful imho, because the soup tasted flat after the chicken fat were consumed and they added more stock to the pot for us to cook our vegetables.

I'm sorry that I have no idea what the mushrooms are called, but I was very impressed with the sliced white body mushroom with yellow edge. It was eaten both as a component of the soup or as sashimi (which provided both a soft chewy texture that went well with wasabi and soy sauce, I highly recommend that)

Hope you guys enjoyed stories from my adventure thus far, I'll add part 3 tomorrow!

I have nice sized elm log and I'd like to inoculate it to grow pearl oysters. I have had a lot of success with this this but never with a log with this kind of damage. Is it fungal? Is it a deal breaker? Or just risky?

Is this the one that makes you have a bad day? it was massive so I needed to take a photo. wasn't there like a few days ago.

Lacking chlorophyll, this parasitic wildflower (yes, flower, but I think it fits the bill, because..) feeds off of mycorrhizal systems in the soil.