Mycology

Edit; The community seems to be really gone, here is a new one! /c/foraging

Title is really the question, I swear the Foraging community was more or less thriving the other week I checked it. What happened to it? Did it merge with this one or?

Some chrysocystidia of Friday's Pholiota squarrosa. (KOH squash mount)

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Found in Eastern Ohio. Not sure what type of tree it is, but there's lots of maple, oak, and black walnut around. There's also something dropping a cherry-like fruit (chokecherry?).

Here's a picture of the underside:

Edit: it wouldn't let me post the other picture, so I'll try doing it in a comment

The pine needles are falling here. The oak leaves are just starting as well.

Find of the day for me: Pholiota squarrosa

Three rather huge clusters directly below a Picea abies. Just in time for #FungiFriday !

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I had never seen this kind before. Some more shots below.

Edit: Ugh, how can I rotate the first photo below? Jerboa posted it upside down.

This is the same stump as the sprouting Mycelium.

Here is the same mushroom from my last post but 3 days later and photographed from the other side.

I feels like a rock with a rubbery coating.

It seems to be growing what looks like roots?

It doesn't seem like it's dying off, rather it seems to be growing stronger.

It's growing under a pear tree, maybe it's feeding off of dead roots?

I'm thinking maybe a ganoderma?

Here is a closeup and one from the same angle as my last post:

Edit: Here it is 3 days ago:

A large find for me: Sarcodon imbricatus

This one was around 20cm in diameter and stood out quite a bit. The spores on the other hand are comparably tiny... (Scale bar in micrograph is 25µm).

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Mushrooms are the reproductive organs, after all...

Nvm. These are wooly oak galls. I tried deleting the post, but Jerboa won't let me. Mods, you can remove if you want.

Does anyone have any idea what this is?

I thought it was a moldy pear (it's under a pear and apple tree, next to some sage and valerian), but it's hardish and attached to the ground.

Xylaria hypoxylon and some organe slime mold?

Found in western Germany.

Would anyone happen to know this one?

Thought I would share this here, as it is so beautifully done and so useful.

For European mushrooms, but helpful to get a general idea anywhere.

Automatic download link: Mushroom Wheels

Edit: fixed link so you don't land immediately on an automatic download.

Seen many puffballs in this area, but never like this. Today they were everywhere.

There is a ton of anecdotal evidence on the interwebs about the photosensitivity of fungi, ie, it governs the direction of pin growth, fruit colors, etc. suggesting a circadian rhythm of sorts.

There are older papers out there that do document light sensitivity in the red/blue ranges. However, none that I found have actually documented chemical changes in the fruit itself, just the changes in the structure of the fruit. (If I remember correctly, it was around 100 species that have been documented as photosensitive to some degree.)

I personally have debunked monotub side pinning being caused by light. Compaction of the substrate and limiting moisture exposure to the sides of a mycelium cake has all but eliminated side pinning for me. I digress.

So, I am just looking for new studies and research papers on this subject. Eventually, I will probably conduct my own experiments, but that is for another day.

Cheers!

Went on a trip to Northern Wisconsin last week and must have seen 8 different species of mushrooms on a single hike! Let me know if you’d like me to post some others :)

P.S. likely an Amanita? My buddy who is into mushrooms thought so, he also told me in the future I should try to get pictures of the gills.

Quite new to foraging, how come these mushrooms grow in a circle?