Mycology

Infographic: https://twitter.com/JWentomologist/status/934746214754607105

Also found on Dartmoor :)

Found these while leading a field trip today!

New to mushrooming, but my late son wanted to be a mycologist and so I always look for them now. Found this one this morning on a fallen cottonwood log on the banks of the Rio Grande.

Found in a park in Oregon

I found a bunch of these tiny mushrooms along a trail in Idaho.

Not sure what they are. Found in Chicago

There were multiple of these growing on the bark of a... beech tree, I believe. In the Netherlands.

Here is another shot showing more members of the group:

At the time I thought it was some type of lichen, but now I think I might be either an Hypoxylon or an Annulohypoxylon from searching for similar images.

They were quite large too! Really pretty set.

Found these mushrooms growing in a clump of what is probably hare poop.

I think that it is a Deconica coprophila, or "dung-loving psilocybe". It used to be classified in the Psilocybe genus, but it does not show blue bruising and is non-hallucinogenic, and was moved into a different genus.

This even smaller mushroom was also growing in the same clump. I think it is the same species, but it might be a different one:

I thought this growth pattern was weird, and on inspection it seems like it pushed up past a tiny root that is now choking it.

I was thinking of going out his morning to cut the root out.

What do the pros think?

Country: The Netherlands.

According to an AI identification system this might be a Fistulina hepatica.

Looking into it, Fistulina hepatica has an asexual state that does resemble what I see here (Article: Confistulina: a rare and little-known state of Fistulina hepatica)

But I am still not sure. Fistulina hepatica prefers to grow in oak and chestnut. Unfortunately I did not pay close attention at whether the tree was an oak tree when I took the picture, and from the small piece of bark visible in the photo it is hard for me to tell.

Here is a close-up of the surface of this fungus:

Two parasol mushrooms at different stages of development.

Here is a closeup of the cap:

Found in a garden in Germany. Has gills. Here are some more angles.

White polypore in southern France?

Right now I’m in southern France. Seeing these fungi for the first time. Unfortunately I don’t have my books/equipment with me, so no chance for me to get an ID … Does anybody want to venture a guess of what they are? Growing right beneath a Pittosporum sp.

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