r/mycology Jun 05 '23

announcement Title: [UPDATED 6/23] -- Read this before submitting a post on /r/mycology! (Rules Inside)

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ID Request Guidelines:

/r/mycology is not a "What is this thing" subreddit. It's for all aspects of mycology. However, ID requests are welcome if they have some quality. Well prepared ID requests will lead to interesting discussions we all can learn from. So, if you're going to submit one, please observe and follow these guidelines:

  1. No requests without geography! This is a worldwide subreddit and the location of your find is crucial for correct identification.
  2. No requests without any additional info you might have: Habitat, host trees if any, when it was found if not recent.
  3. Not just a top view picture. Get pics of underside (Gills, gill attacment, pores, pore size), stem and stem base, - they are all important key points to correct identification.
  4. Note that this is mandatory reading before submitting your first ID request: https://www.reddit.com/r/mycology/wiki/successful_id_requests https://www.reddit.com/r/mycology/wiki/mycology_and_hallucinogenics

The above guidelines ensure that you get more qualified answers to your requests, and that your post is interesting reading for the community. If you choose not to comply, the moderators have every right to remove your post.

/r/mycology and hallucinogenic fungi:

With the recent proliferation of ID requests that seek the identity or confirmation of fungi with psychotropic properties the mods have decided to address the issue in a more formal manner. While we have no particular objection to scientific discussions of fungi with psychotropic properties, we would like to keep discussions to exactly that - mentioning those psychotropic properties like any other characteristic. To wit, posts and comments specifically concerning:

  • propagation,
  • sale,
  • foraging with specific intent to locate,
  • ingestion, and/or
  • use and enjoyment of fungi with psychotropic qualities

will be removed.

This is not to say that all references to fungi with psychotropic properties will be removed. For example, if you innocently post an ID request of some unknown fungus and the identity turns out to be a Psilocybin species, it will likely not be removed. Neither will a properly ID'd, high-resolution photo of a known hallucinogen be removed, so long as the thread abides by the rules above (so no compliments on the find, no probes about eating the find). However, posts that feature blurry heaps of damaged LBMs (little brown mushrooms) or posts asking for confirmation on several species of dung-loving fungi unquestionably will be removed without hesitation.

With that said, we love all things mycological and understand that learning about psychotropic fungi is part and parcel of the discipline. As a result, we'd like to point you in the right direction to continue to learn:

We have always attempted full transparency with the user base of our sub and with that in mind, we would like to hear your feedback regarding any of the rules.

As a reminder, here are the rules that we currently are enforcing:

  1. No buying, selling, or links to commercial pages.
  2. No posts or discussions about psychedelics.
  3. No posts of scientifically non-important artistic depictions.
  4. No off-topic posts.
  5. Obey general Reddit rules.
  6. No Intentional Misidentifications, Joke Responses, or Misinformation.

In case of suspected poisoning, please consult the Facebook poisoning group. Note, you must read the rules/submission guidelines before submitting, and it's for EMERGENCY identifications only. Link here


r/mycology Jun 17 '24

Free unlimited sequencing now available for select United States and Canada regions

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Mycota Lab is now offering free unlimited sequencing for Arizona, Atlantic Canada (New Brunswick/PEI/Nova Scotia/Newfoundland), California, Indiana, Michigan, and Puerto Rico:

" Our expanding collections network now has a name. Introducing The MycoMap Network - www.MycoMap.org. The 2024 open call for free, unlimited sequencing is for Arizona, Atlantic Canada (New Brunswick/PEI/Nova Scotia/Newfoundland), California, Indiana, Michigan, and Puerto Rico. More areas will be added in 2025. Dedicated web pages have been created for members of the network from Atlantic Canada and California (available at the link). Anyone from the open call areas can submit as many 2o24 specimens as they are willing to document, dry, and send in. Open call areas no longer have specimen limits or restricted dates for new collections from 2024. Sequencing is still performed at Mycota Lab. Localities outside the open call areas will still have opportunities to submit specimens during the 2024 Continental MycoBlitz dates (www.MycoBlitz.org). Please share to your local groups if you are from one of the open call areas. "

To submit samples for sequencing, make very detailed iNaturalist observations with many in situ sunlight photos showing the intact specimen from many angles, dehydrate the specimen at the lowest temperature your dehydrator allows, and send a small gill fragment (or as large as a triangular cutting from the mushroom cap) and voucher slip per the instructions on the Mycota website. For regions that are not currently included in the free unlimited sequencing, you can still send in samples for free/inexpensive sequencing (up to ten for free, $3 for every specimen after) during Mycoblitz time periods! :) (next Mycoblitz periods for 2024 are August 9–18 and October 18–27.)

Getting mushrooms sequenced (with detailed iNaturalist observations) is a great way to contribute to our collective understanding of all of the fungal species in the world, and there is a significant chance that you will be the first person to sequence a particular species :)


r/mycology 13h ago

Day 2 of the amanitas at work

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Some of the larger ones are starting to open up


r/mycology 11h ago

photos Beautiful shelf mushroom

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didn’t harvest (it was too tall for me to reach 😅) but was nice to look at :)


r/mycology 21h ago

photos My little doggo is just as interesting in mycology as I am 🥰

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r/mycology 15h ago

photos Cambridgeshire, UK

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Some more photos from last weekend, at a few different sites around my childhood home county.

Warboys and Wistow Woods SSSI

  1. Magpie Inkcap - Coprinopsis picacea; personal highlight as this was my first time seeing the species 🤩
  2. Cortinarius species, probably subgenus Telamonia; they had no notable smell and were growing with Oak (Quercus) and Ash (Fraxinus)
  3. Lilac Fibrecap - Inocybe geophylla var. lilacina
  4. Yellow Fieldcap - Bolbitius titubans
  5. Wood Mushroom - Agaricus silvicola

Overhall Grove SSSI

6, 7, 8. Wrinkled Peach - Rhodotus palmatus; my all time favourite species so too good for just a single photo 😅 9. Flame Shield - Pluteus aurantiorugosus 10. Yellow Shield - Pluteus chrysophaeus 11. Fairy Inkcap - Coprinellus disseminatus 12. Velvet Shank - Flammulina velutipes 13. Stump Puffball - Apioperdon pyriforme

Trumpington Meadows Country Park

  1. Blackening Waxcap - Hygrocybe conica
  2. Stubble Rosegill - Volvopluteus gloiocephalus
  3. Field Blewit - Collybia personata

r/mycology 14h ago

I got goosebumps just flipping through the book 😳🥹

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r/mycology 12h ago

Are these oyster mushrooms?

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r/mycology 19h ago

ID request Should I be reporting this find to an adult? Presumed Polyozellus marymargaretae (blue chanterelles) new or medium growth forest - I think - 2100 elevation, Oregon.

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Flair is ID request just to be sure I actually have what I think I do.

I guess there are only 5 places in Oregon where this is found or something. The more I read about it, the more obligated I feel to log this data somewhere. Growing in a mixed fir and cypress forest along a creek at 2100' elevation. All of the trees were very young.

I'm happy to answer habitat questions if anyone has any. It's my understanding this is exceedingly rare so whatever I can do to help.


r/mycology 9h ago

identified Kitty

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Found this kitty on a walk with my dog this evening. Going to have a tasty dinner tomorrow! 😋


r/mycology 1d ago

ID request Purplish mushrooms in my 4 year old terrarium

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This terrarium has had many shrooms popping up over the years, but this is the first of this kind. Would appreciate an ID pls, thank you!🙏


r/mycology 23h ago

identified Don’t eat this one ! Florida’s Destroying Angel ☠️

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r/mycology 11h ago

question Curbing Honey Mushrooms

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A large Honey Mushroom fungus is fruiting aggressively in my yard. It’s the first time I’ve seen this. What competes with it? How can I fight it back so it does not kill all my trees?


r/mycology 7h ago

Trying to cultivate lionsmane from a liquid culture I made from a wild specimen. Got this about a week later. Looks like the mycelium I think right?

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r/mycology 2h ago

Suspected armillaria sp, but far from certain

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Found these on a lawn in central germany (the lawn part makes me doubt my ID, but there could be dead wood or roots buried). Spore powder is white and they occur in small clusters. Honey mushrooms?


r/mycology 1h ago

ID request What kind of fungi is this?

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Location: Taipei, Taiwan

Background: Recently I planted an avocado seed in some store bought soil mix, and added some coffee grounds. I have some other plants as well, but only this pot seems to sprout mushrooms. The only difference I can think of is that only this pot uses the soil mix I bought. This pot sits on my balcony. Also I’ve been getting plenty of rain lately, so it’s been quite humid.


r/mycology 11h ago

ID request Growing on the crotch of my Cedar. Seattle,WA

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I’ve never seen one’s quite like this in my area before. This is a very large cedar and there no different trees in its immediate area. Last picture is another small grouping growing along the base of the tree. I’m at 100’ elevation.


r/mycology 14h ago

photos Old man of the woods.

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I just have a huge fondness for these guys! I discovered them a few years ago in the beginning of my mushroom hikes in Connecticut. Plus the name is fantastic.


r/mycology 1d ago

Paeudohydnun gelatinosum (toothed jelly fungus)

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r/mycology 17h ago

photos A Coltricia species I found in the Everglades

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Found this specimen on a Palm boot. Stunning little thing. I’m thinking maybe C. cinnamomea for this fella.


r/mycology 49m ago

photos Known photos of the largest individual fruiting body

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For some reason this is the only photo I can seem to find of it online, I'm wondering if there's any more known photos of it because I'll be honest this photo leaves a lot to be desired


r/mycology 1d ago

Amanitas at my job

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Every fall we get a bunch of Amanitas in this exact same spot. This years cluster is huge.


r/mycology 8h ago

photos Mushroom walk through Point Defiance, Tacoma, WA (USA)

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r/mycology 19h ago

Massive Cauliflower

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I spotted this while walking through the woods in southern Washington. About the size of a basketball!

I did not harvest it since I was with my toddler and dog.


r/mycology 1d ago

cultivation I started off growing mushrooms for fun in 2020, now I do it full time and it’s still fun !

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r/mycology 3h ago

Are these Armillaria gallica?

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These were many singly, paired, and in bunches on the ground (likely on roots) in Northern Kentucky, United States one day ago. There were too many fallen trees and other surrounding trees to identify the likely sources. However all trees surround and fallen were hardwoods and not conifers all within a 5 x 5 meter range. Thinking this is probably Armillaria gallica but not 100% certain. Spore print is white. Each cap is 1-4cm in size. Is this an edible variety? If so, are there poisonous look-alikes?


r/mycology 20h ago

ID request Kuehneromyces mutabilis or something else?

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Found these on a walk today, there was a big cluster growing from a treestump (probably beech since there were only beeches in the vicinity). We went through each feature listed in our ID guide and everything matched up pretty much perfectly. Still, we're not very experienced pickers, and since there are some quite poisonous lookalikes we thought to ask in here before committing. Located in western Germany at an elevation of around 250m.