Mushrooms

Ok, you got me. These are from last year. But the mycelial networks are kicking into high gear right about now, and I'm getting antsy for some photo hunting.

I'm not sure what they are but as soon as they fruited something ate them the following night.

Coastal Massachusetts, USA

Discovered by Jonathan Revett in Cockley Cley, Norfolk, the fungus has just been classified as a new species in the world (2015). link

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!mushroom looking like dead fingers reaching out of the dirt

Auricularia auricula-judas is now called wood ear or black wood ear and is edible.

!mushroom looking like an ear

!mushroom looking like an ear

!mushroom looking like an ear

Tangent info: This mushroom used to have the name Jew's Ear Fungus, as you can see in the latin name. I have a bunch of Tradescantia zebrina in my garden and it has recently been renamed "Wandering Dude". I'm sure you can figure out what it used to be called.

!unrelated photo, but showing a hanging Wandering Dude plant

Tradescantia zebrina (not my pic)

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!Scutellinia scutellata

!snail eating Scutellinia scutellata

!Scutellinia scutellata grouping on log

Central Florida, so probably not oyster. Also, definitely not an oyster based on that stem. And it was only an inch and half tall.

Photo by Len Buress

>Carrot like shapes emerging from a small cone on this cedar tree. Thanks for the identification, Myriorama Found this on the web:-- A fungus called Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae causes this unsightly cedar apple rust gall to appear on eastern redcedar trees (alternate host). The fungus overwinters inside these galls, then the orange jellylike "horns" (called telia) seen in the above photograph grow out of the gall in the spring and produce spores which may infect apple leaves to continue the life history of the fungus.

Photo by Steve Axford, but link is broken.

Photographed by James A. Christensen. Here's his website: https://primevalnature.photoshelter.com/

For the visually impaired. Standard issue mushroom, but completely purple. Perspective of the photo makes it look huge, but this species is typically only around 6 inches wide.

For the visually impaired: an unusually shaped mushroom. No mushroom head and the trunk splits into many trunks like a tree or a form of coral. Completely purple.

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For the visually impaired: a cluster of rather ordinary looking mushrooms under a hollybush with the exception that they are completely purple.

Captain Obvious says, "Don't eat it unless you're 100% sure."

There are links in the article for more information, but the color difference of links compared to the standard text is subtle.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1188351

> Hand for scale, because there were no bananas at hand

In the Meudon forest near Paris, France.

!helvella dryophila Helvella dryophila

!pseudoclitocybe cyathiformis Pseudoclitocybe cyathiformis

!amauraderma rugosum Amauraderma rugosum

!Strobilomyces strobilaceus Strobilomyces strobilaceus

!Trichoglossum hirsutum Trichoglossum hirsutum

!Craterellus cornucopioides Craterellus cornucopioides

A sp. of Phallaceae. Cardamom Mountains, Cambodia.

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Photo by Arddu on Flickr

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/653677

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Only recently started learning about mushrooms and this is the first mushroom I've been able to identify in the wild!

I can't find the original. AI possibly? IDK.

A friend got me Frank Hyman's How to Forage for Mushrooms without Dying, which I like alot because it has some nice clear photos and it's small enough to pack in my bag easily.

But I was wondering if any of you have some go-to books on mushroom hunting and identification. I know mushrooms can be pretty regional...I'm currently near Denver and the rockies, but I'm interested in books covering other regions too as I like to travel.

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Image of a mushroom on log with pine needle cover. Blurry green background. The mushroom is tan colored and made of many layers like a flaky biscuit.

From article 46 Magical Wild Mushrooms You Won't Believe Are Real ...

Image of tall, translucent blue mushrooms clustered in lake water in a deciduous forest.

Link to article 46 Magical Wild Mushrooms You Won't Believe are Real

Image of fungus which looks more like large, red, star-shaped flowers on pale green thorny stems.

Image of a long stalked white mushroom with a small brown mushroom head. Splayed out from just under the mushroom head is a white lace-like material that spreads out in a dome shape and touches the ground.

Closeup image of white mushroom body covered with amber beads of some kind of liquid and a pink mushroom head whose top looks like wrinkly flesh. On log. Blurred green leafy background.

Image of a foggy oak and fern forest with two brown mushrooms coming out of leaf litter

Mushroom that looks like a yellow yolk is coming out of a broken white shell.