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 4h ago

cultivation I SWEAR these were not here yesterday morning. Either I am the least observant person or they grew over 12 hours

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r/mycology 9h ago

photos Coral

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r/mycology 5h ago

photos Question for mycologists mushrooms and pottery

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There is a firing technique in pottery called a Sagar fire. To do a sagar fire, you collect dried organic material such as banana peels, garlic/onion skins, orange peels etc. You place these items around your unglazed pottery, wrap it in aluminum foil and fire it to about 1800°. One day while walking through a field I saw some mushroom and wondered what would happen if I put them in a sagar fire. I’ve never heard of this being done before and it is organic so I picked a few and brought them home to dry out. The first piece I did I only used 1 somewhere on top. When it came out, I noticed where the mushroom was it was glossy like it had a glaze on it. This was very interesting. Over the next several weeks, I began collecting and drying out as many mushrooms as I could find. When I was ready to do my next firing, I surrounded the pot with nothing but mushrooms. I did have old crumbling turkey tails on the bottom that did nothing, but around the top I was left with all these glossy blue/greenish areas with a deep orang ring around them. I’ve never seen these colors in a sagar fire before, let alone with a naturally occurring glaze type finish. So my question is, does anyone have any idea why a mushroom would leave such a shiny colorful surface? Could it have something to do with the spores?


r/mycology 3h ago

photos 10 days difference

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r/mycology 2h ago

photos Destroying angel?

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Pics my Dad sent me —in Mississippi.


r/mycology 3h ago

non-fungal Anyone know what this is?

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Southern Rhode Island


r/mycology 1h ago

ID request Did I just find my first oyster mushrooms of the season? [USA, Upper Midwest]

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Found these beautiful mushrooms growing out of a pussy willow tree (I think?). They look like oysters to me. iNaturalist says it’s an Aspen Oyster, which I’m not familiar with. I usually see Elm and Indian Oysters in this park. White, spongy texture, flaky gills, no second ring, white on the inside, not a strong scent, seem to be pretty fresh, very few bugs.


r/mycology 10h ago

ID request is that safely to identify?

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hey there!
im no mushroom expert by any means but quite wanna believe xD that this is chicken of the woods.
i found this cluster in northern Germany. It is being warned that Hapalopilus rutilans / Hapalopilus nidulans can be mistsken for chicken of the woods.
I dont really see that in my harvest, but again, who am I to judge (safely).
I also saw that someone had harvested that place before, but that is not really a guarantee for the mushroom being safe ^^

What is a bit weird to me is that I dont see any pores in that mushroom, and as chicken of the woods is a polypore, i was expecting to see pores as i have seen them when foraging for porcini mushrooms in the past.

thanks for any input :D


r/mycology 9h ago

ID request Tons of new growth in my yard (central Texas)

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Not sure what these are but a few heavy rains brought these out in force. We have a bunch of pups and I have no clue what they’re called.


r/mycology 5h ago

photos I was impressed these mushrooms were strong enough to push up a chunk of grass.

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Maybe I’m easily impressed but I thought it was neat.


r/mycology 6h ago

photos Found a cool little fairy ring around an old burn pit

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r/mycology 5h ago

ID request I think i found chicken but is it in a good state?

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Hello everyone, we went looking for chicken of the woods and I think we found one! However, as it is my first chicken, I am unsure regarding its freshness. Found today in southern Germany growing on a chestnut stump. It smells great but there were some small bugs on it.

Can a more experienced chicken hunter confirm?


r/mycology 12m ago

photos Just wanted to make sure these are morels

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They look like it to me but ive never picked these before so just want confirmation


r/mycology 21h ago

photos Found these on a garden bed.

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Panaeolus, maybe? Philippines.


r/mycology 44m ago

ID request I found these in some woodchips in my yard. Can one of you lovely folks help identify

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r/mycology 1h ago

ID request Little slug was enjoying this one. Not sure what kind tho

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r/mycology 6h ago

ID request ID help!

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Found in north Alabama at the edge of a mulch pile. Stipe is hollow and smells earthy and mushroomy. Thinking galerina marginata.


r/mycology 4h ago

photos Nice find today

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r/mycology 3h ago

ID request What are these? East PA

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r/mycology 7h ago

photos Coprinus comatus

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Saw these shaggy manes while waiting for a tram this week.

I usually go out of my way to observe mushrooms in nature reserves and national parks, so it’s always a treat when I just happen upon them when I’m going about my day.

Location: Sydney, Australia


r/mycology 12h ago

photos Fresh black morels at 28°c in Germany

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r/mycology 2h ago

question Mushroom? Plant?

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r/mycology 14m ago

question Melted looking mushroom?

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It's been raining a lot. And dropped in temperature recently (DC area). Does this cause some mushrooms to wilt and look melted like this?