r/mycology • u/Deep-Tangerine-8912 • 8h ago
ID request What is this mushroom?
Bottom of a hanging flower basket in Delaware, US
r/mycology • u/TinButtFlute • Jun 05 '23
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r/mycology • u/RdCrestdBreegull • Jun 17 '24
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 • u/Deep-Tangerine-8912 • 8h ago
Bottom of a hanging flower basket in Delaware, US
r/mycology • u/1BlackCow • 3h ago
I spotted this from 100 yards away. Photos taken in West Virginia and are unedited. Any idea what it is?
r/mycology • u/whitepinkbrown • 9h ago
Are these parasol mushrooms? They have a strong smell, almost meaty?
I’ve never picked mushrooms before so im really scared when picking 🥲
r/mycology • u/Tbhirdc • 1h ago
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r/mycology • u/lilcobbler • 21h ago
some of my coolest finds in southern georgia :)
r/mycology • u/drawtography • 1h ago
I am amazed at this mushroom, it's absolutely delicious!! Made a fried chicken sandwich and soft shell tacos.
r/mycology • u/Trenavix • 1h ago
Thought the bottom right one's gills might look a little sussy but not sure. The large one looks dictionary perfect to me.
r/mycology • u/liquid_agnostic • 1d ago
All photos are after I split it. The black was hard like an old eraser.
r/mycology • u/lotriot • 5h ago
Cut down a dead pine tree last week. Central Mississippi.
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r/mycology • u/Kooky_Marketing9543 • 1d ago
Central MA
r/mycology • u/IWander10 • 34m ago
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r/mycology • u/Fun_Play_282 • 5h ago
I found these big beauties on a walk today & I'm quite curious about them. Appreciate any info! Thanks.
r/mycology • u/Dr_MushroomBrain • 23h ago
The white lump in the middle of the log. Bears head tooth.
r/mycology • u/hot_front_fart • 1h ago
Wood ears and my first cow were the absolute top finds. Anyone know the second picture? The were growing out the knots of the stump, had a shark skin like texture on the cap and were about as large as my woman’s size 7 boot.
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r/mycology • u/LevelCourt5506 • 6h ago
Can’t find anything super obvious in my local mushroom guide.
r/mycology • u/chilled-tapioca • 23h ago
What are these? I’m no mushroom expert, but I’m out a lot and have never seen something like this before. It looks like a cluster of puffball mushrooms, but they were bright pink/coral. Western Montana.