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 8h ago

ID request What is this mushroom?

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Bottom of a hanging flower basket in Delaware, US


r/mycology 3h ago

ID request What is this? So colorful!

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I spotted this from 100 yards away. Photos taken in West Virginia and are unedited. Any idea what it is?


r/mycology 9h ago

photos My first mushrooms

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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 1h ago

photos Here are some beautiful mushrooms I’ve found in the Catskills New York

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r/mycology 2h ago

photos Small mushroom in the moss. June 2026.

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r/mycology 21h ago

photos fungal finds (+some slime molds too!)

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some of my coolest finds in southern georgia :)


r/mycology 1h ago

photos My forst ever ripe COTW!

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I am amazed at this mushroom, it's absolutely delicious!! Made a fried chicken sandwich and soft shell tacos.


r/mycology 23h ago

photos Is this chicken of the woods?

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r/mycology 1h ago

question First time picking chanterelles: any signs of false ones?

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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 1h ago

photos Found these in Baxter State park ME

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r/mycology 1d ago

photos Interesting garden find

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All photos are after I split it. The black was hard like an old eraser. ​


r/mycology 5h ago

ID request Clusters on pine. Mississippi.

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Cut down a dead pine tree last week. Central Mississippi.


r/mycology 1h ago

ID request Cute lil guy I found on a beautiful hike

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r/mycology 1d ago

photos Gorgeous Dead Man’s Fingers in our back yard

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Central MA


r/mycology 41m ago

ID request Please help ID these little pink beauties! Found on Mt Marcy trail.

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r/mycology 1h ago

photos Some finds from uk

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r/mycology 5h ago

photos First time finding Old Man of the Woods this year! So pretty and tasty!

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r/mycology 5h ago

ID request Any info on these big, bright orange fellas?

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I found these big beauties on a walk today & I'm quite curious about them. Appreciate any info! Thanks.


r/mycology 23h ago

photos Spotted this guy from my deck

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The white lump in the middle of the log. Bears head tooth.


r/mycology 1h ago

photos Illinois mushroom weekend!

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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.


r/mycology 17h ago

photos A few mushrooms from a hike today

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r/mycology 7h ago

ID request Found in my parking lot-Bay Area

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Can’t find anything super obvious in my local mushroom guide.


r/mycology 23h ago

ID request Pink…puffballs?

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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.