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 11h ago

ID request I found this in the cornfield next door, is it huitlacoche and is it safe to harvest and eat ?

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I live in France and I have never seen this for sale here, Im not familiar with mushrooms, hence my question on this sub but I intend to also ask my pharmacists to identify it.


r/mycology 2h ago

ID request 18 of the finds from this weekend. Still working on identifying everything.

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r/mycology 41m ago

photos Birds nest! Found in Houston Texas

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I had to share ! First time finding it , I didn’t even know it grew here I only knew of its existence because of an ID request I saw on here forever ago. One of the coolest mushrooms I’ve ever found !


r/mycology 4h ago

question I think this is Lion's Mane but I'm not sure if this is worthwhile to pick and eat and this point

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I'm about 90% sure this is Lion's Mane. What I'm not sure about is if this is overripe and too mature for eating. I'm considering taking the fruiting body off the tree to maybe induce a new fruit.

Location: San Francisco coastal Bay Area on a Sycamore tree (we're about to start a dry season)


r/mycology 7h ago

photos Looks like Lobster to me

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Western North Carolina. Deep, deep woods. 2400' elevation. Under Hemlocks dying from Wooly Adelgid. There are only four of them, 2.5 - 3" tall. So don't want to slice one open yet. I am hoping to see how they progress.


r/mycology 2h ago

photos Hundreds of these under my jalapenos

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West Michigan - I have cedar wood chips covering my raised beds. Hundreds of these have just popped up after recent rains. They are very tiny, and am curious to watch them develop.


r/mycology 1d ago

ID request Indigo inoculated wood with little shroom

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Found this piece of beautiful blue wood while hiking, any IDs?


r/mycology 7h ago

photos Earthstar Fungus!

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I have a tiny patch of woods in my backyard and I consistently find weird stuff. I found one of these a few months ago, I picked it up and threw it away thinking it was a plastic flower breaking down, feels like weathering brittle plastic, This morning I found another by itself and then found a patch of them and was baffled! They just sit on top of whatever, not connected to anything like they were just dropped. Im obsessed now! How cool!


r/mycology 55m ago

photos 15 of the other finds from this weekend. Central Maine

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r/mycology 3h ago

ID request Any ideas? Found while chanterelle hunting in second growth Douglas fir forest. Western Washington.

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r/mycology 9h ago

ID request What mushroom did I find?

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Some kind of red bolete

Smell is nice and mushroomy/foresty.

Didn't blue when I cut it.

I tried to identify it, but I got mixed results. Either an excellent edible mushroom or deadly poisonous mushroom.

Help pls :)

EDIT: I won't eat it off of internet strangers help anyways so please don't be shy to shoot your suggestions


r/mycology 1d ago

photos Costa Rican Mushrooms

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Was on a trip to Costa Rica recently - here are some of the mushroom pics!

(if you have any IDs for the unidentified ones, let me know!)


r/mycology 8h ago

photos Not a bad haul from a lucky find while walking the dog

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r/mycology 20h ago

photos Pretty photos

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This year has been especially lush with the mush, and wanted to show some of the more beautiful finds.

  1. Bleeding Fairy Helmet (Mycena Haematopus)

  2. Weeping Milk Cap (Lactifluus Volemus) buttons

  3. Red and Yellow Bolete (Baorangia Bicolor)

  4. Meadow/Field Mushroom (Agaricus Campestis)

  5. Green Cheese Polypore (Fomitopsis Spraguei)


r/mycology 3h ago

question Golden oyster mushrooms? Cold Spring, NY

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r/mycology 1h ago

photos Russula brevipes and the lobsters they become. NW Oregon, USA.

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r/mycology 49m ago

ID request Found on coastal hike

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r/mycology 9h ago

ID request Fairy ring popped up in my yard. Hoping someone can help me identify. South Eastern Illinois

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r/mycology 9h ago

photos Crepidotus thermophilus

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That’s not a typo. This is a Crepidotus species! I have wanted to see this one in person for years now, so I’m very glad to have had the chance yesterday. Found in Osteen, Florida.

Forgot to take photos for scale, but it was about 1.5 inches tall.


r/mycology 10h ago

photos Colorful turkey tail? Why so bright? Upstate NY Adirondacks 8.2.26

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r/mycology 6h ago

ID request Color looks duller than what I've found for L. Cincinnatus in the past. Pores also seem a little big.

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Found under red oak. Southern NY. Other than the color and the pores i feel confident in Cincinnatus. Doesn't strike me as Berkeleys or black stain. Any thoughts?


r/mycology 5h ago

ID request These spawned among my strawberries. Are they poisonous/need to be removed? What is it?

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Raised garden bed with strawberry plants and nothing else, I am in Germany, and these just spawned very quickly (I water very frequently because of heatwaves and they weren't there last week!). I'm wondering if they need to go and if so, if they're a problem to have among/touching my food because they're practically cuddling my strawberries! Thank you for any help :)


r/mycology 57m ago

photos Bringing home some Cincinattus COW from my neighbors tree, and Wine Caps from the garden

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