/fungi/ - Mushroom and Fungus General

Not to be a pedant, but slime molds aren't fungi, OP.

>>2452313
>And slime molds edition

>>2452318
In my defense: reading is hard.

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>>2452321
That's okay. The slimes forgive you.

>/fungi/ - Mushrooms and Fungus General
>And Cats, Bryozoans, and Turtles edition

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>>2452270
It's so dry. I havent seen a mushroom sprout in my yard in months. I'm so bored. What the fuck, guys.

>>2452553
Weeks, sorry.

Feels like months, though.

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>>2452270
had no idea people kept these types of organisms as pets

carry on

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>>2452553
Yep. The last summer species vanished for me about a month ago. Waiting for the rains to show up so I can grab some Laetiporus growing on neighborhood fruit trees.

>>2452557
I once moved a wild Oyster mushroom log into a terrarium to continue fruiting it, and after awhile some Physarum or Badhamia showed up and started killing off the primordia.
At that point, I just resigned to a slime mold pet. It was badass, in the morning when I got up it would have spiderwebbed all over the log and tank sides, and after I got the lights turned on within 15 minutes it would've crawled under the log and disappeared.
I never got it to sporulate though. It got moved outside eventually. Beautiful neon yellow color.

>>2452390
To be fair, Mycologists were studying slime molds for awhile before they were reclassified. This beauty showed up in one of my slime mold groups a couple of weeks ago. From WA.

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Bump

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>>2452646
>>2452323
Why does slime mold look so tasty?

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Tiny mushroom in Maryland

>>2454365
The bright colors and candylike appearance is what does it for me. Take my word though, they do not taste good. I sampled some Fuligo once and it was nasty. Like gritty silt from a creek bed. I would only go that far if I was starving for protein

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>>2452270
Found whilst hiking in the Pennsylvanian woods. What is it

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>>2454617
Looks like Bondarzewia berkeleyi. What a cool find!

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>>2454640
Thanks bb

>>2454617
I like how you can see the bits that animals nibbled off

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>>2454493
Found these guys north eastern nj

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>>2454699
Can anyone id?

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>>2454700
These were about five feet away thats my thumb

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>>2454703
And next door neighbors, these looked lime they were nibbled at by some critters

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>>2454704
Next door neighbors staind blue fast and hard bottoms looked polyporus

>>2454699
>>2454700
Are these the same?

>>2454704
>>2454705
Some type of bolete. >>2454640 This anon probably knows. I am not good with eastern bolete species.

>>2454715
Yes dubs are the same, my neighbors definitely look like boletes to me too, but im not happy about the blue staining tho

>>2454715

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>>2454732

East coast/Appalachian anon back again. Yup, you've got yourself a red-capped blue staining bolete. Location and robustness of the stipe suggests Boletus pseudosensibilis, though I'm a little surprised at seeing such a late fruiting, considering all of mine are all but dormant by now. Gotten much rain lately?

>>2454715
Yes dubs are the same, my neighbors definitely look like boletes to me too, but im not happy about the blue staining tho

>>2454715


>>2454801
Yes we have been getting alot. The rain has been coming down hard and then turning into humid hot days back to back to back almost all summer long. Im very excited to see what the fall fruiting looks like, just started taking up outdoor cultivating as well in my backyard. Oysters

>>2454801

>>2454833
>>2454700
>>2454699

Try and get an in-focus photo of the stem and gills.
I think it is probably a Stropharia or perhaps Leratiomyces percevalii.
A spore print would be the most telling. The above ID's are based mostly on the gill color and presence of a ring.

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He asploded. Maryland. Pls ID

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Found in MD, pls ID

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MD.

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MD

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MD.

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Best friends. MD

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Cute. MD

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Posting teeny mushroom again with shoe for scale

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MD

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Cute little slug on it. MD

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Bonus mushrooms at the bottom, MD

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Same log as >>2455107

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MD

>>2455101
Maybe Mycena osmundicola if there is pine around.

>>2455090
Strobilomyces strobilaceus

>>2455091
Xeromphalina campanella

>>2455101
Mycena sp.

>>2455104
Agrocybe sp.

>>2455107
Dacrymes palmatus

>>2455110
Mucronella bresadolae

>>2455109
Some Mycena sp.

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>>2454715
Yes dubs are the same, my neighbors definitely look like boletes to me too, but im not happy about the blue staining tho

>>2454715


>>2454801
Yes we have been getting alot. The rain has been coming down hard and then turning into humid hot days back to back to back almost all summer long. Im very excited to see what the fall fruiting looks like, just started taking up outdoor cultivating as well in my backyard. Oysters

>>2454801


>>2454869
The gui on my front lawn from yesterday opened up here is in focus

>>2455147
how are you making these identifications? years of experience? or are you using a particular guide (online or offline) to narrow down the ID? i'd like to be able to do this myself, if possible.

>>2455196
I'm a professional myccologist and I recognize some of these because I'm familiar with that area/forest type. Please note I am not a mushroom expert, in fact I'm not really interested in mushrooms, so others might rightly disagree with my IDs.

I used to be better with mushrooms, especially wood decay basidiomycetes, but I sort of lost interest in them 5+ years ago and need a refresher.

It's often best to take pictures of the cap, underneath the cap (e.g.: gills or pores), make a spore print, etc. for IDing just from photos. But some of the ones you posted are easy to ID macroscopically.

George Barron's Mushrooms of Northeast North America: Midwest to New England is a great beginner's guide. It is by no means comprehensive, but unless you have a microscope or the interest, you probably aren't going to get into the big genera like Inocybe, Marasmius, Mycena, etc. It's a good book for the more common species and to become familiar with various basidiomycetes, ascomycetes, and slime molds. Definitely buy it.

Mushrooms Demystified by David Arora is of course recommended too. But George Barron's book is a great starter.

>>2455213
made my panties wet

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>>2455147
>>2455213
Wow, thanks for all those IDs! I am also very interested in the books you mentioned, since these Latin words tend to go in one ear and out the other, and so many mushrooms look so similar. Being able to better identify them would make these chigger bites more worth it.

Another one, MD.

>>2455088
Some Marasmioid species.

>>2455105
If we could get gill and stem photos we could help. Pleurotus is a possibility.

>>2455147
>>2455104
From the spore deposit left on the ring (appears purple-gray), and thickness of said ring, I am going to say that Leratiomyces percevalii is more likely than Agrocybe. A spore print is needed though.

Your ID's are solid, speaking as someone who does mushroom ID.

>>2455177
Yes, Stropharia or Leratiomyces species. I am not sure on urban Stropharia species in the east.

>>2455270
Beauty! Not sure on species, but some kind of Bolete.

Latin comes with time, if you learn the latin for common species in your area, and recite it every time you see them "Oh, look at that beautiful Schizophyllum!" rather than "Oh, look at that beautiful Split-Gill!", it becomes very easy. The language and pronunciation can be intimidating, but once you do it a few times it becomes just as simple as remembering a Euro or American name.

>>2455270
As >>2455353 said, Latin comes with time and eventually make more sense. Common names are not necessarily cross-cultural, and in most cases fungi don't have common names, so Latin names offer a consistent identifier. It also allows you to recognize relationships, for example the same species within a genus. It can be intimidating at first, but try to figure out what the name means in English. Sometimes it is someone's name or doesn't mean much, but in other cases it makes sense, e.g. Lactarius rufus; lac means milk (like lactose, lactation), and rufus means red. A mushrooms that bleeds a milk-like latex when the gills are cut with a reddish cap.

The names have a certain poetry to them. If you can appreciate them and get through that stage where it seems like jargon, you will quickly learn and remember them.

>>2455353
Interesting I don't know Leratiomyces, I will look that one up. I'm more of an ascomycete and hyphomycete guy, but of course I started with basids.

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>>2455270
Boletus frostii! Nice one!

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Any idea what this might be? Found on the ground (open grass, near a forest) in Nashville, TN.

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>>2455680
Another angle. Note the "skirt" (sorry if I didn't capture it we'll in the photo)

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>>2455687
Different mushroom that was close by. I'm guessing it's the same species, but I'm not sure. It certainly looked quite similar.

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>>2455680
>>2455687
>>2455690

Looks like a badly dehydrated Agaricus. Could probably narrow it down by your location, depending on how many squamose species pop up in your area, but I'm far too drunk right now to reliably ID it.

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>>2455088
>>2455353

Almost certainly Mirasmius siccus.

>>2452270
BEGINNER PASTEBIN:
https://pastebin.com/ar4VLXkh

>>2455813
I was thinking of adding the pastebin to this thread, but wanted to wait until I can flesh it out a bit more. It'll be ready by the next thread.

>>2455425
I wasn't aware of it either until I had an Agrocybe ID corrected this spring. An old synonym is Stropharia percevalii.

>>2455680
>>2455687
>>2455690
>>2455696
Growing in grass under warm weather, with light/grayish gills, a very prominent ring, and proportionately large cap, with radiating scales. All are instant identifiers to Chlorophyllum molybdites.

>>2455708
Very pretty

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These are growing out of my ceiling in Maryland and I don't like it. Am I gonna die?

>>2455696
>>2455869

Thank you. I did a spore test overnight and (using white printer paper) nothing showed up, at least that was visible to the naked eye. Might that indicate that it's a parasol? Or is it possible that it's a Chlorophyllum molybdites that is no longer producing spores? Or maybe I did the spore test incorrectly?

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Found in middle TN. Sadly, it lacks the gills of the oyster and color of COW. Smells pleasant. Spore print on white paper yielded nothing visible by the naked eye.

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>>2455981
Here's the underside after cutting it off. No discoloration on the cut several hours later. Can anyone take a stab at identification?

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>>2455869
>light/grayish gills
>Chlorophyllum molybdites

Not sure I agree with either point here. The first specimen unambiguously has chocolate brown tinted lamellae, which is definitely in Agaricus territory. A specimen of C. molybdites, even in poor condition, would have at least a hint of green on the gills.

>>2455966
The specimens you gave photos of were all very very aged. I wouldn't expect them to be dropping spores.
You could just use a white tissue to wipe the gills, I can see in the photo that they are covered in gray/green spores.

If you were using a fresh specimen, you could've messed up the print.
How did you perform it?


>>2455926
Are those really growing from your ceiling? That is amazing, they must be super phototropic instead of geotropic, growing upside-down into the room towards light. I tend to see the opposite.

Anways, they are a coprinoid species. Perhaps in the genus Coprinopsis? I am uninformed on the inkies. They will be gone within the next day, melting into ink and dripping away, "Inky caps".
No health risk in having them in your house, other than that it means your roof/ceiling is completely rotted away and no longer structurally sound. Collapse could very well be on its way if you have moisture problems so bad mushrooms can grow.


>>2456004
I would say that this specimen >>2455690 definitely has graygreen gills. So much so that it is a solid pasty color. I bet you that if OP wiped it with his finger he would get a green deposit, and not black/brown. Simple diagnostic he can perform on a quality dried specimen.

I think the Agaricus color you are seeing is a photographic artifact. A lighting and perception issue. Aside from the gills though, other distinctive features are there that nail it as C. molybdites, most notably the "double edged" ring on >>2455690. The next being the radiating flakey scale pattern on >>2455680.

>>2454574
Yep. Hypholoma capnoides or more likely H. fasciculare I would say. Once the gills open up it'll be easier telling.

>>2456137
A young Fuligo septica, the dog vomit slime mold.

>>2455926
>Coprinoids growing out of your ceiling

That's awesome, but your ceiling is likely being hit pretty hard by fungal decomposition, as the other anon stated. Also, they're gonna make a hell of a mess on your carpet when they deliquesce.

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I live in WA and I got a fungus Instagram called fungus.nw found this real strange polypore near my house on a cherry tree I got more pics on my Instagram

>>2456179
A young laetiporus gilbertsonii, Chicken of the Woods. Prime edible, you will want to harvest in a couple of days when it starts turning into a bracket shape.
When you first eat it, try a small amount. Some people have nausea afterwards (especially if it is mixed with alcohol), but it is uncommon.

>>2456179
Oh, and the tree is also doomed. Laetiporus are aggressive parasites, and by the time you see it fruiting, the tree is done for.

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Speaking of parasites, I found some Ustilago maydis. I would have been delighted, if it werent too late of a find for it to be edible.

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>>2456342
You should destroy the rest of the field by using a toothbrush to inoculate every ear. A whole stockpile of smut! I would have to guess that is probably considered bioterrorism though.

Have you eaten smut before? I have read that it is tasty, like a fleshy truffle, but the appearance is a little offputting. It reminds me too much of diseased animals or something. Never seen/smelled it in person though.

>>2456109
>>2452270
There's acoustic insulation in our ceiling and we had a pipe burst a week ago, so there's basically a giant damp sponge in my ceiling.

>>2456800
Ouch. Well hopefully that works out. Be prepared to dive out of the way when it caves

I have a question which goes more on the unnatural side or fantasy.
If there existed a fungi whose mycelium or whatever other part of it, could create a symbiotic bond with a dead animals corpse and rebuilding the animals tissue in a state of a life one. Not only animals could it repair but other dying plants.
If that kind of fungi existed, then how would You describe it in a scientific way?

>>2457074
correct question is:
If that kind of fungi existed, then how would You describe its "workings" in a scientific way?

>>2457076
Well, the main issue with your scenario is symbiosis. For symbiosis to happen, the other partner has to offer something. A dead animal or plant cannot offer anything other than its corpse full of carbon.
Fungi are pretty much designated to do the opposite of what you are describing unfortunately.

The scenario of fungus taking over an already living, or near-death animal/plant, is more likely. Especially as there is Cordyceps and other entomopathogens that effectively control the behavior of their host.

How about this scenario:
A bacterial plague affects a population of animals, putting them in a near-death state.
To fulfill your symbiosis, and not parasitism, both organisms must give something, and have their needs filled.
Imagine if a fungus infected these weakened animals, invading their bodies without killing them (fungi already do this with plants), and then excreting antibiotics into the body of the host (endophytes do this with plants, producing beneficial compounds to the host), curtailing death from the bacterial plague. However, if the fungus leaves, the bacterial infection resumes and kills the organism (obligate symbiosis achieved, the animal cannot live without the fungus, vice-versa)
The fungus now has a living host. In order for the animal to fulfill the give side, say that the fungus extends mycelium into the gut of the animal, stealing a portion of all nutrition consumed.

Bam. Weakened, near-death animals, turned into half-fungus/half-animal creatures, both now obligated into the symbiosis.

>>2457257
Thank You, I really appreciate Your time to think out this idea.
Lets pretend that somehow the fungus reads the animals DNA and tries to rebuild it as good as possible, but not that it could rebuild a whole body just from one tissue.
For example:
An animals corpse after decomposition leaves mostly bones and other body parts which break up longer time. If mycelium somehow would recognize that the corpses left over tissue is rebuildable and the area where the fungi resides has the needed molecular materials to build it, then how would it do it?
To answer the question why would it need to revive a living thing is, because it tries to survive in any harsh conditions by fusing it self with other organisms and learning their behavior.

>>2457552
Well, I think the closest you are going to get is maybe making up a magic fungal enzyme, that can scavenge any remaining cells off the corpse and force them to multiply, re-fleshing the corpse.
At the point you are talking about reincarnation, I can't really help you out with any pseudosciencey sounding stuff.

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It's purple!!! Eastern PA

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These were glowing in the dark in eastern PA!!

>>2457911
Panellus stipticus! Very cool find!

>>2457908
Looks like one of many "Violet Cortinarius" species.

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found in central europe. any clues on what it may be? perhaps its edible?

>>2452270
Are slime molds found in oklahoma? I've never seen them.

>>2457955
yes

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A fair beauty found in eastern PA

>>2456356
Its actually my own corn patch, and I did just that.
No fruitings, though. I've never had the opportunity to try it, but I've seen it prepared and I really want to give it a shot. As far as off putting appearances well... that didn't stop me from taking a bite of Suillus americanus.
Finger's crossed.

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Is there any way to speed up lichen growth?
I love them very much, but I feel like they're very difficult to keep alive. Not only that, but I would love to find a way to cultivate them en masse.
I think the fungal-cyanobacteria symbiosis is exceptionally interesting!

>>2458014
Unfortunately no. Most lichen species are exceptionally slow growing even when all their nutritional/environmental needs are met. On the scale of 1-3mm per year for many fruticose and foliose species. That said, for many they only have optimum conditions for growth in spring and fall, they lay dormant the rest of the year.
If you wanted to open up their growth window, and maximize (still extremely slow) yearly growth, after three years or so you might notice that your maintained patch of lichen has grown to be a bit more lush than its unmaintained neighbors. This would be done by illuminating the lichen in the winter, shading it in the summer, and doing regular periodic dry/moist cycles that are dependent on species.

Each lichen would have a specific optimum growth pattern of light/moisture, and if you mess it up than one symbiont goes out of control. (if it stays illuminated too long, the algal or bacterial symbiont will overgrow, and cause the lichen to rot, if you leave it moist and dark for too long, the fungus will outgrow the algae, and the whole thing will die because fungal nutrient demand will outstrip the sugar production of the algae.)

There are a few fast-growing species, but attempting to cultivate them outside their natural habitat is probably a lost cause.

TLDR; Can't speed it up without devoting a decade of time and research, just appreciate the bounty of lichens in nature that took decades or centuries to become established.

>>2457955
Slime molds are cosmopolitan, occurring on every non-polar land mass.

>>2458014
Oh, I ran out of space, but I wanted to let you know that they actually discovered another symbiont involved, yeast.
That means that some lichens like Lobaria possess Algae, Cyanobacteria, Ascomycete fungus, and Yeast!

>>2457992
Nice! I would definitely mess around with farming corn smut. Be careful though, if you live in an agricultural area, or state where corn is a major crop, it does count as bioterrorism. Mexicans who came north and tried to cultivate smut inspired all kinds of fucked up legislation regarding the deliberate propagation of crop diseases.

>>2458048
>>2458053
Thanks for the info. I kind of guessed that there wouldn't be any magical way of accelerating lichen growth. I've read about their annual growth rare. They're so delicate, yet so beautiful in a way (if they don't look like bird shit on concrete/bricks at least).
There's this house I sometimes walk by and it has small buxus shrubs (or so I presume) near his edge of the lawn at the side of the street with certain branches completely fucking overgrown with that stuff. It's like some kind of deformed, crusty tumor almost. But it's beautiful at the same time. I just hope the owner doesn't cut that shit off because he doesn't appreciate the delicate superhabitat he's probably unintentionally created.

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WHOA. Maryland.

>>2452646
How do I slime mold? Do you feed them?

>>2459906
Lucky bastard! Hericium erinaceus, the Lions mane mushroom. Gourmet edible, and also valuable medicinal. Eat that shit, it is in prime condition right now. If you get it cultured on cardboard you can even grow them at home.

>>2459928
You can order cultures of the most commonly kept species, Physarum polycephalum, from Carolina Biological supply.

Keeping them is super easy, just put a layer of cardboard down on the bottom of a small terrarium or large jar, and then cover that with a thin layer of dirt. Add some sticks and leaves, making sure that it has something it can retreat under to stay humid and in the dark.

After you have that set up, drop in your petri dish of Physarum, and sprinkle two or three oat flakes on the dirt, near the dish. Cover the enclosure with a cloth, and come back in a couple of hours. If you are lucky, it will have jumped out of the dish and started eating the oats. You can lay out a trail of oats to "lead" it out of the dish and into the enclosure.

Mist the enclosure with dechlorinated water regularly, everything must constantly stay moist, but not waterlogged. Voila, you now have a pet slime mold that will roll around indefinitely. If humidity drops too low, it will sporulate and float away. Mine would come out anytime the enclosure was dark, and as soon as I turned the lights on it would crawl under something in around 20 minutes or so and completely vanish.

>>2459939
Awesome. I'll try setting up a jar next month when I'm back in a dorm.

Found 30-ish pounds of golden chanterelles recently! Couldn't get ahold of my local fancy restaurant so I just dried them all. Attempting to grow some of them on sterile cardboard and coffee grounds but it ain't going so well.

>>2460101
You should have pickled them. Sounds weird, but it's really fucking good.

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>>2460101
Chanterelles are mycorrhizal. You're wasting your time. Go back, pick more, and cook them properly this time.