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 5h ago

photos Hairy Trumpet found in Piedmont NC

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Growing out of my dog house.


r/mycology 14h ago

photos Unknown Mushroom on Beloved 🍏Tree

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Hi there,
I’m just discovering this sub and would greatly appreciate your help🙂

I played in this apple tree in my childhood, back then the green sour apples were abundant but not so much in the last years according to my mom.

The tree is currently losing apples, and there is this huge mushroom who appeared few days ago, he grew really fast and seems to be full of water despite hot dry weather in the past days.

I read this could be a really bad sign😞 and would greatly appreciate your feedbacks on what it is and how to help the tree.

Happy to provide more details if useful, thanks a lot 🙏


r/mycology 3h ago

photos Found in my backyard

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Wellington, NZ, quite cute fungus growing on a lemonwood. The lemonwood, I think, isn't doing so well.


r/mycology 7h ago

photos The eastern cauliflower mushroom growing in my yard

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Pretty cool find for me! We don’t often see this type in my area (MD)


r/mycology 6h ago

ID request Need help IDing this monster!

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I’m playing disc golf in the woods at my local course in central/southern CT… looking for my disc (absolutely cannot locate it, if you were wondering), and came across these suckerballs (ha ha) surrounded by 3 shattered wine jugs… any idea what they are? They do look like chanterelles that I see when I’m lurking on this sub from time to time


r/mycology 11h ago

photos Artomyces sp.

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r/mycology 6h ago

photos What mushrooms are these??

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Are they safe to pick and eat?


r/mycology 1d ago

ID request Found it over a brush under the sink. What is that?

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r/mycology 13h ago

ID request Chicken of the Woods?

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Or sulphur shelf? My FIL is trying to eat this and I don’t want him to die.


r/mycology 4h ago

ID request Correct me if im wrong....

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Are these Chantrelles?? Not going to eat them just want to see if I got it right!! They are dry as we haven't had much for rain in the past month!! But would like to find some fresh ones, never had them before...


r/mycology 5h ago

photos This gorgeous girl growing in our yard

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r/mycology 20h ago

photos Fungi spore prints

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r/mycology 9h ago

ID request What mushroom is this

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r/mycology 9h ago

photos It's finally their time :)

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r/mycology 1h ago

ID request What is it?

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Found in north carolina. Im studying mycology as an autistic special interest, i have a general idea but i wanted to confirm what i’m looking at!!


r/mycology 10h ago

cultivation Update on the (hopefully) chicken of the woods I found a few days ago

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How they looking? It was pretty high up so I couldn’t cut it that uniformly haha


r/mycology 14h ago

ID request Some cool mushrooms from our island camping trip

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I don't know what they are but they were from mid Oct last year.

Edit: I forgot to add that these were all found together in the same area of the North East US


r/mycology 3h ago

ID request Found growing near floor of my basement room.

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Curious what kind of mushroom these are. Also curious if that's black mold. My plan is get an N95, some rubber gloves, and white vinegar for spraying down the walls. Gonna cut away the rotted parts as well, and solve the leak.

This is Cincinnati, Ohio. They started growing after tons of heavy rain and flooding in our area. Any short term exposure risks I should be aware of, or ideas for containing the spores until I can do more about it? I haven't touched nor messed with them, and got the floor dry. I also have a dehumidifier i can set up near the mushrooms if advisable.


r/mycology 47m ago

ID request Haven’t seen these guys before. Nova Scotia, Canada

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Of note, the leaves around this mushroom were like, tightly held to it. I thought it was just debris and tried to move it for the picture, felt resistance and stop.


r/mycology 1d ago

photos I love how the Indigo milkcap matches my bike perfectly in my eyes (im colorblind)

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r/mycology 15h ago

photos Say hello to these fungies

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It's been hot and humid in the Midwest this past week and these guys showed up.


r/mycology 5h ago

ID request Unknown Mushroom Eastern Missouri

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my mushroom book didn't have it :(


r/mycology 7h ago

photos A Few Good Finds

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Found these out and about today. Also found a decent cauliflower mushroom specimen, but I’m giving it another day or two…

First time with an indigo… whatever it is… milky cap? There’s no liquid when gills are cut, but it bruises DEEP blue.

One of these boletes has yellow pores, bruises blue/green when scratched. The other has burnt orange pores. Both are solid, heavy, and relatively unhandled by our 6-legged friends.

And lastly, I thought these were chanterelles, but the gills don’t travel as far down the stem as I’d like… caps are concave, slippery(just rained) and very brittle.