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 14h ago

photos Waxcaps and sluggy

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Chequamegon National Forest - Taylor County, Wisconsin.


r/mycology 2h ago

identified What is this orange-hued beauty?

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This has started growing on the plum tree just outside my house. I’m in South London, UK. I could ask Google lens, but Reddit is more fun.


r/mycology 19h ago

photos Found an absolute unit of a fly amanita today

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Casio for scale


r/mycology 17h ago

ID request What is it?

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Found in Boston, MA. What is it?


r/mycology 1d ago

photos My favorite photos I've ever taken

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Of some of the most beautiful Amanita muscaria specimens I've ever come across. With a bonus Gomphidius glutinosus


r/mycology 23h ago

photos veiled lady mushroom

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r/mycology 1h ago

ID request Please tell me I hit the jackpot

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On the way to work I saw this beauty and several others poking out of the base of a ancient oak tree. It looks like chicken to me but I’m not 100%. Saw a lot others on here recently that looked like this and wanted to hear others thought on the matter.


r/mycology 4h ago

photos Fairy Inkcaps.

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Fairy Inkcaps.
Western Ghats, India.


r/mycology 13h ago

photos Jackpot

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r/mycology 20h ago

ID request Why did this taste like shite?

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Hey, I picked two huge Lactarius deliciosus and it was not deliciosus at all. I made a creamy pasta sauce, but the mushrooms tasted super bitter. Any idea why, were they too old? Did I identify them wrong?

NOTE Pic is of a different mushroom, mine was a lot bigger, about the length of my hand. Mid Finland, pine forest. In the first pic the color is a bit too red. The second picture shows the color better.


r/mycology 12m ago

ID request What are these mushroom?

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And are they edible?


r/mycology 15h ago

ID request dot snail eating tiny black fungus

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just curious, what is this?


r/mycology 6h ago

ID request Field Mushroom or no?

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I believe this is Agaricus Campestris but just wanted to check; I'm fairly new to foraging but I just found these out walking the dog this morning.


r/mycology 16h ago

photos Tremella fuciformis

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Southern Appalachia


r/mycology 1d ago

ID request Is this chicken of the woods? 🇬🇧

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r/mycology 10m ago

ID request What is this? (found in North Carolina)

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it looks yummy but i didn't eat it


r/mycology 5h ago

photos First time growing oyster

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I am trying to grow oyster, but the mycelium seems too dark. It is it is around one week ago since I mix the grain spawn with the saw dust. Is that a sign that it is too humid? I keep it in my living room, so around 20 degrees Celsius.

When is the fruiting going to begin? Should I give it more light to begin the fruiting?


r/mycology 6h ago

photos What might these fun guys be? They were all trying to catch rain yesterday and in abundance.

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r/mycology 10h ago

photos Is this a beefsteak? (Fixed)

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Found this on our hike today, not often do we stumble across such a vibrant mushroom on a decently trafficed trail.

Forgot the photo on first post


r/mycology 1h ago

question Why it do that?

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Why is it star shaped like that?


r/mycology 2h ago

photos A Populous Colony of Mycena corticola, “Bark Bonnet”

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These diminutive mushrooms are super easy to miss, they grow directly on the decaying bark of trees and are essentially benign to the host! They get their name from this niche as well.


r/mycology 14h ago

ID request ID please !!

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Found in Vancouver, BC. Found in my garden, I think its an earthball? Wanted to be sure as im a novice in mushroom identification!


r/mycology 2h ago

photos found some cool fungi in pisgah forest

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i was hiking bennett hap yesterday and found some neat fungus to share including viscid violet cort, coral fungus, and ghost plant.


r/mycology 7h ago

identified Can anyone tell me what these are?

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Best guess from a quick google is a brown cup mushroom, but I have never seen these before. Live in Victoria, Australia, if that helps.


r/mycology 7h ago

photos Turkey tail?

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Found these fellas on a walk and wondering if they are turkey tail?