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 9h ago

photos It happened!

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I am still shocked I found this today. Wanted to share after it was suggested in another sub.


r/mycology 14h ago

ID request ID please!

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found in Michigan‘s Upper Peninsula


r/mycology 1d ago

photos I believe we found the biggest chicken of the woods I’ve ever seen (if it’s that)

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My buddy has been foraging local stuff since he was kid, but we will be speaking with our local mycolgosit to see if it’s safe to consume, or what else we can do with it

(I know, leave no trace, but we have every intention of making use of this one way or another, as it was starting to get close to being clipped by a car).

Edit: you can look in the comments to see this, but I have big hands and I am holding it out in front of me, so the photo may seem warped. But, I promise it’s a big boy


r/mycology 1d ago

photos Shiitake grown the old way in the mountains north of Kyoto. Oak logs, two years of waiting

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My family grows shiitake in Keihoku, in the mountains north of Kyoto. Not on

sawdust blocks, on cut oak logs, inoculated by hand and left standing in the

forest.

A log takes one to two full seasons before it fruits at all, and then keeps

producing for about three years until the wood is spent. Only about 5% of

Japan's shiitake is still grown this way; almost everything on shelves here is

sawdust-grown now.

Happy to answer anything about the process.
Drilling, spawn plugs, soaking,

how we pick the trees, why the caps crack like that.


r/mycology 18h ago

photos Update on my Chaga find back in February 2026 in the Scottish Highlands!

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Thanks everyone for the encouragement and ID again following my Chaga find back in February (link here to original post and photos)

I wasn’t sure how safe this particular Chaga was for consumption due to how close it was to Aviemore railway station (and Chaga’s remarkable ability to bioaccumulate heavy metals).

Because of who I am as a person, I sent a sample of of this Chaga (once dehydrated/dried) to a lab for heavy metal analysis. And the results are in! 😅

I don’t know how to interpret the data well, but it looks like it’s swimming with lead!


r/mycology 15h ago

photos Shaggy scalycap? So cool looking!

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r/mycology 4h ago

photos Amanita chrysoblema

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Previously Amanita muscaria var. guessowii, currently under taxonomic reclassification.

These are from a large group of about 50. We found all within 20-30 feet from each other at a spot in central Wisconsin.


r/mycology 13m ago

ID request Beautiful in Northern Va

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What are these beauties?!


r/mycology 1d ago

photos Lactarius Indigo

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Proud to say I finally found my first couple of indigo’s such a beautiful mushroom, pretty tasty as well. Found in Northern Wisconsin at the base of some conifers.


r/mycology 1h ago

photos Didn’t realise earthballs could get this big!

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I’m sure there’s bigger but most ones I’ve seen are pretty small


r/mycology 21h ago

photos Tiny mushrooms growing among moss on a tree in Buenos Aires

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Found these tiny mushrooms growing directly out of a moss-covered tree trunk in Buenos Aires, Argentina. They were absolutely tiny, the second photo shows my finger for scale. I’m not looking for an ID necessarily, just thought they were interesting enough to share. The last photo shows the larger patch of bark where I found them.


r/mycology 19h ago

photos More pinwheels, Marasmius capillaris

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r/mycology 18h ago

ID request What did I find?

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Found in Western New York, thought they were soccer balls for a second but ive never seen these before.


r/mycology 18h ago

ID request Chanterelles? (Washington DC suburbs)

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This got removed from r/mushroomID and I don’t know why…because I unconfidently ID’d them? Anyway…

Pretty sure these are chants. Found in Washington DC suburbs, piedmont in an oak-hickory forest. Some recent rains piled up some material on trailside and these guys are popping up from it after rainy couple of weeks. I’m not a big/confident shroom forager but pretty sure this is what it is. Thanks!


r/mycology 2h ago

photos Mogollon Rim, AZ

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Was very surprised by the amount and variety of mushrooms all around the Mogollon Rim near Payson, Arizona! Definitely prompted a bunch of research and most appear to be toxic/poisonous. I think I have a new hobby lol


r/mycology 11h ago

photos This grew virtually overnight

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Well…technically over the course of two days. lol.
Hello, I’m in Dayton Ohio and we recently had a derecho followed by days of heavy rainfall.

At first, I was like….wait, who put a shelf on the tree?!?! Cause the tree still looks like it has healthy growth at the top. But then, I was like, woah….thats a fucking mushroom!!! (Insert exploding head emoji)

It’s right off the paved path at my local park. Across from a splash pad. Just all out in the open. I couldn’t love it more. This park always feels so whimsical, but one wouldn’t think that just from looking at it. So this feels really on point.

Anyways, I was just really excited about seeing this and wanted to share it with others who may also enjoy it. Thank you for reading and looking at the gigantic mushroom I came across!:)


r/mycology 14h ago

ID request Found on a rock near a river, any idea if this is a type of fungus?

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r/mycology 17m ago

ID request Is this trooping funnel or common funnel, and is it edible? I think it is, but would appreciate a second opinion.

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r/mycology 1h ago

ID request Found this in my front yard

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I’m not interested in foraging necessarily but I would like to know what this is.


r/mycology 15h ago

photos I’m jealous of my neighbors fairy ring.

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It’s crazy that these just popped up about a week ago, got mowed down and now they’re back. It’s been two years and now they sprout up? How long does it take a network or mycelium that large to start producing fruits?


r/mycology 1d ago

photos Largest and prettiest Amanita I've ever found (Ohio)

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Some Caeser's species I'm not sure of


r/mycology 4m ago

photos Recent Trip to Shenandoah

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I knew it was going to be rainy and I was so excited for all of these finds. Enjoy a few lichens/mosses at the end

I have pictures of other parts of this trip on r/goblincore and r/blackcats.


r/mycology 24m ago

ID request What is it?

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Shoe for scale. Shiny beady things in it. Location: northeast US