I have no idea who this little guy is. Just popped in my garden looking all puffy and cute. (lemmy.world)
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Please add your favourite shops for gourmet and medicinal spawn, spores, liquid cultures, supplies … especially interested in finding Cordyceps and heat-resistant strains.
The pine needles are falling here. The oak leaves are just starting as well.
I had never seen this kind before. Some more shots below....
Mushrooms are the reproductive organs, after all…
There is a ton of anecdotal evidence on the interwebs about the photosensitivity of fungi, ie, it governs the direction of pin growth, fruit colors, etc. suggesting a circadian rhythm of sorts....
Went on a trip to Northern Wisconsin last week and must have seen 8 different species of mushrooms on a single hike! Let me know if you’d like me to post some others :)...
Amanita phalloides...
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/3477756...
I’d really appreciate help in identifying these. Sorry the photos are not the best
Every summer in my neighborhood, this one tree will fruit a silky rosegill and we have standing permission from the homeowner to harvest it. This year, looks like there are two. I wish I’d passed by the tree earlier this week before the big one started to shrivel.
Little smaller than my hand.
Four days ago I added some purchased oyster spawn to five jars containing popcorn or rye (after sterilizing of course). The next day I noticed these white spots on the kernels of only one jar. For reference, the pink oyster spawn in this jar was also added to a jar of rye, and there is no sign of these spots in that jar, so I...
Day 4 of growing Pleurotus ostreatus cultures from spore. Only one plate got contaminated, but it was bad. There are two contaminant fungi going to battle, and around three possible bacterial colonies. I must have been losing it at the end, haha! Can’t wait to see how they progress!