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16 Jun 2019, 5:28 pm

After Hurricane Irma, I decided to take advantage of all the downed oak trees by learning how to cultivate edible mushrooms. I purchased shiitake plugs and a core driller and went at it. I was thrilled to get a huge fruiting of mushrooms. The first was a few weeks ago and now an ever bigger fruiting.

Unfortunately, those are not shiitake mushrooms. Fortunately, I knew enough to check it before eating them. The real killer is that the spore print is rusty brown and all shiitake spores are white.

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16 Jun 2019, 6:16 pm

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Unfortunately, those are not shiitake mushrooms. Fortunately, I knew enough to check it before eating them. The real killer is that the spore print is rusty brown and all shiitake spores are white.

So have you figured out what they are? :scratch:

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16 Jun 2019, 10:25 pm

And here's another beauty:

Turquoise Elfcup // Chlorociboria aeruginosa

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17 Jun 2019, 5:44 am

Darmok wrote:

And here's another beauty:

Turquoise Elfcup // Chlorociboria aeruginosa

Gorgeous!

and

No.

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17 Jun 2019, 3:21 pm

Microstoma protractum

Never seen these strange and lovely things before.

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24 Jun 2019, 12:19 pm

Snaketongue Truffleclub

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24 Jun 2019, 1:17 pm

I met someone in OR really interested in fungi today.

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24 Jun 2019, 4:03 pm

There is a fungus among us! :flower:

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24 Jun 2019, 4:59 pm

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I found some cool little cup fungi growing on the deck railing of our cabin when we were in Arkansas a few weeks ago, but now the phone I used to take pictures of them won't take a charge, so I'm waiting to get a new one. If I can get the pictures transferred over to the new phone, I'll share them then. I'm posting now so I know I'll be able to find this thread fairly readily.

I finally have the pictures.

And here's a less good picture, but this one had something white on top of it. I don't know if it's part of the fungus, or something else growing on top of it.

And my mom found these while walking my dog yesterday.

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24 Jun 2019, 5:20 pm

^ The picture links seem to be broken.

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24 Jun 2019, 6:08 pm

Darmok wrote:

^ The picture links seem to be broken.

Is it better now? The ones before showed up for me, so I don't know if they're still showing up as broken links.

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24 Jun 2019, 7:08 pm

^ Yes, works now! Very nice. (The first time it was showing some kind of email link.)

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24 Jun 2019, 9:55 pm

Austin Powers is a very fungi.

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26 Jun 2019, 5:15 am

TheRevengeofTW1ZTY wrote:

There is a fungus among us! :flower:

in terms of fungi appreciation i'm not especially cultured, but when i fail to bathe for longer than a few days i may have some "cultures" on me. :eew:

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27 Jun 2019, 2:16 am

Here's some yeast porn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFEgB_ytDZY&t=91s

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27 Jun 2019, 2:40 am

wow, there weren't even any fuzzed out parts

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