Mycology

These don't blue like others I've had pop up.

These are definitely my favourite homegrown mushroom to eat but my least favourite to grow (I just find them a little finicky). Not sure if this qualifies as a rosecomb mutation, but I did have actual rosecomb growth on subsequent fruiting from the same culture.

Cyclocybe aegerita

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/30676397

A cute little Suillus bovinus (probably) grew with my COVID-time seed planted tree

I knew there was a lot of mushrooms in the woods, but I did not expect to fill the basket! Found one spot in particular that filled 1/3 of the basket, it never ended.

I'm getting a spore print now, and I'm pretty sure I'll have a lot more in a few days. I'll keep the updates coming.

Very tasty, did not eat the slug.

They were found in Michigan a couple weeks ago.

Wasn't able to get a decent photo of the spores. On average they measured 46 x 2um and even in the eyepieces it was hard to make out any details. I did get a photo of some asci with the spores coiled up inside of them. You can actually see a free floating spore in this photo, the pineneedle shaped thing to the lower left of the scale bar, upper right of the central ascus.

Found in the Rio Grande River valley in New Mexico.

Not looking for an ID but found in central BC

More information (if someone does want to take a crack)

• growing on conifer stump
• stipe length about 40-50mm (went pretty far into a crack in the stump), width about 4mm
• cap width about 25-35mm
• gills emarginate, distant, cinnamon beige
• KOH negative
• Spores, idk I couldnt get a good shot of them. Hyaline, ellipsoidal

These are closely related to Amanita Muscaria the Fly Agaric, one of the most recognizable mushrooms around. Before I was very familiar with panthers, I used to think of them as a brown "palette swap" of A. Muscaria but they're actually pretty different from each other.

Panther Caps tend to be smaller and more stocky than Muscaria and have an actual sack-like volva at the base rather than the "bulb with rings" Muscaria has.

They contain the same poisons as A. Muscaria, ibotemic acid and muscarine, but in much higher and potentially deadly concentrations. As such, it is inadvisable to attempt to detoxify and eat these as you can with A. Muscaria (the poisons are both water-soluble so if you're willing to take the risk, they can be removed from Muscaria by boiling one or more times with lots of water which should be discarded each time).

A. Pantherinoides found in Western North America, is distinct from A. Pantherina which is found in Europe. The Western Panther sometimes has uniformly dark brown cap like A. Pantherina, but the cap is often two-toned (as pictured in the main photo on this post), honey-colored, or even completely straw-yellow (which makes it very difficult to differentiate from all the other straw-yellow Amanitas).

Two bunches of golden oyster, a sporulating slime mold, and a slug all on the same log.

There was also what looked like scrambled egg slime nearby, so maybe that's what's on the log?

Genus Parasola doesn't really deliquesce to ink like the other inkys but they're very similar otherwise so they're usually considered inky caps anyway.

Here are the same Parasola two days after the first photo, as you can see they just sort of shrivel and tatter.

I can't say for sure which species of Parasola these are because species within this genus tend to be difficult/impossible to differentiate. Even just within the Pacific Northwest this genus contains many cryptic genetic species which don't even have names yet, much less reliable descriptions.

Will post photos in the comments but here are some details:

• found in central BC, Canada
• stipe and cap surfaces slimy
• latex white at first, turning dark lilac after <5 mins
• flesh dark lilac after being cut (<5 mins)
• zonation on cap, not very distinct
• I have a hard time with describing scent, almost like spicy cologne mixed with man-sweat? Or maybe spicy like a turnip?
• latex spit test (courtesy of my partner) unpleasant, acrid but not extremely spicy
• growing singly and in clusters of 8+
• growing in forest dominated by older and younger poplar and some alder, a few spruce scattered throughout but mostly on the other side of the road and not in immediate area (if that makes a difference)
• KOH negative but in all honesty I only let it sit 15-20 mins

Sorry, no pictures of the underside. I was in a hurry and didn't have time. They shriveled up by the time I got back to them (a few hours later).