Mycology

I gave a talk on outdoor mushroom cultivation this spring and gave everyone wine cap spawn to inoculate their gardens. Had an extra bag and was able to do a bed of my own. I was really impressed with how vigorous the mycelium was compared to growing other oyster species outdoors.

I will say these had a really strong flavour that was not my favorite. I left them longer than I wanted to so I could get a spore print to show my mushroom club so could have been better had I picked them younger

And some non fungi things

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/25279811

Found this one in the woods behind my house. One of my favorite mushrooms to find even though there's not much to do with it, it's beautiful just to look at!

The blue "milk" contains latex, so don't handle if you're allergic. It's related to regular milk caps and looks identical aside from the brilliant color.

Something that you don't often see in field guides: it smells quite sweet in addition to the usual earthiness.

I will be returning it to the forest floor to drop its spores in hopes I keep finding them.

One of the more interesting mushrooms that grows near me. The orange color comes from a parasitic ascomycete fungus that grows on the host mushroom. This guy is edible, but I was trail riding so I didn't harvest.

どく・どく・もり・もり

Doku Doku Mori Mori

Poison Poison Forest Forest

by Segawa Noboru

An English scanlation is available on Mangadex.

Warning: despite the cute character designs, this is a gruesome, violent series. Read at your own discretion.

So I found a nice big flush of these guys and assumed R. brevipes even if it is a bit early for those in my area. I made a cut on the gills just to check if it was lactarius, this photo was after about 1-2mins of waiting for it to bleed. Uploading to iNat I always check my assumptions against the algorithm and it's top suggestion was Lactarius controversus - blushing milkcap. Now that I am looking at it the gills do have a rosy look to them. I couldn't find much info on how quickly L. controversus starts to bleed but maybe I didn't wait long enough. There was no zonation on the cap. Found under pine/spruce/fir/poplar growing closely scattered but fouund them in also a group of about 4-5. Northern interior of BC, Canada.

I'm pretty sure this is R. brevipes but would love feedback because I'm pretty inexperienced with ID and L. controversus wasn't even on my radar before uploading to iNat.

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.