Mycology

Another one nearby:

I noticed these guys while walking my dog around the apartment. At first, I thought they were roots for the bushes they were in between, but then my husky stepped on one, crushing it and showing me it was some kind of mushroom. I don't know shit about mushrooms, but they do look unlike anything I've seen growing wild (especially in a city), and the only thing they look close to that I do know is a truffle. But surely they aren't truffles? In an apartment complex?

A week ago or so I posted a tan colored cutie that popped up in my garden. Wasn't quite sure of what it was. I think now it's pretty clear - and also has 5 friends all within few feet of each other.

No clue if too moist or too little FAE, but I'm here for whatever the fuck this is :)

Left bag is also doing a weird blob which sprouted two separate new growths too:

Already harvested some parts of the left one, as they were getting slightly brownish at the tips.

I also came across a few puffballs, that had unfortunately started to spore, and some earthballs

These pop up in this spot every year around this time. They get huge and there's probably about half a dozen clumps like this

(reposting because of the federation issues getting resolved)

Spotted this awesome cluster on a walk today and grabbed a couple, fairly certain they are Pleurotus ostreatus.

This is a beautiful page with the results of an enormous experimentation effort in mushroom dyeing

Coastal redwood forest, Northern California

Of course you want Björk to talk to you about fungi. That's like, a basic human need.

(Link is to a trailer for an IMAX movie - Fungi : The Web of Life)

It grows on decaying pine wood

According to iphone this is a shaggy ink cap/lawyer's wig/shaggy mane.

Looked exactly like a tongue emerging from the soil..