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I'm just a person who does mycology for fun.

  • Spiky chantrelles! I hope I find some this year.

  • I agree with everyone saying the first ones look like chantrelles from the top but it's important to check the bottom to confirm it has veins and not true gills.

    The second on looks more like an earthball (poison) than a puffball (tasty) but there are other possibilities. The best way to get an ID is to cut it in half lengthwise:

    • A puffball will be pure white or starting to turn brownish in the middle (don't eat if it if it is)
    • an earthball will have a thicker skin and will be purple in the middle or brown if it's further along
    • if you see a fully formed cap with gills it's probably an Amanita button
    • if it's uniformly marbled it's probably a truffle
    • anything else is a probably a false truffle or a stinkhorn button

    I'm not sure what to make of the third one without seeing what's on the other side of it.

    I'm not sure about the last one but it's interesting and I'd like to see more closeups.

  • As a fellow cheap microscope owner, I feel ya. Thanks for sharing anyway.

    I have similarly bad photos of spores from a 'Cudonia' spp. I found which are also thin and hard to see (Cudonia is likely going to be combined with Spathularia because they're so close genetically).

  • The caps look pretty viscid, possibly some kind of Hygrocybe.

  • I've never seen asci with anything but ovoid spores, the stringy ones look super cool!

  • The shadow on the gills looks brown to me.

    Also the general look of the gills (subdistant, beige slightly decurrent), combined with it being highly hygrophanous (based on the two-toned appearance cap photo and how you mentioned that it shriveled up really fast) makes me more confident in my suspect.

    I'm curious what your suspects are.

  • He helped that guy find all his pigeons.

  • You can make some good szechuan dishes with these. I wonder if fresh wood ear is better than the dried ones you get from Asian markets.

  • I'm assuming brown spores by cinnamon beige gills so my top suspect is:

    Tubaria

  • Bonus: the little round plants around the panther cap are Miner's lettuce, an edible plant which grows during the spring in the Pacific Northwest. I've sampled them a couple times but never made an attempt to actually use them in a dish, they taste kinda like green/red leaf lettuce.

  • me irl

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  • I'm the opposite, I can tell some really difficult mushrooms apart due to good ol' hyperfixation but I still know jack about plants and trees.

  • I'm here for the rock facts but some of these character designs are super cringe.

    I assume the bigwigs wouldn't let them make an anime about rocks unless it was also about boobs.

  • For a long time, all the inky caps were in Coprinus. Then genetic testing revealed that Shaggy Mane inky caps (Coprinus Comatus and similar big shaggy meaty inky caps) aren't related to the others, they just evolved the ability to turn to ink independently to take advantage of whatever ecological niche turning to ink gets you (mycologists aren't really sure). Coprinus is in the Agaricus family (portabellos) while all the others are in the Psathyrella family (small mushrooms with thin brittle stems that no one really pays attention to).

    So the big shaggy inkys got to keep Coprinus and the rest got new genera under Psathyrellaceae, one of which is Parasola.

    As for the question of edibility, Parasola are likely not toxic but they're too small for anyone to really consider eating.

    The most commonly eaten ex-Coprinus are the Coprinopsis Atramentaria complex which are the ones that make you sick if you have alcohol within a couple days or so of eating them. The real Coprinus don't react with alcohol.

  • It's possible but the ones where we can see the underside appear to be deliquescing to ink which is what makes me think Coprinopsis Lagopus group is more likely. It's difficult to tell for sure without a closeup.

    I actually just posted some Parasola this morning.

  • It's difficult to tell the difference within a section such as between alcohol inkys C. Atramentaria and C. Striata (slightly pointier).

    But the C. Lagopus group is pretty different, they're less than half the size, they're covered in white hairs when they're young, and they have flesh so thin that it turns inside out and transparent as the inside starts to turn to ink like you can see in OPs photo.

    Compare to this photo from Wikipedia which shows how C. Atramentaria looks when it's turning to ink (or deliquescing if you're fancy).

  • OP's mushrooms actually aren't the same section as the alcohol inkys you had. Nobody really eats the rabbit foot inkys because they're smaller and have basically no flesh but they don't react with alcohol the same way.

  • These look like Coprinopsis section Lanatule "Rabbit foot inky caps". They're called that because they're covered in white fuzz when they first pop up.

    This one I found has about half the fuzz worn off but it's enough to get the picture.

  • It's a chocolate-flavored sandwich-cookie, not a cookie version of a chocolate sandwich.

  • Oh cool, you're close enough to me (Washington) that I can use my local resources to get closer.

    Look into Lactarius cascadensis and Lactarius cordovaensis (they may be the same thing).

    Paraphrased from Danny Miller https://www.alpental.com/psms/ddd/Lactarius/index.htm

    a lilac grey/cinnamon cap that is zoned. It is large, with gills the colour of the cap and a mild taste found under alder. It has watery-white latex that stains tissues pink/purple and a scrobiculate stem.

    Those are supposed to be pretty rare, if you've still got it, consider drying it and seeing if anyone from a local mycology club is interested in studying it.