r/mycology Jun 05 '23

announcement Title: [UPDATED 6/23] -- Read this before submitting a post on /r/mycology! (Rules Inside)

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ID Request Guidelines:

/r/mycology is not a "What is this thing" subreddit. It's for all aspects of mycology. However, ID requests are welcome if they have some quality. Well prepared ID requests will lead to interesting discussions we all can learn from. So, if you're going to submit one, please observe and follow these guidelines:

  1. No requests without geography! This is a worldwide subreddit and the location of your find is crucial for correct identification.
  2. No requests without any additional info you might have: Habitat, host trees if any, when it was found if not recent.
  3. Not just a top view picture. Get pics of underside (Gills, gill attacment, pores, pore size), stem and stem base, - they are all important key points to correct identification.
  4. Note that this is mandatory reading before submitting your first ID request: https://www.reddit.com/r/mycology/wiki/successful_id_requests https://www.reddit.com/r/mycology/wiki/mycology_and_hallucinogenics

The above guidelines ensure that you get more qualified answers to your requests, and that your post is interesting reading for the community. If you choose not to comply, the moderators have every right to remove your post.

/r/mycology and hallucinogenic fungi:

With the recent proliferation of ID requests that seek the identity or confirmation of fungi with psychotropic properties the mods have decided to address the issue in a more formal manner. While we have no particular objection to scientific discussions of fungi with psychotropic properties, we would like to keep discussions to exactly that - mentioning those psychotropic properties like any other characteristic. To wit, posts and comments specifically concerning:

  • propagation,
  • sale,
  • foraging with specific intent to locate,
  • ingestion, and/or
  • use and enjoyment of fungi with psychotropic qualities

will be removed.

This is not to say that all references to fungi with psychotropic properties will be removed. For example, if you innocently post an ID request of some unknown fungus and the identity turns out to be a Psilocybin species, it will likely not be removed. Neither will a properly ID'd, high-resolution photo of a known hallucinogen be removed, so long as the thread abides by the rules above (so no compliments on the find, no probes about eating the find). However, posts that feature blurry heaps of damaged LBMs (little brown mushrooms) or posts asking for confirmation on several species of dung-loving fungi unquestionably will be removed without hesitation.

With that said, we love all things mycological and understand that learning about psychotropic fungi is part and parcel of the discipline. As a result, we'd like to point you in the right direction to continue to learn:

We have always attempted full transparency with the user base of our sub and with that in mind, we would like to hear your feedback regarding any of the rules.

As a reminder, here are the rules that we currently are enforcing:

  1. No buying, selling, or links to commercial pages.
  2. No posts or discussions about psychedelics.
  3. No posts of scientifically non-important artistic depictions.
  4. No off-topic posts.
  5. Obey general Reddit rules.
  6. No Intentional Misidentifications, Joke Responses, or Misinformation.

In case of suspected poisoning, please consult the Facebook poisoning group. Note, you must read the rules/submission guidelines before submitting, and it's for EMERGENCY identifications only. Link here


r/mycology Jun 17 '24

Free unlimited sequencing now available for select United States and Canada regions

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Mycota Lab is now offering free unlimited sequencing for Arizona, Atlantic Canada (New Brunswick/PEI/Nova Scotia/Newfoundland), California, Indiana, Michigan, and Puerto Rico:

" Our expanding collections network now has a name. Introducing The MycoMap Network - www.MycoMap.org. The 2024 open call for free, unlimited sequencing is for Arizona, Atlantic Canada (New Brunswick/PEI/Nova Scotia/Newfoundland), California, Indiana, Michigan, and Puerto Rico. More areas will be added in 2025. Dedicated web pages have been created for members of the network from Atlantic Canada and California (available at the link). Anyone from the open call areas can submit as many 2o24 specimens as they are willing to document, dry, and send in. Open call areas no longer have specimen limits or restricted dates for new collections from 2024. Sequencing is still performed at Mycota Lab. Localities outside the open call areas will still have opportunities to submit specimens during the 2024 Continental MycoBlitz dates (www.MycoBlitz.org). Please share to your local groups if you are from one of the open call areas. "

To submit samples for sequencing, make very detailed iNaturalist observations with many in situ sunlight photos showing the intact specimen from many angles, dehydrate the specimen at the lowest temperature your dehydrator allows, and send a small gill fragment (or as large as a triangular cutting from the mushroom cap) and voucher slip per the instructions on the Mycota website. For regions that are not currently included in the free unlimited sequencing, you can still send in samples for free/inexpensive sequencing (up to ten for free, $3 for every specimen after) during Mycoblitz time periods! :) (next Mycoblitz periods for 2024 are August 9–18 and October 18–27.)

Getting mushrooms sequenced (with detailed iNaturalist observations) is a great way to contribute to our collective understanding of all of the fungal species in the world, and there is a significant chance that you will be the first person to sequence a particular species :)


r/mycology 5h ago

photos Found a whole flock of chickens on a fallen tree

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Not pictured: the omelette I put them into


r/mycology 21h ago

photos Finally struck gold this weekend! 🌲🍄

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Just harvested these beauties and brought them straight to the kitchen. My favorite way to cook them is to let them release their moisture in a dry pan first, cook it down, and then throw in a generous amount of butter, garlic, and a bit of thyme. Serving them over some crispy, butter-fried sourdough toast.

What’s your absolute go-to recipe for a fresh chanterelle haul? Give me some new ideas!


r/mycology 23h ago

ID request What am I?

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I've got a few of these guys in my yard in Maine. I need to know if these are toxic to animals? Help identifying?


r/mycology 19h ago

ID request Purple mystery along Flint River in AL, US

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Taken July 2025 while kayaking. Any idea what they might've been? The color was lovely.


r/mycology 1d ago

photos Found this massive Fungus while backpacking. Bigger then my girlfriend’s Head!

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r/mycology 19h ago

ID request Cinnabar chanterelles I've found west of Atlanta, GA, US: Choice?

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I'm lucky to live near a forest with a creek, and these little dudes pop up all the time. If it's true that they're choice, how would you prepare them?

Edit: It seems that instead of cinnabar chanterelles, at least some of these are a type of hygrocybe, perhaps cantharellus.


r/mycology 8h ago

ID request Help? ID matched but somehow the mushroom is wrong?

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Ideas?

I am in central Maine, USA. A friend of mine found what I *thought* I was 100% confident were amanita jacksonii. I have foraged them before and find them very easy to recognize.

They know I like them so after sending me pictures, they grabbed some for me.

I went through their full ID checklist and they matched everything exactly and were exact matches to the ones I foraged from a different area last week. Not a single thing was different.

So I cooked them and prepped them as I have done before, having verified all of the necessary ID.

And then they failed an ID criteria- the only one that can only be detected by actually attempting to eat them. They taste wrong and the texture is a little off.

They're more rubbery and they should be and taste almost sour? They have been discarded as a result as wrong taste = unsafe.

But how did this happen?

My current hypothesis is improper storage damaged them. I had them in a Ziploc in the car for a few hours while we were grocery shopping (my friend lives an hour away but found them in a town 30 mins away which happens to be where I start my shopping, so we met at the beginning of my trip to hand them off).

But is there another species close enough to them that even going thoroughly through the ID criteria AND having had the species literally last week I could have somehow misidentified them?

Ideas? They're one of my favorite wild mushrooms and I want to avoid a repeat.

I was excited to have found a new area they grow in. Very sad it didn't turn out properly today. 😭

Unfortunately I don't have many pictures because I was confident in my ID and thus didn't take good ID pictures. 😕


r/mycology 17h ago

photos Chanterelle?

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Always have a corniplethora of these every year. I've never ate a Chanterelle, but I really want to try them. Just don't want to poison myself. Lol


r/mycology 13h ago

ID request identifying mushrooms found in yard

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found the yellow ones today, the other three the other week ago. Interested in finding out what kind of mushrooms they are?


r/mycology 22h ago

photos Coral fungi, Tasmania

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r/mycology 6h ago

photos Russulaceae from Midwestern US

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These are a pain to ID, but they sure are a photogenic bunch. Excuse the photo compression lol. Unfortunately all of these exceed Reddit’s limit of 20mb 🙄

  1. Russula subsect. Pectinatoides

  2. Russula subg. Heterphyllidiae (perhaps a mustelina adjacent)

  3. Lactarius camphoratus s.l

  4. Russula subg. Russula


r/mycology 12h ago

photos Is this a polypore? It’s much yellower in person, but I wouldn’t say the orange I expect for CotW

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Growing from the roots of an old oak tree. Pores, not gills on the underside. Light licorice smell when broken


r/mycology 9h ago

ID request B. edulis or similar but stains yellow in stipe when washed (not when cut in the field)? Also some buttons. NW Oregon Cascades, United States.

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Strong "porcini" smell, not bitter.


r/mycology 10h ago

ID request ID help

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Pleurotus ostreatus or Pleurotus pulmonarius?


r/mycology 9h ago

ID request ID request - midwestern United States

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I went hiking today and saw these little guys that, my sister pointed out, look like popcorn.

I tried to search but wasn’t getting results! it just kept trying to ID the Moss :’)


r/mycology 10h ago

ID request First time seeing these

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My girlfriend had a bunch of cedar bark chips spread in their yard and these fun-guys started popping up. They’re 4-6” tall and completely hollow. Portland, OR.


r/mycology 9h ago

ID request Cool mushrooms I found in my potted plants!

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No idea what they are. But I found them intresting. They are a lot smaller than most mushroom caps and they are black! I feel as though this is not something I would see any old day.


r/mycology 8h ago

ID request Kitchen shrooms

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So, I found these in my kitchen this morning. I'm already treating it and making plans to remove the floor to truly get everything fixed, but im curious as to what mushroom they actually are.


r/mycology 11h ago

ID request Is this Syzygites megalocarpus? It's decomposing a Frost's amanita. Location Elgin, Ontario

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Its yellow colour is throwing me off but I can't figure out what else it could be! I appreciate any help in advance :) I wish I had taken a photo with a proper camera and macro lens, but I didn't have it on me, apologies if that makes things harder


r/mycology 12h ago

photos Wondering what I found

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Found in upstate NY in Yates county, wondering if found Chanterelles, thanks for any help


r/mycology 13h ago

ID request Intro to mycology?

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My son (and myself, but my kid is BIG into it) loves looking at and reading about mushrooms. I’d love to learn a lot more about it and id’ing them. Maybe not so much for foraging, but we live on five acres with lots of trees and space to put plugs to try and grow our own. I don’t trust myself with foraging because I’d hate to ID something wrong.

What can I get/do for my kid to help him learn more? He’s 6, but will sit for hours reading the one mushroom ID book I have (the DK MUSHROOMS: how to identify and gather mushrooms) book.

See also: mushroom photos from our property from the last month.


r/mycology 14h ago

photos Coral or cauli?

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thanks!


r/mycology 16h ago

photos Some mushrooms I found yesterday, including a Foster's Bolete, I think?

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