the_artic_one

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Psathyrella sp.

[–] the_artic_one@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Eating them raw sounds gross (most mushrooms shouldn't be eaten raw but jelly fungi are fine raw) but if you candy and dehydrate them, the texture is just like a gummy bear.

[–] the_artic_one@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It looks like Hypholoma capnoides (conifer tuft) which is edible but it's hard to say for sure.

Hypholoma fasiculare (sulfur tuft) can look similar at this stage of development and is somewhere between "bitter and indigestible" and "mildly toxic".

[–] the_artic_one@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I can identify these as Hypholoma sp. from the painting so great job.

[–] the_artic_one@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's from from "Scott Pilgrim takes off" which sort of a sequel to the Scott Pilgrim movie (it's complicated) but there's not much WLW in the series beyond this scene and an allusion to

minor spoilerKnives and Kim having a vibe without actually having them hook up like they did in the comic

Developers don't have unions so we often just get left out of the credits anyways.

I would guess you're thinking of the white dapperling (Leucocoprinus leucothites). That one is supposed to be a pretty mediocre edible to begin with, absolutely not worth all the poisonous lookalikes it has.

I get ya, I've dropped several mushrooms because a surprise slug on the bottom was a little too close to my finger.

There's other differences as well such as death caps having a ring on the stem and a thicker cap which lacks the striation you see on the paddy straw mushroom (Vovariella sp.) and the edible Amanitas (grisettes, cocorras, etc.).

They have deadly Amanitas in Asia too and they have many of the same features so Asian foragers should already know how to tell them apart.

[–] the_artic_one@programming.dev 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A sudden uptick like this makes me think that AI photo ID apps may be to blame. They're nortoriously bad at identifying mushrooms partially because it's impossible to ID many mushrooms from a single photo which is unlikely to show all the features needed.

[–] the_artic_one@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's an Amanita, not an Agaricus.

[–] the_artic_one@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Mostly you want to wash your hands because mushrooms tend to be covered in dirt/leaves/duff.

 

Sadly, it was just some well-aged Russula.

 

Species is the olive shaggy parasol Chlorophyllum olivieri.

I like how they look like cake pops before they open up

 

From below you can really see the nice contrast between the pale gills and blue everywhere else

This mushroom is an Entoloma in the subgenus Leptonia, probably something like Entoloma subeuchroum or Leptonia subeuchroa if they decide to split Leptonia into its own genus as mycologists have been discussing.

 

Host is a crack-cap bolete (Xerocomellus diffractus). The mold is either Hypomyces chrysospermus or Hypomyces microspermus, you can only tell them apart under a microscope.

 

These are highly prized for dying fabrics. They tend to turn all black as they get older which has led to them being given another name: "the bear poop fungus" because a few too many dyers have gotten their hands unspeakably dirty in eagerness to reach for what they thought was this mushroom.

I don't dye fabric myself but I was able to give this one away to a friend who can put it to good use.

 

https://psms.org/show.php

Want to know what that mushroom that keeps popping up in your yard is for? Bring them in and have them examined by expert identifiers.

There's also a giant display showcasing specimens of the various mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest, cooking demos, cultivation workshops, and more!

 

Sadly, only very rotten one on the left was. The other two are Cortinarius sp. with nearly identical caps.

 
 

Underside:

underside

These are highly variable, they're often brown on top with a yellow stem. I was doubting my initial ID, thinking they might be Chrysomphalina aurantiaca because the color was so off so I took them to my mycology club and had it confirmed.

The Pacific Northwest Craterellus was just called by the European species name "C. tubaeformis" for a long time but it's not the same species, "C. neotubaeforumis" is a name that's been proposed but not yet formalized.

 
 

The ones I found were growing on a log but Pholiota can parasitize living trees so I made sure to keep them in a non-mesh bag.

They're are edible and occasionally cultivated. I plan to try some soon because I can't resist trying something so scaly and slimy that looks like you shouldn't eat it.

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