On conifer stump, spore print is purplish black ..read more

I recently started growing lions mane from spores (agar, grain, hardwood pellet substrate in buckets).  Quite a rewarding hobby and I've learned a lot throughout the process.  In harvesting, I'm finding big difference in appearance between my first and second flushes.  I've attached two pictures below.  The picture with buckets is clearly lions mane.  But the other picture, displaying what I harvested as 2nd flush from same buckets, appears to be coral tooth (from what I've gathered searching images online). Am I seeing this right?  I'm guessing that both pic ..read more

I found this jellylike fungus in my firewood pile in east texas. I think it's either an exidia of some sort, possibly glandulosa, or a wood ear species. I'm 100% guessing though as I'm an amateur through and through.  Thanks for any assistance!     ..read more

Found these tender baby polypores on birch; they're wavy and overlapping which I don't find in mature birch polypore...suggestions please ..read more

Finding a lot of these lately ..read more

Slimy cap and stem, heavily gilled, growing in pine woods, breaks apart very easily ..read more

In Maine, on birch tree ..read more

Southern Maine woods, this seems to resemble omphalotus illudens Jack O' Lantern, but note there's no stem; they're growing on a rotten log, possibly birch ..read more

Found these growing in the woods on a creek bank on the edge of a field in a walnut dominant forest in Tennessee today. No staining or bitter smell. There were probably a dozen  clusters of these mushrooms in a small area. The lows have been around 30° at night and the highs have been around 65 with ample rain. All comments  are greatly appreciated ..read more

I think this was on a hemlock tree. Thanks ..read more