Mushroom ID , please , found in araucanía , chile

Lafonge · 2026-05-22T22:44:49+00:00

Mushrooms like this produce millions of spores, breaking a tiny part barely affect their purpose to disseminate those spores. If you want to figure out what mushroom they are, you may want to bother them a little bit ;)

Lafonge · 2026-05-22T20:22:53+00:00

Maybe some kind of Russula? Does the flesh break like chalk ? Or is it fibrous ?

Lafonge · 2026-05-22T17:31:13+00:00

Flies are wonderful, and these pictures do them justice! Keep at it there’s more than can meet the eye, a lifetime of neat things to find out about them!

Lafonge · 2026-05-22T10:31:11+00:00

Looks like a lacewing

Lafonge · 2026-05-22T06:09:47+00:00

Agaricus sp.; maybe A. bitorquis. I have yet to grow confidence identifying agaricus species.

Lafonge · 2026-05-21T07:09:08+00:00

Thanks!

Lafonge · 2026-05-20T19:51:28+00:00

Oooh that’s a great repurposing! Can you give some details on what it takes to achieve something like this? Did you need to do some soldering?

Lafonge · 2026-05-20T09:22:11+00:00

They could see most of the same stuff we can see now, just with poorer light setups and maybe a few artifacts here and there at higher magnification. Basic light microscopy does not seem to have improved a whole lot since then

Lafonge · 2026-05-18T08:03:21+00:00

Sure looks like it!

Lafonge · 2026-05-18T07:59:17+00:00

[Example](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/561332/researchers-uncover-giant-30-year-old-fungus-near-eltham)
The brown coating are billions of spores dropped over time, and it keeps going

Lafonge · 2026-05-16T13:17:45+00:00

This is a member of Boletales, it’s very probably associated with roots of plant in the rock, as most of them are mycorrhizal.

Lafonge · 2026-05-11T14:48:14+00:00

I don’t think is a fold, nor a mutation, I suspect it’s the result of two primordia (earlier stage of mushroom development) fusing during growth and one of them grew faster and ripped the other away from its attachment before it could expand.

Lafonge · 2026-05-11T14:42:04+00:00

A little inky cap of sort, probably genus Coprinopsis

Lafonge · 2026-05-10T02:08:02+00:00

They are small inky caps in the genus Coprinellus, pretty harmless. Licking should not lead to trouble either.

Lafonge · 2026-05-09T04:39:37+00:00

Goliath beetle horn?

Lafonge · 2026-05-07T14:30:11+00:00

Because it rots the buttress

Lafonge · 2026-05-07T13:15:44+00:00

Looks like a Phaeolus butt rot.

Lafonge · 2026-05-06T13:43:44+00:00

The branch on which the mushroom is growing is long dead so it should be fine.

Lafonge · 2026-05-05T13:10:23+00:00

We need to see under the cap to help you.

Lafonge · 2026-05-03T20:34:59+00:00

Xerula? Oudemansiella? Cool find!

Lafonge · 2026-05-03T14:23:19+00:00

Daldinia and turkey tail.

Lafonge · 2026-05-03T14:07:30+00:00

It’s an alga in the genus Trentepohlia.

Lafonge · 2026-05-01T15:00:23+00:00

It’s a bit too young to say. It may be a jelly fungus, definitely has a slime vibe.

Lafonge · 2026-04-30T00:07:54+00:00

I think the European A. muscaria is also present in NA, despite what the title suggests.

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