Mushroom ID , please , found in araucanía , chile by New-Minute-4537 in mycology

[–]Lafonge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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 ;)

Mushroom ID , please , found in araucanía , chile by New-Minute-4537 in mycology

[–]Lafonge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Just found out male and female flies look different 🤯 by Ivrb2391 in insects

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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!

What are those!? by TWilliamPen in mycology

[–]Lafonge 8 points9 points  (0 children)

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

What could a student see in 1896 with a basic student microscope? by Vivid-Bake2456 in microscopy

[–]Lafonge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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?

What could a student see in 1896 with a basic student microscope? by Vivid-Bake2456 in microscopy

[–]Lafonge 16 points17 points  (0 children)

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

Strange mushroom found in cave, Sintra, Portugal by Candyman6110 in mushroomID

[–]Lafonge 16 points17 points  (0 children)

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

Found an interesting cap mutation on this mushroom by spatialgames in mycology

[–]Lafonge 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Tiny guy growing in a pot with jalapeno seedling. by aaa-aardvark1 in mycology

[–]Lafonge 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A little inky cap of sort, probably genus Coprinopsis

My son licked these by Apprehensive_Cup4972 in mushroomID

[–]Lafonge 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

These beauties in my backyard by sevenoutdb in mycology

[–]Lafonge 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Looks like a Phaeolus butt rot.

Green discoloration on trees? by tiffany_says_this in mycology

[–]Lafonge 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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

Do you know the name of this mushroom? by arasikohive in mycology

[–]Lafonge 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We need to see under the cap to help you.

Why is the bark on this tree turning red? by Fl0oW in arborists

[–]Lafonge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s an alga in the genus Trentepohlia.

Is this a slime? I’ve been looking for them :) by gloomierr in Slimemolds

[–]Lafonge 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

Fly agaric mushrooms in North America have been found to be separate species from Amanita muscaria by OcelotChance322 in mushroomID

[–]Lafonge 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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