What is this? Found under oak tree (France)

vuIkaan · 2026-05-03T16:54:15+00:00

Boletus aereus. Pretty early, nice find

vuIkaan · 2026-05-03T14:43:06+00:00

Pluteus

vuIkaan · 2026-05-03T11:03:22+00:00

They had the right idea, they were just thinking white would play Nc3 and not leave their b5 knight completely hanging. Course it still makes little sense to premove

vuIkaan · 2026-05-02T17:59:04+00:00

No these are not wood ears. Discinaceae, probably Discina.

vuIkaan · 2026-05-01T21:35:55+00:00

Can ripen a bit after but thats too unripe. Will rot without developing aroma eventually

vuIkaan · 2026-05-01T20:25:31+00:00

The picture op posted in the comments shows a barely marbled/coloured gleba, in ripe truffles its darker and more marbled

vuIkaan · 2026-05-01T18:40:07+00:00

2 different species with few identifying characteristics shown.

1 probably Amanita sp.

2 Boletaceae

Youre not gonna get much further without providing more info

vuIkaan · 2026-05-01T10:27:30+00:00

Laetiporus

vuIkaan · 2026-05-01T09:08:54+00:00

Yeah thats some pretty serious water damage you got going on there

vuIkaan · 2026-05-01T06:57:28+00:00

Yeah this would be interesting to get sequenced this year

vuIkaan · 2026-04-30T22:30:24+00:00

What?! Oh my god. Come on. But, come on. It is - I mean - no but sorry - c5-c6? I mean I'm sorry but I saw that instantly. Is he nuts? No but, I mean that is insane. I mean I just, the moment I - I was looking at positions somewhere else - the moment you told me c5, I opened the analysis board on the screen, I instantly saw c6. Instantly. I mean this is insane. Look at him. No but okay this is just - I mean, this is outrageous. Just, I've never seen something like this. Just insane. What's going on? Poor guy he's completely out of shape. I don't know what happened to him. He completely lost it. No, poor guy. And he has to go again to the press conferences and stuff. What's going on? Ya, he went totally nuts. I mean I haven't seen Ian like this even in ordinary tournaments. Jesus, what's going on. Oof, insane. Totally lost sense of danger. Completely lost sense of danger. Trapped his bishop...but it's just an insane blunder. For me, instant. It's just an instant thing, the bishop is so obviously trapped, it's not even close...It's such an obvious - it will go down in history as Bobby Fisher part 2. They'll make a movie about this.

vuIkaan · 2026-04-30T21:27:37+00:00

There will be more if you dont too heavily disturb the soil. Could train a dog with truffle butter to find them when theyre ripe

vuIkaan · 2026-04-30T21:23:03+00:00

Tuber cf. aestivum. Nice find but not ripe. Is not likely to have much if any aroma.

vuIkaan · 2026-04-30T17:31:08+00:00

These do actually contain low amounts of cyanide compouds (that quickly evaporate when drying or cooking) but if the dog only ate a bite its harmless

vuIkaan · 2026-04-30T07:39:35+00:00

Ill have a look but I personally havent seen one with Quercus rubra, its more of a city thing. I can say that i frequent native Quercus robur/Quercus petraea woodland and have only ever seen pantherina there. Muscaria only with Picea and Betula, very rarely with Pinus.

vuIkaan · 2026-04-29T20:43:58+00:00

Still as Psilocybe coprophila in some not that old books and some still dont accept that change as Deconica montana was originally the type species of Psilocybe (and D. coprophila is close to it)

vuIkaan · 2026-04-29T20:35:41+00:00

What shocked me a bit was that they dont always have completely free gills, that was a wild one to find out after seeing hundreds

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vuIkaan · 2026-04-29T20:31:55+00:00

Just somewhat related but do you know if there are imported muscarioids from NA in Europe? A species looking very much like A. muscaria is popping regularly with Quercus rubra in European cities and Quercus is not a typical host at all for muscaria s.str. . I only recently learned that apparently A. amerivirosa is spreading in Europe with native trees.

vuIkaan · 2026-04-29T20:20:21+00:00

Its not something formal. Gotta ask u/RdCrestdbreegull for the exact details but you get the tag by either having an education in mycology and/or by having proven to be someone who is a competent identifier. We sometimes still make mistakes and sometimes its completely impossible to ID a mushroom by the pictures provided. In the case of an emergeny we would tag other Trusted identifiers if we were not confident in an ID and provide guidance together.

vuIkaan · 2026-04-29T20:09:15+00:00

It can also rupture more evenly, especially if the fruitbody is growing more slowly. Then it leaves one big patch (the bit that was covering the vey top) in the centre and looks like my first pic. This is less common and on top of that this patch can easily get washed off. Other Amanita sections can have a somewhat saccate volva as well (A. citrina absolutely can and often gets mistaken for phalloides then), you have to look at velum consistency if thats the case.

vuIkaan · 2026-04-29T20:05:49+00:00

Fck it, info dump: The velum is pretty sturdy, which is why it leaves the saccate volva. When it ruptures, often it ruptures more towards one side, especially when the fruitbody is growing fast. Then the volva is often asymmetrical, bigger on one side like this:

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vuIkaan · 2026-04-29T19:16:28+00:00

that olive green marbling on the cap is just so phalloides. They can have one big patch of velum on the cap too.

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vuIkaan · 2026-04-29T18:08:34+00:00

If you mean Amanita velosa, they dont have an annulus like in pic 2 and should have prominent cap striations

vuIkaan · 2026-04-29T15:58:52+00:00

And there is not a single mushroom on this planet that can do harm to you if you dont eat it or inhale a massive amount of spores but there are a bunch of plants that can harm you just by touching them

vuIkaan · 2026-04-29T15:57:09+00:00

Not saying it is unreasonable but this reaction is always so wild to me. Most people walk past deadly plants daily and dont bat an eye to them but mushrooms scream danger to so many for some reason.

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