magpie
@magpie@mander.xyz
Amateur mycologist and lichenologist (emphasis on the amateur)
- Comment on Gomphidius subroseus and Suillus lakei 1 day ago:
Very interesting, thank you for sharing!
- Submitted 1 day ago to mycology@mander.xyz | 3 comments
- Comment on The pointiest Chroogomphus I have ever come across 3 days ago:
Thanks, I did take a have a look under the scope so will take another look at the photos. I was thinking something like C. ochraceus.
- Comment on The pointiest Chroogomphus I have ever come across 3 days ago:
I think it is just the texture of the cap, I’m not sure but I think the symbiosis is at the mycelium level.
- Submitted 4 days ago to mycology@mander.xyz | 5 comments
- Comment on Some little baby Mycena leaiana with some kind of little beetle guy hanging out 1 week ago:
We definitely need a weeviltime community, I had just found it before I was banned haha. Would probably fit right into this instance.
- Comment on Cluster of jack o'lantern 2 weeks ago:
I thought honey mushrooms were parasitic on trees or otherwise lignicolous, maybe they are growing on buried wood? These look so brown compared to jacks and the gills seem to be a white or cream colour.
- Comment on My first lobsters, kind of mediocre. 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t really find them to be too dry, maybe less liquid than other mushrooms. I will try them again the next time I see them.
- Comment on Cluster of jack o'lantern 2 weeks ago:
Are you sure these are jacks? Almost look like ringless honey mushrooms (which would explain why they were gone the next day 😂)
- Comment on My first lobsters, kind of mediocre. 2 weeks ago:
A little butter in our house is a lot, haha. I will be trying them with fish sauce and chives, maybe some chili, sounds great.
- Comment on My first lobsters, kind of mediocre. 2 weeks ago:
I’m glad I’m not the only one, I think if I posted this in my local group they’d think I was crazy.
- Comment on My first lobsters, kind of mediocre. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I will definitely try them again but I agree buttons have better flavour than these. I did have chanterelles the night before so maybe my expectation were too high.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to mycology@mander.xyz | 12 comments
- Comment on Chanterelles!! 2 weeks ago:
Thanks, it’s well used, had to give it the zip tie treatment last week.
- Comment on Chanterelles!! 2 weeks ago:
Yep, these were definitely deep in the back roads, the 4wd helped but the 2-way radio help more.
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- Comment on Why do females got to be so hard to talk or flirt with? 5 weeks ago:
Stop calling us “females”, stop thinking that all we want is money or a “provider”. Treating people with respect will take you a long way.
- Comment on Pioppino wearing a baby mushroom as a hat 1 month ago:
I’m not even totally sure its a mutation and there doesn’t seem to be a lot of consensus on what it is or what causes it. It happens in cultivation and the wild, I believe its common to see chanterelles with this type of growth. I’ve tried to look it up and the reason that is stated most often is that it’s due to pollutants, specifically petroleum contamination. I’ve never had anyone give any evidence for this, though. I do recall reading https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0953756208606723?via=ihub, it states that rosecomb is the result of endogenous genetic instability but didn’t want to pay to read the whole thing.
- Submitted 1 month ago to mycology@mander.xyz | 2 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Where I live the driveways are normally cement and the roads are asphalt. Two different materials each with different curing times.
- Comment on Amanita muscaria subsp. flavivolvata 1 month ago:
Nope, everything seems to be early this year. I was shocked to find Hedgehogs and Hericium in July, we don’t see those until at least September here.
- Submitted 1 month ago to mycology@mander.xyz | 8 comments
- Comment on The golden oyster mushroom craze unleashed an invasive species – and a worrying new study shows it’s harming native fungi 1 month ago:
Many years ago I tried adding this to my grow schedule and thankfully it never got to spread spores, never even fruited. Its not that it wasn’t a fast grower, it was pretty vigorous (which is likely a big part of the problem) - the mycelium smelled like a rotting carcass and I binned that shit so fast as soon as I figured out what the stench was. I tell everyone this so people are possibly swayed even if lot of people don’t have this issue when growing them.
- Comment on Yesterday's haul: 2kg of chantarelles 1 month ago:
Chanterelles have been exceptionally early this year from what I’ve seen from other folks in the PNW. I like to watch Mushroom Trail on yt and he was pulling them mid-June, I think he is in Washington. All of the forums are full of people picking chants, lobsters and hedgehogs for a few weeks now. I myself have noticed a lot of things we don’t see until at least the beginning of September (in my area), Gomphidius, Hericium, Helvella, Hedgehogs, etc.
- Comment on Chanterelle update 1 month ago:
Thankfully, I am not, I can barely take the heat here.
- Comment on Coming up by the pepper plants. 1 month ago:
If you are on iNat there is a neat project called Molluscan Mycophagy where you upload observations of slugs and snails eating mushrooms. You upload an observation for each organism and use fields to indicate the “eating/eaten by” interaction.
I lucked out with my sandstone pods, I have plants and moss and they don’t touch them.
- Comment on Coming up by the pepper plants. 1 month ago:
I think its a Mica Cap but I am peeping a very cute isopod as well.
- Comment on Chanterelle update 1 month ago:
That’s the plan this year, get into some areas I don’t usually go and do it as frequently as possible. I am always checking iNat and MO to see if anyone posts Cantharellus in the region, even if people tend to be secretive about that sort of information.
Southern and coastal BC can get a lot of precipitation but a lot of the central/southern interior can be very arid, and I believe the Okanagan is a desert. Most of our rain typically falls in October/November.
- Comment on Chanterelle update 1 month ago:
I am in central interior BC and my area is pretty dry most of the time but wet when chanterelles should be coming up. I have asked around and even the more experienced foragers have had no luck but to be fair the population is small and other mushroom hunters are hard to find. I have heard of them being found about 100-200km north of me so they probably do grow here but maybe aren’t as abundant as other places. I am still on the hunt for them, I am mostly whinging.
