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- Comment on A couple Coprinus 2 days ago:
Probably one of the C. comatus varieties since it’s the typical size in the typical habitat.
Identifying most other Coprinus to species is pretty specialized knowledge in the first place and your post doesn’t have nearly enough information to do so. At the very least we’d need the location and closer photos including a cross section since that’s the only way to see the gills on a Coprinus.
- Comment on Autumn skullcap on a cool autumn day 3 days ago:
Let me help you feel a little more qualified, understanding different veil types and how they tear is a great way to level up you ID skills.
G. marginata has a fibrilose membranous partial veil which often leaves a persistent ring or a noticeable line on the stem.
The remnant in your photo looks like it came from a cobweb veil/cortina which is fleeting and doesn’t leave much of a mark on the stem.
Here’s a photo from Alan Rockefeller that shows some Galerina marginata with intact veils and veils that are beginning to tear.
The veils often wear off and don’t leave much of a remnant but they probably wouldn’t leave a single cobwebby strand like that with no color variation on either stem.
For comparison, here’s a Cortinarius sp. with a thick cortinate partial veil:
And here Hypholoma capnoides which is has a pseudo-cortinate veil somewhere in between a membranous veil and a cortina:
There are other species in Galerina and other genera with effervescent cobweb veils so this is a good clue you probably found one of those rather than G. marginata. Not that I blame you for not wanting to learn the subtleties between LBMs, mycologists didn’t want to either which is why they shoved them all in Galerina and why the genetic data is now telling us that Galerina needs to be split into something like five genera.
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- Comment on Autumn skullcap on a cool autumn day 4 days ago:
I see what looks like a remnant of a cortina on the one on the right which would mean it’s not Galerina marginata. The one on the left doesn’t have the strongest ring zone either.
- Comment on Any suggestion for Identification? 4 days ago:
Looks like some kind of Tricholoma despite the brown gills. Maybe something in the T. pessundatum group which is supposed to have gills that stain brown.
- Comment on Hot damn, I think I got a three for one special 5 days ago:
Small ones are definitely Scutellinia sp., the brown one looks more like a woodear to me (Auricularia americana) but it could probably be a lot of things.
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- Comment on Small trip into the Alps 1 week ago:
Perhaps something like Collybia rivulosa (recently changed from Clitocybe rivulosa).
- Comment on Common floppy hat 1 week ago:
It looks like it could be a dried out wavy cap (Psilocybe cyanescens) but it’s hard to say for sure.
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- Comment on Perfect little cup hiding in a log 1 week ago:
Those are usually more orange, this just looks like a Peziza sp. to me.
- Comment on Chesnut mushroom (Pholiota adiposa) 2 weeks ago:
Apologies to anyone still seeing duplicates of this post, programming.dev was running slow when I tried to post it and Jeroba was giving me timeout errors so I retried a few times 😅.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to mycology@mander.xyz | 1 comment
- Comment on Trametes Enjoying An Ash Branch 2 weeks ago:
Those are some gorgeous turkey tails.
- Comment on Little orange guy found in Michigan's upper peninsula 2 weeks ago:
Maybe but the slight scaliness makes me think it might be Laccaria.
- Comment on Gomphaceae Consuming A Pinecone. More Examples Inside. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Gomphaceae Consuming A Pinecone. More Examples Inside. 2 weeks ago:
Plus all the other conifers with cones that get referred to"pinecones".
- Comment on Just a little guy 2 weeks ago:
It’s pretty simple to gain the knowledge, learn an edible species, learn the lookalikes, and maybe take them to a local mycology club and ask for an ID confirmation the first few times to make sure.
If you avoid little brown mushrooms and pure white mushrooms, know what a deathcap looks like, and don’t spend years eating Paxillus involutus without ever looking it up, then you’re not going to end up eating any deadly or psychedelic species.
- Comment on Gomphaceae Consuming A Pinecone. More Examples Inside. 2 weeks ago:
What’s a normal pinecone?
- Comment on Found in the Northern Alps, any clue what that is? 2 weeks ago:
It’s a shaggy mane Coprinus comatus or a similar species.
It’s the icon for this community.
- Comment on I Found A Purple Mushroom 3 weeks ago:
There are a few deadly Corts but those tend to be reddish instead of purple. Corts are very under-studied in general so there are are many with absolutely zero info about them (usually because they’re nearly identical to several others) and the deadly ones have a delay before they destroy your kidneys so it’s generally not a good idea to even try.
Inocybe are generally “days of your body attempting to purge out of every orifice” poisonous which usually won’t kill you unless you become too dehydrated.
- Comment on I Found A Purple Mushroom 3 weeks ago:
It’s probably a Cortinarius sp. and probably poison. There’s an edible purple cort but I think it’s usually a lot darker purple.
- Comment on The most symmetrical Karl Johan (boletus) I've ever found, in the Swedish wilderness 3 weeks ago:
I love how it towers over those tiny mushrooms growing around it.
- Comment on Very handsome bolete 3 weeks ago:
Looks like a Leccinum sp. nice find.
- Comment on Popped up quickly in one of my potted plants 3 weeks ago:
Luckily, this is one of the ones that’s obvious from this angle. Also “growing in a potted plant” is a really useful piece of information for mushroom identification because it narrows down common possibilities a ton.
- Comment on [Episode] Witch Watch - Episode 24 discussion 3 weeks ago:
TBH I started to care about raw denim a little.
- Comment on Popped up quickly in one of my potted plants 3 weeks ago:
These are actually called “flowerpot parasols”, complex Leucocoprinus brebissonii. They’re a harmless saprophyte originally from the tropics, they love orchid bark which is why they show up in flowerpots so often.
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 3 weeks ago:
Nah, they’re morally grey/bad in Eyes of Wakanda. The point of the show is to explore how messed up their isolationism was. That’s why the last episode is about ||a time Traveller making sure that Killmonger spurs T’challa to finally end their isolationist policy so they don’t doom themselves and the world||.
- Comment on Honey mushrooms 3 weeks ago:
Ah we have those here too, they’re pretty widespread. Taking a spore print is a surefire way to tell them apart: cut off a cap and put it on a piece of foil, then put a cup over it. After a few hours you’ll either have white spores (Armillaria) or brown spores (Galerina).
IMO Galerina Marginata don’t really look much like honey mushrooms once you’re familiar with them. Honey mushrooms have scales on the stem and sometimes the cap depending on the species which Galerina never have. Galerina also tend to be smaller with insubstantial cap flesh and thinner stems. Both grow in clusters but Galerina grows in smaller clusters of 3-5 vs 10 or more.
- Comment on I am interested in mushroom/fungi local names 3 weeks ago:
Sadly, most mushrooms don’t have common names in English and have extremely boring translated Latin names.
