I’ve definitely come across the Indian pipe but never in a large quantity. Seeing someone collect them, he brought a 6 or 8 ounce jar with ethanol in his pack and dropped them in immediately after picking. Pick, jar. Pick, jar.
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I think these might be some type of oyster but they aren’t very oyster shaped. I’m going to buy a cheap microscope to start looking at spores to help me identify unknown species.
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Don’t know if you all have seen this, bit figured I’d post.
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Found these yesterday on my property. We are at 5000 elevation and the night temperatures are still right around freezing . Never would of expected to find them . They were growing under one of my trucks surrounded by cedar trees , manzanita, and sage brush . Was crawling under the truck to look underneath it and my grandpa was like “ look those are the mushrooms you were looking for “
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Where are you guys at geographically?
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Just got back from a gathering in Shasta/Trinity with a bunch of mycologists. I brought home Bolete, Porcini Ramaria, blonde morel, and black morel . Even did an experiment to look at the color of the bolete’s
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Nice, you were with Alan? Super smart guy
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You win the forum today. 
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That’s me neck of the woods. Lmk next time!
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Yeah, he’s awesome. Alan has been doing a ton of research with sequencing, my ultimate goal is to work on full genomic sequences but even just a barcode can change the phylogenetic tree. Lots of other scientists and mycological society’s were also there.
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Saw some cool fungi yesterday on a hike
And some of this nifty fungi. Apparently it’s got a bunch of health benefits from what I’ve heard
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Looked like pretty choice oysters. You pick em?
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I didnt have anything to carry them in, so unfortunately I didn’t. I really wanted to. It was the only stump I saw the entire time that had any. There was a bunch of slugs crawling around them too. If it weren’t almost 2 hours away I’d go back and get em
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These popped up in our living soil beds about 5 days after planting deps. Satisfying seeing the mycelium working just dont know what they are as they are popping out. The soil beds are 18 months old first time seeing mycelium bloom on our 4th run in the dep
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I have had this happen before in my greenhouses as well . It always happens when I’m flushing because I’m watering so much more often . I’m assuming the mushrooms can’t actually grow with the normal amount of nutrients in the soil it’s probably too rich . I have also seen amateur growers who just plant in soil and water with no nutrients have this happen . Just curious but what ppms are you feeding the plants ? Have you been going light on nutrients / top dressing ?
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Recently amended with fish and blood meal. I dont have a quantifiable ppm but we just amended it a week ago.
They definitely arent edible or something to forage for in the wild just a nasty puff ball spreading its spores when popped. My bad i went off topic here.
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