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Magpie

@ magpie @mander.xyz

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I like mushrooms and lichens.

  • Trametes versicolor - according to DNA

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  • The BC project has zoom meetings each week to go over the validation process. If you ever get around to it I imagine the coordinators would be happy to CC you in on the emails if you message them. Anything to help the validation bottleneck lmao.

  • Trametes versicolor - according to DNA

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  • That's great to hear, a person could do a lot of damage in a week of collecting. Have you considered volunteering to validate sequences for the mycoblitzes? I keep meaning to sit down and figure it out, but I'm always run off my feet this time of year.

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  • Sending it off through an ongoing, year-long MycoMap project in my province.

    I also participate in the continental mycoblitzes through the same lab (Mycota), those are NA-wide but limited to 10 submissions over the course of a week. They do them about 3 times per year, summer, fall, winter.

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    Trametes versicolor - according to DNA

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  • Frozen sunburst lichen (OC)

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  • Wow, stunning photo! Gallery-worthy if you've ever thought about doing something like that. Thanks so much for sharing.

  • Russula with a frosted look to the cap.

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  • Thanks! I appreciate you doing that.

  • Russula with a frosted look to the cap.

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  • Thanks! I think you're right, I've heard that term many times but I've never actually seen a photo example.

  • Russula with a frosted look to the cap.

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  • I'm in the central interior of BC, Canada. I gave up trying to ID Russulas a long time ago but I always love to see them out in full force. If I had found this just a week later it definitely would have been sent in for sequencing for MycoMapBC

    Here are my notes from iNat: Coniferous habitat; scent not distinct; taste mild, very slight tingle; cap surface a deep wine-purple, slightly frosted look to it; cap peeling half-way to two-thirds of the way to centre

  • Lichen is bugs

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  • Yeah! It's definitely giving Hypogymnia vibes in some of the photos I've seen.

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    Lichen is bugs

    www.ourbreathingplanet.com /lichen-katydid/
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    Russula with a frosted look to the cap.

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    Calicium sp. growing on Chrysothix sp.

  • Orange sunburst lichen on a tombstone

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  • Looks great! These are some of my favorite types of lichen!

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    Cute little community of lichens

  • there's no pleasure on earth quite like a good lichen

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  • Looks like moss to me, I don't think lichenized moss is a thing. Some close up shots would help.

  • California officials warn against foraging wild mushrooms (during this high-risk season) after deadly poisoning outbreak

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  • I would maybe start saying 'agarics' instead to prevent confusion.

  • California officials warn against foraging wild mushrooms (during this high-risk season) after deadly poisoning outbreak

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  • If you are using an app that gives you a little AI blurb the language/tone it uses makes it sound like there can be no mistake. For some people that's all they need. Last week I saw someone post about how grok had "definitively" ID'd this person's mushroom as Pluteus cervinus from one photo. It was very clearly Hypholoma fasciculare.

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  • Yeah, I can do all that but I draw the line at larvae, as dumb as that sounds. Irrational fear, but I'm getting better haha

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  • Definitely worth the risk for me, I can't improve my skills let alone ID a mushroom if I don't pick it up and get a good look. If you aren't comfortable with it that's fine but telling people to just not touch mushrooms doesn't help anyone because no one has ever died or become sick from touching a mushroom.

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  • I saw a post from a vet today on one of the ID forums, a dog had eaten a mushroom and was very ill. Preliminary ID was A. phalloides. Absolutely heartbreaking, I'd never get over that.

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  • All mushrooms are safe to handle with bare hands. Sure, if you've spent the whole day groping death caps you might want to rinse off but you really don't need to wash after touching a mushroom. You actually have to ingest to be poisoned. As far as I know, spores are only harmful if the get into the lungs regularly over a prolonged period and that goes for all spores, not just ones from toxic mushrooms.

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    Fungal Freeways

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    Pretty neat set of gills

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    The woods were full of mushrooms today!

  • Ganoderma oregonense (Oregon Reishi) in lil decorative pots

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  • I love this, they seem to be very happy! I would be slightly worried about air quality due to the thick layer of spores that are produced on the surface of the cap. Turned the inside of my tent brown when I wasn't watching.

  • My grow room this time last year

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  • A ready-made block should be fine in the kitchen, garage too if it not too cold for the species you're trying to grow and has a light you can keep on for at least 8hrs. Balancing the humidity and fresh air levels is the trickiest part for a counter-top grow but you sort of get a feel for it after some trial and error.

  • My grow room this time last year

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  • I use oats for spawn and hardwood/soybean hulls for substrate. I don't think a monotub would have enough FAE but I don't have much experience with them.

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    My grow room this time last year

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    Phyllotopsis nidulans

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    Vulpicida canadensis and friends on pine branch

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    Jelly Lichen - Leptogium sp.

  • Isopods and Myriapods @mander.xyz
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    Family picnic in the podhouse

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    Family picnic in the podhouse

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    Stropharia aeruginosa

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    Sad to see my season coming to an end but oysterlings are a nice send off!

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    Very shaggy moss on my walk today

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    Aleuria aurantia sending up a big poof of spores after I blow on it

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    This little mushroom is a lichen that produces a gilled fruit body - Lichenomphalia sp.

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    A little troop of Cladonia