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I'm just a person who does mycology for fun.

  • I've never seen such a small Suillus, I'm used to them being pretty sizeable.

  • Not sure where you're at but in the PNW they peak in the fall but they can also be found year-round.

  • They were popping up on the peninsula in June but I didn't see any on this side of the sound and now it's been a while since we've had any rain so not much is growing period.

  • I knew the black chantrelles don't have many veins but we don't get any of the smooth orange species up in WA.

  • The most athletic part is if you're beach diving and have to swim out/back in from the shallows.

  • TIL that "smooth chanterelles" are a thing.

  • They didn't collaborate with CA, they just had gaping security holes in their API that allowed CA (or anyone) to easily grab tons of data on people's friends. FB patched those holes up right away when they found out, not because they were concerned with what CA was doing, but because CA did all this without paying them for targeted advertising.

  • I don't really get why they called it "helvelloides" it doesn't really look like an elfin saddle (genus Helvella) to me.

  • Spiky chantrelles! I hope I find some this year.

  • I agree with everyone saying the first ones look like chantrelles from the top but it's important to check the bottom to confirm it has veins and not true gills.

    The second on looks more like an earthball (poison) than a puffball (tasty) but there are other possibilities. The best way to get an ID is to cut it in half lengthwise:

    • A puffball will be pure white or starting to turn brownish in the middle (don't eat if it if it is)

    • an earthball will have a thicker skin and will be purple in the middle or brown if it's further along

    • if you see a fully formed cap with gills it's probably an Amanita button

    • if it's uniformly marbled it's probably a truffle

    • anything else is a probably a false truffle or a stinkhorn button

    I'm not sure what to make of the third one without seeing what's on the other side of it.

    I'm not sure about the last one but it's interesting and I'd like to see more closeups.

  • As a fellow cheap microscope owner, I feel ya. Thanks for sharing anyway.

    I have similarly bad photos of spores from a 'Cudonia' spp. I found which are also thin and hard to see (Cudonia is likely going to be combined with Spathularia because they're so close genetically).

  • The caps look pretty viscid, possibly some kind of Hygrocybe.

  • I've never seen asci with anything but ovoid spores, the stringy ones look super cool!

  • The shadow on the gills looks brown to me.

    Also the general look of the gills (subdistant, beige slightly decurrent), combined with it being highly hygrophanous (based on the two-toned appearance cap photo and how you mentioned that it shriveled up really fast) makes me more confident in my suspect.

    I'm curious what your suspects are.

  • He helped that guy find all his pigeons.

  • You can make some good szechuan dishes with these. I wonder if fresh wood ear is better than the dried ones you get from Asian markets.

  • I'm assuming brown spores by cinnamon beige gills so my top suspect is:

    Tubaria

  • Bonus: the little round plants around the panther cap are Miner's lettuce, an edible plant which grows during the spring in the Pacific Northwest. I've sampled them a couple times but never made an attempt to actually use them in a dish, they taste kinda like green/red leaf lettuce.