It's Friday again. Please enjoy this fungus <3
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Blue Turkey Tail | Trametes versicolor
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You ever have those days when you just wanna lay in bed and have mushrooms growing off of your body, but not in a parasitic or painful way? Like, you can pick them off and eat them?
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Tiger sawgill 》 Lentinus tigrinus
I went back to visit the park I used to live near, (I still live near it, but now it's a 25 min. walk instead of 8 min.) and found these guys trampled and a bit dry.
But I am very happy to report that IDing these helped me to more concretely ID some specimens I've had for a couple of years!
In spring of 2022, I encountered these fuzzy looking funnel-shaped mushrooms going absolutely wild on an old stump in my apartment complex. Based on their morphology, the only ID I could find at the time was the hairy trumpet species 》 Panus fasciatus. However, these are native to Australia and Oceania. I could find no record of them in North America, nor could I find a NA native species that fit with the morphology of these strange, tenacious little mushrooms. So, for a long time, I settled on hairy trumpets knowing that was probably wrong (or secretly wondering if I'd stumbled upon the first recorded instance of the species on a new continent. 👀)
Until! I was putting these tiger sawgills onto iNaturalist and found a cousin of theirs, the fringed sawgill 》 Lentinus crinitus.
I could practically hear the hallelujah chorus! I've since updated my posts on here and iNaturalist to reflect this new information, and also updated the labeling on my physical specimens. And thus, the mystery of the North American hairy trumpets was brought to a satisfying conclusion. 😄
Southeast Texas, 19 Feb. 2024 (tiger sawgill) / 23 Apr. 2022 (fringed sawgill)
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*Akchoooooly* it's a porcini mushroom...
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Hare's Foot Ink Cap - Coprinopsis lagopus
Found some ink caps beneath the neighbour's mailbox and loitered suspiciously while the dog kept watch.
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