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Post by Nat on Oct 18, 2020 15:35:29 GMT -5
As someone whose family is trying (and possibly failing) to grow logshrooms, I say, uh...don't look a gift mushroom in the mouth?
Alternatively, trade?
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Post by Fraze on Oct 18, 2020 16:02:55 GMT -5
As someone whose family is trying (and possibly failing) to grow logshrooms, I say, uh...don't look a gift mushroom in the mouth? Alternatively, trade? If you can positively identify what these guys are (first, second, and third rules of mushroom hunting: don't eat it unless you're absolutely certain you know what it is) then we could probably send you a spore print on tissue paper or something. These things just cropped up out of nowhere, so we suspect the spores were in the potting soil. |
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Post by Nat on Oct 18, 2020 16:08:48 GMT -5
As someone whose family is trying (and possibly failing) to grow logshrooms, I say, uh...don't look a gift mushroom in the mouth? Alternatively, trade? If you can positively identify what these guys are (first, second, and third rules of mushroom hunting: don't eat it unless you're absolutely certain you know what it is) then we could probably send you a spore print on tissue paper or something. These things just cropped up out of nowhere, so we suspect the spores were in the potting soil. Oh, I have no clue. I was trying to make a joke and it didn't work.  Would love to learn to ID mushrooms one of these days, though. Seems like a good skill in a world full of tasty mushrooms (and also poisonous ones). |
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Post by Celestial on Oct 18, 2020 16:30:46 GMT -5
I have been trying to ID this shroom and no luck. xD It's definitely not edible, that's for sure.
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Post by Gelquie on Oct 18, 2020 16:35:48 GMT -5
This is the closest thing I've found, based on a casual internet search.But I am absolutely not a mycologist or expert, and this is just one website with a handful of mushrooms; always good to quadruple-check this. (Maybe if you know a mycologist or how to contact one, maybe they're open about helping with identification? *Shrugs.*) But hey, convenient kindergarten assignment!
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Post by Killix on Oct 18, 2020 19:27:36 GMT -5
Neat! It looks like a parasol mushroom, which is edible... but some quick research reveals that there's a poisonous mushroom that looks similar to them, which is a common thing in mushrooms and one of the reasons why they're so scary. XD
EDIT: Oh, and after reading this page I see that GLQ above me has already linked to the exact mushroom I was talking about. Nice. 8D
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Post by Gelquie on Oct 20, 2020 20:54:08 GMT -5
So I sent the photo of the mushroom to my mom, who's a mycology nerd. Her first guess is much of the same, that it's a parasol mushroom, though she says it looks small for a parasol. She also comments that Lepiotas (which can look similar) can be poisonous. As it is now, it could match up to a large group of specimens.
She says that a size estimate (such as next to a hand), a better picture of the stalk, and a spore print would help tell them apart, and that information on flesh bruising and the smell would also help. (Smell is more subjective, but flesh bruising is another identification tool, though not to use on its own.) I think spore print, stalk, and maybe bruising would help the most in this case, identification-wise.
There may also be an app for this, but that of course relies on image quality.
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Post by Huntress on Oct 21, 2020 14:33:09 GMT -5
If you can positively identify what these guys are (first, second, and third rules of mushroom hunting: don't eat it unless you're absolutely certain you know what it is) then we could probably send you a spore print on tissue paper or something. These things just cropped up out of nowhere, so we suspect the spores were in the potting soil. Oh, I have no clue. I was trying to make a joke and it didn't work. Would love to learn to ID mushrooms one of these days, though. Seems like a good skill in a world full of tasty mushrooms (and also poisonous ones). Wellll, we are both big mushroom lovers (just, y'know, not ones that randomly crop up in our tomato pots) and I've toyed with the idea of growing logshrooms for a while now. Should see if I can get a log set up on the balcony next year, since it looks like we have good conditions for them =D Gelquie , the shroom in question was maybe two inches in diameter - although I could wager that they wouldn't grow as big as they would in nature, because the pots might not have a whole lot of nutrients left after the tomatoes have been leeching them dry for the past half a year. Either way it reached the end of its lifespan that same evening and went to the great big compost bucket in the sky (read: our windowsill). ALTHOUGH, Jeran is currently growing *goes and counts* around 16 brand new tiny mushrooms right now ( whyyyyy) so we could totally do some measuring and spore printing for interested parties probably-the-day-after-tomorrow. |
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Post by Celestial on Oct 21, 2020 17:30:28 GMT -5
Did speak to my mum and she suspects that the shrooms may be the plantpot dapperling. Would need to compare a spore print, and it looks a bit more pale in your photo than normally, but it is possible. |
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Post by Liou on Oct 22, 2020 16:22:01 GMT -5
Hello yes I would like to sign up for more "Frunty scolding plants like good-fer-nothin teenagers" content.
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Post by Huntress on Nov 1, 2020 6:37:07 GMT -5
Alright, in mushroom-y news, I did try to get some spore prints but either I'm bad at it (possible) or our gatecrashing shrooms don't give very good spores (also possible). But hey, gave me an opportunity to get good at it. Eventually got a shroom that gave a good enough print that it could be enhanced to oblivion with software magic.  Of course then I didn't have the brains to use an actual clean piece of paper because recycling ftw, so you'll also get a bit of our online order for groceries. And an attempted better shot of the stem: and as for smell, it smells like a bog-standard mushroom. I suspect Celes might be right about it being a dapperling, maybe give or take some regional variation. In tomato news, since I don't want to deal with tomato jungles all winter long, I've started pruning back all branches that aren't currently actively producing tomatoes.  when mom gives you a haircut Only problem is, looks like I should've done that from the start because boy are they producing tomatoes all of a sudden. Got the occasional tomato every few days all throughout summer and now we're suddenly having a solid crop in October.  mostly courtesy of Jeran, with a bit of pre-haircut Salsa. (This still won't save you from more haircuts, boys.) |
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Post by Celestial on Nov 1, 2020 8:54:34 GMT -5
I would like to propose option 3 for your spore print dilemma: your print was super, super light and it needed to be against a darker background. I say this because plantpot dapperlings have a white spore print, and when I showed the picture to my mum, she was initially confused until I explained this was enhanced.
Anyways, pulling out our 'shroom book and tallying up all the data confirmed that yep, those are indeed dapperlings. Not edible but also not harmful. In fact, they are good for the plants. You definitely should not eat them and be careful with cats and smols so they don't take a nibble, but these bad boys will compost any dead matter and release them back into the soil. Also they are apparently a pain to remove so. xD
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Post by Kat on Apr 21, 2021 10:07:01 GMT -5
I have an important announcement to make.
Finished this at last for the upcoming Surreal collab issue.
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Post by Kat on Jul 9, 2021 23:29:34 GMT -5
I want to thank everyone in this thread for making this happen.
Shoot, should've included mushrooms.
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Post by Huntress on Jul 10, 2021 11:22:19 GMT -5
Glad to see that our balcony gardening has sent creative waves rippling across the world =D Also strangely fitting, because I did re-tackle the tomato undertaking this year. Actually attempted to keep the boys indoors over the winter, but there's something in their biology that just doesn't seem to line up with that no matter how warm you keep them. So they went to the great compost heap in the sky (well, more accurately somewhere in the city, our apartment building has a biodegradables bin) and I planted a new batch of seeds this spring. But having learned from the JUNGLE INSANITY of last year, this year's batch was culled without mercy down to the last single champion. What I did was let Fraze assign the same names to six of the strongest sprouts, culled them as they grew and let him keep track of who remained, and he got to tell me who got to be reborn from the ashes by the end of it. Thus: Jeran II, Son of Jeran! and, uh. look. I reused last year's tomato pot with the same soil. which stood on the freezing balcony for the entire winter. completely bone dry.HOW? How are these things still alive? |
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