Desperately needed outside time this weekend and honestly the mushrooms delivered

Hygrocybe glutinipes

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Hygrocybe_glutinipes.html

Ecology: Precise ecological role uncertain (see Lodge and collaborators, 2013); appearing in woods, often on mossy ridgetops; growing scattered or gregariously; spring; North American distribution uncertain. The illustrated and described collections are from Illinois.

Cap: 5-30 mm across; convex, bell shaped, or nearly hemispheric, becoming broadly convex, broadly bell shaped, or nearly flat; slimy; bald; bright orange to bright reddish orange, fading to paler orange; the margin sometimes faintly lined.

Gills: Narrowly to broadly attached to the stem; close or nearly distant; orange or pale pastel orange; short-gills frequent.

Stem: 20-40 mm long; 2-6 mm thick; equal; slimy; bald; colored like the cap, or paler.

Flesh: Colored like the cap, or paler; thin.

Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.

Chemical Reactions: KOH on cap erasing orange pigment.

Spore Print: White.

Microscopic Features: Spores 6-9 x 3.5-5 ; smooth; ellipsoid; hyaline and uniguttulate in KOH; inamyloid. Basidia to 45 long; 4-sterigmate. Hymenial cystidia absent. Gill tissue parallel. Pileipellis an ixotrichoderm of elements 2-4 wide.

Cutest little mushrooms growing in our balcony garden. ‍ #mushrooms #Mosstodon

Picked edible fungi in basket. Trophies of a mushroom hunt. Ukraine, Vinnytsia region.
Taken by George Chernilevsky (2019)
#mushrooms #fungi #ukraine #foraging #photography #uploads

A cluster of possibly Gymnopilus (rustgill) mushrooms emerging from a tree stump a day after autumn rain

These skinny mushrooms are popping up in my tomato seed trays. Does anyone know what they are?
#Gardening #Mushrooms

#FungiFriday #mushrooms #nature is Awesome it’s very smelly

Saw two little friends yesterday! Mushrooms and the mycelium network are fascinating. Porcelain vessel, a mushroom crown, Echoes of forest where magic's found. Lid in place, your secrets inside, A place where dreams and wonder collide. #fungifriday #fungifriends #pottery #art #mushrooms #magic

A while back I posted how Purple Tooth [Trichaptum abietinum] mushrooms can be confusing because, well, they’re seldom purple. Here’s a fruiting that has aged to nearly all white.

#NewSpecies
A newly discovered fungus from #brazil for #FungiFriday:

Chlorophyllum tenue

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC87D9-FF84-E512-FA45-F957FDF3967C
Publication: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.976.2787
#ejtaxonomy #ChlorophyllumTenue

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #fungi #mushrooms #mycology

Tarun Nayar is a musician, but his instrument of choice isn't guitar or piano. He makes melodies from mushrooms (and other plants). Atlas Obscura spoke to him about how it all works, his goal with the project, and his next adventure, exploring the relationship between taste and sound.

https://flip.it/079BQw

A page of mushroom lamps~

My patrons already got to see the first one a few days ago, plus a couple process pictures and musings on this marker set.

Vegan Fajitas (on a Sheet Pan!) – A Couple Cooks https://www.diningandcooking.com/1981860/vegan-fajitas-on-a-sheet-pan-a-couple-cooks/ #beans #Cauliflower #DairyFree #dinner #GlutenFreeRecipes #Guacamole #Healthy #Mediterranean #MediterraneanVeganDiet #MediterraneanVegetarianRecipes #Mexican #mushrooms #peppers #PlantBased #Tortillas #VeganMediterraneanDiet #VeganRecipes #Vegetables #VegetarianMediterraneanRecipes #VegetarianRecipes

Spotted these adorable mushrooms in a nearby log...

Wait, what?
There's a mushroom bot?

@MushroomBot