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Any UK / European mycologists on here? Found this growing in our Sussex UK garden. Think it might be the very uncommon: CROWN-TIPPED / CANDELABRA fungus Artomyces pyxidatus Although I accept it could just be Upright Coral (Ramaria Stricta), but I'm not convinced on it. Have tried specialist app ID as well as general AI. No book here to consult. Any ideas? #mycology #fungus #fungi #shrooms #mushrooms #nature #wildlife #garden #alttext

Russula brevipes https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Russula_brevipes.html Ecology: Mycorrhizal with a wide variety of trees, from conifers to hardwoods (see the discussion above); growing alone, scattered, or gregariously; common; summer and fall, or over winter in warm climates; fairly widely distributed in North America, at least as a species group. The illustrated and described collections are from Illinois, Québec, Pennsylvania, Michigan, California, and Colorado. Cap: 6-20 cm; convex with a central depression and an inrolled margin when young, later broadly convex with a central depression and eventually shallowly vase-shaped, the margin remaining somewhat inrolled or straightening; dry; bald or suedelike; sometimes becoming cracked in age; white to whitish or creamy at first, developing brownish discolorations and sometimes becoming brownish to orangish brown overall with old age; the margin not lined; the skin fairly tightly adnate, not peeling easily. Gills: Attached to the stem or running down it slightly; crowded or close; short-gills frequent; white at first, becoming creamy; sometimes spotting and discoloring brownish; sometimes bluish to blue, especially near the juncture with the stem. Stem: 3-4 cm long; 1.5-3 cm thick; sturdy and solid; more or less equal; dry; bald; whitish; usually discoloring and bruising brown to brownish; basal mycelium white. Flesh: White; sometimes discoloring brownish when sliced. Odor and Taste: Odor not distinctive, faintly foul, or faintly fragrant; taste mild to slightly, moderately, or strongly acrid. Chemical Reactions: KOH negative to faintly yellowish on cap surface. Iron salts negative on stem surface. Spore Print: White to creamy. Microscopic Features: Spores 7-10 x 5-7 m (but in some collections much smaller: 4-7 x 4-5 m); broadly ellipsoid to subglobose; ornamentation usually about 0.5 m high, as amyloid warts and occasional connectors that may be fairly isolated, or may form subreticulate patterns. Pleuro- and cheilocystidia 35-50 x 7.5-10 m; fusiform, cylindric, or subclavate, sometimes with one or more apical constrictions or knobs; thin-walled; hyaline. Pileipellis a cutis of hyaline to yellowish elements 2.5-5 m wide. Oleiferous hyphae present. #mushrooms #fungi #mycology #shrooms #mushtodon #sporespondence #floraspondence

Gymnopus semihirtipes https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Gymnopus_semihirtipes.html Ecology: Saprobic; growing alone, scattered, gregariously, or in clusters on leaf litter and woody debris under hardwoods; spring and early summer; widely distributed east of the Great Plains. Cap: 0.5-2 cm; convex, becoming broadly convex or nearly flat; dry; bald; sometimes becoming wrinkled over the center; orangish brown to reddish brown when young and fresh, but quickly fading to pinkish tan or buff, with a darker center. Gills: Attached to the stem or nearly free from it; nearly distant; whitish. Stem: 2-5 cm long; up to about 3 mm thick at the apex; more or less equal; dry; densely hairy over roughly the lower 1/3 with reddish brown to purplish brown hairs, but bald above; reddish brown. Flesh: Whitish; thin; tough. Odor and Taste: Not distinctive. Chemical Reactions: Ammonia or KOH promptly olive, green, or black on cap and stem surfaces. Spore Print: White. Microscopic Features: Spores: 7.5-9 x 3-4.5 ; smooth; lacrymoid to elliptical; inamyloid. Pleurocystidia absent. Cheilocystidia rare or absent. Pileipellis a tangled cutis of cylindric elements 4-11 wide. Hyphae of the stem encrusted with dark brown material in a water mount. #mushrooms #fungi #mycology #shrooms #mushtodon #sporespondence #floraspondence

Laetiporus cincinnatus https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Laetiporus_cincinnatus.html Ecology: Parasitic and saprobic on living and dead oaks; causing a brown rot of the butt and roots; growing alone or gregariously at the bases of oaks or on the ground nearby; late spring through fall; fairly widely distributed from the Great Plains eastward. The illustrated and described collections are from Illinois. Fruiting Body: Up to 45 cm across; usually consisting of several to many caps in a rosette but very rarely consisting of a shelving array near the base of the tree. Caps: 4-20 cm across; 6-20 cm deep; up to 2 cm thick; fan-shaped to semicircular, kidney-shaped, or irregularly lobed; smooth to wrinkled; finely suedelike; pale to bright pinkish orange, often with vague concentric bands of alternating shades of color; frequently fading in maturity and with direct sunlight; the margin often whitish. Pore Surface: Whitish; not bruising; with 2-3 circular to angular pores per mm; tubes to 5 mm deep. Stem: Usually absent; when present poorly defined, whitish, tough, more or less central. Flesh: Thick; soft and watery when young, becoming chalky and eventually crumbling easily; white; not changing when sliced. Dried Specimens: Cap surface and pore surface become dull pinkish orange to dull brownish orange and retain these shades for at least 20 years in the herbarium; they can often be distinguished from herbarium specimens of Laetiporus sulphureus, which are yellow to yellow-orange. Odor and Taste: Not distinctive. Chemical Reactions: KOH negative on cap surface and flesh. Spore Print: White. Microscopic Features: Spores 4-6 x 3-4 m; broadly ellipsoid; smooth; hyaline in KOH; inamyloid. Hymenial cystidia not found. Contextual hyphal system dimitic. Contextual binding hyphae 5-15 m wide; often branching; aseptate; smooth; walls 1-1.5 m thick; hyaline in KOH. Hymenial trama generative hyphae 4-7 m wide; tubular and unbranched; usually parallel; septate; smooth; thin-walled; hyaline in KOH. Clamp connections not found. #mushrooms #fungi #mycology #shrooms #mushtodon #sporespondence #floraspondence

Since I’m going on about personal stuff, I’ll also mention that psychedelics have played a major role in me figuring out my gender identity. Using THC gummies definitely loosened the damn but late last year I tried mushrooms for the first time. During that first trip, it was just so obvious to me that I wanted to be someone I wasn’t. It sort of threw the shackles off my brain (that I had put there) and let me express what was hidden deep down inside. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that I wanted to be something other than male. I didn’t want to be a woman, but something in between. I want to take from both columns. Who says guys can’t wear yoga pants or leggings? Or a skirt? Or makeup? Mushrooms lowered my inhibitions enough for me to finally admit it out loud. And once I said, “I am trans” out loud for the first time, it felt so right. Like a huge weight off my shoulders. #trans #transgender #theythem #nonbinary #lgbtqia #lgbtq #lgbt #psychedelics #magicmushroom #shrooms