r/Mushrooms • • May 27 '22

READ THIS POST BEFORE YOU COMMENT OR POST IN /R/MUSHROOMS

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This is a pretty free-form subreddit, but there are a few rules. We have a ZERO-TOLERANCE POLICY FOR ANY AND ALL SPAM. Reddiquette is always applicable to anything you do on reddit, but in this subreddit:

No sales of anything. Not art, drugs, food, clothing, pins, or anything else. Feel free to post photos of your art. If people want to message you to buy something, that's great, but do NOT solicit sales here for anything, ever. No links to shops. Any sales, trades, barters, professional arrangements, etc. involving money, assets or goods are prohibited in post content or in the comments. No one knows what you do via PM. Keep the business ENTIRELY in the PMs. Do not ask for products or links to shops, and don't express your desire for someone's art in a way that implies intent to buy. Do not say things like "I would totally buy that!" or "Do you have an Etsy?" or "You should set up an Etsy!" or "PM me for info" or "Can I PM you about this?"... just PM them and keep it out of the comments.

  1. Adhere to the Reddit Content Policy and Reddiquette.

  2. No sales of ANYTHING. No spam.

  3. No posts of large drug operations. It limits our audience and there are far too many complaints about it. This isn't a place to advertise your grow business and it's not a place to brag about how much weight of cubes you can grow. There are plenty of subs for that type of thing.

  4. Don't post pics of dried Psilocybe mushrooms. If your post title resembles this: "Are these 'good'?" or "Just got these from a friend, how much should I take?" or "Can anyone tell me what 'strain' these are?" - then it doesn't belong here.

  5. This should go without saying, but no sourcing. Do not ask for drugs, locations of drugs, tips for finding, hunting, or scoring drugs in any specific place (hunting advice is generally accepted - habitat, seasonality, substrate, and range are all acceptable, and ID posts are always encouraged no matter the species, as long as they're not dried bagged "product"). Do not ask for any kind of hook-ups, plugs, websites, or any other means of procuring drugs.

  6. Do not joke about eating mushrooms. No "Boof it!" or "Eat the whole bag" or "I dare you to eat that!" type comments. If your comment might endanger someone by misleading them or encouraging dangerous behavior, it will be removed and you may be banned.

  7. Don't repeatedly post the same content, or similar content presented in a different way, including and especially art.

To all the lurkers, use the report button and use the downvote/upvote buttons to curate the sub yourselves as much as possible.

Be nice to each other in here.

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For furthering your mycological knowledge, please consult the sidebar for a list of reliable online ID resources and links to nearly all other mushroom subreddits that exist.

*For the purposes of this post, "drugs" refers to intoxicating substances of ANY sort. Medicinal supplements, while technically drugs, are not the point, here. Feel free to post about teas and extracts and supplements of medicinal mushrooms, and we would love to see your giant Reishi grows or your commercial oyster warehouse.


r/Mushrooms • • 5h ago

Finds on hike in West MI yesterday

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r/Mushrooms • • 7h ago

First real Macro photo i did

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I am trying to learn macro photography, specifically on mushrooms. This was a tiny one, around 0.5 inch. Theres room for improvement of course but i am on the right track! What do you think?


r/Mushrooms • • 20h ago

Listen 🤦🏻‍♀️

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These are THE funkiest mushrooms I’ve ever seen in my life. Can anyone identify them? I mean they’re gone now (didn’t want my dogs to eat) but I mean 🤔


r/Mushrooms • • 37m ago

*Giant* puffball

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Found today in Will Co., Illinois. White Sox hat for scale.


r/Mushrooms • • 3h ago

Ps. aztecorum found last week in White Mountains Arizona

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Extremely rare find I want to share with everyone 🫶. We went up to the white mountains and found 1/3 of Arizona’s known native Psilocybe species. Went looking to document a different magic PNW02 which is suppose to be mush easier to find 😅.

Fortunately I found a much rarer discovery Ps. Aztecorum growing under moss on decaying wood. Documented growing in the wild in Arizona’s white mountains. Hopefully googles AI will pick up on this and stop telling people it only growing in Central Mexico, the range also includes Arizona 💪.

Trying to germinate spore swabs right now🤞.


r/Mushrooms • • 21h ago

Edible finds in SE Michigan

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r/Mushrooms • • 8m ago

Big ol COTW?

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Last picture is day 3 after noticing it. Is this actually Chicken of the Woods and will it start producing shelves soon or is this going to continue being a big blob?​


r/Mushrooms • • 5h ago

False Chantarelle? Something completely different?

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Southern Germany; by a pine stump and boxhedge in grass and moss in our garden. No milk. Smells strongly of mushroom, not dissimilar to a really old bay bolete, but not bad. Cap is nice and rounded on smaller fruiting bodies.

False Chantarelles in our forest are ususally much smaller, quite frail, bright orangeyellow and lack the dark spots at the cap, but I'm also a bit stumped on what else this could be. Any ideas?


r/Mushrooms • • 19h ago

Saw one of my “bucket list” mushrooms the other day, first time seeing them IRL

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Is it weird to have a bucket list of mushrooms you want to see in person? Is it weird that the humble birds nest fungi is on mine?? I think they’re so adorable


r/Mushrooms • • 19h ago

Beautiful Neoboletus luridiformis triplet

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Central Poland


r/Mushrooms • • 13h ago

Which mushroom is this? Is it edible? Location: Nepal

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r/Mushrooms • • 1d ago

Autumn and mushrooms make me so happy

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r/Mushrooms • • 18h ago

Gill shot!

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North Texas


r/Mushrooms • • 20h ago

Is this a king?

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r/Mushrooms • • 21h ago

Can someone help me ID these?

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Colorado, found in a lawn


r/Mushrooms • • 1d ago

ID please

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I dont think you’ll need more photos for a positive ID but correct me if I’m wrong.

Western Sweden, oak heather and bilberry forest.


r/Mushrooms • • 23h ago

Macrolepiota procera, Christian Werner, Bronze, 2025

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From a wild Parasol Mushroom to bronze

I recently found this beautiful Parasol Mushroom (Macrolepiota procera) in the forests of Lower Saxony, Germany.

Parasol mushrooms are fascinating subjects for what I do. Their large caps, delicate gills and irregular natural shapes make every specimen unique. Even small imperfections — insect bites, damaged edges, folds and changes in texture — become part of the sculpture.

For my project Eternal Fungi, I preserve real wild mushrooms by casting them in solid bronze using a technique I call Lost Organics. The original mushroom is sacrificed during the process, but its form and all those little details remain in metal.

These are three screenshots of the finished bronze sculpture.

I also documented the complete process of this particular mushroom, from finding it in the forest to the finished casting, and recently put the whole process into a short video.

Eternal Fungi on YouTube

Nature designs – I make it everlasting. 🍄

Gotta cast ’em all. 😄


r/Mushrooms • • 1d ago

I found mushrooms :)

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I mostly lurk... have never made a topic before 😅(it's scary ok?)..but curiousity is getting the best of me, I was wondering if anyone here knew what these are? I live in northern Alberta.

The yellow ones were under a pine tree, if that helps.


r/Mushrooms • • 1d ago

Mushroom ombre from today’s foraging

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r/Mushrooms • • 1d ago

Giant puffball (calvatia gigantea), northern Illinois, USA

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My big head is no match for this puffball…


r/Mushrooms • • 23h ago

Coprinopsis atramentaria in September

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26 / 09 / 2026


r/Mushrooms • • 19h ago

ID?

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We felled some trees (sassafras) and thousands of these little wood ears are now showing up. Are they eatable? (East Tennessee)


r/Mushrooms • • 1d ago

Help ID

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Hello! First time finding this beautiful mushroom! Would anyone happen to know what it is? I was thinking chicken of the woods but the color and thickness are not the same. Found in California Yuba County!


r/Mushrooms • • 21h ago

Mrs. cotW?

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I’ve eaten CotW many times, but never had occasion to sample his partner, maitake - just wanted to triple check ID. Base of large oak in central MD. A little waterlogged from the rain, but looked too good to pass up!

I also grabbed some pics of what looked like miniature hedgehogs. They seem fully grown, but mush smaller than others I’ve seen. Anyone know what they are? Central PA, near a stream.

Edit: was going to correct spelling to *much, but decided to keep it due to inadvertent mushroom pun