Leucocoprinus cretaceus

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

Ecology: Saprobic; growing alone, in groups, or in loose clusters in potted plants, greenhouses, planters, and so on; appearing year-round; North American distribution uncertain, but apparently uncommon, and more likely to appear in tropical and subtropical areas. The illustrated and described collections are from California and Florida.

Cap: 2-8 cm; roundish or blocky and subcylindric when young, expanding to convex or nearly flat; dry; white; covered with small, wart-like scales.

Gills: Free from the stem; close or crowded; short-gills frequent; white.

Stem: 3-8 cm long; 5-10 mm thick; with a moderately swollen base; covered with soft scales like those on the cap; white; with a fragile, white ring; basal mycelium white; attached to white rhizomorphs.

Flesh: White; unchanging when sliced.

Odor: Not distinctive.

Spore Print: Reported as white to creamy.

Microscopic Features: Spores 6-12 x 4-7 m; subamygdaliform to ellipsoid; smooth; with a small pore; thick-walled; hyaline to slightly yellowish in KOH; dextrinoid. Basidia 4-sterigmate. Pavement cells present. Cheilocystidia 35-75 x 7.5-15 m; widely cylindric to widely fusiform or subcapitate; smooth; occasionally with refractive apical encrustations; thin-walled; hyaline in KOH. Pleurocystidia not found. Pileipellis a densely interwoven cutis of hyaline to yellowish, smooth elements 5-7.5 m wide; terminal cells occasionally cylindric but more often with branches and outgrowths, often forming shapes suggestive of letters or letter pieces, these elements 4-10+ m wide, smooth, occasionally with walls up to 1 m thick, hyaline in KOH, fragmenting.

Gyromitra esculenta.
A common fungus on southern Vancouver Island in early spring. Guidebooks list it as "toxic" and there have been fatalities recorded from consumption. The primary toxin, gyromitrin, is water soluble so boiling the mushrooms and discarding the water removes most of the toxin. But, gyromtrin hydrolyzes to monomethylhydrazine (aka rocket fuel) that is toxic when inhaled. So prepare them outside or in a room with good ventilation.

He tenido en casa un par de situaciones que requerían especial atención, tanto por trabajo como por familia. Mientras encuentro el tiempo para volver por aquí, me hace mucha ilusión compartir con vosotros mi texto más bizarro en una buena temporada. Sobre setas e internet. Una cosita que si se entiende en algún sitio es solo en #Mushtodon
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Saw some moss today and wondered if those adorable little things on stalks in the center are tiny mushrooms or part of the moss evolution. Anyone know? #Mosstodon #Mushtodon

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Now for another #gardening question: does anyone know what kind of #mushroom this is..?

Urnula craterium

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

Ecology: Saprobic on sticks and small logs (often buried) of hardwoods; growing alone, scattered, or in dense clusters; spring; widely distributed east of the Rocky Mountains. The illustrated and described collections are from Illinois, Virginia, and Québec.

Fruiting Body: 5-9 cm high; 3-9 cm across; at first shaped like a deep cup or an urn with a vaguely defined stem portion; often expanding to goblet-shaped or cup-shaped with age.

Fertile (upper, or inner) surface: Dark brown to gray or nearly black; smooth and bald.

Sterile (lower, or outer) surface: Brown to gray or nearly black; bald, roughened, or scaly; often becoming finely cracked with age—or with pigments breaking up to form chevron-like or nearly reticulate patterns; the margin becoming lacerated and tattered.

Pseudostem: Poorly defined at apex; 3-6 cm high; 0.5-1.5 cm wide; tapering to base; black; fuzzy toward the base.

Flesh: White; tough; unchanging when sliced.

Odor: Not distinctive.

Chemical Reactions: KOH on fertile surface greenish black.

Microscopic Features: Spores 21-35 x 9-13 m; ellipsoid to elongated-ellipsoid; smooth; hyaline in KOH. Asci 8-spored; 150-300 x 10-15 m; cylindric; hyaline in KOH. Paraphyses 125-325 x 2-4 m; filiform with rounded, subacute, or subclavate apices; smooth; septate; either hyaline, solitary, and projecting beyond the asci—or with agglutinated brown apices, bundled, and not projecting. Excipular surface elements cylindric; 2.5-6 m wide; septate; walls black to dark brown in KOH; smooth or a little encrusted; occasionally branching and/or developing lobes or nodules.

small. nice-looking. good.

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'dinge die mit p beginnen oder so aussehen'

pilze. gesäte tintlinge.

The trillums are blooming, which is nice in and of itself, but is also an indictor that the spring fungi should be arriving soon. If I'm lucky, there'll be some morels and verpas where I found them last year around this time.

Also, I learned recently that there’s not two morphs of Trillium: white and purple. But rather that the flowers start out white and change to purple over their lifecycle.

I painted a whimsical Easter egg~

#MushroomMonday

In a Bavarian forest

Mosses and mushrooms and ferns, oh my
#mosstodon #mushtodon #ferns #EastSookePark

Some cute mushrooms I saw today at Lynn Canyon Park
#mushrooms #mushtodon

What if we didn't grow on the ground?