Don't think we've had one of these threads since 2023?
Lots of 'shrooms around locally again this year. Hopefully not only me that gets obsessed with photographing them?
Would love to learn the foraging side of this, but it scares me slightly! Do see loads of folks around the woods with carrier bags so reckon quite a few are safely edible (also know that quite a few of those folks are looking specifically for Fly Agaric though).
Let's see your pics, and any knowledge anyone can confidently share about foraging...
I've got about 50 photos so far this season - I'll just start with a few.
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Some of the ones I've seen this year.
Psilocybe Mexicana on the left and Psilocybe Cubensis on right
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From a walk near a friend's house in Gloucestershire a couple of weeks ago:Â
I'm struggling to work out what this stuff is (well, was) back in early Oct. It was rather striking though.
I've dug out an old camera with a great big Macro lens on it, I know nothing about photography but it's been fun to try. I like this photo of Yellow Stagshorn (Calocera viscosa).
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Great to see loads of pictures, but a shame that most aren't identified...I'm clueless on these but a few of these images I've seen the same kinds of growths in my local area. I've kept away from them as no idea what they are and if they are 'safe'...seems to be a much wider range of fungi growing this year. Unsure what that means, but it looks impressive.
Yes I'd like to know WTF planet that alien creature comes from that SYZYGY posted!!
edit: I guessed it's a stinkhorn and web search verifies it is indeed.
Mine above are top to bottom: false death cap; blusher; cep; parasol.Â
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[top] Devil’s Fingers
[middle] Yellow Stagshorn
[bottom] Fly Agaric
New Forest, Hampshire
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Not up to the standard of those above but one from today's ride.
Fantastic photo's everyone! I'm a landscape ecologist and specialise in wild food and foraging, and have run courses since the early 2000's. Most of these are not edible and some very beautiful but dangerous. Please do not experiment!! The best advice is to go on a course with an expert forager or mycologist, buy a load of books and practice identification. Once, and only once, you have gained the skills knowledge and experience begin to try the most common and easily identifiable mushrooms. If in doubt, leave it out!!
PhD in mycology and an ecologist for 20 years so happy to help with the ID of some of these (where the photo's allow), as Bootsy says there are a lot that are edible / easy to confuse with something that will do you harm - there are also ID features such as smell or stuff you need a hand lens for that are unable to be identified from a photo. A foraging course or fungal walk is the best place to start as you can get used to the identifying features of certain groups first. I wouldn't recommend having something edible identified from a photo alone.
Heres some I found, mostly edibles,cooked properly, although one made me feel sick, even though Id eaten it before with no problem
Some impressive specimens on a very wet recuperative walk this morningÂ
a good lot of oysters you have there,13thfloor
heres a few different ones
