Mycology

I have recently had Wolfs milk start growing in the soil in my vegetable garden and was wondering if I would have to get rid of the soil and start over or if the food is still safe to eat. I tried to search what would happen if accidentally ingesting the slime mold but could not find any answers online.

King oyster mushrooms starting in the tub 4 days ago, there's mold fluff balls all through the hardwood and bran mix already. Will the mycelium be okay fighting through it? I feel like mold with this is unavoidable, but there's a lot of it so I'm concerned.

#Mycology

Sadly, 95% were full of maggots. Could've gathered kilos!

New to the hobby

So about a month ago I innoculated 6 wholegrain uncle Ben's rice packets with king oyster mushroom liquid culture. But instead of cutting the packets' corners like every guide says to, I followed a random comment's advice to simply poke the syringe through the packet and cover the syringe hole with micropore tape. A week later I had a try with making a few grain jars using the same liquid culture.

Fast forward to today, and my grain jars are ready to use, yet the rice packets look and feel unchanged. I suspect the poor gas exchange from a tiny syringe hole caused the mycelium to suffocate. I'll have to try going back to those packets and do it properly this time.

So I guess I'm posting to say don't try to cut corners, and instead you should cut corners ✂️

Out of the millions of fungal species in the world, only a few hundred can make people sick. Coccidioides is one of them — and it lives in desert dust. Microscopic spores are kicked up when the ground is disturbed; if inhaled, they can cause an infection known as Valley fever. Most people recover without ever knowing they had it, but others will experience far more intense symptoms, ranging from pneumonia to meningitis. Coccidioides is also really good at eating … meat.

Attached: 4 images #Mushtodon A fly agaric, and some very very weird Pisolithus arrhizus / dyeball fungus / dead man's foot ( :hammyeyes: ) seen on recent wanderings. Had never seen the dyeball fungus before, it's so weird. Marked as sensitive because weird spore fungus thing.

I've been trying to find morels (Morchella sp.) for years now. I mapped meadows in my vicinity and thoroughly searched the ground around ash trees. Nothing.

Same for black chanterelle (Craterellus cornucopioides). Every year I see pictures from successful hunters with baskets full of them, but either they really don't grow in my area or I'm unable to see them.

Those are my top two, but of course there are more I'd really like to find sometime: Any edible Hydnum sp., lumpy bracket (Polyporus umbellatus), some Leccinum sp. like red caps and, of course, any edible truffles. I might try to search for truffles this year. They are "protected" in my country, but there are mycologists who claim there is an abundance of them and their status as endangered is based on misinformation.

What about you?