Mycology

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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.

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

New to the hobby...

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...

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....

Been working on a bit of an experiment to see if I can build a foraging map showing optimal areas based on recent weather conditions (in this case min/max temps and rainfall between 4-7 days ago....

There is a shaggy ink cap growing in my garden and I wanted to read about it. So i stumbled upon the group of nematophagous fungi. It seems these types of mushrooms trap nematodes an digest them! Didn't know mushrooms can do that.