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Mycophobic nonsense.
Mycophobic nonsense.
I see no more need to announce I don’t believe in the Christian god than there I see need to announce I don’t believe in Zeus. Both questions are completely irrelevant to my life
Pleurotus sp, aka oysters. Spore print won’t really help here, most things that look like this are white-spored or near. Think of spore prints as a way to occasionally rule out something else, not mandatory for a positive ID
Why are there so many “webcomics” that look exactly like this? AI generated?
Nice! I think all of ours are A. chrysoblema now
These are an Agaricus species
The goo is edible too! Flavor intensifies with this process. Some folks like to use it for pasta or sauces, kind of like a vegan squid ink
To your second point, no they don’t. Coprinus comatus does not contain any benzocoprines, and does not interact with alcohol. Coprinopsis atramentaria is the one you are referring to. Completely different genus - and not one I’d recommend eating anyways, besides the alcohol interaction they have been found to cause testicular lesions!
You are correct. They love pine trees
Other fungi
Galerina look nothing like this
Your ID is correct. Maybe don’t eat stuff if you only “think” you know it though haha
Compare to Pleurotus, growing from buried wood. The ones to rule out here would be the worrisome Clitocybe dealbata group
What’s your general location? Assuming you’re in the US, we have several muscarioids but A. muscaria s.s. doesn’t really occur here outside of the extreme PNW (barring the rare hitchhiker on conifer transplants)
They also said Cantharellus only grow on trees in their print issue, likely AI generated text. Their last video on fungi was full of errors as well. They have really gone downhill