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Not technically a mushroom I think, but could have fooled me.
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It's a very vibrant red underneath, I'm too curious not to try and narrow down the species.
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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/11578580
“Noting that she had read studies about mushrooms growing around the Chernobyl nuclear plant, she came to understand further, through her work, that fungi are an extraordinarily resilient species of life that consume carbon, and even though petroleum products are toxic to plants, to mushrooms they are essentially a kind of carbon.
In fact, mushrooms break down several categories of toxic waste with the same enzymes they use to consume a dead tree. They can also eat plastic and other things made out of oil, like agrochemicals.”
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Oregon joins nearly 30 states with illnesses linked to mushroom-derived candies
(www.centraloregondaily.com)
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Found growing in a pot with a hibiscus plant, not entirely sure how it got there but the recent excessive rainfall has made it fruit.
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More angles here:
I think it might be a green-spored parasol which is poisonous, but it's hard to tell at this stage. Was hoping it's something edible because there's lots of them and they're massive.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/8713466
Was walking through the woods today and saw these mushrooms growing on a fallen tree. I thought they looked very pretty.
Never tried to ID a mushroom outside a grocery store before, but it looks like turkey tail.
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