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I'm still not brave enough to grow mushrooms outside due to potential unwanted mycellia.  But these kit grown oyster mushrooms are doing fantastically well for us.

They are a cross between Pleurotus eryngii and ostreatus (king & grey oyster mushrooms) apparently.

Image: A bloom of oyster mushroom fruit before a first cutting.
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They look like some sort of art installation Ac!

I found these in the tree field this week. I thought they might be candlesnuff but that seems to grow on wood, whereas this was growing out of the ground. It also is quite large - about 4 to 5 inches long.
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Nancy, that mushroom could be some kind of coral mushroom, such as Ramariopsis kunzei, which is found on islands off the Scottish Coast:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramariopsis_kunzei

We've got something similar here in Oregon, but they appear in late fall or early winter.





 
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Nancy Reading wrote:They look like some sort of art installation AC!



Aren't they gorgeous? Also, delicious.  I've soaked the block in rainwater, hoping we might get a second flush.

Nancy Reading wrote:I found these in the tree field this week .. growing out of the ground. It also is quite large - about 4 to 5 inches long.



Those are ethereal, & gorgeous too!
 
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M.K. Dorje Sr. wrote:Nancy, that mushroom could be some kind of coral mushroom, such as Ramariopsis kunzei



Exciting! "An infrequent find in Britain and Ireland" apparently, so possibly a good sign of increasing biodiversity?
https://www.first-nature.com/fungi/ramariopsis-kunzei.php
 
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