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On a laurel tree; growing on bark, around 70 cm from the ground. When old it turns almost black. On an old fallen piece, tiny white fungi were growing on it! Abandoned garden in a monastery. Unable to retrieve even one single spore.

On wet, rotten hardwood. Deliquescing. Hidden woods. Side of Old Mondego River. Cap 1.5 cm; stipe 5.8 cm. Sweet smell. Cap and stipe have spheres able to be seen with loupe. Stipe is wider and a bit round, with hirsute aspect.

Dozens of fruitbodies in a small area. Hidden woods. Side of Old Mondego River. It has one of the longest cystidia I have seen. There were few super big spores which were not considered in the spore size measurement. Spores are finely ornamented; spore print is marron (lighter tone than what appears on the photo). Specimen examined cap was 3.5 cm; stipe 5.5 cm; 5.5 mm at base. It was sticky when wet. There were bigger caps in the field.

On humus made of broken down water hyacinth. Side of Old Mondego River. Single. Negative reaction to KOH on cap. Cap 6.5 cm wide; stipe 4.8 cm, 1.8 cm wide at base. Agaricus bisporus
"Ecology: Scattered on pizzas, gregarious on salads, densely clustered in grocery stores—and occasionally scattered to gregarious on manured soil, compost piles, in lawns, and so on, as a native species and as an escapee from cultivation." Michael Kuo. Mushroom Expert.
Basidia 1-2-spored!

At the base of un unknown dead small bush. Three cases spotted close by. The polypore is growing just at the base of the stem. It has a more vivid color and when younger is yellow chrome/mustard. 5-6 pores per mm. Pore length 1+mm. There is a dark line in the context. Wonderful sweet fungal smell when wet, from pores and also the cap. Arid mountain. Soil is made of gravel. Microscopic features make it close to P. ribis. Habit is right. My spores are a bit bigger but morphology is right. The closes by appearance is P. viticola which has setae but here they are absent.

On unknown huge hardwood stump. Side of rural road. With fluffy margin which have hyphal pegs(bunched up hyphae looking like a tooth). Smells sweet. Some areas are turning pinkish. The palisade of basidia has hyphidia intersperse within. Clamps absent. Watery to touch. Spores are not ornamented as it is said on one of the photos.

On woody debris. Cap is grayish with brown threads made of hyphae with fine ornamentation. Single. Cap 2.6 cm, stipe 3.2 cm. Side of rural road.
Photo in situ was bad and there is a better one taken at home the next day.

It smells like almost sour overripe bananas. Growing on hardwood. Two units together. Notice the wrinkles/crater-like texture on cap(field photos were not clear). Negative to KOH. Cap 4.7, stipe 6cm. Feels very sturdy. Decurrent gills forming ridges on upper stem in area above annulus. Spores 4.9-6.9 x 7.9-13.5 um. Cystidia present on edge of gill. Basidia 4-spored. Hidden wooden pristine area. Side of Old Mondego River.

Oh, one of the most beautiful fungus I have the chance to scope. 11/7. The fungus is pure white BUT the spores are dark brown. Some spores look like a bird in fly! Cystidia have small crystals; clamps are present. Basidia 4-spored. Stipe has odd hyphae. Backyard, on wood debris and rich soil, under an orange tree. Coprinopsis sect. Canocipes

I think this is fungus? Growing on the inside of a hollow tree. Very sturdy/firm at the base, floppy on the end. Almost like a puffball but more like it's disintegrating to release spores rather than a clear stoma. You can see the yellow/tan spores on my fingers in one pic. I have never seen anything like it. Any idea where to start @wearethechampignons ?

Meadow at the side of Old Mondego River. Single. Staining yellow. Cap 8.2 cm which expanded to 11.2 cm during the night meanwhile releasing the spores. Stipe 10.5 cm long and 1.7 cm at base. KOH turned yellow on cap.

Back loan. Two units. Examined sample has a 2.8 cm cap and 4.5 cm stipe which was hollowed and thick. Annulus present. Chrysocystidia present but scarce. The layer of cystidia at edge of gill was impressively thick!

Single. Hidden under a hardwood rubbish; growing on a finger size stick. Side of rural road. Spore print is gray-brown. Spores have double wall. Chrysocystidia are present on edge and side of gills; very long and with a clamp.

On a very old/mature Sambucus nigra, 76 cm in diameter!; edge of back road, protected from the afternoon sun. The fungi are growing from the thick base upwards. They presented themselves with different sizes. Biggest cap was 9 cm in diameter. Cap is wrinkled; few days later some caps were cracked. The gills have a fascinating smell of a mix of edible mushroom and chocolate! No staining or bruising was seen. Spore print is of rusty/chocolate tone.

Edge of rural road. Single plant. It took me a while to understand that those odd structures were the seeds! It wasn't easy to take a photo to reveal their shape so I tried few times. What a beauty this type of seed is.

On humus made of broken down/decomposed water hyacinth/Eichhornia crassipes. The soil looks dark and smells earthy. The hyacinth has been discarded here many times previously. Weeds grow vigorously here. Side of Old Mondego River. There were two bunches of these gilled powdery mushroom. The first one had 30 units in caespitose form. The other one had six units in another spot. The smell of cap is close to almost dry cow patty. Very sharp and disgusting smell.

Sporisorium reilianum f.sp. zeae attacks the inflorescence. Side of Old Mondego River. Several plants at the edge of the field were contaminated. The bigger spores correspond to Mycosarcoma/Ustilago maydis which attacks the kernels. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/182538247

On lawn that got wet by rain! Otherwise it is always so dry. Smells horrible like sweet mushroom mixed with cumin. Slightly sticky to touch, cap and stipe. I tried to break the stem by bending it but I was unsuccessful; only when I twisted it broke. After a minute, the stem released a sweet mushroom smell BUT the cap was still having a stinky disgusting smell. The unpleasant smell and the bigger size of spores make the ID lean towards M. collinus BUT the basidia are big: 42- 46.8 um long. I made a second preparation to be sure about the size of the basidia. I saw odd and scattered forms again looking like cystidia. Spore print was white. Stipe is full.

On Dittrichia viscosa. Leaves are sticky to touch; they have some nipple-like glands on them. Rust was inclosed in structures that looked like bags (of orange thick paint)and they burst to expose the spores.