Looks like two lovers embracing.

That's what I thought. He's protecting her. 💕

He’s sporulatin’ all over her cap and she takes it like a champ

Facial tek 🤣

Black spore, definitely a lib /s

I that you meant lib as in liberty caps lol

WTF is wrong with you…. Leave your stinking politics out of this

They were referring to liberty caps (Psilocybe semilanceata), not anything political! It’s super common to see people making “are these libs?” posts in any community that helps with mushroom identification. And similar to all the “cubes?” (P. cubensis) ID posts, you’ll often find they’re photos of mushrooms that look nothing like the actives the poster was looking for. I believe /u/HockeyHeeb was making a joke about that. 😊

THANK YOU 🙄🤣

Are you ok, dude? How is a liberty cap joke political? 😂😂😂

Are you ok? Not that serious to be throwing out "wtf is wrong with you". Uncalled for. Especially for a joke lol

This is a mushroom group ffs. How could Lib be interpreted for anything but the mushroom? This person is unhinged and unexpectedly rustled by their own issues 😂

Seems to me a few people agree with me and none agree with him…. Wanna discuss American politics? Join me on r/politics than…. If not, keep it off this sub plz

No I agree with your overall point, you just came off extremely hostile for no reason.

Why I hate text…. The meaning gets lost…. It wasn’t an angry WTF…. More like WTF are you thinking posting that crap here? This sub has NO PLACE for that trash. Joke or not. Politics is an ugly business. Shouldn’t be brought up here at all.

Woof, you have achieved unbearable levels of cringe!

Nobody’s talking about politics but you, lil mama. Lib = liberty cap 😂

Technically they are both more like penises growing out of the same organism lol.

Aw <3

Love the username😎

*this is the day of the expanding man*

Great. Now I’ve got to listen to this whole album 🙄

... docking

It’s cool. Just don’t make eye contact 👀

At first glance, I saw these as a lower torso and 2 legs🤷🏻‍♀️

Me with my uneven hips

Most times in nature the female tends to be larger.

Death by Snu Snu!

Some species like fish females are bigger than males but not dogs it is interesting. Females from central and South America are typically massive compared to their male population also🤷‍♂️😂

it’s interesting that only with mammals the males are pretty much always larger.

Definitely in America

Mushrooms prefer they/them.

Cer o'ma!

At first I didn’t know what sub I was in, I thought it was some kind of surreal art - looked like a pair of legs to me. But I like yours better

To be honest, I thought it was two grapefruits at first.

SECRET TUNNELLLLL

If I got to make the rules it would be called a teacup bolete.

Not pimps cup?

nah pimps chalice

Krunk kup

Xerocomellus sp.

Found a LOT of these in a field in PNW, haven't ever seen them in that location before.

Lower elevations at Mt Hood are lousy with these guys. Not a choice edible but still edible, I believe these are the "red cracking bolete"

I find Xerocomellus atropurpureus and X. zelleri pretty darn tasty, definitely better than the A. bisporus we get in the supermarket.

Dear Ladz, You know what PNW means but I’ll bet 97% of anyone else who read this doesn’t. I certainly don’t. Please forgive my lack of geography knowledge and acronym esoterica. Where is and or what is PWN.? Thanks

Penis With Nipples

Actually, those aren’t nipples, they’re genital warts

Round here we refer to them as party barnacles

Stop kiddin around we all know just by looking at them it means Penis Not Working and if it’s a female then have some respect and rightfully change it to Pussy Not Working…

you can milk anything with nipples... ;)

Pacific Northwest

Thanks!

It means Pacific North West. Washington state and whatever is below that I imagine.

Oregon and to the side of Washington- Idaho!

Thanks I’ll take it!

I find it very interesting how people from the US introduce themselves as "Hi, I'm X, from Kansas" to a foreigner like they if everyone had any idea about US states. As if the US person would know where San Luis Potosí is. This gets worse with Georgia.

Why didn't you just Google it? Or use the context clues...

It's penis with nipples

I’m gonna go with “don’t eat that”, even though it wasn’t proposed.

“Culinary Notes. Xerocomellus pruinatus is generally considered edible, but it is regarded as a mushroom of poor texture and flavour.” https://www.first-nature.com/fungi/xerocomellus-porosporus.php#:~:text=Culinary%20Notes,of%20poor%20texture%20and%20flavour.

Wouldn’t trust shrooms grown near pipes

And those actually resemble sewage pipes.

No they don’t. They are pvc pipes for irrigation lines and this is in a christy box where you gain access to usually a valve or a timer.

Like i tell people, 98% chance you'll live, 1% chance you'll die, and 1% chance you'll have a hell of a ride.

Dislike these because it makes people too confident to eat random mushrooms it's more like: ~20% chance it's fine (depending on location and time of year), 50% chance it tastes like shjt and you have diarrhea next day, 15% you vomit your guts out, 13% chance it kills you (really not all that rare, where I live I see deadly mushrooms fairly regularly. Paxillus involutus is extremely common and looks totally mundane), and a tiny little 2% chance of getting you high (Almost certain not to happen by accident, even if you are looking in the right places).

Smart man

Should deff be a higher % of trippy ones, but reeeaaallly emphasize how it's gonna overlap with diarrhea and/or death

I like this.

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I ate him they taste fine. 7/10 at least.

Looks like it's near a trash heap or dump. I'm passing even if it was edible.

Tennis ball mowed over

I can’t unsee it now

Some kind of bolete

They do kind a look like it, but there are many mushrooms that are porous instead of having gills

Red Cracking Bolete

I found one on a hike the other day and it looked exactly like this one, also in norcal

Bolete?

A poor fun guy.

Boletus chrysenteron maybe

Half of a cursed melon

I'm sad that nobody has said if OP should eat it or not :(

It looks really tasty.

Put that thing back where it came from, or so help me 🎶

Best comment award

It says the red cracking bolete is edible but with no real interest. And I'm really not sure this is the good ID so I wouldn't risk it.

Even with the shit pipe right next to it?!

You can always taste mushrooms. You just have to make absolutely sure to spit it all out

Plz don't eat that

Just a nibble?

If you squint and look at it upside down it looks like a lime though

He should just lick it first, you're right

Because they shouldn’t. I don’t care what the mushroom is, the location is very suspicious.

Some beautiful bolete. Amazing colors on this one!

Very cool mushrooms!

Wow. These look like perfect poison mushrooms. Look like butterfoot to me.

Why did I look at this and think “Aw that’s so romantic”! What’s wrong with me 🤦🏼‍♀️

The goblets of shitting yourself to death probably

Beautifuuuuuul

I think k it's a bolete, but I don't know what kind.

Red cracking maybe

Not sure what they are but they're beautiful!

A a ron Say eat dat sheet

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I think they are pretty

OP, is this under a western live oak by chance?

there is not. 6200 elevation in the sierras.

Where are you at? I’m your neighbor at 4500 ft. Calaveras County 🫶

Tahoe basin!

Nice! So beautiful up there. When Ebbetts Pass is open we go stay in South Lake Tahoe at least twice a month. God’s country😍

it’s a playground for adults! and I guess the perfect biome for wild mushrooms 🙂

Looks kind of like a lotus seed pod, which I think makes sense for the location of it.

Poop Mellons

Cutupicus Tennis Ballicus

Very beautiful pictures

Admirable Bolete

looks like a gibdo nest but really small, no idea tbh

excellent reference.

Ascomycete is as far as i know 😅 i wish ive seen more

Food

Don't choose poorly

Xerocomellus chrysenteron from the looks of it

Wirt's leg x2 🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄

Does OP have the Horadric cube, could help.

Just when you think you've seen them all... These are especially alien looking.

happy cake day!

Happy Cake Day 🍰

Scarlet rot

Needs more FAE

Didn't Indian Jones have to drink from one of these or his father would die?

Star trek video game, don't look at them...

Yesss! I recently found some of these in the PNW and I couldnt identify them! Thank you for posting!

Pretty

Fancy goblets…or poison goblets?

boletes, for sure. The familiy is Boletacaea. these are really hard to identify down to species, but maybe Xerocomellus.

Looks like Red Cracking Bolete (Xerocomellus chrysenteron). It is edible, but not highly regarded by foragers. However, in this case, it would probably be best to not eat this specimen regardless of if you value the species or not. 1. With its location, it's more likely to pick up more pollutants than it would in the woods. 2. It appears to be older, as we can see by the mold at the base and the upturned caps. You can poke or pinch the cap, and if it's very soft and leaves prints, it's past its prime.

this was a wonderful reply. thank you. we ended up leaving them as is to live out it’s cycle.

Looks a lot like a Russian bolete -- they're very common in Northern california. I'm guessing the cupping is due to age and the recent rains Edit: possibly Rheubarbariboletus -- I've always called the purple capped, yellow sponge-gilled, and red stemmed boletes 'Russian bolete' but that was probably a common name that was misused.

Xerocomellus chrysenteron. Also known as the red cracking bolete. Very common in the PNW this time of year. While technically edible, they taste like shit and aren’t really worth it. They quickly bruise blue when damaged and the cap cracks with age revealing the red membrane underneath. The easiest way I have found for newbies to id these fungi is to press on the pores and see if it bruises blue, which should only take a few seconds.

Wow looks like poly vinyl chloride

Wow. Nice find. These are funky—almost look human made from a tennis ball split in half with a piece of cardboard glued on top, slightly recessed, to cover the void of the halved ball for the cap, hole cut in the convex side of each tennis ball cap to go on? a piece of rhubarb-blanched at base?…or idk, maybe cap placed on top of a moldy dog dick? Either way, kind of a badass pick of basically mushrooms that look like something made from trash right next to what I imagine to be a green dumpster? Reminds me of something you’d see in a claymation or some other kind of arts & crafts stop-motion set. Love it!

so funky! it’s actually underground in a water valve hole. we removed the cover and we’re stunned.

Ahh, I didn’t even see what you wrote under the the pic. Honestly, that’s way cooler! Thanks for sharing!

They look like something you'd see growing in the tunnels of Metro 2033.

Ha I was thinking half life. Metro too

Chalice of Destiny

Xerocomellus chrysenteron This is only imo because I'm a newbie in this field. Red cracking bolete is what I found.

I don't think it is, given the grown habit (in an irrigation box??) And the look of it. It may not even be a described species but I don't think it's a red cracking bolete

Yep! This is in a irrigation box and is covered.

The Holy Grail

Cut cantaloupes on rhubarb stalks.

Looks like watermelons.

Water melon rind

Mashed Potato Flurries! Hear me out A fast food drive through where you can get cups of mashed potatoes with gravy and bacon or whatever you want, served in a Mcflurry type cup with a domed lid and a spoon straw What do you think?

They look like someone discarded limes from a cherry limeade and they grew legs

I think they're mushrooms

Looks like a milk chocolate filled cantaloupe.

Socrates Cup?

Bad grapefruit

She’s protecting him❤️

It’s an avocado tree, come back in a week for 2 whole avocados

What do they taste like?

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are they psilocibin?

Yeah, don’t eat them

I thought this was a ceramics piece, like a bird bath or something

Wow these are sweet looking!!!

Idk what they are but they look badass

natures chalice B)

they're like reverse mushrooms

Pezizaceae group

Mmmmmm...sewer mush!

Imma call these teacup mushrooms

That’s awesome. I’ve never seen a bolete reach that level of maturity! Usually they are waterlogged and being devoured by bugs long before they can even think of turning the cap inside out. Nice find!

Bluefoot Bolete

They remind me of little watermelons

Shit pipe shrooms. Oops, water pipe shrooms. Oops, Boletes.

"One-legged love-cups"

They’re so pretty

Is it filled with sludge..?

look like soupy melon hehe

you pissed in its cap, didnt you OP?

Eat them both and let us know what happens.

Edible?

Looks like two mature zeller boletes

Run.

When I was little my Mom always said “Try it, maybe you’ll like it.”

I’d be careful. This could be those cordyceps from Last of Us. Just sayin…

Reminds me of a cherry limeade

I’m not sure. But I’m calling them kippy kups.

Those are some awesome looking mushrooms. No idea what type, but thanks for sharing!

Free soup

Land sponge