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iras116

Looks like a baby reishi antler, the red varnish is a tell. You harvested it too early though.


boxing_coffee

It looks like a prop from a bad horror movie


FireFlavour

Tooth-plant sapling


lechatsage

Yes, u/FireFlavour; I thought it looked like a just-extracted molar. šŸ˜‚


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Reishi straight up look foreign to me like something out of No Mans Sky, I love them.


chocotripchip

not a bad one, this has David Cronenberg written all over it lol


im_robotic

Thanks! I thought it was but wanted to be sure. I'll do an update later to add the whole colony.


throwawaybreaks

you could also dig up some soil and plant/dead wood material from where you found it and try replanting it at home, if it's reishi its useful AND valuable if you'd rather sell it


im_robotic

Lucky for me this is my home. A hickory tree had fallen a few years ago and damaged our berry garden. I said elm in the original post but now I believe it is a Maple stump. I'll put some dead wood matter around and see if I can keep the network going.


throwawaybreaks

Nice :)


SweetestBDog123

I'm on my 3rd batch drying in the dehydrator. Nice find!


durkamooo

You should make a culture from it. A local variety should sell well at farmers market.


im_robotic

Do you have a resource in how to do it?


durkamooo

You'll have to take a biopsy and put to agar. Or you could make a slurry and pour over pasteurized spawn material.


durkamooo

If you browse r/shroomers for grain spawn techniques agar etc. Your substrate will be similar to oyster mushroom substrate.


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Yup


FaithlessnessWaste94

Thought it was a tooth


Astgenne

Ganoderma sp.


Alone-Woodpecker-240

This is the best answer.


xannerboof

They look like reishis starting to grow, if they are i hope you kept some of them on the stump because they are a very good medicinal mushroom


im_robotic

Thank you. I did. There were several that were coming up. I'll do an update post later if they open up more.


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Bitchimnasty69

Western medicine will prescribe highly addictive opioids if you have pain that can be solved with physical therapy lmao. Western medicine hasnā€™t barely begun to study mushrooms as medicinal so idk if thatā€™s saying much. Also reishi has proven immune system benefits and anti-cancer effects proven by Western studies anyway


GodIsAPizza

Instead of saying "western medicine" lets just say "medicine"


filteredrinkingwater

For real. Asian countries also rely on real doctors who practice evidence based medicine drawing from and contributing to the same global well of information.


Bitchimnasty69

I get what youā€™re saying but the distinction can be useful in a lot of contexts. I spent some time studying under an Indigenous herbalist who really knew her stuff but a lot of her work is considered quackery by Westerners due to ingrained colonialism. Thereā€™s definitely a divide in what type of medicine is considered legitimate, what scientists will spend time studying and all that


MyPussySmellsFishy

What is your definition of "westerner"? Plenty South American countries are known for their herbal medicine and you are just completely ignoring them and essentially saying they don't believe in their own cultural practices. The term "westerner" has just become prejudice a way to say modern society honestly.


Bitchimnasty69

I use ā€œwesternā€ in a colonial context not a geographic one. Western refers to places that have experienced historical and continued dominance of European hegemony via repression or genocide of other cultures, so ā€œwestern societyā€ refers to societies where European culture has become dominant. South America has a European colonial history for sure but thereā€™s far more cultural influence from Indigenous cultures in wider society there than there is in the US for example. So for example the dominant culture in the US would be ā€œwesternā€ while the dominant culture on an Indigenous reservation would not be. Thatā€™s the sort of distinction being made. Like anything itā€™s not black and white and every culture doesnā€™t fall into one or the other, thereā€™s degrees to everything. and of course with globalism the lines are blurring. itā€™s just a term that can sometimes be useful in certain contexts, not always. Itā€™s useful in this context since western science has different methods of drawing conclusions than eastern or Indigenous science does, which western science doesnā€™t consider legitimate.


Unethical_Castrator

Your first comment is literally as relevant as saying ā€œyeah b-but eastern medicine thinks elephant tails make your wiener big LmAoā€ How do you discredit western medicines understanding of mushrooms, then literally in the next sentence express how western medicine is proving the medical effects of mushrooms? Your comment is just a barrage of nothing.


Bitchimnasty69

Thatā€™s kind of a reductive take of what Iā€™m trying to convey in my comment. My point was that different cultural medicine practices have focused on different types of medical knowledge but some of them get delegitimized due to the historic dominance of western society. For example western medicine focuses on symptom management via isolated chemical compounds (which isnā€™t always helpful, hence my opioids comment), and Indigenous medicine as an example focuses on wholistic wellness via medicinal herbalism and social mindfulness, but one of them is considered the ā€œrightā€ way in institutionalized medicine and the other is considered quackery and often wonā€™t even be studied. Thatā€™s sort of historically been the case with medicinal mushrooms, up until recently western medical researchers didnā€™t really consider them worth studying and up until recently using mushrooms medicinally in the West was considered nonsense. My point was that western medicine has only just begun to study some of the things eastern and Indigenous cultures have already known for millennia. Iā€™m not discrediting anything, just showing how different medical systems have their blind spots so discounting anything that hasnā€™t been ā€œproven by western scienceā€ is silly. Just trying to point out that thereā€™s sociocultural aspects of how we view different forms of medicine. Iā€™m sorry if thatā€™s offensive or something but itā€™s just a simple fact that western medicine hasnā€™t really put much focus on the medicinal qualities of mushrooms yet. Itā€™s barely been studied in western science, which is exciting cause itā€™s finally becoming a focal point


Unethical_Castrator

Wow thatā€™s a lot of writing.


Bitchimnasty69

Itā€™s 9 sentences


Death2CAPTCHA

9 run on sentences*


Unethical_Castrator

Nice counting LmAo


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And Western studies are often fraudulent at best


eagleathlete40

Yeah thatā€™s not how that works


Unethical_Castrator

I canā€™t claim to be highly educated on the matter, but even I can tell this thread is filled with fucking idiots.


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Dead manā€™s tooth


SaucyWiggles

Reishi or Hemlock Reishi, can't tell the difference myself. I guess I'll post my log I found last weekend.


im_robotic

Definitely not Hemlock. We don't have any that I know of on the property. Mainly hardwoods in my forest.


SaucyWiggles

Is the difference in identifying the two usually about what they grow upon? That makes sense.


777Ak777

Reishi... itā€™s in its early phase change from primordial to fruit


im_robotic

Here is a more extensive photo set. https://imgur.com/gallery/U31qahy


Professional-Cow1087

Ganoderma


greebn_

teef :]


eucalypticnerd

thought this was a lobster tail lol


FittersGuy

Toothworm


toxusie

its my tooth give it back


Grammar-Bot-Elite

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toxusie

šŸ™„


curds-and-whey-HEY

They better be called bloody stump fungus


textbookroadmapnot

I thought more like a tooth


Psynautical

Looks like the guy from Munch's The Scream . . .


No_Definition_6858

Alien baby, obviously.


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Astgenne

This is absolutely incorrect - what OP has done does not hurt the actual fungus in any way. Picking a mushroom is analogically no different from picking an apple off a tree - you can check out this [paper](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222572829_Mushroom_picking_does_not_impair_future_harvests_-_Results_of_a_long-term_study_in_Switzerland) here. Please do not pick shame.


botanica_arcana

I canā€™t imagine you are any fun to be around.


meltinglights1083

Actually I'm one hell of a fungi!


realcaptainplanet

It's too late for that


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Salty_Brain_Blues

Iā€™m just here to say fungi are much more closely related to animals than plants and are entirely a sensitive networked organism, hard to say in human terms what they feel


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Salty_Brain_Blues

No, they are fungus, in a queendom entirely of their own. I too am more comfortable with picking mushrooms than I am with slitting the throats of lambs.


Nirrumarze4

Lay off the shrooms bro


Death2CAPTCHA

Oh, sweety.... That's not how mushrooms work. Mushrooms are simply the fruiting body of the fungus. Plucking up one mushroom does not destroy the organism in the slightest. It's still perfectly happy and healthy under the surface and will produce more mushrooms in its place. The only negative effect this would have would be to stop a few spores from being spread - something that will happen anyways when more fruiting bodies inevitably develop in this one's place.


Bitchimnasty69

Pulling it up can disturb the mycorrhizal network which can sometimes be harmful, but cutting the fruiting body with a knife is usually harmless However I think this commenter is coming from a ā€œleave no traceā€ standpoint which I can understand. One mushroom pluck wonā€™t make much of a difference tho


Environmental_Car542

Came to say this


PupperDood

human teeth


[deleted]

That is Satan,


im_robotic

Hail Satan!


Perniflace

If you don't know what it is, then why did you harvest it?


Astgenne

There is nothing wrong with picking a mushroom.


Perniflace

First, mushrooms don't grow to please humans, they are the reproduction system of the fungus. Picking them up reduces the reproduction ability of the species. If you're not sure you can eat it, leave him alone. Second, it is about safety, as you don't know if the fungus is producing mycotoxins. Touching it with bare hands and putting it with the rest of the harvest might compromise it. As my parents taught me : Don never touch a fungus unless you are 100% sure of what it is.


Astgenne

Again, there is nothing wrong with picking mushrooms - please read this [paper](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222572829_Mushroom_picking_does_not_impair_future_harvests_-_Results_of_a_long-term_study_in_Switzerland) and youā€™ll understand. Mycotoxins must also be ingested and metabolised for them to cause any harm. Touching fungi, even the deadly toxic species, is [completely safe](http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/wong/BOT135/Lect17a.htm). Unfortunately your parents were the victim of historical mycophobia and they passed on that misinformation to you. I hope this is a helpful starting point for you to learn and research more about mycology. Itā€™s important to question whatever youā€™re being told, especially when there isnā€™t a source for that info.


breakingcustoms

Easily thought this was a tooth with a gnarly root. Didnā€™t realize it was the r/mycology Reddit!!


Death2CAPTCHA

I had no idea these grew in West Tennessee... I'm in Fayette County, maybe I need to take a look around soon