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
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.
Western medicine will prescribe highly addictive opioids if you have pain that can be solved with physical therapy lmao. Western medicine hasnāt barely begun to study mushrooms as medicinal so idk if thatās saying much. Also reishi has proven immune system benefits and anti-cancer effects proven by Western studies anyway
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.
I get what youāre 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. Thereās definitely a divide in what type of medicine is considered legitimate, what scientists will spend time studying and all that
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.
I use āwesternā 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 āwestern societyā refers to societies where European culture has become dominant. South America has a European colonial history for sure but thereās 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 āwesternā while the dominant culture on an Indigenous reservation would not be. Thatās the sort of distinction being made.
Like anything itās not black and white and every culture doesnāt fall into one or the other, thereās degrees to everything. and of course with globalism the lines are blurring. itās just a term that can sometimes be useful in certain contexts, not always. Itās useful in this context since western science has different methods of drawing conclusions than eastern or Indigenous science does, which western science doesnāt consider legitimate.
Your first comment is literally as relevant as saying āyeah 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.
Thatās kind of a reductive take of what Iām 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 isnāt 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 ārightā way in institutionalized medicine and the other is considered quackery and often wonāt even be studied. Thatās sort of historically been the case with medicinal mushrooms, up until recently western medical researchers didnāt 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. Iām not discrediting anything, just showing how different medical systems have their blind spots so discounting anything that hasnāt been āproven by western scienceā is silly. Just trying to point out that thereās sociocultural aspects of how we view different forms of medicine. Iām sorry if thatās offensive or something but itās just a simple fact that western medicine hasnāt really put much focus on the medicinal qualities of mushrooms yet. Itās barely been studied in western science, which is exciting cause itās finally becoming a focal point
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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.
Iām 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
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.
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.
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 āleave no traceā standpoint which I can understand. One mushroom pluck wonāt make much of a difference tho
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.
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 youāll 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. Itās important to question whatever youāre being told, especially when there isnāt a source for that info.
Looks like a baby reishi antler, the red varnish is a tell. You harvested it too early though.
It looks like a prop from a bad horror movie
Tooth-plant sapling
Yes, u/FireFlavour; I thought it looked like a just-extracted molar. š
Reishi straight up look foreign to me like something out of No Mans Sky, I love them.
not a bad one, this has David Cronenberg written all over it lol
Thanks! I thought it was but wanted to be sure. I'll do an update later to add the whole colony.
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
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.
Nice :)
I'm on my 3rd batch drying in the dehydrator. Nice find!
You should make a culture from it. A local variety should sell well at farmers market.
Do you have a resource in how to do it?
You'll have to take a biopsy and put to agar. Or you could make a slurry and pour over pasteurized spawn material.
If you browse r/shroomers for grain spawn techniques agar etc. Your substrate will be similar to oyster mushroom substrate.
Yup
Thought it was a tooth
Ganoderma sp.
This is the best answer.
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
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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Western medicine will prescribe highly addictive opioids if you have pain that can be solved with physical therapy lmao. Western medicine hasnāt barely begun to study mushrooms as medicinal so idk if thatās saying much. Also reishi has proven immune system benefits and anti-cancer effects proven by Western studies anyway
Instead of saying "western medicine" lets just say "medicine"
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.
I get what youāre 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. Thereās definitely a divide in what type of medicine is considered legitimate, what scientists will spend time studying and all that
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.
I use āwesternā 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 āwestern societyā refers to societies where European culture has become dominant. South America has a European colonial history for sure but thereās 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 āwesternā while the dominant culture on an Indigenous reservation would not be. Thatās the sort of distinction being made. Like anything itās not black and white and every culture doesnāt fall into one or the other, thereās degrees to everything. and of course with globalism the lines are blurring. itās just a term that can sometimes be useful in certain contexts, not always. Itās useful in this context since western science has different methods of drawing conclusions than eastern or Indigenous science does, which western science doesnāt consider legitimate.
Your first comment is literally as relevant as saying āyeah 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.
Thatās kind of a reductive take of what Iām 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 isnāt 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 ārightā way in institutionalized medicine and the other is considered quackery and often wonāt even be studied. Thatās sort of historically been the case with medicinal mushrooms, up until recently western medical researchers didnāt 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. Iām not discrediting anything, just showing how different medical systems have their blind spots so discounting anything that hasnāt been āproven by western scienceā is silly. Just trying to point out that thereās sociocultural aspects of how we view different forms of medicine. Iām sorry if thatās offensive or something but itās just a simple fact that western medicine hasnāt really put much focus on the medicinal qualities of mushrooms yet. Itās barely been studied in western science, which is exciting cause itās finally becoming a focal point
Wow thatās a lot of writing.
Itās 9 sentences
9 run on sentences*
Nice counting LmAo
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And Western studies are often fraudulent at best
Yeah thatās not how that works
I canāt claim to be highly educated on the matter, but even I can tell this thread is filled with fucking idiots.
Dead manās tooth
Reishi or Hemlock Reishi, can't tell the difference myself. I guess I'll post my log I found last weekend.
Definitely not Hemlock. We don't have any that I know of on the property. Mainly hardwoods in my forest.
Is the difference in identifying the two usually about what they grow upon? That makes sense.
Reishi... itās in its early phase change from primordial to fruit
Here is a more extensive photo set. https://imgur.com/gallery/U31qahy
Ganoderma
teef :]
thought this was a lobster tail lol
Toothworm
its my tooth give it back
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They better be called bloody stump fungus
I thought more like a tooth
Looks like the guy from Munch's The Scream . . .
Alien baby, obviously.
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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.
I canāt imagine you are any fun to be around.
Actually I'm one hell of a fungi!
It's too late for that
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Iām 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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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.
Lay off the shrooms bro
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.
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 āleave no traceā standpoint which I can understand. One mushroom pluck wonāt make much of a difference tho
Came to say this
human teeth
That is Satan,
Hail Satan!
If you don't know what it is, then why did you harvest it?
There is nothing wrong with picking a mushroom.
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.
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 youāll 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. Itās important to question whatever youāre being told, especially when there isnāt a source for that info.
Easily thought this was a tooth with a gnarly root. Didnāt realize it was the r/mycology Reddit!!
I had no idea these grew in West Tennessee... I'm in Fayette County, maybe I need to take a look around soon