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Please behold: the biggest bolete I’ve ever seen, just casually existing by the roadside. I screamt a little scream when I first saw this football sized beauty! What do we think… is it the much sought-after Penny Bun?

#fungifriends #fallfungi #pennybun #boletusedulis
The underside of a bolete appears in the foreground of the photo, with its teeth and tubes forming a rolling corrugated skin, catching the late afternoon sun. In the background a forest bed of oak leaves can be seen, with various oak and pine trees in the background, with a background of blue sky. Slightly zoomed out shot of the bolete underside. Top-down shot of the bolete - the slightly bumpy top of the bolete is a mix of tan and caramel colors, with a few spots of reddish brown and a few bites/chunks missing, where the yellow under-flesh can be seen. Below, you can see a bed of oak leaves. Top down shot comparing size of bolete on right with OP’s left hand - it is equal to the size of two hands with palms and fingers spread.
December 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
fiddlephia.bsky.social
Only treats in this house! Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻

#happyhalloween #allhallowseve #labradorsofbluesky #dogsitting
October 31, 2025 at 8:48 PM
fiddlephia.bsky.social
Enjoying the gorgeous mycorrhizal patterns on these fleeting Hare’s foot ink caps - if you blink, you’ll miss the delicate fruiting bodies, as their lifespan plays out in just under 24 hours!

#haresfootinkcap #fungifriends #coprinopsislagopus #fallfungi #inkycapmushrooms
White branching patterns reach toward a tan and brown center with small nodules, comprising the center of the inside of a mushroom cap - with the dark striated patterns of the cap visible behind the white branching patterns. This is a slightly more zoomed out version of the first picture, still in bird’s eye view, with the inky outside of the mushroom cap now wrapping around the inside, with mulch and wood chips visible below the mushroom. In this picture, four hare’s foot ink caps of various heights cluster together in a bird’s eye view, their caps curled slightly inward, with mulch and wood chips visible below the mushrooms. This is a side view of the hare’s foot ink caps cluster of fruiting bodies, with long, pale stems that have white fuzz at the base, with black, inky parallel lines running from the top of the stems to the top of the caps, which are curled slightly inward. In the background, one can see mulch/wood chips and a variety of weeds and grass, with a redwood fence behind both.
October 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
fiddlephia.bsky.social
Happy Belated Father’s Day straight from the Alpha Quadrant!

#startrek #tresky #fathersday
June 17, 2025 at 2:33 AM
fiddlephia.bsky.social
…. and have a little snog. 🤭 Happy Valentine’s Day!

#cycling #bicycling #bi-cycling #dayoflove #loveofbikes #saveacowboyrideabike
In a black and white picture from the 1940’s, two short and t-shirt clad cyclists lie kissing in the grass by a roadside, wrapped in a passionate embrace and seemingly unaware of the cameraperson, with a cream colored “Cyclists are Advised to Dismount” sign behind them against which are leaning two single-speed steel bicycles, one with double top tube and flat handlebars, the other with drop bars and a rear rack, both with fenders.
February 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
fiddlephia.bsky.social
Beyond excited to share my second ever find of the delicate and otherworldy #elfinsaddles! Rainy weather and California oak woodlands for the win!

#fungifriends #elfinsaddle #elfinsaddlemushroom #helvelladryophila
#onehelluvahellvella
An elfin saddle mushroom stands amongst tan and brown oak leaves, with a glistening and knotted black top and a greyish cream stem with fluted grooves. Overhead view of a knotted, converging, glistening black fungal mass sitting on a bed of tan oak leaves, brown pine needles and tree stems. Forest floor view of an elfin saddle mushroom, nestled amongst tan and yellow oak leaves, as well as brown rot and detritus, with its glistening ribbonlike black top curling into itself and the fluted, converging and delicate cream colored stem.
February 1, 2025 at 11:47 PM
fiddlephia.bsky.social
Celestial bodies 🌚🌝

#astronomy #celestialbodies #moon #venus #mars #moondog #dusk
January 20, 2025 at 12:40 AM
fiddlephia.bsky.social
A few shelfies to ring in the new year! I’m 99% certain these are #crepidotuseucalyptorum

#fungifriends #shelfmushrooms #bracketfungi #polypores
January 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
fiddlephia.bsky.social
It has been a warm winter for #coastalcalifornia - but we have the first local “bolete” of the season!

Behold, a #fungifriend found growing under an oak tree after the first rains of the season.

What’s your vote - #suillaceae or #boletaceae?

#fungifriends #fungusamongus #fabulousfungi #mushlove
November 23, 2024 at 7:39 PM