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This has been the single worst mushroom season here in SW Florida since I moved here. This has been the rainiest summer in over 50 yrs and we have had way too much rain. I now have flooding in my yard and have actually had to dig up plants and put them in pots to keep them from drowning. Needless to say, there are few to no mushrooms but every once in a while a few show up here and there. Here are a few from today.

Coprinus lagopus growing in the pine chips around my bananas, then Chlorophyllum molybdites (notice the green spores) and the one that popped up this morning followed by the same one shot this evening before it got dark. Lastly Amanita rubescens and a shot of one of the bunches currently growing in my yard.

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You too, Sunny? I'm sick of rain. It is raining again right now. I think it's rained every day this month so far. I have a ton of the little Coprinus growing in the wood chips around the nanners. They seem happy there. More appear every day. The only mushroom activity I get these days!

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We have had almost constant rain this entire year. But recently we are getting some sunny days mixed in. I am so glad. Nonstop cloudy skies were really depressing.

We were in the blue part on the first map. Now our area is green which means we aren't getting quite the deluges we were. But we still had flash flood warnings a couple of nights ago.

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Finally yesterday I found some mushrooms growing in a local city park. My favorite mushroom walks are still under water so city parks will have to do for now. I figured I missed the Florida bolete season and we have some real humdingers here, but I found one that I see every year.

This is Boletus rubricitrinus

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A group of some unknown boletes:

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Gilled bolete:

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Russula sp.

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Agaricus sp.

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Chlorophyllum molybdites

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Hydnellum spongiosipes

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And from my yard: Leucocoprinus birnbaumii and Pisolithus tinctorius (used for dying)

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I don't know these...never seen them before. They were growing in the pine wood chips around the crinum lilies

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Earthstar

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And a whole front lawn of my neighbor's house full of Lactarius hygrophoroides...he let me pick them but I left plenty for the squirrels

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It looks like we may finally be on a drying trend beginning today with only 20% chances of rain so fingers crossed we get to dry out a bit.

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Fantastic! So great to see such a wide variety! The B. rubricitrinus are beautiful. I've never seen them before. The earthstar is fascinating. I found some black ones in N. Florida a few years back. Rather, my BIL saw them. I had looked right at them without seeing them.

Is the brown, corky looking thing with orange at the top next to the stone edging a mushroom? :)

So glad you are drying out a little down there. We are getting some breaks in the rain, too!

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Yes, the brown one is called Pisolithus tinctorius AKA dyeball or deadman's foot. It is used for making dyes.
We are still getting rain on a daily basis in the afternoons.

We have some real oddballs here but there has been nothing around for over a month since I returned from MT.

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Dave, they are a Gymnopus sp. Hard to get exact without a microscope.

Here are a few from my yard yesterday:

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Leucocoprinus birnbaumii growing in my mint and Coprinus lagopus growing under my bananas

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We get Boletus rubellus and Gyroporus castaneus up here in PA. It's unusual to find enough G. castaneus for a meal. But whenever I collect a few, I dehydrate them and save them.

I have no guess for those tan one witrh the upturned margins. I think the little striate critters are Mycena, and the orange ones possibly Gymnopilus. But I would not bet $2.50 on either of these proposals :unsure:

Nice looking Tylopilus. We get a black-capped one up here, T. alboater. It's a pretty good edible.

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