#stropharia ambigua

[seabeck]

Stropharia ambigua

[thebashfulbotanist]

Around this time every year, dozens of concerned folks post this lovely mushroom in identification forums, anxiously wondering if they’re found a deathcap. Nope! This beauty is Stropharia ambigua, the questionable stropharia. It’s recognizable by its slate grey gills, yellow cap, and gorgeous, delicate and feathery veil. While beautiful, and likely not poisonous, it has a pretty gross taste (like eating soggy dead leaves) and isn’t considered edible. 

[pnwfungusamongus]

Stropharia ambigua  - Questionable Stropharia     +5p

Habitat: Growing terrestrially from rich soils such as wood chips. Common throughout the U.S West Coast favoring niches that are cold, dark, and damp.  

Edibility: Tastes like dirt

Spore Color: Dark purple brown to black

Gill Color: Purplish-gray to black

Cap Color: Buff yellow to yellow-brown

I need to know more!

[rebeccathenaturalist]

This Questionable Stropharia (Stropharia ambigua) popped up in the woods nearby recently! It's a really pretty #mushroom, and it even has "lace" trim, too.

[catsnroses]

Stropharia ambigua 

Stropharia ambigua, sometimes known as the Questionable Stropharia, is a saprotrophic agaric mushroom, commonly fruiting in leaf litter and wood chips in the Pacific Northwest.

[summerwages]

Questionable Stropharia...Stropharia Ambigua...

Quite lovely but not recommended as an edible...

[klayfruit]

Top 5 mushrooms? :]

1. inky cap baybee!!!!!

2. gliophorus psittacinus,, shiny prety babies :]

3. stropharia ambigua!!

4. fly agaric.. red boyes

5. velvet foot :]

[bean-mama]

Long time no see, Tumblr! Here’s some Stropharia ambigua from my walk in the woods today

[gwo]

I love this mushroom for so many reasons, but it gave me such a hard time! In my field guide it really resembles the author’s picture of Stropharia aeruginosa, a brilliant blue mushroom that can lose its blue coloring as it matures. If it is this, I do wish I could have seen it when it was blue! There are so few blue mushrooms.

The mycologists I know were also conflicted, but I was on the right track. We narrowed down to either Stropharia aeruginosa; Stropharia ambigua (the common name is literally ‘questionable stropharia’); or Leratiomyces percevalii, which was previously classified in the stropharia genus.

This specimen has the wiggliest stem.

[kiweetree]

Stropharia ambigua

[theeviloreo]

A big patch of these Stropharia ambigua show up in a local park. They're awesome to see.· · #mushroomspotting #mushroomhunter #mushroomsociety #mushroomkingdom #naturelovers #mushroomphotography #mushroomhunting #fungi #mushrooms_of_our_world #mushrooms #mushroomsofinstagram #mycology #fungusamongus #park #fantasticfungi #mushroomidentification #youfungus #allthemushroomhashtags #mushroom #fungus #nature #love #fungiphotography #naturephotography #eastbay (at Brookwood Acres, Lafayette, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsHed4pFWmf/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=179cqosfsuk1o

[seabeck]

Yeee! It’s stropharia ambigua, one of my favorite mushrooms.

Wispy mushroom

[clickmartoons]

MT#1006 Mushroom Gallery featuring Stropharia Ambigua Hi Mushroom fanatic! Stropharia Ambigua is the main mushroom in this gallery - it has the glossy yellow cap. Not recommended for eating! The key is to give you an idea of the size of the 'shroom.

[fungushuntress-blog]

The not-so-ambiguous Stropharia ambigua. #stropharia #strophariaambigua #questionablestropharia #gillporn #spores #beautiful #mushroomgoals #pnw #pnwmushrooms #mushroomsofthepnw #fungusamongus #thefriendlyfungus #nofilter #forestfloor #mushroomsoforegon #oregonmushrooms (at Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4q_U5_gQK9/?igshid=7gjdgf1h7m2g

[wolffeelings]

All the scientific names I can remember off the top of my head right now

Megascops choliba

Anhinga anhinga

Micrathene whitneyi

Buteo jamaicensis

Cathartes aura

Vultur gryphus

Coragyps atratus

Parabuteo unicinctus

Bubo virginianus

Strix varia

Anas platyrynchos

Strix nebulosa

Penelope jacquacu

Tyrannus melancholicus

Jacana jacana

Sarcoramphus papa

Crotophaga ani

Nyctea scandiaca

Corvus corax

Anas americanus

Tyto alba

Ramphastos tucanus

Corvus brachyrynchos

Haliaeetus leucocephalus

Strix occidentalis

Gavia immer

Bubo bubo

Pitangus lictor

Turdus merula

Pandion haliaetus

Branta canadensis

Cacicus cela

Ardea alba

Ara militaris

Cygnus olor

Vibrio cholera

Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Yersinia pestis

Staphylococcus aureus

Vulpes vulpes

Canis lupus

Megaptera novaeangliae

Panthera tigris

Phocoena phocoena

Homo sapiens

Canis latrans

Lutra lutra

Rattus rattus

Panthera leo

Orcinus orca

Pseudotsuga menziesii

Acer rubrum

Thuja plicata

Picea sitchensis

Monstera deliciosa

Philodendron xanadu 

Acer macrophyllum

Amanita muscaria

Boletus edulis

Cantherellus cibarius

Amanita phalloides

Stropharia ambigua

Pleurotus ostreatus

[latinx-editrix]

Stropharia Ambigua This evening, I showed Jackie how much geeky fun it is just figuring out what you've found. (at University Place, Washington)