Fungus among us open thread

I’m enough of an outdoors person to have spotted these lovely funguses on Saturday (I was walking along a dry stream bed). After checking several sources I am almost certain they are delicious oyster mushrooms. That use a neurotoxin to kill microscopic nematodes, which they then eat. Because Mother Nature is metal AF.

But I am also enough of an outdoors person to know the one about the lack of overlap in the old/bold mushroom hunters Venn diagram.

Plus, they’re so pretty.

So I left them for the squirrels.

Discuss whatever, but don’t be an ass.