All the wonderful mushrooms, toadstools, brackets, corals and other fungus friends from the Rock!
FAQ
What is the red-purple mushroom pictured in the community's banners and icons?
Tubaria punicea is a rare mushroom that seems to be pretty common on Salt Spring Island. It's part of the island's magic. This fungus can be found on dead ...more ↓
All the wonderful mushrooms, toadstools, brackets, corals and other fungus friends from the Rock!
FAQ
What is the red-purple mushroom pictured in the community's banners and icons?
Tubaria punicea is a rare mushroom that seems to be pretty common on Salt Spring Island. It's part of the island's magic. This fungus can be found on dead arbutus wood, especially dead wood attached to living trees, in autumn.
What other Salt Spring Island communities are there on iNaturalist?
Why aren't my observations of fungi showing up in the collection?
Your observations may not be identified as fungi, or you may have chosen to hide or obscure the location. In either of those cases, administrators can't find them to add to the project! You can add your own observations to the project if you are a member of the project.
Why isn't my fungi identified?
Unfortunately, many fungi look alike. For the best chance of identification, please include photos of the top, gills or pores, and stem. You should smell the mushroom and add what it smells like - if anything - to the observation, as well as mention where it is growing (on straw, on wood chips, on dirt, on moss, on a tree, etc). Even so, many fungi are difficult to tell apart. Many fungi observations on iNaturalist are never identified.
Does this project include lichens?
No, except Lichenomphelia.
What are some online resources to help identify fungi in our area?:
How can I see the images on old journal posts?
The images don't appear because the addresses of image on iNaturalist changed when iNaturalist began using Amazon's nonprofit hosting program for web hosting. If you see a broken image icon, you can just click on it to go to the observation containing the image.
You used my photo on a Mushroom of the Month journal post without asking me, why did you do that?
iNaturalist allows you to select a "license" for your photos. These licenses range from "nobody else should do anything with my photos" (all rights reserved) to "anyone can use my photos for anything they want" (CC0) with all sorts of in-between options. If I used your photos in a journal post, either I made a mistake, or you had a license set on that photo that allowed it to be used in a journal post. If you would like me to remove a your photo from the community journal, it's no problem, just let me know.
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Fungi of Salt Spring Island
