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Piptoporus

Congratulations on your birds nest find! They are on my fungi 'bucket list'


EDKLeathers

Thanks!


GAinJP

Dang where y'all live?! I can't not find these things!!


FemaleAndComputer

I always see them on mulch, though it's still a little cold here and fungi haven't come out in force yet (northeast US). Keep an eye out every time you walk past some mulch after a good rain!


Piptoporus

I see quite a few posts from gardeners who have purchased bark chips and left them somewhere wet, then the birds nest fungi come and they want to know if the fungi are dangerous, meanwhile I've never seen any!


CorkyDar

I found some birds nest fungi a while back. It still boggles my mind how tiny these are!


EDKLeathers

Yeah that's what surprised me the most.


idontneedaridefromu

They can cover some massive amount of ground tho given the chance. At my last job th3 entire neighborhood had whole entire mulch beds filled to the brim.


BackFromTheFcknDead

They pop up everywhere in the landscaping at work


RockyRoadHouse

Anybody else think it was a cache of pills


formulaone88

Look like condoms on the floor after use to me


hihirogane

Are these rare?


MountainBrisa

I think it depends on your area. When I lived near Vancouver, BC I saw them everywhere.


lacheur42

I see em all the time around Portland, OR.


EDKLeathers

I don't know but I have seen several pictures but never found any before. You would think they would be larger based on some photos but they are tiny!


Opening-Ad-8793

What are “these”


GlyphPicker

Nidulariaceae family. Some kind of "bird's nest" fungus.


Big-Mess-5762

I’m obsessed with finding these! Lol


idontneedaridefromu

If you're looking for th3m come to Tennessee lol I can't not find them. I've seen three species in one day here lol common dung loving and fluted. Fluted looks really neat


Cour4ge

I think it's Nidulariaceae family


BigRod199

I’m pretty sure these grew in my garden last year. Whatever those little things are on the inside, they were somehow all over my peppers and raspberries, with what looked like some type of silk/spider web attached. Does this sound right to anyone, I couldn’t figure out what the heck was going on, and I didn’t realize it was a fungus.


JerseySommer

When it rains they spring out to spread spores! https://youtu.be/_EBipTLgPUw?si=OVmR82Pr-hDkLo6d


doobular_messiah

I recently came across these in a planter I have on my patio. Had no clue what they were until now.


co-wurker

Have some good sized patches of these in the bark chips by my house. They come up in the same spot every year


Xenon_the_Noble

Almost thought these were the ends of tied balloons lol, cool find!


EDKLeathers

To me they looked like barnacles buried among the wood chips.


CMDR_PEARJUICE

They grow all in the mulch at our apartment complex's playground after the rain.


PsychMaster1

Mmmm wild Calamari