Si I’m learning about lemon tekking. From what I’m reading it’s the acidic nature of fruit that creates this process. What I’m wondering is, I understand it would need to be consumed and that’s likely undesirable. We’re trying to mimic acid levels of our stomach through fruit. Why can’t we use a ph down and lower our ph even more closer to stomach acids. Theoretically this should work. Why do we use fruits besides the idea ph down would need consumed?

These photos were taken in southwest GA a few minutes ago. It has been very humid and raining intermittently over the past few days. I can't say for certain since I don't have much experience with mushroom ID'ing, but it looks like there might be as many as 6 different mushroom species growing on this dead tree.

Any species identifications would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

https://imgur.com/gallery/25HlGri

Southern Ontario. Found under living spruce and some desidous tree.

Slippery jack or weeping Bolete I think?

Hey im lawn care guy and I found this. Picture describes it. I should’ve taken more pictures, what is it?

Recently got to try fresh huitlacoche, I chopped it up and sautéed it in butter. I was surprised at the somewhat grainy/sandy texture that came from the small black spores, is this normal? I made sure they were properly ripe and rinsed it very well before cooking.

I don't know anything about fungus, other than what it's basically doing in ecology. This image is a new one I found at the horse farm in a shaded shelter on an old tree stump surrounded by manure. It's white with flatish, beige caps, really soft, kinda tastes weird. The horses keep telling me I shouldn't have eaten as much as I did to experiment but what do they know, they left these things here all week for me to find so...

Found these years ago in TN, forty miles apart one day on a drive home from work. I thought it was wild when I saw the first one, how big and beautiful it was, and then when I got home, there was another! So I took a pic of them together.

This morning, I saw a post with a similar find but know that I know less than nothing about these little guys. Except for a fun fact I learned today from a completely unrelated subreddit (r/terraria lol) that mushrooms are closer in taxonomy to animals than plants!

All that to say - the work you all do is such a fascinating intersection of science, art, and downright magic. Thanks for letting us without the knowledge hang out and admire. :)