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For the last three years, the shiitake colony in my log garden have sent out little scouts in the week after the spring equinox. These are smaller and more eccentric than the regular spring crop--which appears mid-April. Here are this year's early shiitake scouts, right on schedule!

A close-up view of a very tiny shiitake mushroom, peeking out from behind the moss and lichen-covered bark of a white oak log. There are tiny droplets of water across the scene, and delicate snow-white flecks of mycelia dot the surface of the mushroom's cap.
A pair of small, somewhat sqashed and irregular shiitake mushrooms emerge from the space between two lichen- and vine-covered oak logs. A pattern of networked fractures on the surface of the growing mushroom cap traces out the geometry of the underlying mesh of mycelial fibers as it grows and expands.
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@MishaVanMollusq @miguelpergamon These early ones seem to expand in volume almost too vigorously, resulting in bulbous flesh which fractures and regrows in asymmetric clumps and cleaves.

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Oh i didn’t mean the fruiting bodies themselves. I ment there placement into relation to each other

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@MishaVanMollusq They seem to emerge from the darker, danker nooks and crevices, where the logs abut each other. I think they might have grown from the spores that were released the previous year, rather than just from the existing mycelial network -- but that's just a guess.

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