An interesting lesson in mycology from an amazing expert in the field!

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/7365663

And...another article: http://www.mushroomexpert.com/strobilomyces_floccopus.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/mycology/comments/706bba/strobilomyces_floccopus/

Some say you can't ID to species, some say you can. Some say both...go figure!
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/9397138

https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/tiwane/8681-an-inat-introduction-to-mushrooming

Also:
@jwparker2, thanks for the kind words. It's on YouTube, so you can share the YouTube link here: https://youtu.be/LKF_pIY0Zpc

Tony

I knew what a mushroom looked like in general, as well as those white and brown "store bought" varieties. That was about it for me.
The Wikipedia work on identification was an EXCELLENT starting point for me:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom#Identification

Next, some clear photographic examples are a huge help:

http://americanmushrooms.com/

For some of the very BEST of the best observations:

Basically all Observations of the Day are added to this project:

There may be a few missing, but it's pretty complete

http://www.inaturalist.org/projects/inat-observation-of-the-day

Somehow I stumbled upon this on the website:

https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/press

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/7415147