Speaking of growing fungi.........I remember one particularly hot, humid summer in Missouri. Our old house had several bathrooms near the bedroom area and a toadstool started growing at the base of one of the commodes. Probably because of condensation off the porcelain bowl. We carefully cleaned around it and left it to grow just on general principles. A stool with a toadstool under it. Morels are picky......hunted them all my life when in areas where they are indiginous. Being careful not to harvset so many that the spores are not left for future colonies. They can be found in certain conditions, preferring to grow under the decaying logs of particular species of trees. In our state, May would be way too long to wait to harvest a morel........one watches for particular weather conditions too. It hits here more around a late Easter time.

Hi soaphands :-) Your sweetgum looks like it has ganoderma root rot to me, a symptom of internal or root rot that is fatal. Time to remove the tree. Also it can spread from one root system to another, so the sooner it's removed the better. Several things stressed the tree out to make its immune system give in to a fungus like this - fungus entering a spot where injury occurred like a lawn mower or weedwacker is the most common further stressed by deficiency of water + girdling roots + heat + herbicides applied nearby + genetically weak etc. Best, Bob

smr9479, welcome! To answer your question, as long as the cutting you make has at least two mature leaves (4 or more is usually better), it should root. To make a standard cutting (for your average hoya), you want to cut the stem right BELOW a node (the place where the leaves join to the stem, again making sure there are at least two leaves on the CUT portion of plant- see picture below). For heavier (large leaves or a big cutting) hoyas or hoyas with very small internode stem (stem tissue between two sets of leaves), you want to make a cut directly BELOW a node. You will then remove the leaves from the node. See picture. Keep in mind any long, young vines that have immature or no leaves may die back. But, after it uses the energy to root, it will grow a new vine. Hoya waymaniae, taking a standard cutting: Hoya waymaniae, taking a heavy "duty" cutting (large leaves or very tiny internode space):

on gardening australia's latest show they had a fungii bloke, i learnt a lot! there is a mushroom that is "brown" under and white on top that is now dominant where the field (safe) mushroom used to grow but it is a poison mushroom, so maybe the colour i first described might be the go from pink to a dark purplish maroon (never brown). as mention there before there is that yellow one that looks like and edible but you get the yellow stain on your fingers if you rub it also dangerous. so if you are new into fungii eating then do your research first, and i still say the best way is to find a club they are out there. i only know a couple of varieties and there are many more edibles than that. len Here is a link that might be useful: lens garden page