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Scarodactyl posted:I went back to the same trail. Definitely leaning towards at least some of them being chanterelles. Even if I were confident enough in the ID this is too popular a trail with dogwalkers to eat any even if they were bigger.
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Hiking up our usual trail on Lime Ridge in Contra Costa County, CA. On Friday, first time we've been up in weeks due to smoke:   And then back again on Tuesday:    Chicken of the woods! Verified by our mycologist friend. We took two paddles, gave one to him and kept one, we tasted a wee bit on tuesday night when we were at a 95% confidence we'd identified it correctly and saved the rest for after he'd had a direct look (he told us over a text that it was definitely chicken of the woods but we wanted him to actually hold it in his hand and verify before we ate any significant quantity).
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Sep 24, 2020 22:41
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Nice! That looks good and fresh, how do you like it?
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Sep 24, 2020 23:10
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Mmm, those look delicious. Went back to the trail. Orange seems to be a popular color.   There were still some chanterelles but they still look about the same. Plus there were a ton of these with wrinkly white caps and tiny black stems 
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In case anyone's wondering, I decided to give those beer cans a week to season/have covid killed by UV or whatever and then pack them out, need to bring a bag next time we go up which should be in the next few days. We used to pick up trash on sight whenever we go out into parks and stuff but nowadays it's a biohazard. 
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Scarodactyl posted:Plus there were a ton of these with wrinkly white caps and tiny black stems That might be Marasmius sp., but I’m not super familiar with those teeny ones
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Sep 26, 2020 00:21
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Marasmius seems right! A few others I saw had the more classic cap shape I'm seeing online. Went back out, but on a different trail. It just rained so there was a good selection. Tons of corals! I haven't seen these in a very long time.    An earth star! I've only seen the tiny ones before.  Classic LBM  Two buddies (waxcaps?)  Mushroom's paw curls  I guess these are the fruiting body of those fungus that make little spots on leaves.  Yellow chanterelles?  There were also a few jack-o-lanterns which I had never seen in person before. Insanely orange in person!
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Sep 28, 2020 20:28
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I’ve never seen this type of coral, it’s beautiful! Looks like it has antlers.
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Puffballs are out in NC. Any suggestions for how to cook 'em? I like to cut them into strips and batter them and deep fry them. I'm open to suggestions though.
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Oct 1, 2020 21:02
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Dik Hz posted:Puffballs are out in NC. Any suggestions for how to cook 'em? I like to cut them into strips and batter them and deep fry them. I'm open to suggestions though. You can bbq them like steaks. Any way you'd treat a slab of meat will probably work. Just make sure it's solid inside!
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Dried and powdered puffball works as a kind of seasoning and thickener combo! Just be aware it’s hellishly light and dusty, you’d be best served drying chunks and powdering as needed.
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I'd slice 'em up and give them some batter before pan frying them, but this works best with fresh ones.
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Oct 2, 2020 11:03
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    Omphalotus illudens/jackolantern
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Have you ever seen them glow in person? That'd be real neat!
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So what do you guys use for preliminary identification? I had been using picture mushroom but it was just too inaccurate to even give me a decent starting point most of the time. Switched to fungusid.com and that's been better in every way. Any others worth their salt?
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Bi-la kaifa posted:Have you ever seen them glow in person? That'd be real neat! I haven’t yet, I’ve heard it requires a really fresh one and the timing of finding a new flush + not already having a basket full of edibles hasn’t lined up yet GodspeedSphere posted:So what do you guys use for preliminary identification? I had been using picture mushroom but it was just too inaccurate to even give me a decent starting point most of the time. Switched to fungusid.com and that's been better in every way. Any others worth their salt? Old mushroom club members are the best id source  In seriousness though those apps are always going to fall short in a mixture of ways, because mushroom physical traits are frequently pretty variable and because environmental context matters a lot with fungi. iNaturalist for example has helped me get in the neighborhood a few times but often it’s badly wrong. If you’re using them to get down to a genus to start keying that’s probably alright, and it’s handy for a guess when a friend took a photo and you don’t have the specimen. A good regional book and practice keying them out though will give you the savvy to go ‘oh that’s a Hygrophorous’ on your own though 
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Double post for content: Nice little haul of Entoloma abortivum  A false caesars mushroom covered in Hypomyces or some other type of mold  Destroying angel I think 
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GodspeedSphere posted:So what do you guys use for preliminary identification? I had been using picture mushroom but it was just too inaccurate to even give me a decent starting point most of the time. Switched to fungusid.com and that's been better in every way. Any others worth their salt? I go out with an old, experienced hunter. If I can't, I'll take good photo IDs and consult the largest ID group on facebook in my country.
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Went out again, it was a good day for shrooms. There weren't as many corals on this different path but still a couple.   Normal but still fun shrooms.  Not sure why but nothing says fall to me like these guys.   Spiny puffballs?  There were a trio of these guys. In person it looked like they might have white mold on them but they might just be white.    My favorite find was a big cluster of these green and brown slimy-capped mushrooms.  These looked kind of similar minus the slime and were nearby.    This big weird shroom almost looks like a slime mold--very fleshy appearance and clearly didn't mind growing through plants and pieces of wood. On my way out I saw what looked like a shiny ball of bronze-colored plastic:    Never seen a mushroom this metallic. Very cool shroom! Scarodactyl fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Oct 7, 2020 |
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Those slimy green and gold mushrooms are beautiful. Those puffballs reminded me of an Annulohypoxylon thouarsianum I found in Salt Point SP recently, as well as a this bisected polypore I found in Lassen NP (it was already cut open when I found it, thought it was cool to see the pore tubes in section).  
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That shiny rust colored one with the cream leading edge is probably a Ganoderma species
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Saw these today while I was poking around after squirrel. 
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silicone thrills posted:turkey tails? choice edible right?
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Dik Hz posted:Not edible, but you can a tincture out of them. Some claim medicinal properties, but it hasn't been proven. Ah People on the PNW mushroom facebook group go nuts about turkey tails so I was thinkin they were like definite good goods.
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What an appropriate name!
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silicone thrills posted:Ah People on the PNW mushroom facebook group go nuts about turkey tails so I was thinkin they were like definite good goods. Same with chaga if you see people talking about that.
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the yeti posted:Same with chaga if you see people talking about that. Friend of mine who lives with HIV swears drinking chaga infusions has finally gotten his liver numbers in the green. I don't know if there's actually studies on it, but medicinal use by humans really goes way back.
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Tias posted:Friend of mine who lives with HIV swears drinking chaga infusions has finally gotten his liver numbers in the green. I don't know if there's actually studies on it, but medicinal use by humans really goes way back. Huh thats fascinating (and excellent for your friend!) I’ll freely admit to being dismissive because I primarily encounter it either in adverts or alongside turkey tail and other things that ping my medical-magic radar. Ditto Cordyceps.
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Oysters! Didn't love how these tasted. Surprisingly bright, not earthy at all. Still a great find. Probably 5 lbs on the whole log. Only took a little. 
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I've got a book on some common (or at least notable) UK mushrooms, I thought there was a bunch of Honey Fungus nearby but when I went back to pick them, someone else picked them clean literally the same day/day before. I guess they were Honey Fungus after all. So inspired by that, we looked for mushrooms on a walk today. What're these things? Found in UK woodland, mostly beech trees. I've had some guesses based on the book: Stump Puffball (Lycoperdon pyriforme)?  Amethyst Deceiver (Laccaria amethystina)?  Sulpfur Tuft (Hypholoma fasciculare)?  No idea, but it's all whiteness makes me think its something bad.    Some kind of polypore?   No idea.  No idea. ArcticZombie fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Oct 17, 2020 |
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Went out for a hike and had to just stop keeping an eye out there were so many mushrooms. I'll bring a bag next time A PERFECT Earth Star.  Lobster? Think so...  Tons of Boletes everywhere. These three fellows were rather close! Wish I knew my boletes better. Need to do some reading there.  No idea! Pretty though.  Chalky looking, these.  A whole village.  Positively erotic polypore. 
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So crat. tubaeformis (yellowfoot or winter mushroom in the anglosphere, we call them 'funnel chantarelles' in scandinavia) is supposedly all over my forest, going out tomorrow! Wish me luck <3the yeti posted:Huh thats fascinating (and excellent for your friend!) Me too - on the other hand, use by humans has been consistent for so long that it makes sense that there's something to it.
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Tias posted:So crat. tubaeformis (yellowfoot or winter mushroom in the anglosphere, we call them 'funnel chantarelles' in scandinavia) is supposedly all over my forest, going out tomorrow! Wish me luck <3 Ooh good hunting, I haven’t found any of those here yet. ThePopeOfFun posted:Chalky looking, these. Those look to have mold on them
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hello shroom thread, i found these in my parent's backyard. some were slimy, some were not. 
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Is this where I goon out about my increasingly all-consuming new hobby? I found some brown shaggy parasol yesterday! ID process and pics behind the link. https://imgur.com/gallery/MQVgwCU 
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bobmarleysghost posted:hello shroom thread, i found these in my parent's backyard.
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Saw this mushroom the other day, for a second i thought that i was in a alien movie. Also saw this more "normal" looking one. 
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Some ones in Bavaria. Giant Dryad's saddle?   Not sure but lol  There were a ton of these clumps in various states of decay but I couldn't really ID them. Some kind of coprinellus?   Lots of slippery jacks (actually Suillus granulatus)  ???  Greatest Living Man fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Oct 20, 2020 |
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