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Scarodactyl posted:Still not seeing a lot of mushrooms here in central NC, but I did spot these guys That’s one hell of a camera you’ve got. Jeez. Great photos
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gently caress yes, for some reason sulphur polypore ("Chicken-of-the-Woods") is growing all over the lake meadow nearby! Going to eat so many <3
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Jun 7, 2021 13:36
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Tias posted:gently caress yes, for some reason sulphur polypore ("Chicken-of-the-Woods") is growing all over the lake meadow nearby! Going to eat so many <3
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Jun 7, 2021 15:22
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Dik Hz posted:Chicken of the woods grows off wood, so I assume you mean trees/stumps in the meadow and not directly off the grassy soil? Yeah, on oak and willow on the paths surrounding the heath.
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Jun 7, 2021 19:51
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Tias posted:Yeah, on oak and willow on the paths surrounding the heath. Cool! Post pics! Those are quite striking.
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Jun 7, 2021 20:00
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It's finally raining here in the southeast US. Now it just needs to heat up a bit and the summer mushrooms should start popping up. Black trumpets are a personal favorite and my goal for the season is to find a local patch. The places I know are >45 minutes from my house. I'm curious what everyone else is looking forward to finding this summer.
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Jun 9, 2021 13:07
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I’m going to check a spot that produces trumpets and summer boletes this weekend — my gut says it’s early for boletes but a local guy found some edulis -alikes this week so it’s worth a look. In general big goal this season is to check some new habitat and get away from mushrooming in parks. I wanna head north a little and get into some undisturbed hardwoods and poke around some extensive hemlock and other conifer turf. the yeti fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Jun 9, 2021 |
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Jun 9, 2021 15:34
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I forgot if I posted in this thread but I had some straw left over from seeding the yard and the tree crew in the park gave me some wood chips so I planted some Wine Caps and can't wait for them to pop up!
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Jun 9, 2021 15:43
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Seattle based goon here. We went to some of our Morel spots on the East side of the Cascades where we've had some luck in the past and...it's just been a lovely year. There hasn't been any precipitation on the east side in months. Even the seasoned professionals weren't having much luck. I gave up on the year after my third trip, going to turn my attention to summer Boletes in the mountains. I'm mostly biding my time until that sweet sweet Chantarelle season...
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Jun 11, 2021 22:39
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It's Chanterelle season here in NC. A nice patch popped up in my side yard. I'm going to water them and see if I can't get them to grow a bit. I'll post pics when I get a chance. Anyone else finding anything good?
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Jul 6, 2021 16:27
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I got into some black trumpets but two or three times now tiny flushes of chants have started and then no more rain happened and they stayed tiny. We need like a week of rain.
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Jul 6, 2021 19:59
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I've found a couple of nice sized chicken of the woods recently, but that's about it so far this season.
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Jul 7, 2021 01:44
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While walking in the woods (northern VT) lightly looking for chanterelles (I don't think it's quite that tone this far north yet?) I saw this fellow:  All red cap, yellow/orange-ish stem. Tried to get a pic of the underside, but I didn't have enough room and they were all blurry, whether with flash or without, and even in macro mode. Just curious what it might be since I don't recall seeing red mushrooms in my area before. DrBouvenstein fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Jul 13, 2021 |
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Jul 13, 2021 19:15
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Hard to tell without seeing the underside but one of the wax caps (genus Hygrocybe) would be my best guess
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Jul 13, 2021 22:07
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Any PNW goons finding button chantarelles in the Puget Sound area? I've seen some Facebook posts, but nowhere near my usual spots (Hood Canal, Stanwood, Olympia). I'm so loving jealous of you people with your chantarelles and your RAIN. Pft.
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Jul 14, 2021 00:44
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I crawled over half the Port Gamble trails Sunday on a tip from a friend and found nothing but a hornet nest ouch. That said, I was hiking with a grouchy toddler and a mushroom-indifferent ex, and nursing an injured leg, so I wasn’t able to really get up under the salal like I wanted to.
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Jul 14, 2021 03:44
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Hello friends I found some big boys outside my office.   Pretty positive they're netzstielige Hexenröhrlinge, a.k.a. Suillellus luridus. Look at that staining! And some wrinkly boys! 
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Jul 14, 2021 13:51
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We've had a lot of rain here lately (sorry, west coast) and I took a quick walk in the woods around my office and drat I spotted a lot of fun guys! ( ) (sorry...I'm so, so sorry.)Woods are mostly hardwoods...lots of birch, some beechwood and what I think are elms? Three stages of what I think are scaly ink caps:    Curiously, an app labels them as poisonous, but with a note that maybe only if you've recently had alcohol? Certainly a hard pass regardless. Near those are about a half dozen of what I think are lobster mushrooms? Hard to find anything else that's this orange, pores, and no real stem:   I found what I think are several Boletes, not sure if they're all the same species:     Something was going to town on these, it looks like. These small white fellows on a dead log...log was too decomposed for me to tell what kind of tree it used to be, other than like 80% it's a hardwood. Might be flat oysterlings, or possibly angel's wings? Either way, definitely not regular, edible, oyster mushrooms as far as I can tell:   Then I moved into the part of the woods that was mostly pine. Found these small, smooth brown bois...look to be maybe fairy ring or clustered toughshanks:   But they're also similar to some non-edible and poisonous ones. Edit: One of my mushroom ID apps also says it could be oak-loving collybia, which is poisonous vs the other too possibilities that are edible. And lastly, again amidst the pine-y section of the woods, lots of these guys...could be edible blackening brittlegills...or deadly, deadly ivory funnels!   No plans to go and harvest any of the ones that I think are edible, because of the world THINK. Maybe the lobster and boletes, if that's indeed what they are (I'll see if I can get more pictures and do more comparisons in the various mushroom ID apps I have.) But that last one, I have gone back and looked at the gills and shape of the head and don't think I could reliably tell the difference between those two look-a-likes. Gonna pass on that regardless, I think. The biggest hint it might NOT be the poisonous ivory funnel is that they're a fall mushroom, and the brittlegills are summer. DrBouvenstein fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Jul 15, 2021 |
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Jul 15, 2021 18:59
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My dog scored what I believe is a chicken of the woods on our walk today. I've never been lucky enough to find (or eat) one before. Found at the base of an oak just out of sight of the road - which is probably why no one had grabbed it yet. I marked it on GPS because I have heard that they sometimes grow back after being harvested. There's three or four other old oak trees right nearby so I might get lucky.
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Jul 16, 2021 19:09
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I'm going to have a crack at making tempeh in the coming days I imagine it's very similar practice to something like the PFteck or bulk spawn Anything I might be missing?
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Jul 17, 2021 00:18
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FreelanceSocialist posted:My dog scored what I believe is a chicken of the woods on our walk today. I've never been lucky enough to find (or eat) one before. Found at the base of an oak just out of sight of the road - which is probably why no one had grabbed it yet. I marked it on GPS because I have heard that they sometimes grow back after being harvested. There's three or four other old oak trees right nearby so I might get lucky. Yep that’s a nice looking one! They don’t necessarily come back in the same year or even subsequent ones but they almost certainly will sooner or later so definitely mark spots
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Jul 17, 2021 06:51
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FreelanceSocialist posted:My dog scored what I believe is a chicken of the woods on our walk today. I've never been lucky enough to find (or eat) one before. Found at the base of an oak just out of sight of the road - which is probably why no one had grabbed it yet. I marked it on GPS because I have heard that they sometimes grow back after being harvested. There's three or four other old oak trees right nearby so I might get lucky. That'a a turbo score right there. If it's too much to eat all at once you can freeze it. Laetiporus is one of the few mushrooms that actually freezes well.
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Jul 18, 2021 01:25
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elise the great posted:I crawled over half the Port Gamble trails Sunday on a tip from a friend and found nothing but a hornet nest ouch. That said, I was hiking with a grouchy toddler and a mushroom-indifferent ex, and nursing an injured leg, so I wasn’t able to really get up under the salal like I wanted to. I can confirm that I've found chants and yellowfoots there as recently as last year. I was a little late, so will probably make another visit in prime season this year. Speaking of salal, I didn't find crap in Banner Forest on Saturday, but I did come away with bunches of berries. So, score.
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Jul 20, 2021 00:46
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UnSmith posted:I can confirm that I've found chants and yellowfoots there as recently as last year. I was a little late, so will probably make another visit in prime season this year. Speaking of salal, I didn't find crap in Banner Forest on Saturday, but I did come away with bunches of berries. So, score. Are chants still poppin on the high back hill behind the cut? Or are they all in the old woods?
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Jul 20, 2021 03:18
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Some wonderful wood ears. Middle of my city, so I didn't take any. Some of the biggest I've seen, all along this log.
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Jul 20, 2021 14:34
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elise the great posted:Are chants still poppin on the high back hill behind the cut? Or are they all in the old woods? I mostly looked in the old woods (I believe) on the South/Southeast side of the park. I literally parked, walked 3 mins in, stepped off trail and found chants last December. Mostly late season, but the yellowfoots were a nice score at the time.
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Hmm, I found a great spot that made all my chant alarms go off, but I didn’t even find buttons. Guess I’ll keep poking it!
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Jul 20, 2021 20:52
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Black trumpets! It will probably take me an hour to clean them, though. There's maybe a pound there, along with just as much dirt. Also spotted a bunch of what I think were American Caesars but I wasn't a hundred percent confident so I left them alone. FreelanceSocialist fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Jul 24, 2021 |
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Jul 24, 2021 21:44
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I mostly just mushroom hunt in my back woods these days due to small kids who either try to put everything in nature into their mouths and/or can’t handle off trail stuff. They get a huge kick out of it though, especially the color changing shrooms like blushers and purple bruising boletes! some crown tipped coral.  shaggy manes of various ages. There must have been 100 all around this tree.  chicken of the woods. My kids LOVE eating this one, so it’s always exciting to find.
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Jul 24, 2021 22:04
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Corals are probably one of my favorites - such cool structure.
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I've got access to 30 acres of old growth hardwood forest, so I've been on the lookout for chicken or hen of the woods since I first found this thread. Today I thought I hit the motherlode with this- It was everywhere in this one spot. Both of the ones in the picture are bigger than my head, and there were half a dozen more bunches of the same size scattered around. I didn't pick any because I didn't have good cell service and couldn't confirm the coloring. Unfortunately... I'm pretty sure it's Black Staining Polypore or one of the other edible-but-not-tastey lookalikes. The bottoms all were smooth and had no gills, so I gotta go back tomorrow and break off a piece and see if it stains black. My wife is already saying I'm not allowed to eat it regardless, but is google right when it says there are no poisonous hen of the woods lookalikes?
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Jul 28, 2021 03:11
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Arven posted:there are no poisonous hen of the woods lookalikes? I don’t know if that’s true or not but if you’re in North America and you confirm the black staining that’s either Meripilus giganteus or Meripilus sumstinei.
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Jul 28, 2021 03:40
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Arven posted:My wife is already saying I'm not allowed to eat it regardless, but is google right when it says there are no poisonous hen of the woods lookalikes? That looks like white-pored chicken of the woods (Laetiporus cincinnatus). Black-staining polypores are tasty as well, though.
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Jul 28, 2021 12:53
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Found a couple chanterelles while hiking about. I didn't pick 'em since there were only 3 of them. Location: Piedmont Triad of North Carolina.
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I wasn't able to get out to the woods again until today, and I had convinced my wife to let me eat it if I could ID it, but unfortunately the bugs beat me to the mushrooms. They were all swarming with gnats and looked like they had just started to get too old. I picked one anyway just to try to ID it and it looks like it was not a black staining polypore! No black or brown stains when cut. Oddly though the whole thing got light brown splotches all over it about 15 minutes after I picked it.
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Haven't done too much shrooming this year but the season has arrived in mid-Norway and we got a decent haul walking the dog yesterday. Found several new chanterelle spots, but we already have a good amount so just took a few and marked the location for future harvesting.  Got a good number of fåresopp (Albatrellus ovinus, Sheep polypore) just off the side of the trail. We were unsure if they might be the similar, inedible but not dangerous franskbrødsopp (lit. French bread mushroom, Albatrellus confluens) because of the fused stems. But they went yellow when heated and tasted nice and mild and not bitter, which is expected of the edible species.   From a distance we thought these guys might be either furumatriske or granmatriske (saffron milkcap /false saffron milkcap, Lactarius deliciosus and Lactarius deterrimus). But they were slimy to the touch and up close the colouring and underside were clearly incorrect. Any ideas? They were in a somewhat damp clearing in spruce/pine forest.   Also spotted a number of large steinsopp (Penny bun, Boletus edulis), unfortunately all badly wormeaten. Also in evidence and duly sampled: wild strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, bilberries and crowberries. And these mystery shrooms, which I didn't pick and forgot to get better photos of.  Lunch today! Top to bottom: Albatrellus ovinus, Cantharellus cibarius, and Lactarius deliciousus  Larger photos: https://imgur.com/a/6FfE3sN big scary monsters fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Jul 31, 2021 |
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Hella jelly about all these mushrooms people are finding. It's till bone-rear end dry in the Pac NW. But now we have smoke! Also, I dream about the day I can find some black trumpets...
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big scary monsters posted:
Did you try cutting the gills to see if it leaked anything at all? It's definitely a shape I would think it was some kind of milkcap. Edit: Will edit some pics in shortly but my season so far has been a mixed bag. The typically ubiquitous chanterelles have hardly got enough rain to pop up, but on the other hand I've found a pile of choice early season boletes including Boletus separans and Tylopilus alboater that I normally don't see in abundance. Old man of the woods (Strobilomyces sp.) in abundance as well. Leccinellum rugosiceps  Tylopilus plumviolaceus (insanely bitter species)  Retiboletus griseus "Grey bolete"  Boletus separans "lilac bolete"  Tylopilus alboater, "black velvet bolete"  Butryiboletus frostii "Frost's bolete"  Phylloporus rhodoxanthus, "Gilled bolete"  (Yes, I focus on boletes a bit) the yeti fucked around with this message at 01:56 on Aug 3, 2021 |
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big scary monsters posted:
what kind of disturbed country do you belong to that B. Edulis is not called some variant of Karl Johan?  No seriously, great pics and good haul!
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