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Tias posted:what kind of disturbed country do you belong to that B. Edulis is not called some variant of Karl Johan? the yeti 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.
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First chicken this year  Dry but perfectly good bouillon bolete 
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Aug 9, 2021 15:20
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big scary monsters posted:Huh, I knew it is also Steinpilz in German and assumed based on those two examples that stone mushroom was common to germanic languages, but I just looked it up and apparently not! My favourite is the Dutch name, eekhoorntjesbrood or "little squirrel bread". I'm just joshing you :p I think it's particular to Denmark and Sweden only, after the Swedish king Karl XIV Johan, who allegedly loved it.
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Aug 10, 2021 04:56
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Potentially oysters?
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Aug 10, 2021 16:50
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Nope, wrong stipes and gills and they appear to be growing on dirt!
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Aug 10, 2021 17:25
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Yeah, not sure what you got but not oyster family.
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Aug 11, 2021 07:54
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Anyone here eat black-staining polypores? I found a ton and they look really cool. I know a couple people on-line who rave about them, but I hear the texture sucks.
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Aug 16, 2021 15:32
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Dik Hz posted:Anyone here eat black-staining polypores? I found a ton and they look really cool. I know a couple people on-line who rave about them, but I hear the texture sucks. We do, but just the last 1 or 2 inches. I usually cut them into strips and cook two batches- one of the outer edge that I use with eggs and such, and one with the next inch or so in that I cook in something like a curry. The outer edge is very tender, but the next inch is a bit chewy. Kind of like mushroom jerky. We're vegetarian so the texture kind of mimics the mouth feel of meat in a dish, if that makes sense. I know some people eat more than that, but it's not worth it to me especially since they tend to be so huge anyway. ETA- I recommend using gloves when you cut them up, otherwise your hands will look permanently dirty for days. They aren't kidding when they called it 'staining'.
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Aug 17, 2021 18:38
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New to the hobby, but I feel like I've had some beginner's luck on my first few hunts. Right now, there seem to be so many chanterelles in central Illinois.  I don't know what kind of bolete this is:  The underside:  A little paler than most turkey tails that I've seen, not sure if it is one:  Chicken of the woods?  No clue:    I have a field guide ordered, just waiting on the mail, but this poo poo is super fun. I've been walking in the woods my whole life and never bothered to keep my eyes to the ground.
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Aug 18, 2021 16:44
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Yep, that’s chicken of the woods. Pretty boletes there too but unfortunately they’re very regional so I can’t be much help id’ing—try https://boletes.wpamushroomclub.org/ for them.
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Aug 18, 2021 16:58
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Thanks, that's a kickass website. Based on that I think it's a bicolor bolete (Baorangia bicolor) Apparently, good eating but I'm not loving around with that yet. I need to look for a good group around here to forage with.
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Aug 18, 2021 17:40
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Went out my front door just now (half past midnight) and saw a cluster of handsome shrooms that weren't there this afternoon. 
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Aug 21, 2021 05:32
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Aug 21, 2021 19:13
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Given that they're growing on grass and how ubiquitous the species is, if you're in the Eastern half of the US or California, I'd guess them to be Chlorophyllum molybdites
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Aug 23, 2021 16:03
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I think you've got it! Here are a couple higher res closeups, including those greenish gills.  I'll grab some spores and have a look under the microscope in a bit here. Edit: ok, they're....definitely spores. They look like a similar shape to what I'm seeing for false parasols but I don't have the right kind of microscope to do this properly. The mushrooms are finally out, so I braved the August heat and went down to the park for a few shots. I am really liking my current lens, though I still need to get better at using it.   There were a few corals where we saw a lot last year, here's hoping more will come.  Lots of classic boring brown boletes.    
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Aug 23, 2021 19:29
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The woods around my office continue to deliver. Found what I think is a Cornflower Bolete. Yellowish-brown top, yellow pores, and bruised blue:   Might also be this guy? https://boletes.wpamushroomclub.org/product/boletus-pseudosulphureus/#lightbox/2/ Several of these smaller, yellow boletes that I think are Chicken Fat Mushrooms:   Smaller than the bolete above, and more "veiny" looking spores and no blue-ing. Several old man of the woods:   Some of the teeniest little baby boletes I've seen, not sure what they are, too young to tell. Acorn cap in front for scale:  This guy, which looks like a lobster mushroom but is growing on a small log...not sure if lobsters grow on wood, or only from dirt:  And this little group of fellas growing on a stump:   Not sure what they are...maybe some kind of oyster? None of the above were actually harvested since I'm not 100% sure on any of them, other than the old man of the woods. But I got these about a week ago and ate them that night:  Golden chanterelles. They were very good sautéed in butter and garlic. DrBouvenstein fucked around with this message at 19:57 on Aug 31, 2021 |
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Aug 31, 2021 19:51
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I believe you’re right about the chicken fat suillius there, they’re often sticky on top too. That bright orange thing isn’t a lobster but frankly I’ve no idea what it is. If you can revisit it see if it changes shape notably or grows or anything.
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Sep 1, 2021 02:57
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More 'shrooms in a different part of the woods around work. A small patch of Wood Hedgehog/Sweet Tooth:   Several small purple-y mushrooms that are most likely young Purple Laccaria who's caps haven't opened yet:   This orangey/red fellow who might be a cinnabar chanterelle?  And then also found a large patch of more chicken fat mushrooms, and lots of old, dried up corals. And then this guy...some sort of young Amanita? 
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Sep 3, 2021 18:30
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DrBouvenstein posted:are most likely young Purple Laccaria who's caps haven't opened yet: In order, I think you’re right about the laccaria, orange boi has true gills so that’s not a chant, but I’m not sure what it is, and you’re right about that being an amanita
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Sep 3, 2021 20:23
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Jealous of those hedgehogs. I haven't had ANY Luck so far, but going to try again in the foothills north of Seattle this weekend. Other people seem to be having luck there, because there was SOME precipitation. Also, the mycology finally released the fall field trip schedule. It's like loving christmas for me.
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Sep 3, 2021 21:15
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MEIN RAVEN posted:Jealous of those hedgehogs. I haven't had ANY Luck so far, but going to try again in the foothills north of Seattle this weekend. Eh, don't be TOO jealous. All of them have some bites from the cap from squirrels or chipmunks or some other small animal. I'll probably still cook them...I figure after a wash and cook, they'll be fine?
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Sep 3, 2021 22:43
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DrBouvenstein posted:
Yeah, just use your judgement. I’m personally not too proud to eat a slightly buggy or nibbled mushroom if it’s a species I like.
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Sep 4, 2021 03:03
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DrBouvenstein posted:
Maybe an orange waxcap? Michigander here, those are my number one "thought I had chants" from a distance. Big fake out. Cinnabars look near identical to common chants except for color (duh) and size. Usually smaller according to the locals.
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Sep 4, 2021 03:26
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Can someone help me identify these growing in my frontyard?  Southeastern Brazil, in case it helps.
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Only really been looking/foraging wild mushrooms one season, and I managed to find a chicken today: The mushroom laden woods around my office continue to deliver...so far I've gotten chanterelles, various edible boletes, a few russulas, lobsters, and this chicken. And I think I found a couple small oysters, but not confident enough they aren't angel wings or don't other lookalike.  I didn't manage to walk around in the spring when morels would be around, so I'll have to wait till next spring to see if they also can provide for those, ha.
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Sep 21, 2021 04:08
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DrBouvenstein posted:so far I've gotten chanterelles, various edible boletes, a few russulas, lobsters, and this chicken. Nice! Maitake are due basically now too if you get those in your area.
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The woods around here are absolutely bursting with mushrooms of all types right now. I saw a couple hundred of these for the first time in various stages of fruiting- yellow fly agaric?  Also a bunch of these chonkers, no idea what they are-   There are also what look like winecaps and black puffball mushrooms everywhere.
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Arven posted:The woods around here are absolutely bursting with mushrooms of all types right now. I saw a couple hundred of these for the first time in various stages of fruiting- yellow fly agaric? That's a nice one! There are tonnes of red fly agarics around here just now, and I've spotted a few brown ones (Amanita regalis) as well. Shame they're such a hassle to prepare because you could pick them by the kilo if you wanted. I went on a mushroom hike organised by the local foraging club last week and learned several new species I can pick! Got an absolutely huge Boletus pinophilus, which is a new one for me, pretty tasty. And I finally found (and had the experts on hand check for me) a batch of funnel chanterelles, Cantharellus tubaeformis. They're supposedly pretty common in this area but I can never find any. Plus a bunch of regular chanterelles, various Lactarius, and a good-sized Leccinum versipelle. Apart from getting help identifying edible shrooms, it was really fun to have some experts around to point out generally interesting fungi and tell you about them. If you have something similar in the area I highly recommend it. I was also recently in Svalbard, where I missed going on a mushroom hike because I was working. But I did look at lots of weird shrooms that you don't find on the mainland, of which the only confirmed edible ones I got were puffballs. The local delicacy is Lepista multiforme, which I think I found, but there are so many similar, little brown mushrooms that I didn't want to risk it. The guidebook said there are no known deadly mushrooms on the archipelago, but there are a lot of species that have no edibility information because with such a small population no-one has actually tried eating one (and written about it).
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My partner had a successful dog walk and found one of the mushrooms we learned about on the hike the other day: Gomphidius glutinosus. Unfortunately most of them were wormy, but they look pretty cool with the yellow stipe base. Pretty excited to try this one, it's meant to be quite mild but a good accompaniment to seafood. Has an interesting slimy skin on the cap that you have to peel off before eating. Also two good boxes of funnel chanterelles, Cantharellus tubaeformis. 
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big scary monsters posted:
I loving love these types of chantarelles. They pop up through most of the winter in Washington and keep me going outside long after fall chant season has passed. They make amazing pate... Also I need to get off my rear end and post some pics. We had the GREATEST HAUL of golden chantarelles last weekend after going out with the puget sound mycology society. Got another field trip coming up this weekend too, so we'll have to figure out what to do with the next 5 lbs we find..
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MEIN RAVEN posted:I loving love these types of chantarelles. They pop up through most of the winter in Washington and keep me going outside long after fall chant season has passed. They make amazing pate... Yellowfeet are good eating, have a batch in the drier as I write. The finnish mushroom season has beenvery strange because of the bone dry summer we had. The golden chanterelles that popped up very late in the season were nice and firm, but we found practically no boletes. On the plus side, we did find our first batch of Craterellus cornucopioides (loving impossible to spot even if you know a place) and an area with tens and tens of pounds of Albatrellus ovinus. Also decided to spread out into Russulas, since they're a pretty easy genus to identify and should all be safe around here.
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MEIN RAVEN posted:I loving love these types of chantarelles. They pop up through most of the winter in Washington and keep me going outside long after fall chant season has passed. They make amazing pate... Yooo at Truman Glick? I was at that PSMS meetup and my group only found like one or two per person! We also got lost. I am big mad because I haven’t actually found any yellowfoots yet and my only big haul has been a bucket of whites from out near Sol Duc. My only decent patch turned up NOTHING this year.
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Kuule hain nussivan posted:Yellowfeet are good eating, have a batch in the drier as I write. The finnish mushroom season has beenvery strange because of the bone dry summer we had. The golden chanterelles that popped up very late in the season were nice and firm, but we found practically no boletes. On the plus side, we did find our first batch of Craterellus cornucopioides (loving impossible to spot even if you know a place) and an area with tens and tens of pounds of Albatrellus ovinus. Also decided to spread out into Russulas, since they're a pretty easy genus to identify and should all be safe around here. I really want to try C. cornucopiodes, but as you say they're pretty hard to spot. It's been a decent mushroom season in mid-Norway, plenty of wet weather and it seems like everywhere you look you find Lactarius and chanterelles. Most of the boletes are wormy though.
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That one tree on our occasionally-hiked trail sprouted a chicken again this week! You can see down below the stump of where it grew and we harvested last year. My wife insisted on harvesting from this growth, even though it hadn't fanned out yet, because she didn't want it to get too woody; I felt like it should grow another few days. Our edible yield on the left, some regular old grocery mushrooms on the right for scale.  Came out really delicious!  We're calling this "Champignons au Champagne", with onion, capers, deglazed with very dry sparkling white wine, cream, a dash of lemon, and a dash of parmesan.
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MEIN RAVEN posted:Also I need to get off my rear end and post some pics. We had the GREATEST HAUL of golden chantarelles last weekend after going out with the puget sound mycology society. Ohhhh I’ve been meaning to ask if anyone here is involved in something up there. My wife and I are members of the San Francisco Mycological Society and enjoy the forays they do, but next year we’re planning on moving to Seattle. Glad to hear they’re active and going on outings - we don’t know that area very well and would like to piggy back on some forays to learn the land.
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I’ll be at the next PSMS field trip this Saturday, if any goons happen to be in the area
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Found a whole mess of honey mushrooms/fungus, likely Armillaria ostoyae, dark honey fungus.   That last photo is less than half of what just in that small area. The main tree who's roots they were going from is clearly dead, and I guess RIP pretty soon all the nearby hemlock and spruce. Saw them on a walk yesterday (near my office, again...if there is ever any sort of "Last of Us" fungal zombie outbreak, ground zero will be these woods, I swear.) Going back today to collect a bunch...I think these I'll turn into a duxelles to freeze, at least some of them. DrBouvenstein fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Oct 1, 2021 |
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elise the great posted:Yooo at Truman Glick? I was at that PSMS meetup and my group only found like one or two per person! We also got lost. Yes! That very one! We went out with the president (in purple, don't remember his name), and we went up to about 1500 feet and....poo poo. All the chants. If you're going to be at the meeting tomorrow morning (10/2), my lady and I will be there. I'll be in a blue REI rain coat and we'll have matching shoulder creels.
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Guido Merkens posted:Ohhhh I’ve been meaning to ask if anyone here is involved in something up there. My wife and I are members of the San Francisco Mycological Society and enjoy the forays they do, but next year we’re planning on moving to Seattle. Glad to hear they’re active and going on outings - we don’t know that area very well and would like to piggy back on some forays to learn the land. The mycology society up here is AMAZING. One of the oldest and maybe the biggest in the country. The field trips are incredible. They've helped me learn so much. *gush gush gush*
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MEIN RAVEN posted:Yes! That very one! We went out with the president (in purple, don't remember his name), and we went up to about 1500 feet and....poo poo. All the chants. If you're going to be at the meeting tomorrow morning (10/2), my lady and I will be there. I'll be in a blue REI rain coat and we'll have matching shoulder creels. Oh poo poo, that’s awesome! We went uhhhh to the other end of the park itself and found fuckall, really hoping I’m in a lucky group this time. I’ll be there tomorrow for sure, in a blue jacket and a brown high messy bun. Say hi!
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