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Some random shots from my dog walks. This year has been crazy. Dead/lethargic bees (or just no bees which is kind of unsettling), insane clouds of gnats/mosquitoes, plants flowering unpredictably, and more mushrooms than I can remember seeing in the past. loving climate change. I have no idea what any of these are - just posting them because I think they're beautiful and I figure you mushroom nerds like this stuff. Northeastern US, primarily a stand of white pine with some sugar maple and white birch.      
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edit: ignore - I misread the thing I was looking at
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Aug 28, 2019 20:28
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Yeah, I know it isn't a mushroom and you'll have to excuse the photo quality but it is pouring rain and getting dark. So this is monotropa uniflora. I've never seen one in person before. It's a parasitic perennial that doesn't have chlorophyll and so it needs a fungi host which it uses to steal energy from nearby trees. A mycoheterotroph. I looked around a bit but did not see nearby fruiting bodies of the host fungi. The internet says it is probably something in the Russulaceae family. 
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Aug 28, 2019 22:47
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Found my first puffball of the season - about 8" in diameter - while I was walking back to my car from the office. Gingerly placed it on the roof while I got my stuff situated. Proceeded to forget about it and drive off. Goddammit. Knowing my luck that will be the only one I come across this year.
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Sep 11, 2019 23:48
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I had hen of the woods a few years ago, sauteed over pasta. Ironically at the restaurant of the same name in Vermont. Both the mushroom and the restaurant were incredible. Would love to find some this fall. I've prepared some store-bought maitake, which I thought was the same, but it wasn't as good. Could've been the fact that I was guessing at the recipe, but the flesh of the maitake just didn't seem quite right. I probably screwed it up, though.
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Sep 26, 2019 23:48
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I believe theirs was foraged - they had morels as part of another dish the first time I went.
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Sep 27, 2019 12:25
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I'm going to be attempting acorn flour to make biscuits, but those are boring nuts.
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Oct 1, 2019 12:09
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So jealous. Only thing I ended up getting this season was a 6" puffball.
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Oct 28, 2019 12:58
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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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The French Army posted: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. Sauteed with garlic and shallots and a bit of lemon zest. Served it over angelhair. Trip report: delicious.
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Jul 18, 2021 01:25
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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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Corals are probably one of my favorites - such cool structure.
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Jul 24, 2021 22:25
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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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Potentially oysters?
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Aug 10, 2021 16:50
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Safety Dance posted:What's up, shroomers? Did you do something you're proud of this year? Maybe you found a particularly meaty one. Get it burned into your rap sheet forever by posting in the 2021 Achievement Sixxer thread! Doing this.
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Dec 28, 2021 16:22
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Great photos!
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This year has been lacking in tasty shrooms due to zero rain but one of my other favs came back, bigger than ever.
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