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Spent most of Saturday at Mt Adams: Look at these cuties! Don’t know what it’s called.  Violet chanterelles/pig’s ear.  Don’t know what this is???  Dog vomit slime mold  VERY young & juicy dyer’s polypore  Old reishi?  Cute little fir-cone mushrooms  Some kinda russula. I did get some shrimp russula but they were much darker (and had blush pink on the stems)  Alpine jelly cones (they taste like forest water)   Found some small lobsters!! Also found a few chanterelles and hawk’s wing mushrooms but didn’t take pictures.
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Got a couple found in NC, curious if anyone can tentatively id - I know seeing the undersides is helpful for id, but I'm not looking to eat these, so wild guesses are fine by me. Also, I apparently deleted the photos, but we had a willow tree die this spring, and I wasn't sure why. As of a week ago, the base of the trunk and the above ground roots are absolutely covered in what I think are honey mushrooms. Not sure whether the cause and effect is "dead tree causes mushrooms" or "mushrooms cause dead tree".
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To your second thing, mushrooms have some insight into the health of the host tree. Often when they snuff it, get cut, or are blown over it'll trigger a big fruiting as the mycelium hurries to reproduce before the food source is gone. If they really were honeys then it's a mushroom kills tree situation, they're a decay fungus.
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Slugworth posted:Got a couple found in NC, curious if anyone can tentatively id - I know seeing the undersides is helpful for id, but I'm not looking to eat these, so wild guesses are fine by me. They are certainly boletes. Where did you find them, with what trees? Did they stain blue when you bruised the flesh?
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The French Army posted:I think you have either a giant clitocybe or a robusta. The smell makes me think it's the giant, robustas smell bad. I found a few myself yesterday. Ok, got a bit of a spore print. Sadly, no dark paper, There is some staining from where the moisture of the mushroom got on the paper, but it looks like the spore print is pale tan. Or that's just color that seeped from the moisture and the print is actually white.  If I can find some dark paper and some more, I might try another print.
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nadmonk posted:Ok, got a bit of a spore print. Sadly, no dark paper, There is some staining from where the moisture of the mushroom got on the paper, but it looks like the spore print is pale tan. Or that's just color that seeped from the moisture and the print is actually white. I think these are Cloud Funnel Cap (Clitocybe nebularis)
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The French Army posted:They are certainly boletes. Where did you find them, with what trees? Did they stain blue when you bruised the flesh?
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Slugworth posted:In a state park (Carolina Beach, NC) that is largely Longleaf Pine trees, but I'd be lying if I said I checked what type of tree these specifically were growing under. I just snapped the picture real quick because I thought the profile of the cap was so interesting - It looks like a clamshell. Being a state park, I just let them be, didn't try bruising them, or getting a photo of the underside. You could try narrowing down an ID based on the photo and what you recall here: https://boletes.wpamushroomclub.org/ the yeti fucked around with this message at 03:06 on Oct 4, 2023 |
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the yeti posted:You could try narrowing down an ID based on the photo and what you recall here: https://boletes.wpamushroomclub.org/
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I updated the OP adding some notes on what data are important for identification and how to make a spore print! This isn’t directed at anyone posting lately, I just figured it would be good to write some of those things down since some of the items that are helpful are not obvious.
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Slugworth posted:Holy poo poo, that's a lot of species of boletes. If I was making them, I'd have stopped at like, 6 or 7. That seems like enough. Helpful to everyone here, but the Bolete wheel has been helpful to me. On the top right of MycoKey, there is a large pdf of identification wheels with links to wheels further along in the document. Primarily helps narrow down a genus. Huge, tons of info, makes me want to buy the book. And while it describes European fungi, the genus typically carries over to the US quite well.
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Quick hike in central Texas following a big storm yesterday morning. Found what I'm nearly certain is a COW growing from a tree root just at the soil line. They are pretty unmistakable but will wait to try it until I receive confirmation.   This is my first one that I've harvested, definitely open to any tips on how to prepare or what not.
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Yep, harvest that pretty lady asap. There are 3 species of chicken of the woods, one of which is much lighter and apocryphally seems to grow at the dirt line or from lightly buried wood, that looks to be what you have.
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Awesome, thanks for confirming! Very excited about this one. There's a few spots that were against the ground that are very soft, and same on top where it bumped around in my fanny pack. I reckon I'll remove those, cut into strips then try the oven baked method. It's my first time eating these, so I plan to start with one piece and make sure there are no adverse reactions.
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 1. Could this be anything other than COW? My friend ate some already and she said she is fine. 2. Is there anything that can be mistaken for COW and is also seriously poisonous? If it's similar and just not tasty that's not too concerning.
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Looks a lot like CoTW - it's an orange shelf with yellow edges. AFAIK, the only "close" poisonous species is jack o' lanterns, which are not a shelf but an orange, stalked mushroom.
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COOKIE DELIGHT posted:It's my first time eating these, so I plan to start with one piece and make sure there are no adverse reactions. This is smart in general, I don’t know of anyone who’s had a sensitivity to that particular species but stranger things have happened. quote="vonnegutt" post="535080387"] Looks a lot like CoTW - it's an orange shelf with yellow edges. AFAIK, the only "close" poisonous species is jack o' lanterns, which are not a shelf but an orange, stalked mushroom. [/quote] Yeah. Jacks are a similar orange and there are some shelf mushrooms that grow somewhat similar shapes but none really look anything like chicken of the woods.
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COOKIE DELIGHT posted:Quick hike in central Texas following a big storm yesterday morning. Found what I'm nearly certain is a COW growing from a tree root just at the soil line. my go-to is to bread and fry the layers like you would a chicken cutlet (perfect size and shape) and make a fried chicken of the woods sandwich on brioche  with pickles or kimchi Very jealous of the great find!!! I'll be looking this weekend.
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Hot drat that was a tasty mushroom, appreciate y'all's help. Sliced it up and tossed it with oil and seasoning and baked it with some peppers in a hot cast iron at 400. Had it alongside sausage and lentils stew. Had no idea what to expect but I'll definitely be out looking for more after each rain. I also discovered a local meat market has COWs and Lions Mane for sale and that will give me some practice with different cooking methods.
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Went for a walk in the woods in order to find a cave that I read about online. Stumbled upon a lot of mushrooms on the way, most notably a batch of verdigris agaric. Insane colors and gloss!     Some other dudes   Found a lot of chanterelles and funnel chanterelles!   
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Woah! Those agarics are incredible!
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drat I have wanted to see Stropharia aeruginosa in person ever since my Ukrainian neighbor was telling me about “fly agaric, but green.” Jealous of her upbringing around mushrooms as a knowable entity worth understanding and seeking out as opposed to my own, “ignore! dangerous!” childhood. Beautiful mushroom.
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j.peeba posted:Went for a walk in the woods in order to find a cave that I read about online. Stumbled upon a lot of mushrooms on the way, most notably a batch of verdigris agaric. Insane colors and gloss!
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This season has been absurdly dry in Italy, we've got some rain last week. This is the last weekend before the temperature dips near zero and it seems that the only mushrooms that liked it were parasols (drumsticks in italian) My wife is the pink monster hidden in the brush   A little bit of the haul  The stickiest bolete I've ever seen, it even exudes droplets from the sponge, which is compact as hell, you can't see the tubules with the naked eye. It grew in a clump with a dozen others. It's hard as hell, I can squeeze it pretty hard before even denting it.  Little nebularis? 
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Tafferling posted:The stickiest bolete I've ever seen, it even exudes droplets from the sponge, which is compact as hell, you can't see the tubules with the naked eye. It grew in a clump with a dozen others. It's hard as hell, I can squeeze it pretty hard before even denting it. Suillus granulatus?
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 Hoping to confirm this is what I think it is, and ask for any tips for storing or usage. Central TX near Austin.
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COOKIE DELIGHT posted:
I’m actually not sure what it might be but It’s not lions mane if that’s what you’re thinking.
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Gotcha! Appreciate that. I was just about to edit my post to remove the assumption it was an edible toothed mushroom. Might be a spongy toothed polypore? Totally novice guess. Irpiciporus pachyodon? COOKIE DELIGHT fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Nov 15, 2023 |
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COOKIE DELIGHT posted:Gotcha! Appreciate that. I was just about to edit my post to remove the assumption it was an edible toothed mushroom. Based on like 5 minutes of googling I think that's at least in the neighborhood. You could take a piece and do a spore print and all that (see OP for details) if you wanted to get more data for a good ID.
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Saw these softball-sized chokers out in Rochester, WA last weekend: 
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Hard to not love the classic when they show up. Reminds me that I saw some gas station “magic mushrooms” that were labeled A. muscaria. I can’t imagine trusting a gas station product, let alone trusting whoever is manufacturing those to correctly id muscaria. Not to mention that’s not going to be “fun” time if they’re even active. It’s such a bleak product all around to unleash on randos looking for a pick me up.
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It’s a wild year for matsutake:   Above pic has a matsu and a couple Sarcodon fuscoindicus (violet hedgehog), which is highly coveted for textile dye, which are also having a bumper year. More fusco:  Hygrocybe conicodes:  Some snuggling admirable bolete:  Witches’ butter  Cats tongue (I wanna candy these!!)  Cortinarius smithii (used for dyeing)  Cortinarius violaceus, the goth mushroom.  Also found tons of Hygrophorus bakerensis which smells so strongly of sweet almonds. Didn’t take any photos but did shove it in people’s faces and tell them to take a whiff.
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Cool photos! I'm sad that the mushroom season is pretty much over here, everything is dead and dried out but the snow hasn't shown up yet.
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My local farmers market is exploding with mushrooms. Picked up some porchini and some white Oregon truffles. For the latter, is it okay to pre-slice them a while before serving? I may bring them for a Thanksgiving meal and I got a mandolin at home, but transporting that thing to the host's house may be a pain.
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Since most places are pretty dead, I thought I'd share a couple pictures I took while home over the holiday season. I'm experimenting with macro/flash photography. Hoping the next season gives better results as I start trying to do focus stacking (and I also got a new lens  )  I'll add more later.
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biggest boi i've ever seen, keys for scale. central coastal CA
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A waxcap and a toothed jelly fungus  Some hypholoma? pins, trichia decipiens, helvella vespertina?    e: changed to imgbox Greatest Living Man fucked around with this message at 15:06 on Feb 6, 2024 |
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j.peeba posted:Went for a walk in the woods in order to find a cave that I read about online. Stumbled upon a lot of mushrooms on the way, most notably a batch of verdigris agaric. Insane colors and gloss! These are beautiful.
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Xylaria sp.? Another set of trichia decipiens 
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