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This year was awful in Central Europe. In addition to everything you mentioned, the elderberry haul was weak and the blackberries barely came in. Even the nettles looked sad.
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extra stout posted:Been a poo poo season so far and I haven't gotten out as much as I did last year but I wanted to thank everyone who shares pictures, it's a small thread here so I don't want to quote every picture and freeze young people's cell phones but they're great I mostly just collect stuff to propagate, but last year was a big year here for some stuff. Chinese chestnuts in particular were loaded, but they're pretty reliable, and the Shumart and other red oaks seemed to drop alot, but it was an off year for live oaks and white oaks. This year has been crazy for the live oaks and my yard is basically mulched in acorns. Looks like lots of hickories pretty loaded in the woods. Do you actually eat hickory nuts? I tried one once and it was pretty good, but I think the caloric expenditure to fiddle all the meat out of those stupid nuts would have to outweigh what you'd put into your body. Last big year for beech nuts I remember was 2016 (because I wanted to start some seeds-no luck there), but they don't seem to produce very often. My walnut doesn't seem to be doing much, but its definitely a big year for the pecans. The old-timers always say you get a big pine seed crop after an active hurricane season and we've definitely had a busy one, so we'll see if there's truth in that in the spring.
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# ? Nov 11, 2018 17:25 |
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People's lawns are exploding in the Pacific Northwest right now. This is from an oak-lined street on my walk to work this morning.
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# ? Nov 12, 2018 17:12 |
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:We had chanterelles here all summer when they're usually just around in June/July. Hell yeah nut bud, and yes hickory nuts are probably my #1 nut, shagbark hickory, carya ovata I believe, if you can't get the method down quickly I'd honestly just hit them with a palm sized rock and then pick out the 1-2 chunks that aren't mashed and eat them on the spot (or do it for an hour and fill up a jar for cooking), you can also take all the shells that have some hickory nut mashed in them and pile them on a stump as bait for a squirrel hunt, legal in every state that I'm aware of, even the lovely ones that ban deer baiting A Pack of Kobolds posted:People's lawns are exploding in the Pacific Northwest right now. This is from an oak-lined street on my walk to work this morning. Amanita muscaria is entirely unregulated federally and regulated in only a single state, meaning you can dry those caps and sell them over the internet if you feel like it, meaning you could also PM me if you find a few more preferably not so close to the road extra stout fucked around with this message at 16:30 on Nov 25, 2018 |
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extra stout posted:Amanita muscaria is entirely unregulated federally and regulated in only a single state, meaning you can dry those caps and sell them over the internet if you feel like it, meaning you could also PM me if you find a few more preferably not so close to the road Are they worth ingesting? I know very little about the effects of muscimol. I found a large patch of amanita pantherina growing in a park a few weeks ago and I should have thought of collecting them to sell.
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# ? Nov 27, 2018 02:06 |
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extra stout posted:Hell yeah nut bud, and yes hickory nuts are probably my #1 nut, shagbark hickory, carya ovata I believe, if you can't get the method down quickly I'd honestly just hit them with a palm sized rock and then pick out the 1-2 chunks that aren't mashed and eat them on the spot (or do it for an hour and fill up a jar for cooking), you can also take all the shells that have some hickory nut mashed in them and pile them on a stump as bait for a squirrel hunt, legal in every state that I'm aware of, even the lovely ones that ban deer baiting Are the Amanita worth much? They were all over everywhere in the woods last year-haven’t seen as many this year. They look like they get a little funky/rotten when they get big vs. the little button that comes out of the ground. Is one better than the other?
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# ? Nov 27, 2018 05:11 |
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Bi-la kaifa posted:Are they worth ingesting? Not unless you hate yourself in a very particular way.
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# ? Nov 27, 2018 15:17 |
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Do: enjoy a shamanistic ritual nature has been gifting us for millennia. Decarboxylate first for less discomfort Don't: commodify the fun guys and let capitalism corrupt this spiritual shard. Also selling drugs on the internet is dodgy regardless of legality. Mailing your internet friends gifts seems more ok, just my opinion.
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# ? Nov 27, 2018 19:10 |
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Epitope posted:Do: enjoy a shamanistic ritual nature has been gifting us for millennia. Decarboxylate first for less discomfort You're not truly respecting the Siberian elders unless you get a reindeer to eat them first and drink the deer piss from a wooden bucket
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# ? Dec 10, 2018 01:42 |
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Hi, I saw this in California by either a large oak or pine tree. Didn't want to try to cut it or mess with it too much in case it was full of eggs, and it was stuck to the stick pretty good—I picked the stick up to put over the rock for better contrast. Seems like the stick wouldn't be enough to support a fruiting body of that size, but maybe it fell off after getting heavy, and this seems like the right place to ask. Is this something that can come out of a twig if a saprophyte (endophyte?) was snaking out through the whole branch? Fake edit: I looked up the right keywords before posting, and it is probably an "oak gall," which is like a hack that wasps use to get the tree to grow a tumor for its larvae to live in. I figure it fits here because it can catch your eye like a mushroom, and is worthy of caution.
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# ? Dec 11, 2018 23:24 |
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Stinky_Pete posted:Fake edit: I looked up the right keywords before posting, and it is probably an "oak gall," which is like a hack that wasps use to get the tree to grow a tumor for its larvae to live in. I figure it fits here because it can catch your eye like a mushroom, and is worthy of caution. It actually is worth pointing out! When the empty galls fall into the leaf litter they sure as poo poo look mushroom cap shaped at a distance.
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# ? Dec 12, 2018 15:12 |
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Went to Natural Bridges park in Santa Cruz, on the Monarch butterfly trail yesterday. No monarchs in sight (cloudy day and too cold for them to fly) but I did catch a few inedible mushrooms! Full album: https://imgur.com/gallery/HFxQvlW Either False Chanterelle or Jack o' Lantern ☣️ I'll post spore prints in a follow-up Ink Caps Likely clitocybe flaccida Hygrocybe? No shortage of hemlock Miner's Lettuce among the ivy Bloomin' Ivy (the butterflies drink the nectar)
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# ? Dec 25, 2018 23:38 |
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Here's the spores The clitocybe dried up overnight so the spore print is bigger than the cap, lol Without the cap: Orange boi I also took spores of the inkcap but it was like a third of the cap and you can't really see it
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# ? Dec 25, 2018 23:49 |
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I know its 2019 now but I found some good shrooms on my parent's apple tree Sorry the photos aint great, my phone did NOT want to focus on them
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# ? Jan 20, 2019 06:04 |
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Neato, all! Well had.
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# ? Apr 1, 2019 08:36 |
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Here's some poo poo to start the new year! Akanthomyces aucleatus, and yes it's an insect pathogen
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# ? Apr 2, 2019 03:14 |
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Morels are just starting to pop here in Tacoma WA. Found about a dozen babies in a city park:
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# ? Apr 7, 2019 19:07 |
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Siamang posted:Morels nice! None here yet afaik but it only just started to warm up this week
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# ? Apr 9, 2019 14:57 |
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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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# ? Aug 22, 2019 00:08 |
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I think the two red mushrooms are Russula spp., but I wouldn't bet any money on it without being there in person. Russula tend to be brittle and chalky in texture. Many Russula are edible and none are dangerous (outside of Asia) - you can tell the difference between edible and non-edible by a taste test - though I've never eaten any. I'm not suggesting to eat them, but if you're interested in eating wild mushrooms at some point, this gives you a place to start your research.
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# ? Aug 22, 2019 22:08 |
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I think the greenish one is turkey tail, or some polypore that's closely related to it. I recently did a hike through the Monashees, and it's been a comparatively wet summer in that neck of the woods. I've never seen such a bounty of mushrooms. Lots of boletus, russulas, coral fungus, and a bunch of other stuff I couldn't identify. I don't normally see any mushrooms until October. I just hope everything keeps fruiting long enough for me to get out and pick some stuff.
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# ? Aug 28, 2019 06:17 |
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Bi-la kaifa posted:I think the greenish one is turkey tail, or some polypore that's closely related to it. Agreed.
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# ? Aug 28, 2019 20:12 |
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edit: ignore - I misread the thing I was looking at
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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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Yup! I don’t know how specific they are but I tend to find them in conjunction with russulas
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# ? Aug 28, 2019 23:09 |
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Double posting but I finally found a species I'd wanted to check off for a while! Indigo milk cap: Also found Dyer's polypore:
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# ? Aug 31, 2019 00:36 |
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That indigo milk cap is amazing
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# ? Aug 31, 2019 15:08 |
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Harry Potter on Ice posted:That indigo milk cap is amazing Right? And those are pretty old dry ones. If you google the fresh young ones are incredibly colored.
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# ? Aug 31, 2019 17:36 |
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the yeti posted:Right? And those are pretty old dry ones. If you google the fresh young ones are incredibly colored. Whoa! You weren't lying. This is a cool thread I'm excited to learn more about mushrooms
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# ? Aug 31, 2019 22:43 |
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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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the yeti posted:Double posting but I finally found a species I'd wanted to check off for a while! I looked up the indigo milk cap on Wikipedia as my brother in law gets white mushrooms which bruise very blue regularly in SW France, but that seems to be the only place in Europe where they are found which is weird. Is there some other blue bruising mushroom they could be confused with? E: it was definitely edible and looked a lot like that, it definitely wasn't a psilocybin distortion park fucked around with this message at 10:58 on Sep 15, 2019 |
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Seen outside Bend, OR, in late August. Puff balls? In Seattle, mid-September, growing on an oak Seen yesterday morning on my neighbor's lawn Somebody else picked it, but at least it gave a good view of the gills.
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# ? Sep 26, 2019 23:02 |
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Those first two are indeed puffballs, but I'm not sure what species you get around there. The second , that rich mahogany reminds me of Ganoderma species, but I thought they lived on conifers exlusively so I'm not sure what it could be (or else I'm wrong) If you've had some cool weather where you are it might be time to get out there looking for maitake/hen of the woods! I've found two in the last week or two, and a whole new selection of fall boletes have started coming up.
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# ? Sep 26, 2019 23:33 |
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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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The flavors can definitely vary-- I dunno if maitake is farmed on a large scale but who and when the restaurant bought theirs could totally change the flavor compared to the supermarket ones.
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# ? Sep 27, 2019 00:10 |
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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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We get a huge fruiting of chicken of the woods every year, right at the base of a huge oak tree in front of my house. Well, the tree is gone, but the stump is still there. This year's harvest was truly tremendous. Got 20 lbs of harvest from it this year, with a lot left on the stump. Nearby neighbors also have some fruitings at the base of their trees. The 30 lbs was split with 3 of my friends, and we still have a few pounds in the freezer. It freezes pretty okay. I've been told I'm crazy for not trying to sell this, but Helps to get at it while it's still kind of pale. The darker the yellow/orange coloring, the tougher the flesh, I've found. My favorite way is to cut them up into nugget sizes pieces, marinate in buffalo sauce for a bit, grill em up til they're crispy around the edges, and dip in the buffalo sauce while poppin' em in. Edit: Here I am makin' crazy eyes, posing next to it for size reference. This is 2 weeks ago? after a harvest, you can see a section cut away. It goes back to the tree stump you see in the background Rotten Cookies fucked around with this message at 12:35 on Sep 30, 2019 |
# ? Sep 30, 2019 12:28 |
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Tiny boletuses are popping up around my yard. Not sure if they're food worthy.
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# ? Sep 30, 2019 23:25 |
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Rotten Cookies posted:We get a huge fruiting of chicken of the woods every year, right at the base of a huge oak tree in front of my house. Well, the tree is gone, but the stump is still there. This year's harvest was truly tremendous. Got 20 lbs of harvest from it this year, with a lot left on the stump. Nearby neighbors also have some fruitings at the base of their trees. The 30 lbs was split with 3 of my friends, and we still have a few pounds in the freezer. It freezes pretty okay. I've been told I'm crazy for not trying to sell this, but Still haven't tried these as popular as they are, nice looking harvest though. Why the buffalo sauce? Most of the choice mushrooms people just add a bit of fat to and try to let some of the mushroom flavor stick around. Still, it sounds good. Bi-la kaifa: I'm not sure on the species but at that size it goes without saying I probably wouldn't risk it, still great photographs. Do we have anyone here harvesting nuts this week or last week? I want to make a thread but as usual I'm behind schedule and this subforum seems impossible to revive.
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I'm going to be attempting acorn flour to make biscuits, but those are boring nuts.
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