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   Pretty sure this was a Frost's Bolete, bruised blue with an olive spore print and everything. It was covered in little mites or something, and I wasn't 100% on the ID, so I didn't try, but she's a beaut. any possible look alikes?
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As far as I know the deep reticulation and cherry red all over is unique. If you saw little critters on it springtails are pretty common.
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:Frost's Bolete? I'd bet money on it, but I'm not good with boletes in general.
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No good pics at the moment but it's turning into a decent season for chanterelles and milkcaps here in Norway. Seems like all the boletes are super worm-eaten or rotten though, been pretty warm and rainy of late so maybe that has something to do with it. I stumbled over a big patch of sheep polypores on a recent walk that someone had wrecked apparently by kicking them to pieces, it was very sad.
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Aug 16, 2022 01:57
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Yeah my sister in Sweden is raking in the chanterelles and I’m jealous because this year in NY has been terrible
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Aug 16, 2022 02:18
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It's been nuts for good, clean chicken of the woods here in SE Michigan. I've seen other people posting chanterelles for days but every single one I've found got thrown out on exam.
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Aug 16, 2022 03:25
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I’ve found gently caress all for chants this year 
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Think I just found some, I'm in northwestern Virginia by the way, near Franklin, WV. I have no experience with chanterelles IRL but aside from not having ridges, these seem to match the description. I think they might be a bit too old as the tops and gills are a little cracked/flaking/slashed looking in some areas, but they seem to fit the profile. Texturally, they're very sturdy and smooth, feel similar to chicken of the woods. And I believe I caught a whiff of that apricot/fruity smell when I picked them. Found at the foot of an old oak.    Thoughts? Also found what I believe to be a slimy violet cort:    Stringy mucus from touching the cap. Almost looked like a plastic Easter egg from that color. And I think I caught a glimpse of some rusty red spores on the stem. E: not sure what this one could be but maybe someone here will know. growing on a dead branch  
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Aug 17, 2022 02:02
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Yep, thems chanterelles—some species are paper smooth underneath. Likewise got it right on the viscid violet cort. Last ones a hexagonal pored polypore.
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Aug 17, 2022 03:41
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Yeah those are chants. Nice find! If you’re going to forage for chants on the east coast, read up on Jack’O’Lanterns and make sure you know the difference.
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:Also found what I believe to be a slimy violet cort: Definitely a Cortinarious but not a C. violaceus, those have rough caps, not slimy. Perhaps a viscous violet cort, Cortinarius iodes? Those are slimy and lilac.
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Yeah to be clear that’s iodes, round here people call them viscid violet corts.
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Found some cool fungus while walking the dog yesterday. Not a great photo, but I think it is Hydnellum peckii, which I haven't seen in Norway before. They were growing among some pine trees. They aren't edible but according to Wikipedia can be used in a dye.
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Aug 18, 2022 16:44
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my scrunchies from 8th grade!
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Just found these weirdies in my bok choi patch. Any ideas? iNaturalist thinks they are cyathus, but didn't have any pictures close to them.
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Looks like some variety of birds nest fungi to me.
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Spent a long weekend in northern WI, got out on a very productive shroom hunt. it had been raining for days and stuff was popping everywhere there's some i'm not sure of, feel free to give an id if you know it  TONS of aminita muscaria       russula mariae maybe? didn't take a pic of the gills  chlorociboria aeruginascens  i saw a bunch of dead wood stained teal all over the woods before seeing any fruiting bodies there were some of these coming up in a lawn in clusters, could not figure out what they were. they were super attractive though, they made me want to eat them  some kind of pholiota, probably squarrosa?  my phone died just as i was snapping this pic, apologies i didn't get a good one. the toothy gill things were very cool. definitely a northern tooth fungus lastly, the fun stuff. there were boletes of all kinds in the woods. this was my first time attempting to take any, so i was a little shaky on the ids. i didn't take a lot of pics though unfortunately...    these bruised blue immediately, so i knew to leave them. unsure of species. it was around here i started getting excited and stopped taking pictures  this is the next day after harvesting, hence the bruising. pretty certain these are aspen boletes, but they have quite a bit of variability in top color. normal? also the oddball up top, which felt really light and has a yellowish stipe and pores with no scabers. no bruising blue though. can't decide if i want to toss it, as everything i read says boletes are all fine to eat if they don't bruise blue, have red pores, or taste bitter. (also a pheasantback snuck into the shot)  main event #1. king boletes! I didn't even realize what i had at first! when i was in the woods I just grabbed them because they passed the above test. i was researching the next day and realized they all had that distinctive webbing on the stipe  these things are insanely difficult to spot, i can't believe i stumbled onto them.  black trumpets!! i've had no expectation of ever finding these. i was so stoked to even see them, let alone harvest so many. i don't even know what i'll do with them all, but i'll have to dry a bunch here's a bonus pic of some lobsters we nearly stumbled over on a hiking trail near duluth a few weeks ago. made a delicious risotto with them  plus a few others. i couldn't figure out if they were true or false chants, but we only found a few so didn't bother attempting an id.
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What a haul!
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Hooplah posted:. Trumpets are an A+ shroom and drying is the way to go. Quick, easy and succesfull way of storing them.
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Hooplah posted:Spent a long weekend in northern WI, got out on a very productive shroom hunt. it had been raining for days and stuff was popping everywhere Nice haul! If the mystery boletes were growing near me (Norway) I'd ID them as Leccinum versipelle (orange birch bolete), since we don't have aspen boletes here and the stipe scales are a distinctive marker. But obviously your local species are different - if you remember what type of trees they were growing under that might be a clue.
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 Spirassis sp? Found under white oaks.
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Definitely, not sure which one though.
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First bolete I've seen of the season. Looking a bit dry but still solid. Probably suillellus luridus?
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Well not nearly as good as Hooplah...  These are the first mushrooms I trusted my identification enough to eat. It was pretty exciting. Black Trumpets of course. Soukuw fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Aug 31, 2022 |
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Soukuw posted:Well not nearly as good as Hooplah... Honestly, if there weren't so many i doubt i'd have spotted them. Nice eye! Also I've read (but have never confirmed) that trumpets can come back in the same spots, so you should keep an eye on the location if possible
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I mean pretty much every mushroom will come back in the same spot when the right conditions are met. The bulk of the organism lives in whatever material its consuming. As long as the mycelium has stuff to eat it should keep fruiting in the future.
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Soukuw posted:Well not nearly as good as Hooplah...
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Dik Hz posted:Are you sure you looked hard around where you found them? I apologize for second guessing if you did, but black trumpets usually fruit in much bigger patches.
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 Big ol' Dryad's saddle popped up overnight. Probably growing from a buried stump?
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Greatest Living Man posted:
Yep, bet if you stick a pocket knife down there you’ll find a root or something
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Soukuw posted:Well not nearly as good as Hooplah... Maybe I just drank too much tbh but something felt not quite right more than usual.
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Some wild mushrooms don't mix well with alcohol.
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Really broadly, some people can't digest chitin which makes mushrooms difficult. There are also allergies and other sensitivities.
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They could have been a smidge old, a smidge undercooked, possibly the booze, your guts might just not like ‘em.
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I found a bunch of chicken: It made a pretty drat good dinner with some homemade pasta and garden herbs: 
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Soukuw posted:Okay so I ate these the day I posted and I felt sick for a few days. I genuinely feel these were Black Trumpets, other people have agreed they were Black Trumpets. What happened? I never really eat mushrooms, the only time recently I have was Psilocybin, it's not really a food I eat. (This was also very recent) Do you guys think my body was rejecting them because I don't eat mushrooms let alone foraged ones or because I had taken something recently that was "bad" for me? I don’t think chants (of which Black trumpets are a variety) interact with alcohol. My parents are both allergic to maitakes which sucks for them because they have over 100 lbs of maitakes grow every fall on their property.
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I get oral allergy symptoms from black trumpets and only black trumpets, minor allergies to specific species definitely happens. I was extremely sad the day I figured that out.
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The first wild mushrooms you eat in the year, or just eating the first wild ones in a while, can easily annoy the gut, hard stomach being the most common reaction. It's not a problem once you get used to it, barring allergies or other serious reactions
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MEIN RAVEN posted:Also, hello fellow Seattle mushroom goon! If you sign up for the Mycology society and plan to make it to any fall outings, send me a PM. Me and my person are both training to be guides and will be multiple fall outings if we can make it happen. They can be a bit far out but they're generally really family friendly if you can make them. We're really hoping for a great fall chantarelle season this year. I just checked out my first copy of the PSMS newsletter and saw this, which I thought was rad and I’d paste here. My wife and I are going to Union Creek in late October, it would be so neat to find these although I can’t see us working our way down the river. quote:
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Guido Merkens posted:
That's really cool, I knew there were a lot of aquatic fungi but I'd never heard of actual underwater mushrooms!
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