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Enjoy some mushrooms from the last few weeks. Northern California deciduous forests.   Some Coral Tooth  Jack O Lanterns  Chicken    Possibly goblet? Possibly edible? Seem to be too many look alikes for me to be comfortable.   Not even sure where to start? But they look really unique. Gymnopilus? Rustgills?    A few resources have led to honey mushrooms, but it doesn't seem right at all. Found under a willow, near a decaying log, but the mushrooms were sprouting out of the ground.
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Dik Hz posted:Seconding landscape morel. i.e. a morel that grew from inoculated mulch. They sometimes pop up out west in the fall. oh god oh no this actually works with any worthwhile results? I'm gonna have to dedicate everything to this venture immediately.
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Dec 19, 2021 07:57
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I lived in a place where the mulch they used printed morels like crazy. Never seen anything like it. On the other hand, the mulch where I work now seems to be thoroughly colonized by something in the stinkhorn family.
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textbookOrigins posted:oh god oh no this actually works with any worthwhile results?
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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!
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Dec 28, 2021 15:45
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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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eSporks posted:
Those definitely look like the armillaria gallica I find. They can often grow directly out of the ground, usually from old rotting roots or buried stumps.
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Dec 28, 2021 21:26
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Siamang posted:Those definitely look like the armillaria gallica I find. They can often grow directly out of the ground, usually from old rotting roots or buried stumps.
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Dec 29, 2021 00:33
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Welp this season sucked because of HOW MUCH rain we got and now the snow in the PNW has royally ended pretty much all the mushrooming for the year. I'm still going to try my luck with some Yellowfoots though, maybe in a couple of weeks when things are just normal and rainy and not stupidly snowy and/or stupidly rainy...
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Jan 5, 2022 19:55
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Saw this perfect amanita veil just now:
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Jan 6, 2022 00:48
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Great photos!
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Jan 6, 2022 22:42
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MEIN RAVEN posted:Welp this season sucked because of HOW MUCH rain we got and now the snow in the PNW has royally ended pretty much all the mushrooming for the year. I'm still going to try my luck with some Yellowfoots though, maybe in a couple of weeks when things are just normal and rainy and not stupidly snowy and/or stupidly rainy... Don't you get winter season mushrooms in the states? I'd start thinking about finding wood ear, and eventually oysters and enoki, though I don't know if you have them where you are.
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Jan 7, 2022 08:56
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Tias posted:Don't you get winter season mushrooms in the states? I'd start thinking about finding wood ear, and eventually oysters and enoki, though I don't know if you have them where you are. I don’t wanna speak for op but they might be thinking more towards the pleasantness of going out in the weather— in the northeast all three of those are theoretically around in autumn and winter but it’s -8C and snowy right now. (And as an aside I’m not sure I could tell wild enoki from Galerina marginata without a reference so I skip them in general)
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Jan 7, 2022 14:57
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My brother in law is working with his friend (a doctorate candidate in mycology) and is hunting mushrooms. He's in a funny spot, however. He's hunting mushrooms and identifying them but has very little source material. He lives in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Does anyone have an idea of where to find regional info like that? If I show up in April and he poisons me, i'm going to be mighty pissed.
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Jan 7, 2022 17:09
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i'm excited to get started on trying out morel hunting once it gets to be march around where i live in the southeast. never done mushroom foraging before but i've got a field guide and lots of Actual Forest right behind my neighborhood that has actual paths leading into it, and i know some of the really basic stuff for knowing if you've got actual morels on your hands and not a look-alike (a primary one being actual morels being hollow all the way through, not that anyone here was lacking that info). i really love using them in cooking but the thrill of finding some of my own is pretty tempting. hopefully i can get a feel for the kids of spots they grow in, because if nothing else the area out where i am has plenty of options. it's one thing to see pictures but another entirely to actually recognize them out in the wild.
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Jan 7, 2022 18:13
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MEIN RAVEN posted:Welp this season sucked because of HOW MUCH rain we got and now the snow in the PNW has royally ended pretty much all the mushrooming for the year. I'm still going to try my luck with some Yellowfoots though, maybe in a couple of weeks when things are just normal and rainy and not stupidly snowy and/or stupidly rainy... Should still be able to find hedgehogs too, they don't mind the cold nastiness.
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Jan 7, 2022 19:33
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The rain this year in CA in has been weird. We got our entire avg rainfall in one weekend. It's been long stretches of nothing with intense but sporadic storms. It has definitely effected the mushrooms. I haven't seen a single Amanita this year, even in places that reliably produce them year after year.
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Jan 7, 2022 19:43
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Johnny Joestar posted:i'm excited to get started on trying out morel hunting once it gets to be march around where i live in the southeast. never done mushroom foraging before but i've got a field guide and lots of Actual Forest right behind my neighborhood that has actual paths leading into it, and i know some of the really basic stuff for knowing if you've got actual morels on your hands and not a look-alike (a primary one being actual morels being hollow all the way through, not that anyone here was lacking that info). i really love using them in cooking but the thrill of finding some of my own is pretty tempting. hopefully i can get a feel for the kids of spots they grow in, because if nothing else the area out where i am has plenty of options. it's one thing to see pictures but another entirely to actually recognize them out in the wild.
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Jan 8, 2022 03:03
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Dik Hz posted:Look for a local Facebook group. When the morels start popping up there will be reports all over Facebook. Also feel free to post your finds here. Morels are easy to id but I’m happy to offer a second opinion. i'll keep it in mind! i don't really use facebook myself but i can easily check over a group or two occasionally, it looks like. i'm also maybe considering going out to look for oysters, since those apparently grow throughout winter. i assume i might have even a vague chance of finding them in the area around where i am, especially since they grow on decaying wood for the most part and things should be pretty open this time of year to spot things on logs and trunks. honestly the whole process just seems pretty fun to me and the actual search feels like it'll be a great way to kill a few hours on a day off and accomplish something. we have snow melting here from like 4-5 inches that came down yesterday so i'm maybe hoping there might be something out there by the time i have tuesday off to go out and look. if i find anything i'll absolutely take pictures.
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Johnny Joestar posted:i'll keep it in mind! i don't really use facebook myself but i can easily check over a group or two occasionally, it looks like. i'm also maybe considering going out to look for oysters, since those apparently grow throughout winter. i assume i might have even a vague chance of finding them in the area around where i am, especially since they grow on decaying wood for the most part and things should be pretty open this time of year to spot things on logs and trunks. If it snowed where you are, morel season is at least April for you. Winter oysters should be out now though. They get really buggy though so only pick fresh ones.
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Jan 8, 2022 03:47
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Dik Hz posted:If it snowed where you are, morel season is at least April for you. Winter oysters should be out now though. They get really buggy though so only pick fresh ones. yeah, everything i've seen about my area seems to point to the last week or march through april for morels. i'm going to be on high alert for them the moment it gets to be time for it. winter oysters were never something i'd considered before but i want an excuse to go out as soon as possible to maybe scope out some good places.
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trip report: found multiple small clumps of what i'm 99.9999% sure were oyster mushrooms after foraging for a couple of hours but i think they'd gotten iced over last night and were unusable by that point. the bright side is i know they're out there! genuinely a pretty good experience for my first time. i feel like i just need a good week with temps in the low 50's and hopefully have it not go below freezing the couple nights before at the least. there's potential, i just need to go out for real on a better day for it.
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Jan 11, 2022 19:27
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eSporks posted:The rain this year in CA in has been weird. We got our entire avg rainfall in one weekend. Interesting, I'm on the SF peninsula and the hill near my house is covered in mushrooms including some really beautiful Amanitas. Haven't found anything I can reliably identify as safe to eat, though, but the Amanitas and the little rubbery purple mushrooms are pretty.
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Jan 12, 2022 00:18
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Johnny Joestar posted:trip report: found multiple small clumps of what i'm 99.9999% sure were oyster mushrooms after foraging for a couple of hours but i think they'd gotten iced over last night and were unusable by that point.
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Dik Hz posted:Nice find! Some oyster patches continuously put up mushrooms for weeks and others are one and done for the year. At the very least you can keep a eye on it next year. yeah! the biggest thing today was at least being validated that there's plenty of places to find mushrooms out there and that i'm not full of poo poo, even if i didn't bring back anything. i think i might try again next week on thursday or so since it's supposed to be a bit warmer by then. i feel pretty confident i should have good chances through the next couple months, and that should maybe bridge right into morel season. i'm not brushed up on explicitly the best places to find those in particular but there are absolutely a lot of areas back there in the woods that seem like they'll be pretty choice if i look into them a bit. i'm pretty excited as a novice to this and i can guarantee you i'll be out there without fail periodically starting the last week of march or so, and i might be able to keep finding oysters in the meanwhile? my field guide also says lion's mane has a chance to be growing as well even through parts of winter and into spring as well, so who knows.
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Tias posted:Don't you get winter season mushrooms in the states? I'd start thinking about finding wood ear, and eventually oysters and enoki, though I don't know if you have them where you are. I'm in the Seattle area and we can get Yellowfoot Chantarelles, some Hedgehogs (they're really small and sporadic around here for some reason) and the occasional oyster mushroom. We actually had a great haul of yellowfoots over the weekend, but we only took about 1/4th of what we found because most of them were so wet and beaten down that they were more slime than mushroom.... I'm already dreaming of the spring oyster flush and the accompanying nettles...
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sorry for the amateur posts but i went out again earlier today after work just to check in on things and see if the weather was doing any better for oysters. i'm like 99% sure these actually were oysters, but i didn't take any since they were still kinda sporadic. seems to be more than when i first went out, but for every couple i found popping up there was a clump here or there that look withered as if it had gotten shredded by the low temps.    the last pic had some that seemed fairly sizable but show the weird, messed up look that some others had as well. i think if we get another week or two of better weather without any huge freezes it might bode well for these things and i might actually be able to harvest a couple of actual clumps. a lot of these were actually found out on a big pile of fallen trees that had been tossed together at some point a good while ago, and seem to be a hotspot for them. i'm really excited to actually be finding something!
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One of my friends just cut down their black walnut tree so I might be able to get a black walnut log. If she has any left I'm going to try to grow my own lions mane mushrooms.
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Haji posted:One of my friends just cut down their black walnut tree so I might be able to get a black walnut log. If she has any left I'm going to try to grow my own lions mane mushrooms. The species of tree sapovoric fungi grow on can impact the taste. I’m curious how a lions mane grown on walnut would taste. Please keep us updated!
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Dik Hz posted:The species of tree sapovoric fungi grow on can impact the taste. I’m curious how a lions mane grown on walnut would taste. Please keep us updated! You just made me want to get more logs.
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Haji posted:You just made me want to get more logs.
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is there even anything much stopping people from cultivating their own mushrooms on logs on like. their back patio or something? does it mostly just involve rubbing the mushroom and it's spores on said wood? it sounds kind of weirdly easy in that scenario but it can't be that easy, right?
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You usually have to drill holes and pound in dowels that have been inoculated with the right type of fungus. Then if it's not a type native to your area you gotta keep the logs moist during the hot season... Only time will tell for my 8 ice storm shiitake logs from last spring, worried that I didn't keep em wet enough over our 115 degree days last summer. Wine caps are super easy to grow in wood chips but they are kinda slimy texturally.
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I've tried growing shitake in logs twice now with dowels and both times they never fruited. I recently went down the youtube rabbit hole of growing mushrooms out of 30 second rice bags, so will be trying that out in the near future. The reason you can't just throw spores on a log and have it grow is because they most likely be outcompeted by other microbes before they can get going, so you either have to provide them with a sterile environment to get started in or start with established mycelium.
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i started looking into it and i definitely want to see about trying a few logs with a variety of mushrooms out on my patio since plugs are apparently so cheap. hardest part would be sourcing the wood itself, probably. seeing if i can get a lion's mane one going would be really interesting.
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The big issue with log cultivation is humidity right? Would you be able to keep them in your shower or bathroom or anything like that? I assume you are still going to need a temperature change to trigger fruiting.
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Anyone finding morels yet?
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i was considering going out this upcoming week for a preliminary look in my neck of the woods, does anyone have any general tips for what sorts of areas they like popping up in? near water? around paths? certain kinds of trees? i have all sorts of options out there. i like getting a variety of opinions from firsthand experiences since that's usually better than just reading some random article online.
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Dik Hz posted:Anyone finding morels yet? I was at a city park yesterday (wasn't there to forage that day, though) and talked to a guy who said he found a tiny one on a burn pile and a couple of cut stumps along the trail that follows a creek, so it sounds like they're just starting to pop here in the PacNW (Tacoma).
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