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extra stout posted: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. I wish I knew how to do that in my area!
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I have lots of chestnut groves pinned but I wish I had a lead on more hazelnuts. There are some in a local park but there’s a surprising amount of competition. Then again, it’s been very windy recently. I should probably go check on some of those chestnuts.
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Prop Wash posted:I have lots of chestnut groves pinned but I wish I had a lead on more hazelnuts. There are some in a local park but there’s a surprising amount of competition. Parks get so busy when the horse chestnuts are falling its pretty funny to see
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extra stout posted: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. After realizing we harvested too much for ourselves, we didn't want it to go to waste, didn't want to take up a bunch of freezer space, so we started experimenting. Also I'm a hot sauce addict, so it was destined.
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Gomphidius glutinosus, aka the slimy spike cap. Even though it has gills, it's still a member of the boletes family. Apparently they're parasitic to the other boletes as well. Neat!
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Oct 6, 2019 02:14
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It's yard shroom season in Seattle.  It's yard  shroom season in Seattle   
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A Pack of Kobolds posted:It's yard shroom season in Seattle.  Yes it is!
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Spent a good portion of the weekend foraging around Tacoma. Honey mushrooms are done for the year, but tons of other stuff is popping up (sorry about the stupidly large vertical pics): Hericium corraloides - edible but the ones I find are usually very dirty and hard to clean (growing on rotten logs on the ground), so I leave them where I find them.  A bolete that's fallen victim to hypomyces chrysospermus, a fungal parasite commonly called 'the bolete killer'. A lot of the boletes I find around Tacoma are infected with this. It's related to hypomyces lactifluorum, a parasitic fungus that attacks specific species mushrooms and turns them into the lobster mushroom, which is edible and delicious.  Amanita pachycolea, the western grisette. This is in the same family as many of the really deadly mushrooms, but is edible. They get decently large, maybe 5 inches across.  Ramaria species. Many are edible but I usually don't bother harvesting in the hopes that someone else will notice and appreciate their coralness.   Enough for everyone!  These were my main target when I went out yesterday - russula xerampelina, the shrimp russula. They have a noticeable 'shellfishy' smell and keep most of their crunchy texture when you cook them up. One of my favorites. 
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Oct 14, 2019 15:06
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Nice haul, I keep an eye out for those russulas but I’ve not found any to date. The fall season here has been thoroughly shithoused by a hot snap right as hens and honeys started coming up 
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     edit: i should mention that whatever makes sulphur tufts (the last picture) poisonous to humans, it apparently doesn't harm animals because I came upon a lot of them with their caps clear-cut Prop Wash fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Oct 14, 2019 |
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Prop Wash posted:
Nice parasols! I found a pair during my trip, here's the results!  A nice haul! Two parasols, one boletus, one leccinum cap and a whole lot of dead's trumpets, winter chanterelles and hydnum (what's their english name again? In italian it's little teeth)  Cleaned and sorted. Most are orange and white hydnum. I can't believe I never searched for SA shroom thread!
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Tafferling posted:(what's their english name again? In italian it's little teeth) Hedgehogs! That’s a lovely haul; i found basically no fall mushrooms thanks to the weather unfortunately.
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We've found a decent amount of steinpilz, parasols and fairy ring champignons here. Our region has been pretty solid for mushrooms the past few weeks, probably because of some unseasonably warm weather and rain. I've really been wanting to find a hedgehog mushroom though and no luck thus far 
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Oct 26, 2019 20:40
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We had a cool rainy spell that kicked off all the normal fall ones and then about ten days of 90° and I haven’t seen anything of note since
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I made another trip in the woods, there was loads of wintery mushrooms in a forest facing north. Not the best start.    Fungal funk  Poo loving Coprinus   Teethsies, found roughly 1 kg of the stuff.  Found a ludicrous amount of these. The forest was carpeted, in the end I only picked the biggest trumpet of each bunch and I still filled two baskets.  BIG BAD BUG BRAWL Tafferling fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Oct 27, 2019 |
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Oct 27, 2019 17:34
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Those black trumpets  and are those dung beetles?
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Double postin Here are the most recent things of note I found: Stinkhorn ‘egg’; possibly Phallus impudicus   Giant puffball  
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Oct 28, 2019 02:34
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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 11:58
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Hello I found some mushrooms in my yard after recent rain. I don't plan to eat them. But maybe they're interesting?   
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the yeti posted:Those black trumpets Yeah, usually they're black, but those living in the forest tend to be fancier for some reason. Also, that last shroom is really strange. Never seen one like it.
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Could be an earth ball? Weird surface, almost looks like brain coral. But I’ve never seen one in person. Also Wikipedia informed me that earth balls are now considered part of the same family as Boletes? Man, mushroom classification is weird.
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They could also be very ‘ripe’ giant puffballs I think
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Candy caps are starting to pop up in my woods.  I'm gonna dry them out and see if they're as mapley as the field guide says they are.
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These aren't very exciting mushrooms, I think they might even be the same species in different stages spore dispersal? 
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My SO says the candy caps smell like cat poo poo, so either Paul Stamets lied or I've misidentified. I'd call it a distinct odour, kinda sweet but also not pleasant. I certainly wouldn't want to bake with them.
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Well the weather's came and gone and came again, let's check out the woods where we found dozens of good parasols and hmm what's this oh hey little guy let me just check out yo  oh, uh, a death cap, huh  oh well how about this happy little guy over here  oh, uh, hi potential destroying angel   weird, white mushrooms with speckled caps? let me get a closer look  oh god (actually these were neat and I can't figure out what they are, it's a bit hard to tell in the picture but their cap was incredibly glossy and sticky-looking) Pretty neat how in the span of one month this particular patch of woods went from prime parasol territory to toxin-soaked hellhole! I hope whatever took a bite out of that first one is ok 
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Hello Shroom thread! I was directed here after posting in critterquest! Cropped to only show the shrooms.Chaosfeather posted:I have a new report, this one is from TEXAS Thank you so much, I'm also going to direct said buddy to this thread since he's learning to forage. He knows better than to simply eat what he finds but would like to know what lives near his place.
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I’m not sure on species because Texas is a long way from me, but that first yellow guy is likely Tremella sp, and the flat leathery ones are likely Stereum sp.—this follows as some Tremella parasitize Stereum. Your second photo is some kind of puffball.
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We can't reliably identify the capped ones without pulling them apart and doing a spore print. Probably shouldn't eat them regardless.
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the yeti posted:I’m not sure on species because Texas is a long way from me, but that first yellow guy is likely Tremella sp, and the flat leathery ones are likely Stereum sp.—this follows as some Tremella parasitize Stereum. Bi-la kaifa posted:We can't reliably identify the capped ones without pulling them apart and doing a spore print. Probably shouldn't eat them regardless. Thank you both so much! None of these were harvested, as we don't want to harvest anything until we become better at IDing fungi. It's very fun to go out and spot them though!
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Chaosfeather posted:Thank you both so much! None of these were harvested, as we don't want to harvest anything until we become better at IDing fungi. It's very fun to go out and spot them though! I would point out that harvesting with the intent to go home and do focused ID practice under good light with books or the internet is great practice, just make absolutely sure that anything you're taking to eat is in a separate bag from anything you're not sure about
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Crossposting here and Critterquest. From a walk in Killbear Provincial Park, Ontario, last October (i.e. more than a year ago). Mostly an exercise in A) taking pictures and then B) ignoring said pictures on my harddrive for a long time.  SD 194 Killbear PP 03 by Martin Brummell, on Flickr SD 194 Killbear PP 04 by Martin Brummell, on Flickr SD 194 Killbear PP 07 by Martin Brummell, on Flickr
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^^^ Beautiful, I like the third one a lot. ^^^Bi-la kaifa posted:My SO says the candy caps smell like cat poo poo, so either Paul Stamets lied or I've misidentified. I'd call it a distinct odour, kinda sweet but also not pleasant. I certainly wouldn't want to bake with them. Those were probably Lactarius subflammeus. I found a bunch in Washington this year, got excited because I thought they might be candy caps, but then tasted them and realized that the latex had a little bit of an acrid taste (and also didn't have any of the unusual scents that are associated with l. fragilis). There's a park in my city that gets salmon spawning upstream during the first couple of weeks in December: https://www.metroparkstacoma.org/event/salmon-saturday/ Last year I went and managed to collect a lot of sarcomyxa serotina (winter oyster), hoping to do the same this year while watching giant fish swim in knee-deep water. Siamang fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Dec 2, 2019 |
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Taking walks to find Mushrooms has become a greater interest of mine for every year, edible or not, a lot of mushrooms are just great fun to find and look at, and of course take pictures of. All of these are from Sweden This is not the biggest or widest Penny Bun I have seen, but it is definitely the best looking specimen I have ever found, the shape is just perfect, it is practially unharmed and the white vein things stand out great. I could not bring myself to even pick it.  Glorious massive Amanita shroom  I have had a hard time identifying this, it had a very pleasing purple color, but the textbooks seem divisive and google searches seem split at times too, closest seem to be Cortinarius violaceus, or Laccaria amethystina  Could have sworn I just found some super enlarged red blood cells lying around when I saw these, I have no idea what they are I have been wondering how to preserve the shape and beauty of Mushroom specimens, most preservation efforts deal with cutting them up, drying them and so on to preserve edibility, but I would just want some nice Shrooms in a jar for decorative purposes, pickling them seems the most likely way to succeed but I am unsure of if longevity or looks are preserved well.
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Goddamn that penny bun I’m genuinely envious, I don’t have a good spot for them yet and proper Boletus edulis group aren’t abundant anyway here Your blood cells may well be slime mold! The question of preservation is interesting and honestly I’m not sure—I’ll try to remember to put the question to my local club after work.
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For IDing mushrooms I found https://svampe.databasen.org/imagevision, which is pretty helpful in at least narrowing it down to ~6 different species. It's in Danish, I think, but you just upload the picture of the mystery mushroom and it spits suggestions out with pictures and a Latin name you can google.
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Oh yeah, that seems really useful, will keep it bookmarked. Boletus shrooms feel pretty rare in most areas, can search an entire forest and find maybe 5 of them in total, but there was one area this year that was just swarming in them, probably several hundred within a 100 square meter area, it was insane, few of them were pretty, but many were very chunky and heavy.
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Hey guys, not sure if there's a better place to pose this question. I have a loose mushroom theme thing going on in my kitchen and thought it would be awesome to have a live mushroom growing in some form, pretty much purely for decorative purposes. But it seems like all mushroom growing stuff online are either for maximum yield or drug/culinary use. I just want the mushroom equivalent of a succulent plant for my kitchen. Like a nice hearty looking Fly Agaric sitting in a pot that I can tend to like a bonzai tree. I know Fly agaric is a bad example because I don't think they can survive indoors, but can anyone give me any suggestions that might lend itself to what I'm describing? Thanks
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That would be tricky, since the mushroom itself isn't exactly alive, it's more of a fruiting body that is a means of propagation. What you'd want to grow is mycelium, but I don't know how difficult it would be to have that growing in a single container without running out of things for it to consume. I've got some mycelium growing in my kitchen right now for non specific reasons, but it's really impossible to get it to grow and fruit the way a plant would. It's gonna give it all its got and then that'll be it for the mycelium and the substrate. Plus there's fruiting chambers and poo poo that's supposed to mimic the outside world during it's chosen fruition season. Mycology is rad though and it's worth experimenting. Just don't eat anything.
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My general store sells these sacks of sawdust where you slash them and edible fungi come out of the cuts. They look really nice but I think it lasts just a few weeks.
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