Post cool and/or tasty fungi you find. Found these gigantic chanterelles on a walk yesterday. They’re sopping wet and moldy so I highly doubt they’re any good, but man they’re HUGE. Luckily found plenty more of normal size and had them for lunch today!
here's some dead man's finger i found the other day
another beauty
big boy
>>2763444>Found these gigantic chanterelles>posts something closer to resembling jack o latern or chicken of the woodsis this bait?
>>2763466I looked close, they were chanterelles. Hard to show the details with how my phone forces anything not posted at full-quality to compress to shit.
is it worth the chance of getting claudius'd
What mushroom is this? Found in Minnesota between 47 and 48 degrees northWitch’s hat?
>>2763485bro those are fat Jack's, did it smell and taste of lemon? you're fucking lucky that's edible. how did ypu identify them, I pray you don't say a ai app.
>>2763528>doesn't post stalk>doesn't post gills>horror what mushie is dis loleI bet you don't even know what a spore print is
>>2763531I know what a spore print is but I just took the pic on a whim, I'm not gonna eat 'em, give them your best guess
>>2763529I didn’t eat the ones in the pic, I was sure they were entirely too soggy and moldy to be good. They looked exactly like chanterelles on the underside, the false gills and the trumpet shape. I’ve been picking chanterelles in this area for a couple of years. Picrel is what I usually pick.
>>2763490That's 100% a Slender Caesar
The Telluride Mushroom Festival is next weekendSince I can't afford to go to Colorado, I will be going to the Crystal Falls, Michigan, Humongous Fungus Festival the weekend after - am I the only one? It is a tiny festival but I learned where the real humongous fungus is and will attempt to go find it and eat part of it.
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>>2763536See that's a chant>>2763444I have never seen chants growing in huge clusters before. Maybe 2-3 in a clump, but never a clusterThe OP pic really looks like saprophytic mushroom growing off a buried piece of wood, not mycorrhizal chants
>>2763577Sorry for the repost
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>>2763579On the off chance they’re still around when I go back next weekend, I’ll take more pics. As for sources, this is what I use. Granted I mostly just pick chanterelles because they’re my favorite and easiest to find, but I’ve also used it to ID and pick purple spored puffballs and chicken of the woods, with no ill effects but a bit of bad gas from undercooking the latter.
Bioluminescent mycelium - Mindo, Ecuador
>>2763591Cool as hell. Is that a long exposure shot or does it really glow that bright?
>>2763592Long exposure, tho visible to the naked eye
>>2763543I'm confident about them but I still get too skeeved out to eat any cause I've seen so many flavoconias with bright red capsthis one barely has any volva and I'd be 2nd guessing it if it didn't have the orange flaky bits on the stem
>>2763997>flavoconiaI'm surprised to learn that there are still mushrooms that are this common with unknown edibility
>>2764210your mom is common with unknown edibility
Old faithful returns,for the fifth year in a row.
>>2764605This shit looks like it tastes like egg noodles
>>2765859They taste a little weird. Not especially flavorful,and they smell a little funky when cooked.Imagine a really bland morel,that has been peed on.
>>2766261pretty, some sort of waxy cap?
>>2766347Not sure it looks like this from above
>>2766357Yeah, that's Hygrocybe, common name waxy caps. I'm thinking H. punicea
Discovered barometer earthstars for myself recently after some intense rain, they're really cool. It's a shame I couldn't find any unopened ones, now I'm curious how they look like immature.
i found a patch of mushrooms today that looks exactly like oysters but it's bright orange. Same size, shape, smell.. not sure if safe
>>2767036Jack o Lanterns?
>>2767056Troll
>>2763490Wtf it's huge lucky bastard>>2763536Huge catch in photo
weeping conk
I went to the site of the Michigan Humongous Fungus today, on the eve of the little festival they have in honor of it.https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mushroom-massive-three-blue-whales-180970549As far as I could tell the area is public land, there were no "No Trespassing" signs anywhere - rural UPers are usually good about putting those up.The government conducted ultra low frequency radio tests in the area, blasting the trees with radio waves and later harvesting the wood to see if there were any effects (there were no effects). When the trees were replanted, they all died after being attacked by the honey fungus in the area, leaving the clearing you can see part of in this picture. There are still logs, branches, and stumps all over the place here. Obviously it's not completely devoid of trees but these trees are noticeably thinner and younger than the surrounding forest.
>>2767330Honey mushroom rhizomorphs are unique and easy to spot. The fungus grows up under the bark of the tree and it sloughs off as the tree slowly dies. These thick, black rhizomorphs grow underground as well, searching for other trees to attack. If you have a tree infected by honey fungus, the only way to quarantine it is to sink a physical barrier down into the ground around the tree.
>>2767333It's a little early for honey mushroom fruitings but I managed to find a cluster and I and truly say I've seen the Michigan humongous fungus.Now I have to make plans to see the Oregon humongous fungus. The Michigan HF covers about 173 acres while the Oregon HF is more like 2,400 acres.
>>2763591Cool photo.... cheers from America
Profound retard hereFound this mysterious huge mushroom on spring last year and got bamboozled into eating itI didn't die, but I never found what it was eitherDoes /out/ have any ideas what it could be?
>>2767698have you had a liver enzyme check since then?
>>2767699No, I didn't get sick or anythingMy friend thought it was an Agaricus arvensis and ate some tooLater we found out it wasn'tPic related is the same mushroom chopped up in half before being thrown into a pan
>>2767701Here's some actual A. arvensis I found later that yearNotice the pink gills and wide, short stalk
>>2767701>No, I didn't get sick or anythingdoesn't mean you didn't kill 70% of your liver,go get it tested.
>>2767706Appreciate the concern anon>go get it testedI seriously might, I thought that there'd at least be some symptoms of liver damage but looking it up seems that it isn't always the caseFucking hell
Wtf are these? Thought they were boletes at first glance and they do have pores, but that continue down onto the stem rather than stopping
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Spotted this monster on my walk today. It's bigger than a basketball. Not sure of the species, some sort of wood conk.
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>>2767895That's called reticulation, it's common on boletes.
>>2768241Cool findWhat state this in?
>>2768346Far northern California, up in the mountains 2800ft.
>>2768468>Mountains >2800 feetYou're based for being a forager but we need to talk about your definition of a "mountain"
>>2769944I live in the valley, with mountains on 3 sides. Coastal range to the west, Shasta and the Cascades to the north and north east and the Sierra Nevadas to the east. It's at lower elevation compared to where I could go, but it's still in the mountains. Lower Cascades leading up to Lassen.
going foraging this weekend, will report back if i find anything work posting
>>2772381It'd be nice to know what kind of tree(s) you have the best luck under
>>2772381Good luck! I'll be heading out next weekend. It's been really dry, but I'm going up into the mountains where it's cooler and there are waterfalls to provide humidity. So hopefully I'll find something. It's been a very unproductive year so far here in Northern California. But it will hopefully get better in the coming months as the rain comes.
Is this a ”Sparassis crispa”? First time seeing one
>>2772617Looks like it to me
>>2772617It's definitely a sparassis, but I'm not sure how to differentiate the species in that group.
>>2763444Northern AZ, what kind are these?
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>>2772800https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neofavolus_alveolaris
>>2772392>>2772400zero luck, only found some dried out amber jelly roll and some old conks after 10 hours. it really is just too dry right now...
>>2773188pretty russula
did i fuck these up if i cleaned them by very gently scrubbing with a toothbrush under gently running cold water ? i see some things saying so
I'm curious, is it possible to encourage growth in wild mushrooms? Being able to get more from my patches would be great
>>2773889You can only really encourage them to grow by providing them an appropriate micro climate. This can be done indoors, but I think you're pretty much stuck with what you get outdoors. You can try and encourage them to grow in more locations by using a mesh bag that allows the spores to release as you're walking. But encouraging an already existing patch to fruit more or more often, I don't think you can do.
>>2773648No. I've offten heard it said that you should avoid washing mushrooms in water. But that's a myth. Mushrooms are around 90% water and aren't going to soak up much more. A dehydrated mushroom will soak up water like a sponge. But fresh mushrooms are already full of water. As long as you're not rubbing them so hard that you're breaking them, you should be fine. And even if you are brushing them that hard, you can still eat them, they just won't look as nice.
>>2773896Also, you can soak fresh mushrooms in a salt water bath to flush out any bugs hiding in the cracks and crevasses. I've also read about this being use to get the sand out of morels, but I've yet to find any, so have no experience.
>>2773893i see, that's a shame but pretty much the answer i expectedi was going to post this absolute specimen of a flyshroom i found a few weeks ago but turns out i didn't actually take any good pictures of it, sorry shroombros...
>>2773899The best you could probably do is provide the host tree with water and nutrientsSoil temperatures have a big effect on fruiting timing, there is also evidence that high voltages (i.e. lightning) also triggers fruiting
>>2773034Cool, thanks. I'm gonna go see if they're still growing, I did indeed find them on dead fallen off branches.
shroomin9000ft subalpine pine forest in CO, got a positive ID on a bunch of inedible russelas, so far only edible we've ID'd is a nice cluster of sweet tooth. Working on these now, anything stand out?
Aw sweet, first time seeing these
>>2775171Also some agaricus, and cantharellus
Help me id this one. Amanita?
>>2776372Amanita muscariaTHE mushroom
>>2776543I wasn't sure because it didn't have white spots. I guess it was kind of old. Then is pic related Amanita regalia?
some scaly tooth (Sarcodon squamosus) and pine bolete (Boletus pinophilus)
are these white pored chicken of the woods or noti thought they were supposed to be white underneath but these are quite yellow
>>2763547In thr spring you should go to Mesick for the Morel festival.
>>2777750I have been to the Muscoda Morel FestivalIt was more like one room where you could buy fresh morels from foragers until they ran out in a few hours because restaurants bought them all, then a small non-mushroom-themed farmer's marketI think the Crystal Falls Humongous Fungus Festival has the potential to be the Midwest's Telluride if they bothered to get real event organizers. From what I can tell, the main force behind the festival is the boomer owner of a thrift shop downtown and the rest is planned by the business association. The only real mushroom-themed event that takes place is a cook-off for dishes that contain mushrooms. There's also a parade of local businesses and a concert (last year was a Journey tribute band, this year was a 70's medley band). There's a guided foray (not to the actual humongous fungus, mind you) that costs $60 (!!) as well.There's a small town in Iowa where I live now that has a Pumpkin Festival. They sell pumpkins, they have carved pumpkin judging, they have a pumpkin weigh-off where pumpkins are brought in via forklift, they have pumpkin-themed vendors. The town has no real inherent connection to pumpkins, it's just something they put on. Crystal Falls is located by a fucking fungal celebrity and the best theme they can come up with is a morel pun for a festival that happens at the end of August. Give me a break. Off the top of my head, here's some events they could host: mushroom dyeing, mushroom-themed drawing contest, a mushroom costume contest, Artist Conk drawing, mushroom growing workshop, mushroom ID class, spore print workshop, free forays, mushroom ecology class, mushroom cooking/preservation methods...If I wasn't an asocial retard I would see what I could do to step in and help Crystal Falls. I had to get this off my chest
>>2763444Anyone know wtf this is?
>>2778169Also dumping photos from my foraging trip yesterday.
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>>2777698Laetiporus cincinnatus is white pored CotW. You have Laetiporus sulphureus Sulfur Shelf CotW. It's named sulfur because of the yellow color, not the presence of sulfur. It's good to eat. Make sure you cook it thoroughly.
Anyone know what type of shroom this is ?
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>>2778603>>2778604Some sort of Agrocybe, field cap.
>>2778619Found in England, some grassland. Around sea level
Found some destroying angels, the were everywhere on the trail I foraged.
Anyone know what kind of Russula this is?
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>>2779405Yummers
>>2779405That doesn't look like a Destroying Angel
>>2779408One of the red ones.... ;POnly half kidding. There are several red capped russulas. I'm not seeing blushing on the stipe, so it's probably one of the emeticas(sickeners). You can nibble and spit a small piece to see if it's bitter or spicy. Just take a nibble, chew it for about 20 seconds with your front teeth and then spit it out. Give it about a minute for the spicy to hit you(I think it feels like spicy horseradish). If it's very spicy or bitter, don't leave them. But if they're mild(a little spicy or bitter will cook out) you can eat them. You MUST cook them though. Eating them raw will make you sick. IMPORTANT! Know that the nibble and spit test is only for a handful of mushrooms like russula and boletes. While it's safe to nibble and spit any mushroom, it's not a good way to determine edibility of a completely unknown mushroom. Some of the most poisonous, like the destroying angel, are said to taste very good.
>>2779479>If it's very spicy or bitter, don't leave them. I meant leave them, was going to say don't eat them, but changed my mind on the wording choice but left the don't in....
>>2779405Are you sure on your ID? I thought angels and dearth caps had snake skin not flaky skin on the stipe.
Spring and summer were so rainy...I thought I would get a mushroom season this yearIt's not fair
Went out on a mushroom hunting trip, only to end up on another kind of trip at home later.Good stuff.
Does anyone here eat ganodermas?I know hippies like them because they cure cancer or something, but is there an actual palatable way to eat them?
>>2779735Actually eat it? No, it's too woody. To consume it, boil it for an hour or two to start breaking down the chitin and making the polysaccharides, antioxidants and Beta-glucans bioavailable. Then dehydrate and grind them into a powder. You can make gel caps or add the powder to beverages. Save the water you boiled them in, it's full of the above mentioned beneficial components. You can drink it by itself or add whatever you like to make it more palatable
>tfw had the opportunity to forage a perfectly grown wood ear last year but was too much of a pussy to even touch itThis year's the year. Is the beginning of Oct a decent time to begin looking in the southeastern US? We just braced the worst of the hurricane earlier last weekend.Also any recommendations for books and hand guides for IDing?
>>2763444Should I eat em?
>>2779756Wood Ears look like they taste like agar or unflavored gelatin>>2779768Probably not
Goddamn I love the forest.Found this cutie today, Scandinavia.
Are these funnels or oysters?Grew on an indian oak log
>>2780567Definitely not an oyster. The cap of oysters connects to the stipe.
>>2780567Those look like Lentinus. Oysters will have gills running down the stipe.
Can anyone identify? From dartmoor, uk.
Hello I need help identifying thesectwo mushrooms I picked today. First two mushrooms I ever picked. Also should I eat them or is the bigger mushroom too old to be eaten?
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anyone know if these are psilocybin shrooms? theyve been dried for a couple days
Mushrooms are weird and I love them. Too bad so many of them fuck you up or just straight up kill you.
>>2780986boletus edulis and some sort of macrolepiota
>>2780266I've wanted to try and make like, a jello cube from ground up woods ear just to fuck around but I can't figure out how to get them into a fine enough powderthey're surprisingly tough when dried, blender/mortar&pestle isn't enough
who is this guy? I'm clueless about mushrooms, this is in mediterranean France
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>>2781164Looks like shaggy parasol, Chlorophyllum rhacodes. Edible but not recommended, easily confused with the false/green spored parasol and still causes gastro issues in some people even if it's not a green.
Thoughts on pic rel as a newbie's first mushroom foraging knife?
>>2781369I think hook bills for mushrooming is a meme. I prefer a straight blade, it's better for digging and getting to the base when necessary for IDing. A brush is nice to have, but I just keep a soft bristle toothbrush in my pack. A mora companion and a cheap toothbrush will typically cost less than $25 and take up just a little more space. And no one will look at you funny if you have a knife on your belt while mushrooming.
>>2781369I asked this question recently too, and ended up with picrelIt's $8, long and sturdy enough to pry a mushroom from the base, just sharp enough to cut a mushroom, easy to clean, easy to store. You don't need an Opinel mushroom knife, period
>>2781428>You don't need an Opinel mushroom knife, periodThat's just, like, your Opinel, man
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactarius_deliciosusI also know a place here where there is a giant field of psicodelis cubensisThese little fuck*rs saved my life... I was going to die from some lung cancer if I kept smokinggot away with some moderate damage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybe_cubensislook the size.. and its not even the biggest4 of those and you will be seeing Nagas walking closer to the beehives we have here why Nagas? have no fuc*ng idea
>>2763444kinda unrelated and I wish I got a picture of it but I saw a squirrel carrying a mushroom in its mouth and I locked eyes with it for like 3 seconds before it ran off
>>2781428Yeah but an Opinel is cheap too and it won't rust or turn to shit like that one will. Yeah, the wooden hinge gets stiff but it's a time-tested piece of kit.
>>2780969Liberty cap. But check it has brown gills underneath.
>>2780995They look like it, but then they don't have brown gills on the underside, at least not that I can see. Magics have a "nipple" on the top and the gills.I'm no mushroom expert but I've picked magics many times and never had a bad time following the above rule.
>>2780969>>2781674>>2780995In the UK we basically have magic mushrooms and a few other species that kind of look like them, but also visibly aren't. Similar shape but no traits of magics, and when you sniff them they tell you not to eat them. Whereas magics smell mushroomy like we know edible mushrooms to smell, almost like they are telling you it's ok.
>>2781023Thanks. I consumed the boletus edulis and didn't get sick.
Wow, impressive find!
Found in the woods on a walk in Virginia, I tried to use apps to identify it but no good matchesIt’s about the size of my palm ish
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>>2782340>>2782341>>2782343Amanita cokeri or abrupta
What is this? Found in southwest virginia, not super high elevation but was in foothills, there were several so I want to know if I can eat it, I can post more pictures if needed, gills were free
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>>2782796I might have a couple ideas but I’m not sure about any of them, I don’t want to say ideas to avoid bias, just seeing what other people think
>>2782792babbys first amanita
how the FUCK do you ID boletes?!?!
>>2782852slippery jack? found in PNW
>>2782854sheep polypore? This was too firm to be bolete
>>2782855Or boletopsis grisea?
>>2782852>>2782854Suillus>>2782855Boletopsis
>>2782792Amanita chrysoblema
>>2780969>>2781673Pickes some moor, what d'ya reckon? All libs?How do I prep them?
>>2783759by throwing them into trash
>>2783759Not familiar with libs, so can't confirm. But, for prep. toss them in a food dehydrator on max setting(typically around 165F) for 24 hours. After that check that they are cracker dry and place them in a glass jar with a desiccant satchel. To consume, weigh out your desired dose, grind and add to enough lemon juice to cover. Mix and let sit for 30 minutes and then consume, mushroom and lemon juice. Follow it up with a glass of water to rinse your mouth and settle your stomach, if it's sensitive. Sit back and enjoy the ride...
>>2783813Don't be a prude.>>2783818Nice, yeah everyone said the same to me but with orange juice or making a lemon, ginger and honey tea.Never done b4, my gf is really keen but I fear I will be paranoid. I'm 30 ffs and mental health is good these days, but I'm on ssri's (so is she and lots of people I've known that have some psychs) for anxiety.
>>2783835>I'm on ssri's (so is she)That could be a problem. Psilocin binds to serotonin receptors. The SSRI preventing the reuptake of serotonin will make it more available in the blood and compete with the psilocin. So, at the same time, you're going to need a larger than average dose to feel it but also risk serotonin syndrome if you take too much. I'd suggest not taking your ssri the day before and day you take the mushrooms. I also recommend an 18-24 hour fast beforehand. Good luck!
>>2783855Ok, well I am on half doses of sertraline, and I could lay off it for a day.Thanks for the advise man!
the haul today. last day of freedom before a three month deployment. unfortunately going to be missing pretty much all of mushroom season. :<
>>2783886Nice haul! We're still waiting for the fall rain to start where I am. It's sprinkled a couple times and I'm starting to see folks posting in the local groups. But the main rain and mushrooms are still to come..
>>2778175i figured that out after i posted iti did cook it 10 minutes, i read about that small chance of a reactionit's pretty okay, quite mildi much prefer maitake but it's been so dry here none are fruiting
Is it a bad idea to spread the lobster mushroom infection to the mushrooms it grows on?
>>2784150It hasn't put a dent in the russula population on it's own. I doubt your helping it along a little bit will hurt anything.
>>2784116pretty, new world or old world?
>>2784154I live in the Pacific Northwest in North America and they're everywhere here too. I don't know if putting some of the mushroom on an uninfected one spreads it but it's worth trying I think.
first time getting PNW chanterelles they're much nicer and less buggy than east coast ones
Found this little chode on a walk, a wood blewit.
'tis the season.Are there any toxic lookalikes? I found many different species in the same pasture, making it easy to confuse them.
>>2784379I think some of those are psathyrella but I don't think those will make you sick.
>>2783759Either brew tea (boil them gently) or just eat them by the handful
>>2783759To preserve them simply airdry by placing in a single layer on paper in a dry and warm area, or store in a jar of honey
alright niggas is this Sarcodon imbricatus or Sarcodon Squamosus?I cooked and ate some some, there's very slight bitter aftertaste but nothing that was unpalatable.
>>2785159the dark scales rubbed off when washing and makes me think its squamosuslocation is PNW
PNW, anything interesting?
>>2785159>>2785160what trees near it, imbricatus is with fir and squamosus is with pine
>>2785194>imbricatus is with fir and squamosus is with pinerip, i didn't pay attention, it was mixed softwood forestthere were cedars cause i was looking for chanterelles but i didn't check if the other softwoods were pine or fir
>>2763444can i eat this?
>>2785232Of course you can. Whether or not you should is an all together different question. If you think vomiting followed by several hours of being asleep while awake sounds like a good time, go for it.
>>2785227They're both edible if they're not too bitter. nibble and spit, if it's a little bitter it's ok and it will cook out. But, if it's super bitter, It's no good and will give you an upset stomach and other gastro distess
>>2785186The red one is a russula, probably emetica. I don't see anything but Juniper haircap moss in frame 3. Top one is maybe lepiota, but I'd need more pictures(gills, stipe and base) to confirm. And no Ideas on the last one, I'd need more pictures(same as the top one) to get a better idea which genus it belongs to.
>>2785240mica caps?
>>2785244I wasn't sure. They were wet, not just shiny, and i didn't pick one to see if it dissolved. Found in the south of Ireland.
Well, they're definitely inkcaps, if not micas specifically. You can see the edges of the cap starting to blacken and disintegrate.
>>2785270found in sw virginia, very dry, seems dead so im having a hard time figuring out what is was, decurrent gillsthinking some kind of gymnopolis? maybe underwoodii? maybe jack o lantern mushrooms?
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>>2785271old ringless honeyshrooms
>>2785273i didnt know they got this big, some are about the size of my palm, i thought rindless honey mushrooms were very small, these are growing out of the base of a uprooted tree which is why I was thinking some sort of gymnopolis
>>2785273>>2785275They look like they could be old jack-o-lanterns(Omphalotus) to me.
>>2785232YesTry it once
I have successfully started growing a clone of the Michigan Humongous Fungus (Honey Mushroom) from a dried tissue sample collected at the MHF site. This is the only tissue sample of 23 I put to agar that started growing. I didn't expect the signature Honey Mushroom black rhizomorphs to grow this early but at least there's no question it's growing. I do understand how bad Honey Mushrooms are for trees so if I get to the point where I'm growing fruits of this thing, they will be harvested and eaten before sporulation. But I'm also considering putting the Humongous Fungus as a stump removal tool.
>>2785650>I do understand how bad Honey Mushrooms are for trees so if I get to the point where I'm growing fruits of this thing, they will be harvested and eaten before sporulation. But I'm also considering putting the Humongous Fungus as a stump removal tool.farm them in your neighbor's backyard
>>2785650>But I'm also considering putting the Humongous Fungus as a stump removal tool.Bad idea. There's no way to contain it and prevent it from spreading. Any saprotrophic mushroom will clear a stump. Try something aggressive, but relatively harmless like oysters.
ID on this? found in UK on a dead tree
>>2785813Tricholomopsis rutilans, plums and custard mushroom. not toxic, but doesn't taste good(said to taste like rotting wood), so it's not eaten.
Found some mushrooms to share. It's finally starting to rain in northern California. Fir cone mushrooms
>>2786306Bark bonnets
>>2786307Oak gyms
>>2786311And today's tragic find.... This chicken of the woods is about a week past good. And I was out here a week ago and didn't see it!! It's around 3ft wide.
>eating wild mushroomsI know you know you're playing a dangerous game, anon
Went magic mushroom picking for first time. Unfortunately a bit late and all the best ones already nabbed I'm sure, the leaves on the ground surely covered up some too. Lots of lookalikes as well, but the length discounted a lot we saw. I think I only got 5 or so actual ones.
>>2786433Every chanterelle, porcini, lobster mushroom, matsutake, chicken of the woods, truffle ever consumed has been a wild mushroom. Until very recently that was true of morels too(and still true for all but one or two species). With the exception of Agaricus bisporus, the common white and brown mushrooms found in stores, more wild mushrooms are eaten throughout the world than cultivated. Is it dangerous if you have no experience IDing mushrooms? Yes, there are some deadly mudrooms that taste very good. But the solution to that isn't avoiding all but store bought mushrooms, it's educating yourself.
>>2785243the red one is very likely not a russula but a Gomphidius, the slimy cap and yellow base of the stipe both point to it
>>2786489Use them to make a spore slurry and pour it over and fresh, untreated wood chip mulch in your flower garden. You'll never miss the fruiting season again.
>>2786433just keep eating tasteless and sterile champs
>be Iowa >very wet spring>dry-ish summer>0.0" of rain from September 1st to October 30th>two hard freezes around end October, ending a mushroom season that didn't happen>Something like 10" of rain in November so farIt's not fairI just want to go into the woods and find some side dishes
>>2786709Mushrooms will grow after the first freezes. Especially if you have a warmer, rainy November. In more temperate placed, they'll pop up through the snow sometimes and almost every time there's a thaw.
>>2786711Even mycorrhizals?
>>2786714Yes, Craterellus tubaeformis aka yellow feet or winter chanterelles are mycorrhizal and they fruit throughout the fall winter and spring....occasionally even in the summer too
>>2786711What about in Michigan? I just recently got interested in mycology for the first time, and I've been sad about missing out on the prime season... looked into my local mushroom club and it seems they're done foraging for the year already. Shit timing on my part, but this is just when my brain decided to latch onto the topic, I guess.
>>2786862I'm not familiar with your climate. Your local mycological group is who is have pointed you to. So if they're saying the season is over it probably is. At least for the commercial foragers and the mushrooms they target(chanterelles, matsutaki, lobster). Unless the ground is actually frozen, you should still be able to find small flushes of winter mushrooms from time to time. Even if you missed the fall mushrooms, get to know what mushrooms are in your area and where they grow. Get ready for spring.
>>2786865That's the plan! Hoping to find some good books about local mushrooms so I can learn something about identifying them before the spring. I took about 15 pictures of different mushrooms in the woods near my house last month, and I can only guess at the identity of 3 of them, even with the help of Google. Hoping to eventually do better than that...
Is this psilocybe semilanceata? I found it growing alone in a field.
Can anyone recommend me a mushroom foraging guide for Washington state? I see lots of different mushrooms on my hikes and now I'm curious what they are
>>2786884Psathyrella corrugis
>>2786904All that the rain promises and more by David Aurora
>>2786867Post them. Let's see if we can't help you ID more of them. Google is helpful, if you know what to look for. But you still need a good reference book for your area. I'd ask that mushroom group which field guide(s) they use. That will give you something to cross reference when you're looking on the internet. Knowing what family a mushroom is likely to belong to makes IDing much easier. iNaturalist is also helpful. It'll show you suggestions based on the picture and your location.
>>2786904Check out Mushroom Wonderland on YouTube. He's up in coastal Washington.
>>2786904>cant use youtube or google but thinks they can pick mushrooms your gonna die you actual mongoloid.
>>2786904Audubon guide is all you need tbqhbbqfam
>>2786941Thank you for the advice!Here's one I couldn't figure out at all after a solid hour of Googling features, mostly because I couldn't figure out how to search the "red spot" in the middle without getting exclusively pictures of amanita muscaria, lol. The other most notable feature to me was how widely spaced the gills are, and searching that led me to hygrophorus of some sort, so that's my final guess. But I didn't find any pictures that look quite like this one.
>>2786941>>2787016This one, however, I've got absolutely nothing. Saved the collage in a higher resolution, sorry about the previous one being too low.
>>2787016Russula emetica, the sickener, the cap is entirely red when young, this one is old and faded. You can easily identify russulas by their brittle, non fibrous flesh. The stipe will break like chalk. This variety, as the common name suggests, is not edible. However, lobster mushrooms, a highly prized edible, parasitize russula mycelium. So remember where you find them. >>2787017This one is a gyroporus bolete, I think. I don't have much experience with boletes unfortunately.
>>2786982My local myco society had a couple recs but I wanted to see if anyone here had sone others I might look into. Sorry that this has thrown you into an autistic fit of rage. I recommend touching grass.
>>2786929>>2786943Thanks for the recs, will look into
>>2787020>Russula emeticaDamn it, I considered this one, but I thought the cap color was too uniform in all the pictures I found. Shows how much I know.And yeah, I knew the 2nd one was something bolete adjacent, but those seem way harder to distinguish.
>>2787016This is a Russula, but there are many red-capped Russulas. None of them are worth eating and some are poisonous, so it's easy enough to assume it's Russula emetica and move on.>>2787017Rooting Polypore maybe, not super confident
>>2787228>there are many red-capped Russulas. None of them are worth eatingNot true, the shrimp russula has a red/burgundy/purple cap and it is one of the more highly sought after russulas. But they also have red blushing on the stipe which rubs off revealing a yellowish flesh. But red with a pure white stipe is more likely than not in the emetica group, which is why that was my ID. For the picture's OP, in case there is some confusion, emetica is a European taxon. Many of the red and white ones in North America have different names and have slight genetic differences due to isolation and natural selection, but are for all other purposes almost entirely identical. So I personally call them all emetica. Species splits are often a source of confusion and arguments in the mycological community.
what are the plant bulbs in the top image?found them surfaced up after the rains, just sitting theresearch engines aren't giving a good answer to what they are also, heres some mushrooms that were right near it, as recompense for offtopic
>>2787360It's very difficult to ID a plant from just it's bulb. You should have taken a few to grow
>>2767698>>2767701That looks deadly as fuck, you absolute retard
>>2787429There's only a couple dozen deadly fungus species in all of the world.If someone runs around the forest eating random mushrooms like some brain damaged chimpanzee, chances are that they're not going to die from it, unfortunately.>>2767701Looks way to big and robust to be a death angel mushroom. I'm no expert though.
>>2787421i actually took them all just to grow, they were just in my yard, barely even on the soil, not like they'd survive
>>2787498Bulbs can dry out so they might have, but more likely they would have been eaten by rodents. When they sprout you should be able to ID them. My stab in the dark is wild garlic.
>>2787360Not sure why you asked here....not a lot of cross over between fungi foragers and root foragers.>they were just in my yardWhat was growing there? That should be where you start.>also, here's some mushrooms that were right near it, as recompense for off topicMycena not sure of the exact species.
>>2787522thanks for the mushroom ID, heres another set i found today, like 10ft from where the bulbs werei don't know if these are the same mushroom that were growing last year, they look a bit different though, they sprouted in a single nightthe reason i gone here to ask about the bulbs, is that i didn't see a foraging thread, so i guessed at least a few of you may have seen some in your travelsthe stuff growing in my yard is a patchwork of native & a few non-native, plus, i'm new to the area, so i have no idea what grows here (northern middle tennessee), but i've been learning what i can by taking pictures & using image search, it works most of the time
>>2764605These mushrooms always make me hungry... they look like cauliflower.
>>2787524Psathyrella corrugis, very common. They help break down the humic material in the soil and make it available to plants. They're often confused for magic mushrooms by beginners. But they have no psychoactive or medicinal properties. They're not poisonous, but don't have any culinary value either. Same goes for that mycena you shared before. Except for the confusion with magic mushrooms. >i'm new to the area, so i have no idea what grows hereOk, but we're you there this past spring? Or have you just moved there in the past few months? If you were, what was growing in that exact spot? Anything that looked like an onion or flower? Anything you can remember besides grass?
>>2787528heres another thats on the logs that are again, a few ft awaymoved almost 2 years ago here now, but a lot of the brush was really hard to see though, and the plants were always changing outwe've been trying to clear the invasive stuff though, and have been putting the mowed grass & fallen leaves in what we call "the grove", so far, its made the area extremely diverse with native plants i've seen plants & shrooms that are in an area for a week, then a new one appears for a week, then again, all for a over a year now, its pretty mind blowing for me, since i come from a desert i also don't know if the plant might have blended in with the few other grasses, not having flowers, like many onion/garlic type plants will do in the first year, since the lily thats also in the area will sometimes skip a year without coming out, and others won't flower for a year
>>2787529Hmmm....this one's a bit small to make a positive ID on. It kinda looks like it could be a young chicken of the woods. But it could also be a fomitopsis or another woody conk. Keep your eye on it.
>>2787553i've seen some around already, they seem to only get about that big, the top brown thing above it is an old one i think this is also another type of shroom growing on the logits on a huge pile of logs along with all the other types thats been slowly shrinking over the couple yearsi think i've seen about 50 different mushroom across the pile now, pretty neat to see soil being made in real time
>>2787566Wow! That's pretty gnarly looking! I've never personally seen anything similar. But google lens suggests Antrodia. It's in the Fomitopsidaceae family. If those others don't get bigger, they're likely also fomitopsis of some variety. Are they(>>2787529) marshmallowy, corky or hard and woody?
>>2787570just gone out & felt it, they were hard & woodytop image is of a set of them, i think i lost the one in the original pic, probably rotted or somethingbottom pic is of another sizeable mushroom i spotted in the pile
>>2787573Hmmm.....Ok, next question, what type of wood is it on? It doesn't look quite like anything I've seen personally. I'm looking through my books and doing some cross refferencing to try and figure it out. One more request, can you take a picture of the underside? I'm assuming it's pored, if it's toothed or gilled I'm looking in the wrong places.Bottom picture is a deer mushroom, pluteus cervinus. It's named for the color of the cap. It's edible if you find them fresh.
>>2787573>>2787580Here's a mushroom contribution of my own. I just found this dead man's foot mushroom in my back yard, near the compost bin tonight while I was out feeding my quail.
>>2787580seems to be poresno idea what kind of wood, i'm not a tree guylooks like a hardwood though, i think, could be walnut or ash maybe, or even mulberry? those are the ones in the area right there, in about 20ft, theres like 7 varieties of trees>>2787583is it edible? lol
>>2787587Ok, I believe that may be Phellinus/Fuscoporia gilvas. Or another in that family. But I'm not positive. I think that's the best you're going to get from me on that one.>is it edible? lolNo, but if you find them young, before the head turns into spores(as the one I found has), they can be used to make dyes.
>>2787590thanks for the helpi don't have any books yet, and the few i've seen in stores were all over the place, and i don't live in denmark, oregon, or japan, so trying to id mushrooms from there isn't helpfuland just like with the bulb plant, the image ID engines like giving random & clearly unrelated stuff too
>>2787592Check out "Appalachian Mushrooms: a Field Guide" by Walter E Sturgeon. It's supposed to be one of the best East coast mushroom field guides. "A Field Guide to the Mushrooms of the Carolinas" by Arleen and Alan Bessette is also highly rated for foraging from Virginia to Georgia and from the coast to the Mississippi River.
I mostly just like to look at mushrooms. But a big oak tree did just fall on my property, I'm thinking of chopping it up to stack and inoculate. Any recommendations?
>>2787611Pick something high value like shiitakes
>>2787611Blue oyster, shiitake or lion's mane. You can buy plug spawn pretty cheap at North Spore. And they're a great company, I get most of my grain spawn from them when I'm not making it myself.
>>2787638>>2787672Smart about high value stuff. I really don't use mushrooms all that often, but I think I would if they were growing in my yard (I eat way more vegetables now that I keep a garden.) But I think a lot of it will be shared with friends and family as well (also like the garden).
>>2787696You can dry out any extras that you have and they'll keep for years. If you sun dry them with the gills up then they'll also produce a ton of vitamin d. It's worth exposing the gills of any mushroom you eat to the sun for an hour or so before you cook them. I put mine on the lid of a tupperware and seal the clear bottom over the top of them so nothing runs off with my mushrooms and they don't dry out as much.
>>2787611Oyster mushrooms torn into strips and sauteed are always good, but oysters are common and not a challenge to grow.
Found some slippery jacks(suillus) today! It's finally mushroom season in far North Central California!!
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>>2787738Also found some stropharia ambigua
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>>2787740Psathyrella corrugis. I thought this cluster was growing in an interesting way
>>2787741Horse hair fungus. These guys are tiny!!
>>2787742Hare's foot ink cap
>>2787743Not a mushroom, just a Lovecraftian looking lichen.
>>2787744Bark bonnets
Found lots of mushrooms today
Not sure what these are.
This is new to me too.
>>2787934>>2787935armillaria, honey fungus>>2787936Remnants of a couple lion's mane mushrooms that someone or something has already taken. Keep your eye on it, it should flush out again if it doesn't get too cold in the next couple weeks.
>>2787974Stump puffballs. If you catch them when they're still young and solid white all the way through, they choice edibles
Puffball
Poob fungus
>>2788210mycena>>2788211Hypholoma lateritium, brick caps. Edible, but not recommended because there are some very poisonous mushrooms that can look similar
>>2783759>>2784379>>2786884>>2780969Do they typically grow in grassy backyards if you plant their spores there? What can be done to make its prosperity more likely?
>>2788272Your best bet would be to find a couple wild specimens and take spore prints. Use those to inoculate some agar. Transfer until you have several clean cultures and use those to inoculate grain bags. Once those are colonized, use those to inoculate grass piles in your yard. With luck one or more will take and you see them come up every year. Turn those spots into your yard waste collection points.
>>2788299Another option would be to make brown rice flour and vermiculite cakes in wide mouth pint jars. Look up BRF cakes. You can inoculate those directly with spores, but your success rate will be lower. The advantage is, far fewer steps and less time. Just inoculate the jars, let them colonize, toss any funky looking cakes and use any successful ones to inoculate those grass piles.
>>2788104Flavor was very mild, just a hint of mushroom. I diced and dry sautéed it, then added butter and garlic. Texture was very soft, like firm tofu. I think it would be a great s.0.y free tofu replacement.
>>2788300Try replacing the vermiculite with crushed lump charcoal. It's cheaper and it works better.
>>2788299Take a short cut and transfer a tissue sample from the interior of the wild mushroom to agar then to grain then to spawn. You'll be using DNA that was already selected to grow in the wild, there's less chance of contamination during growing, and it will skip the germination step.
>>2789048Yeah, if he's already setup for agar work, a tissue culture will definitely save time. But if he's not already doing myc work, he's probably not ready for tissue culture. Either way, I'd still take the spore print for future work.
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