What are these mushrooms? There’s like hundreds of them under my blackberries. Are they deadly?
>>2824327I'm not a mushroom expert, I only forage for very easy stuff, but it's going to be hard to Id from that pick alone. Get a picture of the mushrooms growing together naturally. Or at least try to find some that are less chewed up.
>>2824328How’s this?
>>2824330They all look really chewed up and they're deep in the foliage. I can't say for sure what they are but clearly something loves them.In my experience assume every mushroom is poisonous unless you can get a proper id
>>2824327Luxury Cap maybe. Edible but not very tasty.https://www.mushroomexpert.com/gymnopus_luxurians.html
>>2824341Not 100% though, /an/ might know better.
>>2824327Lots of mushrooms look similar, very very few are deadly, a handful will make you sick, and the rest are edible if not palatable. Better pictures of fresher specimens will help us ID them. Try getting a picture of the whole mushroom from the top and bottom. Check to see if the stipe(stem) is brittle or fibrous. Make a cut in the gills to see if they exude any liquids, take note of the color of they do. Also look for color changes from bruising on the mushroom and make note of it if it does.No mushroom is dangerous to touch or handle. They must be consumed to kill you or make you sick. It is a common practice in mushroom foraging to nibble and spit a piece of mushroom to see if it's sweet, bitter or spicy. So don't be afraid to pick and handle them. Just don't eat them unless you're 100% sure of what they are
>>2824328>>2824340>>2824341>>2824342>>2824351I really appreciate your time and efforts to help. I had a buddy come out who works in my states agriculture department. He was able to identify them as wine cap mushrooms.
What are these senpai?
>>2824363Trechispora
with every mushroom there is one that looks identical to it and will poison you. they're cool to look at but i don't trust anything i find
>>2824379Except morels and puffballs.
>>2824368So no eata the shoomsa?
>>2824379Mostly incorrect. The deadly "look alikes" only look like the edible variety to someone that has little to no experience foraging mushrooms. For example...>>2824403Morels and puffballs both have deadly "look alikes" But only if you don't know what is and what isn't those mushrooms. The false morel, gyromitra only looks like a morel of you've never seen either in real life and think..."maybe that's it?" A puffball is pretty easy to recognize, especially the very large ones. But, an amanita egg can look just like a smaller puffball. If you think you have a puffball, cut it in half. It should be solid white all the way through. If you see a mushroom shape in the middle, it's an amanita. not a puffball. It all comes back to knowing what the mushrooms your looking for look like and what the "look alikes" look like. There's almost always easy to distinguish with a little experience. The easiest way to start is to just go looking for mushrooms, not to eat, but just to see what's in your area. Take pictures, bring the pictures home and try and ID them. Eventually you'll become familiar with the mushrooms that grow in your area and can look for the ones that are edible.
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>>2824327What do they taste like?
What is the best way to eat this?
>>2828772I know you're trolling, but I'll answer anyway. Laccaria ochropurpurea, you cook it just like you'd cook any other mushroom. Avoid the stipe as it tends to be woody.
Yo guys, I am looking into getting educated about european trees/plants and mushroom foraging. Do you guys know any good field guides? Preferably something with pictures and compact, the kind of thing you could bring with you while camping
>>2830177Is this some kind of automated bump or are you really this dumb?
don't fuck with Amanitasthey'll kill you dead
This big boy sprouted in my backyard. I live in western Manitoba, Canada. It's the size of my hand. I'm not going to eat it but I am curious as to what it is. I have more pics too.
>>2830638Some sort of agaricus maybe. Are the gills dark brown? A picture of the gills and stipe(stem) would be helpful. About 1/3 of agaricus are edible, the rest fall into the "lose your lunch bunch". Try and get the whole stipe out with the mushroom. Dig a little if you have to. The mushroom is just the fruit of the mycelial body that lived underground. So you're not going to hurt it. Split the stipe and look for it to turn from white to yellow. Smell it, is it mushroomy or chemicaly like a peroxide smell. If either of those are true, it's part of the LYLB. There are a lot of white mushrooms, so more info is definitely needed. Post more pictures, especially of what I mentioned above(gills and stipe).
>>2830641Heres a picture of the gills. I can go try to pull it out later.
>>2824327little brown mushrooms, avoid>>2824340>In my experience assume every mushroom is poisonous unless you can get a proper idyes>>2824379>>2824403people sleep on hericium (lion's mane et al) but it's a rarity in that you can rest assured that it's a choice edible with no lookalikes.>>2824464inaturalist seek can prolly confirm a genus but i would not depend on that app for fungi. you definitely need a real field guide and observations at all stages of life for most species, however, some of the heavy hitters like chicken/hen, oysters, etc., are reasonably retard-proof to identify.
also, i've always thought it was very cool how fungi are more similar to animals than plants. they have flesh and often taste like seafood or chicken, and are generally umami. they're basically proto-animals that provide amino acids not whole proteins, and i will probably use dry mushrooms in most homemade backpacking meals, sous vide and dehydrated.
>>2830332Amanita multisquamosaSame psychoactive chemicals/effects as Amanita muscaria, but stronger
>>2830644>people sleep on hericiumTrue for all toothed mushrooms. They're some of the easiest to identify and there aren't any that will kill you. Worst case scenario with a toothed mushroom is it tastes like wood.Oysters are fairly fool proof, but there are a couple mushrooms that are confused for them. A major key there is growing directly from wood and decurant gills(gills run down the stipe).Unless you've cultivated them yourself, I generally suggest avoiding anything oyster looking growing from wood chips. There is a mushroom that meets those criteria but are not oysters that I've seen frequently on woodchip beds, Hohenbuehelia. They typically have thicker gills. They wont make you sick, but they don't taste good(like rotting wood). >>2830642Yeah, that's agaricus. Check the stipe for the indicators I mentioned above(yellowing and chemically smell)
>>2830646Closer to animals than plants, closer to invertebrates than vertebrates. Their primary building structure is chitin, like insects and crustations. This is one of the reasons they can hijack insects.
>>2830647I'm not 100%, but the one on the left looks like it may be a. ocreata. That picture may show how easy it is to confuse one amanita from another.
>>2830652Amanita bisporigera - I'm in the Midwest. I took a spore print and then tossed it in the trash.
Is this chicken of the woods or some lookalike? I can run back up and take more pictures if needed, definitely not interested in eating something that'll just kill me lmao.
>>2831113That is 100% Laetiporus, probably cincinnatusGo get it before someone else does
>>2831137Thanks, you came in right in time. Another 45 minutes and I would have been leaving work.
>>2831138I've been hunting ("hunting") mushrooms for four years now, and I have yet to ever find a Chicken of the Woods that wasn't just budding, completely rotten, inaccessible, or already cut off. Make sure you post how you cook it too.
>>2831139Will do, the only wild mushroom I have any experience cooking is Morels, so I'll definitely have to look up how to best cook these
Anyone know of good resources to get into mushroom hunting? I live in northwest Germany if that helps.I‘m just looking to not get myself killed.
>>2831138Nice haul! Definitely CotW. You only want to cook and eat about the first 2-3inches from the leading edge(not the tree side). The rest, the portion connected to the wood, will start to have a texture similar to cork.
>>2831141I like to cut it into strips, about 1/2 inch thick. Dry sauté for a few minutes to get some of the water out and get a good maillard reaction. Then add butter, salt, pepper and garlic and sauté for a few more minutes(around 10 minutes or so total). They come out looking and tasting like strips of chicken breast
>>2831173I'm not familiar with any European field guides(I'm in the US, pacific coast). You should look in your local library and or book shops for a "local" field guide. Look for one that covers Germany or several countries in Europe that includes Germany. It should cover many of the mushrooms that you may find in your area and include pictures as well as good descriptions and identifying features. As I've mentioned above, when you're first starting out, don't go out looking for edible mushrooms. Just go out looking for mushrooms. Bring your field guide and try and ID them in the field. Take pictures, whole mushroom, top down and from the side. Pick it or one if there are several. Try and get the whole thing, all the way from the bottom of the stipe(stem). Look at the gills and stipe, take more pictures. When you return home upload them to iNaturalist. Make sure you enter your location before looking for ID suggestions, It'll narrow your results. Within a few months to a year or so, you'll start to become familiar with the mushrooms growing in your area. That's when you should start narrowing your search for the edible ones.
>>2831173The only advice you need to not die is to not eat anything you find unless you are 110% sure of what you're holding
>>2831190This is more or less how I cook any mushroom - slap it on top of a steak too.
>Go out a few days after heavy rain>Find absolutely nothing>Go out on a random day>Find tons of them rotting awayWhy are they like this?
>>2831744I have learned the hard way that trying to time mushroom hunts down to the day is a fool's errandBest you can do is to know from experience what time and temperature of year a mushroom will fruit and go look then. Sometimes I think it has a lot more to do with soil temp than wetness - certainly the case for morels
>>2831744>>2831751I was going to say the same exact thing. It's about the microclimates in the areas you're foraging. Trying to predict mushrooms by timing your trips around rain is a recipe for disappointment.
Any guesses on these? Found them recently. I think 1 is turkey tail and 3 is an ink cap, otherwise im at a loss
>>28318851 is too thick and the pores are too big to be Turkey Tail, might be Trâmetes gibbosa but that's a guess2 is Fomitopsis quercina3 is Coprinoid (Ink Cap)4, 5, and 6 might be Collybia7 looks like Clitocybe odora, might be wrong on this8 is Oudemansiella
>>28318851. Trametes, not versicolor2. Maze gill conk, too old and discolored for me to ID further3. Ink cap, not sure of exact species4. Gymnopus, not sure of exact species5. Deer mushroom? Is it about 4-5 inches across the top of the cap and growing directly from that wood?6. ?7. Collybia, looks like odora. If you took notes, it should have an anise smell to it. You'll have probably noticed it. I have every time I've found them. Almost like someone wearing perfume walked through the area.8. ?
>>2831907>>2831914thanks. damn i thought i nailed it with the (not) turkey tail. i need to take better pictures next timehow did you guys get your shroom knowledge? just over time, gathering shrooms and checking every time? or did you read specific books (which?) or even study the subject?
>>2832091You're close enough thinking it was turkey tail. It's got the white pored surface and the variegated colors. Most if not all of trametes has the same beneficial properties too. I'm >>2831914I became interested in mushroom hunting and IDing after moving to an area where they were more common(norcal, shasta county) and finding my first boletes. I started just taking pictures and bringing them home to ID. I have a couple reference books. I'm in norcal, so I use "All That The Rain Promises and More"(The Rain Book) as my field guide. If you're on the west coast, that's probably your best field guide. I also have "Mushrooms Demystified" The companion tome to the Rain book field guide. I have a handful of other mushroom books, but they're far more general. I also use Google lens and iNaturalist. They're good resources, but know that google will search the whole world. So you may find a mushroom that looks just like the one you're looking at, but it only grows in Asia. iNat is a bit better because you can add the location you found them and will give you suggestions based on appearance as well as "expected in your area". Both can help you narrow it down to a genus if not the exact species. I've been doing this for several years now. The more you look, the more you'll become familiar with your local mushrooms.
>>2832091I'm the other guy >>2831907I'm in Wisconsin. I've never used books really, but I use iNaturalist, a mushroom-focused app called ShroomID, and various "dichotomous keys" you can find on the internet. The most important part is to actually go outside and find mushrooms and try to ID them, especially without AI apps. I also go on ShroomID and other places online and try to figure out other people's ID requests sometimes. If you have something you can't ID, post it somewhere, and when you get an answer, try to figure out how they arrived at that answer.It is helpful to learn which major and minor identifiable characteristics of mushrooms matter and which genus/species they point to. Major things like rings (annulus) and sacks (volva) and minor things like stem (stipe) texture and gill spacing. Microscopy will take you the furthest in IDing species but I haven't made that investment yet.I sure fucking wish I could go back and study mycology and microbiology but I'm stuck with an engineering degree. I have a particular interest in Amanitas so that's where I have spent most of my curiosity learning. This site is great to just browse: https://www.mushroomexpert.com
Is there anywhere as mushroom rich as the PNW that isn't run by democrats? I want o be able to forage mushrooms AND own an AR-15 that's not been neutered.
>>2832155>>2832164thanks guys ill look into these. i'm from central europe btw. maybe i should try and find a book for my area.>It is helpful to learn which major and minor identifiable characteristics of mushrooms matter and which genus/species they point toyea i figured i should do that so i know roughly what im looking at and can compare specific parts of a mushroom
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>>2830647i tripped on muscaria and it was wildtrillions of images appeared in my mind every second it was like being in hell and heaven at the same timei puked my guts out and had pretty weird auditory/visual hallucinationspoerwful and memorable trip, im glad i did it but probably wont touch the stuff again same with datura and brugmansiatropane alkaloids are not for the timid
>>2832438liar
>>2824327My guess would be Hygrocybe
>>2832438Did you get the Amanita Dreams?
>>2832438I'm almost considering it, but even psilocybin was almost too intense for me.I am pretty desperate for a good sleeping aid, though. Should I?
>>2832634try Beam Dream
Help me /out/, I'm 99% sure this is hen of the woods but I'm new to mushrooming. Anyone out there more experienced to give me a definite identification?> Was found at the base of a tree
>>2832926That's chicken of the woods(Laetiporus sulphureus). Hens(maitake, Grifola frondosa)look completely different, a large cluster of delicate oysterish shaped mushrooms.
>>2832970Thanks for the correction I thought they were all the same thing.. why did they name so many mushrooms after chickens?Side note i dunno if they're always like this but I've found almost 10 pounds of Chanterelles in the last few days.
>>2832652>MelatoninBarely better than placebo. I've downed two-digit milligrams and stayed awake through a night. I've felt sleepier after drinking a cup of coffee.GABA agonists or bust.
>>2833141You can actually get Beam dream with or without melatonin. It helps some people but not others. Melatonin doesn't seem to do much to me either. It's the blend of other ingredients that seem to help: L-Theanine, Magnesium, Reishi(there's your mushroom) and Apigenin(from Chamomile). Unlike muscimol, it's made to give you a good night's rest, not a fitful night of nightmares. So, if it's a sleep aid you're looking for, I'd go beam over amanitas. Or just try some chamomile tea and ZMA.
>>2833098No worries, I've made the same mistake when I didn't know what either looked like and for the same reason. It's early for chanterelles, but I've been seeing them too! It's been an odd mushroom year.
I thought these Frost's Amanitas were supposed to be sort of rare but I saw tons of them all over the place in Michigan's UP last weekendI don't think they were Amanita flavoconia, they were even smaller than those
>>2833374Where you find one amanita, you'll likely find more. They're mycorrhizal, so if you're near a bunch of trees they like, there's probably a well established mycelial network there. I'm not familiar with a. frostiana, but according to iNaturalist, you're in the right location for it. It looks like it's almost exclusively around the great lakes region. If you were anywhere else, I'd have said it was a. flavoconia. I'm reading as I'm posting this just FYI....The flaking, persistent ring of volval material around the stipe also points to frostiana. Otherwise, it looks like you'd want to look at the spores under a microscope to 100% confirm it. A. flavoconia has ellipsoid, amyloid spores, whereas a. frostiana has round, non-amyloid spores.
>>2833378Here's another one, found 50 miles away (at the site of Michigan's Humongous Fungus no less)I was really hoping to find Yellow Fly Agaric up there but it's too early for those and I'm beginning to suspect those are more easily found in the Lower Peninsula
>>2833380If you happened to take a spore print, you can expose a portion of it to iodine. flavoconia will turn black, frostiana will not. Gills on flavoconia should be white while frostiana should be more cream. Gills on flavoconia are said to be barely free(adnate to adnexed) while frostiana should be free from the stipe. Let's see...what else. The cap on frostiana is said to have a distinctly lined margin, like a grizzette. Other than that, microscopy of the spores, as I mentioned above, is the best way to be sure either way.That's what I've got between my books and web searches. Hope it helps!
It's been raining for a while are there edible?
