It's been a while since I've seen a /mush/ thread! How is everyone's fall mushroom season treating them? I've been finding tons of mushrooms!! Lots of these Satan's boletes, rubroboletus eastwoodiae, popped up everywhere. Too bad they're not good to eat..
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Amanita gemata >>2851185A. Vaginata
>>2851186Lilac bonnet
Porcini season was great on the north coast of CA
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>>2851188Nice! All I found were satan's and various suillus :/
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New to mushrooms on the central coast of California. I got lucky and found some candy caps.
Thaxterogaster vibratilis>>2851190Don't sleep on suillus-- some of them like S. brevipes are pretty good! I did a blind tasting one time and folks liked it almost as much as porcini.
>>2851194Sweet! They're still on my to find list.I found hundreds of these spicy, yellow staining milk caps.
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>>2851194Pro tip: Some of the best candy cap patches ive ever seen were under Monterrey pine. Youre probably not hurting for live oak habitat, but check out pines too. Might be worth your time.
>>2851199Collybia odora was out in force this year! Last year I found one patch with 5 mushrooms. This year they're all over the place!
Morchella snyderi from out by mount Shasta last spring.
>>2851196I keep meaning to try them. But they're usually just past or buggy when I find them. I gathered a whole bag of what I thought would be good suillus pseudobrevipes only to find they were entirely filled with maggots and holes when I cut them in half at home. Probably the only one that wasn't buggy was the one I cut in half out in the woods to see if they were buggy....and I tossed that one....BAKA
>>2851200Actually the environment I found them in was a mixed forest of oak and Monterey pine.
Cantharellus californicus from under Oregon white oak. Infrequently observed on the north coast but they're around, at least in good years. There are 5 species of chanterelle in my area and I think these might be the best, provided they dont get too muddy.
Central California anon here again... These were my other recent yet non-edible finds. A beautiful western jack o lantern I found in a canyon in big sur...
>>2851208And a big fly agaric
>>2851206Very nice
>>2851203shake my head gets 4chan auto changed to baka....that's a new one for me...
I thought these might be matsutakes and was very exited... Alas I got home to find out I was wrong
Where's the best state in the Midwest to look for (all kinds of) mushrooms? Wisconsin? Michigan? Somewhere else?
>>2851390Looks like they might be laughing gyms. I'd need better pictures of the gills for a firm ID though.>>2852413Omphalotus Jack-o-lantern mushrooms
>>2852443Yes from what I looked up it seems they are called jumbo gyms. They were cool even if I didn't eat them.How often do you guys actually have successful foraging adventures? It's only been once for me. I just keep finding inedible mushrooms. I guess the more you do it the more spots you would find and that kind of thing and you'd have more success.
>>2852536I think those are probably jack o lanterns. decurrent gills are the giveaway. Fun fact: they're bioluminescent-- mushrooms and mycelium!Defining success as "got enough edible mushrooms for dinner", I'd say probably 90% of outings. I only really fail to find edibles when I misjudge the timing or conditions. I've been mushroom hunting for 10+ years, and its a sense born from lots of local experience. It also helps to check inaturalist and Facebook foraging forums to see what other people are finding. Between my own experience and those resources, I have a pretty good sense of what I can expect to find (and by extension, where to look) before I go out. It also helps to get comfortable IDing more species of edibles, meaning there's just more stuff to pick.Boletus regineus (Queen bolete) from the north bay area.
>>2852536Yeah, those are definitely jumbo gyms. >How often do you guys actually have successful foraging adventures?It can vary from year to year, season to season. This past spring was terrible, I barely found anything. But this fall has been great so far. Once you find somewhere good mushrooms grow, you can usually find them in the same spot from year to year. So, the longer you've been foraging the more patches you know. Then it's just a matter of getting your timing down. Which is something you can only learn yourself, unless you're going out with an experienced forager who already has a good idea of the timing of the mushrooms in the areas you're looking. I'm also in several mushroom foraging groups for my area. So, when I see mushrooms start popping up in the groups, I know it's a good time to go out myself.
>>2852582Those are Gymnopilus not omphalotus. Those gills aren't decurrent
Dendrocollybia racemosa from Trinity county, CA
>>2852586>>2852584My b. Tagged the wrong post. Meant this photo >>2852413
>>2852588Fairy fingers, also Trinity county, CA but different anon
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