Or at least that’s what I think they are so far by asking around and comparing pictures…I’m still waiting on the spore print to take…so I can’t say 100% for sure what it is, but I am leaning towards black staining polypore. I found these sizable, wild mushrooms while taking my dogs for a walk [...]
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Archive for July, 2011
Today’s Wild Edible Mushroom Finds: Chanterelles & Black Staining Polypores
By Mushy on Sunday, July 31st, 2011 | 2 Comments
Mushroom Pictures from Today’s Hike
By Mushy on Monday, July 18th, 2011 | No Comments
Smooth Chanterelles (Cantharellus lateritius) Despite the rainclouds being stingy the past couple weeks and everything being close to bone dry at all the local hiking trails, I still ended up finding lots of mushroom, and taking some pretty cool mushroom pictures during my hike into the woods with my dogs today. I’ll do my best [...]
Read More...My Top 10 Weird Mushroom Pictures
By Mushy on Friday, July 15th, 2011 | 2 Comments
One of the best parts about finding wild mushrooms for me is getting the chance to take pictures of most every wild mushroom I uncover as I hike through the local woodlands. Usually I am looking for a certain few mushrooms I’ve found in the area before, but even in those spots where I know [...]
Read More...Wild Edible Mushrooms, It’s What’s for Dinner
By Mushy on Friday, July 15th, 2011 | No Comments
Or at least it was for the past few days for me. I’ve been lucky enough to find several pretty prolific patches of Black Trumpet chanterelles this season. Another name for black trumpets is Horns of Plenty…they ain’t kidding! I haven’t had as much luck this year with regular old chanterelles, although I have seen [...]
Read More...Today’s Wild Edible Mushroom Find: Strobilomyces floccopus
By Mushy on Friday, July 15th, 2011 | No Comments
Ladies and Gentlemen, may I introduce to you The Old Man of the Woods. Strobilomyces floccopus, a member of the boletus genus of mushrooms, is one of the easier wild edible mushrooms to identify as a beginner. The black tufts of what looks almost like hair growing from the cap and stem make this mushroom [...]
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