Mushroom Discussion Board

New to mushroom hunting, WA

opcpixie — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:07:52 GMT

I just started hunting chanterelles and morels and was wondering if anybody could help me out with some spots near Vancouver/Battle Ground, WA? I usually go into OR, but looking for something closer to home. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

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Species List, Northern California

SandyBarRanch — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:40:44 GMT

We've been hosting a Wild Mushroom Retreat for the past 16 years at our ranch in the Klamath Mts., Northern California, and have kept a running species list. I just posted it on our website, in case anyone's interested in checking it out: http://www.sandybar.com/Workshops.html along with a description of our Wild Mushroom Retreat. We're currently at 215 species, listed by Latin & common name, I'm in the process of listing families, but it's still a work in progress. It's the work of several amateur, but dedicated, taxonomists who have been attending the retreat for many years. Let me know if you have any questions.

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Wild Mushroom Retreat, Klamath Mts.

SandyBarRanch — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:30:09 GMT

Thought folks might like to know about our annual mushroom retreat coming up in November. Fell free to contact me with any questions:

Wild Mushroom Retreat

November 19-22, 2009

Sandy Bar Ranch, Orleans, CA

Each fall the forest floor comes alive with thousands of varieties of mushrooms. Join us and fellow mushroom enthusiasts for our annual three day Fall Wild Mushroom Retreat, where we collect, identify, cook and celebrate wild mushrooms. Participants of all ages and experience levels are welcome to come learn and share their fungal knowledge. The weekend includes field trips, identification sessions, great meals, a mushroom cook-off and a fun-filled evening of mycological theater. This is an educational and festive event for everyone from novice beginners to experienced fungal fanatics!

Cost : $225, includes shared lodging and one meal per day.

To register or for more information contact:

Sandy Bar Ranch, mail@sandybar.com, (530)-627-3379,

Or visit our website at http://www.sandybar.com

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How to preserve Coral Fungi

mikesarabranson — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:26:20 GMT

Anybody know what is the best way to preserve coral mushrooms? Can't seem to find any info specific to the species, I have a bumper crop soaking in the tub now and appreciate any help...

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Need help IDing these

Nibs — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:27:12 GMT

I have been unable to ID these myself. Many of them growing in the wood mulch in my front yard in Atlanta GA. Spore print is white.

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r201/djnibler07/Audi%20S4/Shroom1-H1024.jpg

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r201/djnibler07/Audi%20S4/Shroom2-H1024.jpg

Thanks in advance

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In my new yard.

Gonzo — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:50:46 GMT

I am new at this and have found this shrooming thing to be very fun and interesting. My son and I started when we found some Bolettus mushrooms on a golf course that resembeled the dancing ones from Fantasia. Being the first time ever touching mushrooms to possibily eat, the 15 or so really nice ones harvested we did not eat do to being skeptical. I am perty sure those were some good shrooms we passed up on. Since then I have been going aroung the back yard forest area to see if I can find some edible mushrooms. I have found some names and others I have not. Hope you like the pictures and help identify if any are edible.

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Mississippi mushroom lecture and hike

MississippiMushroom — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:28:27 GMT

I received this information from a friend...

When: Saturday, September 26th, at 1:30 p.m.
RSVP at 662-252-1155 or kboyle@audubon.org -- SPACE IS LIMITED!

Join us September 26th at 1:30 as Jason Hoeksema, Professor at The University of Mississippi, gives a lecture on local mushrooms. Following the lecture, we will go seek out some mushrooms on the trails of Strawberry Plains!

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wood ears in michigan?

flyinglow — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:03:15 GMT

Found this one today. It looks like the chinese version of a wood ear(auricula polytricha) that I've bought dried at chinese groceries for years, but never found it wild. Didn't think it grew wild here...

Closest match i can find in Arora's mushrooms demystified is auricularia auricula,(or possibly tremella foliacea?) but it seems to be larger and more lobed than the any descriptions or pictures i've found of a. auricula.

Anybody have any experience with this mushroom in the midwest or eastern us?

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(Identified...)orange orange orange mushroom what is it?

flyinglow — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:04:48 GMT

found this today while running in local woods (se michigan)

appeared to be growing next to/off of a dead tree stump. it's fruited from the same location before. Apx 15 mushrooms growing from the same point. up to 12 cm tall, cap 6cm wide.

cap: orange on top(pumpkin orange), flesh lighter orange cap round when young, to mostly flat with little raised bump in the middle at maturity
stipe: orange on the outside, lighter orange inside, fibrous and firm 11cm tall*15mm wide, slightly smaller at base
Gills: orange, close, decurrent, transferring almost smoothly into stem

odor mushroomy, pleasant

Any ideas on this one? Will update when i get a spore print...

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Spore prints?

MitchellPHackl — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:46:38 GMT

I'm having a little trouble getting one type of mushroom to leave a spore print. I believe it's a Sweetbread Mushroom,I trying to make sure.

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Colorado mushrooms?

sns — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:50:14 GMT

Anyone able to clue me in on what mushroom hunting is like in CO?
Considering a relocation but it would be hard to give up all the midwestern mushrooms. So what's out there? Do they find many morels? Boletes? etc?
Thanks.

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SE michigan unidentified coral? Identified!

flyinglow — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:06:36 GMT

I found this mushroom in soil in the middle of a patch of chanterelles, in oak/hickory forest. It's been very damp lately, rain for days.

It's around 3 inches tall, off white, and hollow in the middle. The fruit body is folded and lobed, almost brainlike. It's hollow, walls about 1/8 inch thick. The texture is firm, flexible and rubbery, like cooked egg whites.
Odor mild, slightly sweetish and musty.
Essentially flavorless.

At first i thought i might have a cauliflower mushroom, but the tips don't have the same kind of leafy wrinkles typical of the pictures i've seen of the cauliflower. It sort of looks like a cross between a gyromitra esculenta, and a coral.

Has anybody ever seen anything like this? Could it be an earlier stage of a cauliflower or something?

Any help would be appreciated, this one's got me baffled.
Thanks, Zack

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Interesting amanita found in southern michigan

flyinglow — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:49:53 GMT

Yesterday i found an amanita that i can't positively identify.

Cap is red-orange in the middle, fading to yellow orange at the outer edge. apx 3 inches diameter

gills: white to creamy white

Spore print: white

Universal veil, light yellow, leaving a small number of scales on the cap.

stipe: about 3 inches tall, 1/2" dia. white, with a dusting of yellow on the surface, thin wispy ring, also light yellow.

At first i thought i had found a caesars amanita, but the yellow universal veil and annulus throws it off. It also doesn't have yellow gills. The western A. Aspera sounds like a close match, but i don't know if it occurs in michigan.

Any ideas?

Will post pictures soon, but they won't be great, i didn't have a camera with me when i found it, it's a little beat up now...

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mushrooms in ohio

hunter1970 — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:04:03 GMT

looking for someone to go mushroom hunting with in ohio would like to learn more

thx Richard

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Bolete ID help

sns — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:06:19 GMT

Any help on this would be appreciated...don't know my Boletes very well.
Found a few dozen of these...young ones almost purple, older ones a light brown on top.
Tubes almost white when unbruised.
Does not bruise blue or anything like that.
These are big and hefty...biggest was almost 8 in across...most were 4-5 inches.
Floor of a mature oak forest in MN.
So..any ideas? They don't quite match the pictures of Kings that I've seen, but they could be...
Thx!
(If I have done this right, there should be 3 pictures to see...)

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