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Re: Any Mushroom hunters?
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2020 8:45 am
by bearfacedkiller
Mushroom wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 8:15 am
Mad Mac wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 7:43 pm
I'm not bold enough to eat any wild mushrooms, but good hunting.
There are old mushroom hunters and bold mushroom hunters but there are no old bold mushroom hunters.
Most poisonous mushrooms won’t kill you, they will just make you wish you were dead. :eek: In my area we don’t have very many deadly mushrooms but we have many that will make you very ill.
Honestly though, if you start with about a half dozen different types of mushrooms that are very easy to identify then you can do it safely. Then slowly add in more difficult to identify types as your experience grows. I pick a lot of lion’s mane because it has no lookalikes, it is delicious and it is plentiful behind my house.
Re: Any Mushroom hunters?
Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2020 9:00 pm
by remnar
Chicken of the woods a few nights ago, pasta with chanterelles tonight and I'm watching a cauliflower mushroom that I hope will double in size over the next few days. :rolleyes: :) :spyder:
Re: Any Mushroom hunters?
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 6:57 am
by Mad Mac
Photographed in November 2012, is this Chicken of the Woods?
The curious thing that I have noticed about mushrooms, like this one and the white coral and the red Amanita, is that I've only seen them one time in the 20 years I've been scouting this property.
Re: Any Mushroom hunters?
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 8:45 am
by Mushroom
Can confirm that is not Chicken of the Woods but I'm not sure what kind of mushroom is pictured. (I can only see the first picture for some reason) My first thought was Chanterelle but after a quick google search they may be some old Jack-o-lantern Mushroom but thats just a quick guess.
Jack-o-lantern Mushroom is a common look alike to Chanterelle, which was my initial reaction after seeing the photo but they're growing differently than Chanterelle mushrooms. (In a cluster out of the base of a tree)
Re: Any Mushroom hunters?
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 8:50 am
by Mushroom
bearfacedkiller wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 8:45 am
Mushroom wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 8:15 am
Mad Mac wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 7:43 pm
I'm not bold enough to eat any wild mushrooms, but good hunting.
There are old mushroom hunters and bold mushroom hunters but there are no old bold mushroom hunters.
Most poisonous mushrooms won’t kill you, they will just make you wish you were dead. :eek: In my area we don’t have very many deadly mushrooms but we have many that will make you very ill.
Honestly though, if you start with about a half dozen different types of mushrooms that are very easy to identify then you can do it safely. Then slowly add in more difficult to identify types as your experience grows. I pick a lot of lion’s mane because it has no lookalikes, it is delicious and it is plentiful behind my house.
I see a lot of Lions Mane up in New Hampshire when I'm hiking around this time of year.
Re: Any Mushroom hunters?
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 10:16 am
by bearfacedkiller
Yum!!!
Re: Any Mushroom hunters?
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 1:35 pm
by odomandr
Im no sure how well it will work with mushrooms, but Google phones have a image search built in to the camera app. I use it often to identify trees and wildflowers as well as plants around the yard that the wife plants and doesnt tell me about.
Re: Any Mushroom hunters?
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 2:09 pm
by Mad Mac
Also if you have a Google Chromebook like I do, image search is available. I use it a lot. Results can be spooky accurate at times and very helpful, other times, laughable. That is how I identified the red Amanita. It is also my understanding that it is possible to image search using a Chrome browser.
Re: Any Mushroom hunters?
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 3:16 pm
by bearfacedkiller
Mad Mac wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 2:09 pm
Also if you have a Google Chromebook like I do, image search is available. I use it a lot. Results can be spooky accurate at times and very helpful, other times, laughable. That is how I identified the red Amanita. It is also my understanding that it is possible to image search using a Chrome browser.
You can install the google app on an iPhone and use your camera to do an image search. It does sometimes work very well with plants.
Re: Any Mushroom hunters?
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 3:19 pm
by bearfacedkiller
Mushroom wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 8:50 am
bearfacedkiller wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 8:45 am
Mushroom wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 8:15 am
Mad Mac wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 7:43 pm
I'm not bold enough to eat any wild mushrooms, but good hunting.
There are old mushroom hunters and bold mushroom hunters but there are no old bold mushroom hunters.
Most poisonous mushrooms won’t kill you, they will just make you wish you were dead. :eek: In my area we don’t have very many deadly mushrooms but we have many that will make you very ill.
Honestly though, if you start with about a half dozen different types of mushrooms that are very easy to identify then you can do it safely. Then slowly add in more difficult to identify types as your experience grows. I pick a lot of lion’s mane because it has no lookalikes, it is delicious and it is plentiful behind my house.
I see a lot of Lions Mane up in New Hampshire when I'm hiking around this time of year.
That is interesting. I have picked a lot of Lions Mane and have only ever found it on beech. My buddy has found some on sugar maple though. Is that one on some type of maple?
Re: Any Mushroom hunters?
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2020 10:09 pm
by Kambei
bearfacedkiller wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 3:19 pm
Mushroom wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 8:50 am
bearfacedkiller wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 8:45 am
Mushroom wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 8:15 am
There are old mushroom hunters and bold mushroom hunters but there are no old bold mushroom hunters.
Most poisonous mushrooms won’t kill you, they will just make you wish you were dead. :eek: In my area we don’t have very many deadly mushrooms but we have many that will make you very ill.
Honestly though, if you start with about a half dozen different types of mushrooms that are very easy to identify then you can do it safely. Then slowly add in more difficult to identify types as your experience grows. I pick a lot of lion’s mane because it has no lookalikes, it is delicious and it is plentiful behind my house.
I see a lot of Lions Mane up in New Hampshire when I'm hiking around this time of year.
That is interesting. I have picked a lot of Lions Mane and have only ever found it on beech. My buddy has found some on sugar maple though. Is that one on some type of maple?
That is definitely in the genus Hericium and here, in California, we would call it Bear’s Head (hericium abietsis) if it were growing on conifer. Lion’s Mane (hericium erinaceus) grows on the wounds of hardwoods, almost always on oaks in Cali, and is just a single clump with “icicles” hanging down. Absolutely delicious and fun to find because that white pom pon is unmistakable!
Ate some chicken of the woods last night. Incidentally, as a kid I despised mushrooms and couldn’t care less about them but now hunting them is one of my favorite hobbies along with collecting spydercos of course. :p
Re: Any Mushroom hunters?
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2020 8:18 pm
by Mad Mac
Haven't a clue what these are but I thought they were pretty.
Re: Any Mushroom hunters?
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2020 1:40 pm
by JD Spydo
That one really nice book I bought a few years back I believe was written by a botanist named Roger Phillips. It has really nice pictures in it identifying at least 600 to 700 different species of North American mushrooms.
I'm wondering if there are any new books out now similar to that one? Because being absolutely sure of proper identification truly is a matter of life & death when you're dealing with wild Mushrooms. I truly love Morel and Beefsteak mushrooms and have eaten them throughout my life.
I've heard that there are some really good fall mushrooms here in Missouri and surrounding states and I wonder if any of you guys can fill me in on that?
Most survivalist advise against eating mushrooms in a survival situation unless you are 100% sure of it's identification. But there is some good nutritional value in eating the good ones. Any help will be appreciated :)
Re: Any Mushroom hunters?
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2020 3:09 pm
by Mad Mac
You have to ask yourself, "Self, why aren't the deer and wild hogs eating these mushrooms?"
Re: Any Mushroom hunters?
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2020 6:39 pm
by JD Spydo
Mad Mac wrote: ↑Tue Oct 20, 2020 3:09 pm
You have to ask yourself, "Self, why aren't the deer and wild hogs eating these mushrooms?"
I have asked myself that same question. And I'm not sure that mushrooms are in the main diet of a deer. Now hogs will eat a lot of stuff but for some reason there are a few certain items they won't eat.
My dad raised hogs for years and he noticed over the years that they won't eat anything out of the nightshade family. I.E. potatos, tomatoes, any type of tabacco plants or anything else in the nightshade family of plants. Other items he said they won't eat are orange peels and a few other odd items. So I'm not sure that those critters would even eat the safe mushrooms.
But they do instinctively know what to forage on.
Re: Any Mushroom hunters?
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 1:22 pm
by Mad Mac
These look yummy.
Re: Any Mushroom hunters?
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 6:10 pm
by bearfacedkiller
A decent pile of oyster mushrooms. That is a one gallon freezer bag.
Re: Any Mushroom hunters?
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 7:19 pm
by JuPaul
bearfacedkiller wrote: ↑Tue Oct 27, 2020 6:10 pm
A decent pile of oyster mushrooms. That is a one gallon freezer bag.
While I was hunting for chanterelles late this summer I came across the biggest haul of oysters I've ever found. Perfect timing since we'd just bought a food dehydrator!
Re: Any Mushroom hunters?
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 7:33 pm
by JuPaul
Mad Mac wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 6:57 am
Photographed in November 2012, is this Chicken of the Woods?
The curious thing that I have noticed about mushrooms, like this one and the white coral and the red Amanita, is that I've only seen them one time in the 20 years I've been scouting this property.
I can't believe I'm just seeing this thread! Mushroom hunting is a favorite passtime of mine and my husband's.
On this one I agree with Mushroom that they're not Chicken of the Woods, and are very likely Jack-o-lanterns, which are poisonous (but not deadly). It's hard to say without seeing the gills, though. But Jack-o-lanterns are still cool mushrooms, and get their name because the very fresh ones will sometimes glow in the dark! We have a big patch that comes back in the same spot in our woods each early fall. For mushroom IDing in general, it's really useful to get pictures of the stem and gills/underside as well.
Re: Any Mushroom hunters?
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 7:47 pm
by JuPaul
JD Spydo wrote: ↑Tue Oct 20, 2020 1:40 pm
That one really nice book I bought a few years back I believe was written by a botanist named Roger Phillips. It has really nice pictures in it identifying at least 600 to 700 different species of North American mushrooms.
I'm wondering if there are any new books out now similar to that one? Because being absolutely sure of proper identification truly is a matter of life & death when you're dealing with wild Mushrooms. I truly love Morel and Beefsteak mushrooms and have eaten them throughout my life.
I've heard that there are some really good fall mushrooms here in Missouri and surrounding states and I wonder if any of you guys can fill me in on that?
Most survivalist advise against eating mushrooms in a survival situation unless you are 100% sure of it's identification. But there is some good nutritional value in eating the good ones. Any help will be appreciated :)
Yes, MO has some great fall mushrooms. Right now you can find Hen of the Woods mushrooms at the base of oak trees, and Oyster mushrooms can grow year-round here. These are HotW mushrooms we found about 10 days ago:
We have a bunch of mushrooming books, but this is one of my favorites:
https://www.amazon.com/Edible-Mushrooms ... 0252076435
Mo Conservation also has a decent local mushrooming book:
https://www.mdcnatureshop.com/