Wild mushrooms

[Three Berries]

Thats looks like good eats right there Chicken of the woods!!

That's what I was told. I'll let you know when it sprouts up. It's that time of the year.

On the other Red Oaks I have there is ball shaped cream colored one that grows at the base and it turns to black slime. I've already removed them twice this year. Last two times I sprayed with borax and water, so far they have not come back.

 

[thumper60]

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Weird mushrooms from the Columbia Gorge.

Top 2 conks, false scaly vase chant, Reshi, witchs butter, an some kind of coral mushroom.

 

[xtsho]

I'll be picking buckets full of chanterelles soon in the Oregon Coast range. They're so prolific in places that the entire forest floor is orange. Gotta do a lot of bushwhacking but it sure is fun. I actually enjoy the foraging more than the eating. My lady hates chanterelles and I can only eat so many so it's more about being out in the woods than the mushrooms for me.

 

[thumper60]

I'll be picking buckets full of chanterelles soon in the Oregon Coast range. They're so prolific in places that the entire forest floor is orange. Gotta do a lot of bushwhacking but it sure is fun. I actually enjoy the foraging more than the eating. My lady hates chanterelles and I can only eat so many so it's more about being out in the woods than the mushrooms for me.

Crazy man we are at the end chant picking here, june is prime time in the north east.

 

[Three Berries]

Yellow one looks like witch’s butter, a jelly fungus.

I think it's this.

https://www.thespruce.com/identifyin...fungus-2539510

Dog vomit slime mold (Fuligo septica) might appear to be a fungus, but it's actually not--it's a type of slime mold in the Kingdom Protista, not Fungi. It's actually more closely related to an amoeba than a fungus! True fungi have a cell wall and digest their food with exoenzymes before ingesting it--but dog vomit slime mold ingests its food, then digests it. You'll most often find dog vomit slime mold in moist, shady areas and on materials such as mulch, rotting logs, leaf litter, and untreated lumber. It is also known by another nickname—scrambled egg slime mold—because the fruiting body (the part you see) is light-yellowish in color and looks a bit like scrambled egg curds. Dog vomit and other slime molds are saprophytic, which means that they feed on decaying organic materials. They are not diseases and won't harm your plants. It is most likely to show up during warm, wet periods, sometimes seeming to pop up out of nowhere overnight. The good news is that it is harmless, but it's challenging to prevent it, as the spores spread easily and can survive for years.

 

[shambler]

why pick them? Hell, everything else is growing in there.

 

[xtsho]

Crazy man we are at the end chant picking here, june is prime time in the north east.

We get them here in the spring but the fall is when they really show. We're finally getting a decent amount of rain this weekend so it's going to get them going.

I'd bet that if you check at your picking spots in the fall you'd find some as well.

 

[thumper60]

We get them here in the spring but the fall is when they really show. We're finally getting a decent amount of rain this weekend so it's going to get them going.

I'd bet that if you check at your picking spots in the fall you'd find some as well.

Ya we get a few right up to hard frost few more weeks here. puff balls are blooming now dont knockem till you try them.

 

[bam0813]

Puff balls? Are those the thin skinned round things we'd kick as kids to make smoke bombs lol. If so I didnt know that was the real name lol or they were edible lol

 

[drsaltzman]

I'll be picking buckets full of chanterelles soon in the Oregon Coast range. They're so prolific in places that the entire forest floor is orange. Gotta do a lot of bushwhacking but it sure is fun. I actually enjoy the foraging more than the eating. My lady hates chanterelles and I can only eat so many so it's more about being out in the woods than the mushrooms for me.

Dude.
If you got any extra …

 

[Herb & Suds]

Puff balls? Are those the thin skinned round things we'd kick as kids to make smoke bombs lol. If so I didnt know that was the real name lol or they were edible lol

Yes but zero flavor like styrofoam

Morels rule !

 

[thumper60]

Puff balls? Are those the thin skinned round things we'd kick as kids to make smoke bombs lol. If so I didnt know that was the real name lol or they were edible lol

Yes there are a couple differnt kinds still gotta no what ya picking. The real big ones are great sliced an used as a pizza crust.

 

[Three Berries]

Here's day two of the yellow mass.

And day three.

 

[drsaltzman]

Wow. Cool!
Definitely not witch's butter.

 

[natureboygrower]

Yes there are a couple differnt kinds still gotta no what ya picking. The real big ones are great sliced an used as a pizza crust.

Wow man, i never knew that. That's really cool. I've been stepping over two that were huge and looked a little thicker skinned then the regular puff ball looking ones. After the critters got into a corner of one it was more flesh like as well. Probably what you're talking about. You know your mushrooms.
You ever harvested chaga? I've wanted to do that for awhile now.

 

[natureboygrower]

Been a bunch up my way this summer/fall as well. I wonder how many people got sick off mushrooms back in the hunter/gatherer days? Not gonna lie, sometimes I'll see a tasty looking mushroom in the wild and I want to eat it ( not so much the fire red ones lol)

 

[xtsho]

I only pick a few different types of mushrooms that I'm positive with identification. Chanterelles, Matsutake, Chicken of the Woods, and Oyster. I will also eat truffles on the rare occasion I find some.

I don't mess with anything else. It's not worth getting put on the liver transplant waiting list. I'm not playing around. It just isn't worth it.

 

[Three Berries]

I've been getting the wood chippings from the local tree service. it usually sits for 6 months before I mess with it and you would not believe the different kinds of fungus that I get.

 

[thumper60]

Been a bunch up my way this summer/fall as well. I wonder how many people got sick off mushrooms back in the hunter/gatherer days? Not gonna lie, sometimes I'll see a tasty looking mushroom in the wild and I want to eat it ( not so much the fire red ones lol)
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You got some ghost pipe in the last pic look into it you be surprised. god gave us every thing we need in plants.

 

[thumper60]

Been a bunch up my way this summer/fall as well. I wonder how many people got sick off mushrooms back in the hunter/gatherer days? Not gonna lie, sometimes I'll see a tasty looking mushroom in the wild and I want to eat it ( not so much the fire red ones lol)
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Theres no old unsure mushroom pickers LOL