Kinda out of focus, but looks like a stinkhorn kinda. Give it a good whiff!
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2023 Mushroom board
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No smell that I noticed, the entire mound smells somewhat like compost/decay because... It is..., but it does appear to already be withering in the sunlight, here's a better focus
looks like a stinkhorn. kinda blurry though
My Parents neighbor gets some that grows under her apple trees. Kids got to pick em.
Found this log with a bunch of Chicken of the Forest at the Baltimore Bowmen Traditional Classic on one of their 3D course. One of the guy in the group gathered some and grilled it with some actual chicken. They were pretty good, but I'm not sure if it was because of the marinade that he used since I heard they are bland by themselves but soak up seasoning very well.
Pick or pass on by?
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I did. Just grabbed the pic to see what the experps here had to say?
Really hard to tell species with just one, top-down pic. But that looks like an amanita of some sort. Very few edible amanitas.
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If you're new, stick to the easy stuff. Chanterelles, morrels, oysters, lions mane, and chicken/hen-of-the-woods are all pretty identifiable and common.
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I know not much about these things….at all, what’s interesting more to me is the how and why you all here that are in the know became interested and how did you learn? I’m a tree guy, can identify a good many in the northeast here but shrooms and other fungi…. Never had the guidance.
One species at a time. My dad taught me sheepshead aka hen of the woods aka maitake but that was all he really collected. They're still my favorite.
From there I slowly learned chanterelles, black trumpets, and morels. All pretty unmistakable, all super choice eating.
Couple summers ago I picked up some porcini/boletes. They can be a little trickier but the "bad" is mostly just not good to eat, not deadly.
Chicken of the woods are another super easy one but some people can't eat them, including me.
Oysters are pretty easy to ID and one of the most delicious, but I almost never see them around here.
Puffballs and shaggy manes a couple more easy to ID and decently prevalent, but flipside I don't really care for eating either.
This spring I picked up Dryads Saddle because it was the worst morel year I've seen and I actually thought they were really good eating in spite of their reputation as not being the greatest.
All of the above can be pretty reliably ID'd with visual and smell. I don't do any spore printing which is a technique you need to learn to delve into the world of LBMs. LBMs or Little Brown Mushrooms, there are some edibles, but good luck. You need to pull out all the stops and I would recommend a mentor for learning those.
My method is learning the toxic look alikes, and actually seeing them in person to be able to 100% distinguish. For resources I'll usually just googele different terms and comb through 7 or 8 different sources with a few of them being academic credentials, a few being more bloggy.
But as far as learning lookalikes, take Chantrelles for instance, pretty much the only close toxic lookalike is the Jack o Lantern. Once you see each one side by side, you'll never mistake them. Or maybe some people do, but if you can observe and ID trees you can probably pick up mushrooms. Maintain an objective frame of mind about it. Don't find a mushroom and wish it to be edible and if you have any doubt whatsoever, don't eat it, or at least sample it in tiny progressions to see how it sits.
I wasn't out looking for any but found a handful all in a small area out in the woods so scooped them up...shrooms and tea. Hehehe
just enough to top the steak with shroom and onion
just enough to top the steak with shroom and onion
Best thing to do is find a local foraging group and show up to a meetup. You learn 10x quicker with somebody experienced walking besides you than you do googling it. I met a super-nice lady with the Alabama Mushroom Society last year and within 20 minutes felt comfortable identifying chanterelles. No prior experience.
Mushroom folks are cool. Mostly super-nerdy but outdoorsy masters/PhD candidate types with a heavy enough sprinkling of witchy-hippie, Stevie Nicks types to keep it...interesting.
I can usually identify Chicken of the Wood easily, but this seem different so I left it alone. West Virginia mountains.
That looks like a giganto chantrelle but it may also be a poisonous jack o lantern. Can't 100% tell from that picture, need to see the underside.
Thats most likely jack o lantern. Good thing you left it alone. Def not chicken