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  1. Found on a down red oak. Not the typical dorm I expect of ganoderma lucidum. Would like to harvest some to make medicinal tea if it is the right thing.
  2. Anybody have any idea on this one? Growing in mixed hardwood oak/beech. Found two close together, only have pics of the one. I'll try and get pics of the other one after my kids nap. Eat Bolete, I haven't forgotten about you, I still owe you a post of appreciation! Only saw a couple of buggy boletes today... and a beautiful, but past prime beefsteak... thanks for any advice about the toothy critter... sauté for dinner or not?
  3. EB, Thanks so much for your awesome advice! I need some time to digest that! I gotta get get this kid bathed and in bed, I'll write you a better thank you later tonight or tomorrow!
  4. Spore print this morning... the larger, older caps left nice white spore prints. I'm pretty dang sure they are all the same kind of mushroom. Perhaps the smaller, younger caps weren't mature enough to drop spores? Thanks a lot Dave and others! I will try parboiling some and drying some. In the first pic, you can see several clusters of newly emerged, "baby" honey mushrooms. The stump in the last pic had a bunch of little clumps with all sizes of caps as well, but they were out of the picture ... from dime sized caps to smaller than a pencil eraser. I just picked the clumps with bigger caps. I could probably go back to the same stumps in a few days and pick more as they mature. It would be neat to watch how fast they grow.
  5. Thanks a lot Dave! I'll scrap this one! It seemed pretty tough when I sliced it, but nice and white inside. Do you have any pictures of earlier stage berkeleys that i can reference as being the right stage to eat?
  6. Thanks a lot guys! I really appreciate the help! We got really infested with nymph stage ticks, I'm talking thousands! When I got home, that was all I could think about, didn't even notice my stained hand! This morning After I read your response, I looked down and sure enough! Good call Dave! i kept a couple of them, so if they're still good, maybe I'll sautéed them up tomorrow!
  7. I put some caps on some black construction paper in the laundry closet, to see what kind of spore print I get. I'll share the results tomorrow!
  8. i want to be like you... and eat boletes... but am a little overwhelmed and undereducated about boletes... the woods are plumb full of boletes, seemingly of all types. Are there any easy ways to identify the common ones that are edible? Ive been walking by lots of them, some big, some small. A lot of old funky ones, and a lot of prime, good ones... Any tips to not walk by them all because I'm intimidated by their identification?
  9. How about this one? Really poured out the milk when I scored the gills... any ideas? Was in mixed hardwoods, with several of them scattered around in one area.
  10. Can anybody confirm they these are ringless honeys? Growing at the base of troubled oaks, and from old oak stumps. can I dry them to use layer in soups or stews? Just dry the caps right? Cut off and discard the stem?
  11. Can you guys confirm that this is a berkeleys polypore? What is the best way to cook and eat this rascal? big chuck, I love you man!
  12. Thanks a lot for weighing in Matt! So they do grow in fairy rings! Sneaky buggers! Is the best way to tell these poisonous ones from the edible horse mushrooms the difference in the gill color with horse mushrooms having the brown gills and the poisonous chorophyllum ones being white/gray/green? Thanks again Matt!
  13. Thanks a lot bolete man! I won't eat it! Does this species grow in the fairy ring like the horse mushroom? Any other tips or things to look for when finding/identifying horse mushroom?
  14. Looks like horse mushrooms, except for the light gills... gills should be dark brown in Agaricus arvensis... were growing in a lawn area, in sort of a half circle shape... one book says if a specimen has white folks, throw out immediately.. Hopefully pictures will show the light grayish white gills. Any thoughts? Thanks!
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