Evan

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Nice! Everything in the photos looked really familiar, then I noticed you are in PA, too.

Cajun, we got this guy and his friends on camera behind the house this week. Hope my daughter or I can get him in early archery season in PA and make some jerky. We had a couple smaller racks too. The does have fawns, so they get a pass till later.

Nice! I'm hoping we can get out later this week. We finally got some rain yesterday.

Smooth chanterelles. They taste Just as good as the golden chanterelle.

These look like aborted entoloma. Some people refer to them as shrimp mushrooms because of the flavor, but I think they taste like button mushrooms, personally.

Adawg, this hot weather coming the next few days should get them up. I live in southern PA and don't usually find many chants and trumpets until we get a few hot days.

Those look like reishi. They are out how in our area right now. I found a small one at Caledonia SP yesterday. It looks like we are neighbors, Eagle.

These look pretty far last prime. They are probably too tough to eat but could be used to make stock for soup. Be sure they are not full of bugs first.

Congrats!! Staveshaver, it might be sooner than you think. I !I've in southern PA and a friend found yellow foots and black trumpets today.

They look more like smooth chanterelles to me. They taste just as good.

They definitely look like oysters.

Apparently I was incorrect about the lucidum. Thanks for the correction, Dave.

There two types of reishi in PA. I normally find G tsugae on hemlock wood.They grow on other conifers as well. G lucidum is found in hardwoods. Both can be made into tea, but some of the medicinal components can only be extracted with alcohol.

We have had above average rain all spring. I guess if we get a few hot days i will have to get out and start looking. This seems really early for my area, though.

I think that G lucidum grow on hard woods and G tsugae grow on conifers. We find quite a lot of G tsugae on hemlock here in southern PA.

After seeing the underside these do look like cultivated oysters that I have seen.

I don't know that these are oysters. Usually oyster mushrooms have a small offset stalk with gills running down it. These look like the stalks are centered. Some pictures of the underside and individual mushrooms would help.

That stinks about the camera, but it sounds like you are having a great mushroom season.

Did you find these recently, Dave? I don't know any of the Latin names since dna testing changed them all.

Morels will grow around live ash trees. And they can be great producers of nice mushrooms.

I have never found one either. It's a beautiful mushroom.

We went out to the woods to take a look with no real expectations. We stopped a the spot where we find our first couple blacks every year and my wife and daughter each found a small black. This is about two weeks later than normal! We are expecting warm weather for the next few days, so maybe we will be able to manage a few more.

What a great surprise! I live in the woods in PA and we find a few morels every so often around the house. But there are many places to hunt them close by, as well as lots of other mushrooms. Maybe this is a sign for you to get out and start mushroom hunting.

My daughter and I got out for about an hour today. Nothing. When conditions are right there is usually a decent patch of half frees. Not this time.