Evan

We were out today and stopped off at a years sale. We noticed some orange mushrooms by the driveway where we parked. After browsing we looked and found some smooth chants. I explained to the folks whet they are and they said to help ourselves.

The cauliflower is about the size of two softballs. They don't get huge like hens. The indigo was a fluke. I walked over to some chants and I could barely see it under the leaves. It just looked like an old moldy milky. When I touched it, it was solid and not soft. It wasn't that impressive looking from above.

These are our harvest from Sunday and today. Chanterelles, cauliflower, some tubaeformis, random boletes, and our first ever lactarius indigo!!

From the habitat I think they are from the genus elflatulatus.

The dirt in the bag is the main reason for me.

If you cut them instead of puling them up you will have a loot less dirt to clean off and there is less damage to the mycelium.

The one on the left is te mystery mushroom. The other is a chant for comparison. This picture is better to see the color.

We were out hunting chants today in a new area and found this mushroom growing with a patch of chanterelles. It smells like chants and the underside looks the same, but it is pink and has a very folded shape. At first I thought it was just a chanterelle that had grown strangely, but the color difference made me change my mind. Does anyone have an ID for this one?

Some great shots with the new camera. I cant believe the depth of field you have in the close ups.

These look like gilled boletes. The tell tale sign for russulas is the bright white stem and gills. Russulas come in just a out any color but the gills and stem make them easy to identify.

I've decided to try using some of our ganoderma tsugae in a tincture. This will be my first time, but after some reading it sounds pretty simple. Any advice from you guys who have done this before?

We are hoping for some of the same this week. We finally got our first significant rainfall in weeks. The garden needed it and so did the woods.

This evening we made a quick run to a spot where I have found reishi in the past. We had a half in the woods and found some nice sized mushrooms on a couple trees.

My thoughts exactly. We usually don't find chants until at least the end of June in southern PA. And I'm also on the same timeline with the garden. Almost done planting, just a few more packs of seeds to go in. Nice finds!

Harmony went for a walk with a friend and her family last week and they found some small reishi growing in a few spots. So, yesterday, we went out in the same area to look around. We found this nice fruiting of reishi on a dead hemlock. Both sides of the same tree. Notice Harmony's signature mushroom photo peace sign.

Great morels, Dave!!!

Glad you didn't go home empty handed.

It was a great time getting together with Mary and DaveW yesterday. Although the morels were scarce, it was still fun getting out to the woods with old friends. Hopefully you guys post some of the mushroom photos you took. They are probably better than the pictures I got.

My spot for blacks has produced three so far. I am going to try again Sunday. I don't have anywhere for yellows now. I'm hoping too get out to do some exploration of new areas. How long are you in PA?

We poked around the woods yesterday and only found one. We only checked a few small spots that normally have some of the earlier blacks. Getting some rain now. Hopefully we get a decent fruiting. We haven't had a decent flush of blacks in a few years. We are expecting warm weather the next two days. Maybe that will get them going.

You are safe as long as you wash your hands and don't ingest a any of it.

Found our first three today. One was really small, the others were slightly larger. They should hopefully be going good by the end of the week.

Agreed. And pinned.

I use my iPhone these days instead of lugging my big Cannon into the woods. The cannon takes great pictures, but gets pretty cumbersome if I'm out for a long time. These are a couple shots with my phone. I agree with Dave about taking a lot of pictures to get a few good ones. In the days of film and manual cameras this was you would do what's called bracketing with different exposures to get the best shot possible. But you had to wait for the film to be processed before you know if it worked.

Welcome to our forum. It will be interesting to see what types of mushrooms you have in Russia.