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  1. Here was a regular, non aborted entoloma that was in the bag but I was advised not to eat because they are much more difficult to ID and the person collecting them didn't feel that it was wise just in case there were other mushrooms mixed in. But I believe this is a non aborted entoloma.
  2. These were given to me, I didn't collect them. But I did eat them and they were delicious, and had a different texture that I enjoyed very much. Here's a plateload of aborted entolomas.
  3. Calling out of work was the right thing to do! I found 2 hens, some giant puffballs, a ton of chicken of the woods, and a good amount of honey mushrooms. Cleaning them all has left me feeling I work in a mushroom sweatshop.
  4. I'm dehydrating the medium sized caps and plan to cook up all the smaller sized ones. I guess I came up on these a couple of days after their prime, but I'm s till going to try use them and see what I think. I've never tried them yet! Thanks for your help confirming this Mary
  5. This was one of my finds todat too! Just posted for a confirmation but after seeing these, and hearing back from a few folks, I think I also found honeys. Can't wait to try them!
  6. These are honeymushrooms right? White spore print, growiairsng in clusters off a of partially buried oak roots, little black hairs/scales that stand upright on the top of the cap, gills are white and slightly decurrent, the flesh inside the stems is fibrous like string cheese, the stems outside have a toughness to them and are covered by little fibers. Everything seems to match my guide, but since this is my first time IDing them for the table to try I am asking for some confirmation before I try to cook and eat thyem. Thanks all!
  7. A friend of mine filled the back of her truck today with hens of the woods in ct. I still haven't found one! I'm calling out of work and going hunting first thing tomorrow lol
  8. Yeah, thanks for the info! Looking up Pleurotus pulmonarius now...
  9. Some of you may have seen already on theWild Mushroom Hunting facebook page that I post my wild mushroom pics to, but in case you didn't I just went and plugged my logs with Chicken of the Woods mushroom, and another with Lion's Mane mushroom. I've been keeping them moist but I wasn't sure if I was supposed to cover them with some plastic tarping or something to create a darker, moister "incubation chamber" around them. I came back to this thread and see that ladyflyfsh mentioned you should indeed cover them. One thing I read that a lot of people make the mistake of doing is using freshly cut logs, which often produce antifungal compounds for about a month after being cut. So, I went and found a log I was more than certain was seasoned enough for the chicken of the woods. I tried to base my selection off what the logs I knew contained chicken of the woods growing in them around my area looked like. The Lion's Mane log was substantially newer, although I found it covered by leaves in the field, so I am assuming it fell sometime at least last fall. It was still fresh wood inside though, as opposed to the chikcen off the woods which was already starting to crumble on the edges a bit. Maybe neither log was a good choice, maybe they both were. I don't know lol! We'll see! Drilling holes in a log that looks like a pair of upside down shorts to me. This one is for Chicken of the Woods. I am hoping that the mushrooms will look as cool growing off this log as I imagine! Fingers crossed! All plugged! Here's my Lion's Mane log. The whole log collection left to right: chicken of the woods, lions mane, and some oyster mushrooms logs I found in the field next to my house. I'll post updates as they happen.
  10. I live "out in the woods" already and the log is only a few hundred yards from my house anyhow. I just want to move out of the general thoroughfare on the woods trail, where dogs no doubt go to the pee from time to time...I could easily recreate the shade and conditions as my yard is a stone throw away from the log in question. Also there are several other logs there also with chicken of the woods and oysters growing from them. To top it off the trail psot is currently totally blocked by several trees that all fell with the recent winds. The log is almost hidden by this now which is why I want that one rather than the others... My main concern was whether or not plugging it with new plugs would some cause a conflict between the existing mycelium and then new one from the plugs. I think I am going to go ahead and take the log up to my yard and see what happens...I'll spend half the plugs on it, and half on a brandy spankin' new log and try to see what differences I can document. For science! Yummy, yummy science...
  11. Did anything ever show from those plugs? I just ordered myself some Chicken of the Woods and Lions's Mane plugs. There is a nice big but movable log that I was considering bringing home that I know has Chicken of the Woods already established in it as I've harvested from it the last 3 Summers in a row. Is plugging this log overkill? It doesn't seem to overtake the whole log when it does grow, so I was wondering if I concentrated on the areas where I've never seen growth if that would be a good idea? Or would introducing a new specimen of mycelium even though it is still the same mushroom somehow cause a conflict? Is there any advantage to using this log? Also, is moving the log from it's location in the woods to my yard a bad idea in the first place? There are several other trees, and logs right in that same area that also have had Chickens growing from them, so I wouldn't be robbing the spot blind...but would it damage the log and mycelium?
  12. Thanks for the info! False Oysterskinda look like the skin on a pig with the hairs and color of it. Why didn't they call this mushroom Pork of the Woods? Or Nature's Other Bacon? Thank you for weighing in. I really appreciate the help. Now that I'm certain it is what it is, I will always recognize it on my hikes. It took me almost 4 years of being interested in wild mushroom hunting before I dared try anything I found because I was learning everything solo and had no one with experience to double check things for me. So, thanks everyone! Helps me learn a lot faster! Yeah they do hold some resemblance to oyster mushrooms, don't they? I'm actually pretty sure that I recognize them from having seen them in the woods myself, but never trying to ID them yet...This thread has been a nice little course on training the eye what Oyster do and don't look like. Are there any other mushrooms people might mistake for oyster mushrooms before they know what they are looking for?
  13. Great!Thanks again Dave.That helps a bunch! I can't wait to read that recipe
  14. Thanks for the response! Where I found those oyster mushrooms today, there is a mix of maples, birch, oaks...across the lake there are a bunch of conifers, but they are pretty segregated. I'v seen several different types of oyster mushrooms, but now that you mention it, a couple of them might have actually been Angels Wings mushrooms. I remember reading about the poisonings as well...it's partly what turned me off from collecting oysters up until now to be honest, I didn't feel I had enough experience to tell the difference to my satisfaction. And up until recently when I started to reach out to people on the internet about wild mushroom stuff, I had no one to weigh in on identifications. What do you think about the following pics? I'll label them what I THINK they are...and anyone can weigh in and let me know what you think...these are gathered at a few different locations over the past 5 years or so...unfortunately I don't have any spore print results or measurements written down, although I can describe the general size of them from memory. Is this an Angels Wings Mushroom? These were much larger than the one above so I am guessing it is an oyster mushroom...? The darker color of these reminds me of the oyster mushrooms I found today pictured in the original post so I am guessing they are oyster mushrooms I believe these are oyster mushrooms as well... Any thoughts on those? I realize without the additional info like spore print color, tree it grew on, etc that it is mostly an educated guess. I am just hoping to start being able to see the differences with my own eyes and start from there. Thanks again!
  15. I've never actually gathered any oysters mushrooms the few times I've encountered them in the wild. They always seemed to be overly saturated with water and beetles, and well usually I already had filled my collection basket with something I already knew well and felt confident identifying and consuming by the time I found them. So, as a result, I've never really taken the time to learn to identify them with 100% certainty. Here are some pics of what I believe are oyster mushrooms that are freshy sprouted out from the side of a tree (not a conifer). Do these look like oyster mushrooms? Are these wild oyster mushrooms? I took a spore print on both black and white paper, and it left a heavy coating in just a few hours of what seem like a greyish-cream color at first, but after I looked more closely, and at both sheets of white and black paper with the print on them, I discerned a sort of purple tone to the spore print, and sure enough when I checked the National Audubon Society Field Guide it lists oyster mushrooms as having a lilac-grey tinted print. So, I feel relatively sure these are indeed oysters, but just since I've never taken the time to bone up on these before, I'd appreciate some outside opinions. Thanks!
  16. I hiked back up to where those pictures where taken, and while there are many hardwoods present, there are also a ton of hemlocks, and the tree I found all those specimin on seems to be a hemlock. So I guess all the ones I pictured then must be G.tsugae then? Uncanny how close in appearance they are when they are young! Or at least the ones I found... Do G. tsugae have similar uses as G. lucidum? I'm gonna have to do some reading! A quick scan of wikipedia states that yes this mushroom also has medicinal properties and there is actually a debate as to which one contains more medicinal properties. I have a few specimin that I saved, which dried out very nicely. I might try to perform an alcohol extraction on them to experiment with it a bit. Has anyone had an experience working with either G. tsugae or G. lucidum as a medicinal or tonic?
  17. I've been meaning to join for 3 years, and for 3 years I always seem to remember only when I am in the middle of the woods that I want to join up and attend the forays! Thanks for reminding me again lol. I do a lot of hunting mostly in the highlands trails here in NJ, but often will venture down to places like Cheesequake State Park or else a couple of smaller wooded areas I know near Rutgers University, but mostly I stick up close to where I live right now. The handful of local spots seems to put forth nearly every type of mushroom so far Once I was sitting around wondering to myself if I would ever find any morels ever...that same day, within a couple hours of that thought, I happened to be outside, directly outside the room I was in when I had the thought about never finding any morels, and I look down at the ground where the house meets the dirt, and growing out of a piece of wood half buried in the ground were 5-6 morels! So far, I've had very good luck hunting up here I'll go check in on the NJ club now again and see about joining up.
  18. Can someoneweigh in on whether the following images are Ganoderma lucidum or if they are Ganoderma tsugae? Here are a few pictures,all of which where taken at the same few trees, but at different times in the season, and over the span of a few years. Mostof them are a dark brick like red, and seem to be almost varnished...but you'll see that growing among them are ones that look a lot more like g. lucidum too. And then this season, the same tree that produced many dark red specimin the previous two seasons, this season put out ones that have the classic lighter yellow ring around the edge that makes me now think they're G.lucidum after all. Anyone have any thoughts? Here's the pics: My dog next to some G. lucidum or maybe G. tsugae? close up of the same group of mushrooms pictured above This year they came up looking different though... when they got older they looked like hemlock varnish shelf again tho... Here's a close up of one of the younger specimin from this year on the same group of trees as above. Seems like G.lucidum here Which do you think it is? Could the same trees be putting out both?
  19. I use National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms the most often. I have a whole shelf of others though, all of which I enjoy and check as backups to the Audubon Field Guide which has most stuff, but not everything...and it's always nice to see as many pictures as you can to help train your eye to all the slightly different ways a single mushroom species can look in the actual field. Recently I've been trying to learn more about Boletes and have been wading my way through North American Boletes: A Color Guide to the Fleshy Pored Mushrooms by Alen E. Bessette,William C. Roody and Arleen R. Bessette. It's got a fabulous color picture section that has helped me out a lot so far as I try to train my eye to see the details that are described in the identification keys. The problem I have with the book is that the pictures and ID section are two separate parts of the book,and you have to flip back and forth too often, especially considering it is a large, and a bit heavy, reference sized book. Despite it containing more boletes than ever assumed existed,I still found boletes over the past 2 summers that I couldn't place in the guide despite several attempts! Still, I'm learning a lot from it and it was worth every dollar.
  20. I posted a series of pictures on my blog that I took of a couple of Shaggy Mane mushrooms from the early egg like stage, all the way to it's inky demise. Take a look if you're interested. I've only ever found a couple at a time, so haven't ever tried eating them yet, but they seem to come up in the same spot now for the 3 years I have been at this location hiking the mountains behind where I live. Shaggy Mane wild mushroom pictures
  21. Ahhhh! I get these all the time in my cacti pots and in a several of my indoor plants too. Glad to learn what they are!
  22. Thank for the heads up on the borked link. I fixed it. Yes, I did join the Facebook group today, which is what led me to the site. Glad to join both I can't believe the weather this year...I am still finding mushrooms pretty much daily on my hikes. Seems like a later season end than I am used to here in NJ.
  23. Hey Everyone, Glad to sign up for this site and hope to start contributing soon. I've been interesting in wild mushroom hunting and identification for almost a decade now. I go hiking pretty much daily with my dogs, and try to always have my camera with me. Sometimes I think my dogs get annoyed at me stopping to trounce a few feet off into the brush going to get a closer look at some mushroom. But that's ok, if I have to stop for them every two trees, then they have to stop for me every other mushroom. Fair is fair! I run a wild mushroom hunting blog called Shrooms Gone Wild where I post my mushroom pictures and try to write decent posts to go along with the pictures. If anyone ever sees an identification mistake please definitely drop me a line. I've been interested for 10 years, and studying in earnest for 6-7 of those years, but I'm still a student. I also run a facebook page called ironically enough Wild Mushroom Hunting. Feel free to join up! I love reading and learning about mushrooms, so I am eager to fit in here and hopefully have something useful to add to the discussions. Thanks for having me on board.
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