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EatTheWeeds

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  1. The only chanterelle look-alike is jack-o'-lantern mushrooms, right? I personally see no resemblance aside from color, especially since jack-o'-lanterns usually grow in groups. Or am I totally off base with my assessment? LOL
  2. Thank you @Dave W! I sometimes use Google Lens to make a guess. It's pretty good for identifying plants, but hit-or-miss when it comes to mushrooms, so I'm really grateful for real human expert opinions. I found a recipe for umbrella polypore ramen, but any ideas for how to cook or preserve this? It's over a pound!
  3. Ugh. I was hoping for a tasty mushroom. 😆 Thanks!
  4. I found this one where there were many milk caps around, and while I'm nearly certain it's a lobster mushroom, I'd like to be certain, before I try it for 2 reasons: 1. I didn't think I'd ever find one here (northern Illinois), and 2. While it smells very slightly fishy, it's very dry, brittle, and light - like it's dehydrated. Is that normal? Also, like real lobster, are there any precautions I should account for, before trying it? Oh, and I guess I should ask: what's a good way to prepare it? Thanks!
  5. If I were to guess, the first one is a Destroying Angel aka Amanita Bisporigera.
  6. Found these today. Seems too early to be Grifola frondosa, and they're lighter colored than I'm used to. Perhaps Polyporus umbellatus, or something else?
  7. This is amazing! And I'm seriously jealous. Looks like you got close to 2 pounds. I'm going to have to go back out to the log in the woods, and pick the rest tomorrow. Thank you!
  8. Found this, growing with others on a fallen log. It looked past prime, so i only took a sample, but from descriptions, I feel like this is an oyster. Thoughts?
  9. Found a bunch of these in similar hard wooded area. They smell delicious, and the cap has a velvet feel, but what are they?
  10. After you mentioned it, I had to dig up info on Melzer's reagent out of curiosity! Thank you for the preliminary classification of a. Cokeri. I'd love to be able to dig deeper into these on my own, but for now, especially since the majority of Amanitas are inedible, I'll just keep looking. ☺️
  11. You were right, as usual. No spore print. There were other more mature mushrooms in the vicinity of these, so I may go back for another one. Thank you! ☺️
  12. This one was near oak and walnut. It looked too nice to pick, and since I'm pretty certain it's amanita, it wouldn't have been a good snack anyway, but I'm curious, is this possibly a white fly agaric? Other specimens nearby had a bit more yellow on the cap, but even for this one, if you look closely, it's ever so slightly yellow too.
  13. Thank you! Definitely looks a lot like T. Rhoadsiae.
  14. Found these near the boletes in the previous post. They're tiny - largest had an approximately 1” diameter cap. Odor is nearly non-existent or slightly mushroomy.
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