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Look at that big boi!!!
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Very nice! My chanterelles have been non-existent this year. š
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Thanks Dave!
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Still hectic year. Single parenting and working in healthcare has not afforded as much time for shrooms as I had hoped. But hereās some highlights. 1. Morels from this spring 2. Big honking gyromitra 3. My daughters showing off their black raspberry hauls 4. Gyroporus purpurus 5. Russula virescens 6. Amanita multisquamosa 7. Boletus atkinsonii. I found a number of these the other day, but all were so big eaten even I wouldnāt take them! š
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Thanks! Iāve found them in the same forest before, but theyāve been much paler.
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I took this one through the key on mushroomexpert, and came up with A. multisquamosa. I hadnāt seen them with the brown top before though, so I was a bit confused. White spore print. Alsoā¦.hi everyone! Sorry Iāve been away so long!
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My uncle lives up that way in Olwein and has found tons of these in recent years.
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We had something like this happen in Nebraska after really severe and prolonged flooding in 2011. A large amount of old huge cottonwood trees died from being under water for too long (3 uninterrupted months). The next year there werenāt any mushrooms in the flood plain but the year after was insane. My brother and I were literally crawling through a few areas because it didnāt pay to stand there were so many. As the cottonwoods died completely so did the flush. We were back to normal after just a few years.
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Sweet!
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My usual trees have been coming around much later than usual this year. Some of the trees that I usually find hens on in mid-October are just now producing.
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Those are beautiful!! Love the post-frost ones when the beetles arenāt so active.
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Sorry havenāt posted in a while. School and babies are a time vortex. My usual places havenāt been producing as well as they usually do. I was walking from tree to tree and stumbled upon this fairy ring of hens where a tree had fallen a couple years ago. Dollar bill for scale. The one in the pic with me was 10lbs.
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Chantyās in South Louisiana
Old Oak replied to CajunShroomer3578's topic in General Mushroom Discussion
Awesome! It finally rained hard the other night so Iām gonna head out here in the next few days. Great haul as always Cajun! -
Finally got out for a couple of hours on Sunday. Not a big haul, but the forest looks ready to pop!! Chanterelles, boletus atkinsonii, russula parvovirescens, and an unknown amanita. All the boletes were huge and big eaten unfortunately.
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Dang! Those look prime.
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What kind of tree did you find those on? Iām in Omaha and curious.
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Nice!
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Iām happy to see more of this kind of reporting recently. Whether itās CBD oil or medicinal mushrooms there is a lot of bad/no science being used to make these claims. The ironic thing is that itās usually from people who are all about whatever science supports their political beliefs, but cannot be convinced otherwise if it doesnāt jive with those.
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I agree that it may not have been the mushrooms, but as a former chef and mushroom seller, chefs donāt know as much as youāre assuming. They know cooking, not mushroom Identification. I think most depend on the expertise of the hunters. Also, the head chef of a Michelin star restaurant is like the head of a large lab at a university. They run the operation from the top but donāt have as much to do with the day to day stuff (like produce intake).
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" In fact, there are no known poisonous polypores!"...?
Old Oak replied to jonkotowski's topic in Identifying Mushrooms
Thankfully MAO inhibitors are almost never used anymore (way worse interactions with other drugs than whatever happens with poly pores Iād imagine). Theyāve been largely replaced by newer drugs. You may run into it with an older person whose still on them just because theyāre used to it and itās worked for a long time. Just FYI. -
Great pics Dave!!
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I think itās often one thing preying on another and then coming to ārealizeā that they can use this other organism to their own advantage. This is the origin of how eukaryotic organisms acquired mitochondria and chlorophyll. They were consumed but gave the host energy so they didnāt kill them.
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Nice! Weāve had a few great winter flushes here too. Always a treat. I made this marinated mushroom recipe with mine And they turned out fantastic. https://honest-food.net/italian-marinated-mushrooms-recipe/
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They were mostly P. ostreatus with a few P. serotinus mixed in. I went out again today. They were all growing from black willows. There weren't any growing on cottonwoods (which are plentiful in that area). They were very high today so I had to get my trusty fishing weight and dacron fishing line to get them down! There was also stiff competition from the deer. You can see in the first photo that they munched off the ones that were within range.