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Old Oak

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  1. That's pretty funny. I'd like to hear the conversation after that: Chef: "What the ...." Mushroom Hunter: "Yep. That'll happen" I found quite a bit more honey mushrooms, but not in time to pick them. They'd deteriorated. I've been focusing my efforts on Oysters this year. Think i've collected about 60 lbs. and sold about 30-40. The rest have been summarily consumed.
  2. I found a lot up in the rockies and idaho while on my honeymoon. They were fantastic. Almost liked them raw more than cooked!
  3. That's hen of the woods. It is not fully developed. So it doesn't have the caps. Give it a few days. That's definitely not a black staining polypore. BSP is white when its that young.
  4. I found a big fruiting of honey mushrooms in an even larger patch of poison ivy. I was curious as to whether the oils from the P.I. can be transferred and effect people eating those mushrooms. Thanks.
  5. To start: Sorry no pictures. We had a devistating flood two years back. My oyster spot seemed to be all but dead last fall. However, when I went out the other day they were everywhere. The flood must have spread the spores all over the area infecting new trees. They used to only fruiting on willows, but had spread to a number of cottonwoods also. It was beautiful. Walked out with 7 lbs of beautiful mushrooms after walking for an hour and a half. I have only been able to cover about a mile due to my car sounding like WWII bomber after some crankers cut out my catalytic converter, but look forward to getting back out after my friend repairs the damage. The explosion of oysters by the river has got me excited about the morels this spring (especially with all the dead and dying cottonwoods in the riverbottom). Hoping it's going to be a bumper crop! When I go back out I'll bring the camera and post some pics.
  6. Nice find. I'm hoping to locate some this year. Been finding black staining polypore like crazy, but no hens.....yet.
  7. Sorry I've been inactive this summer. We are in one of the worst droughts in our history. Needless to say mushrooming hasn't been great. On to the topic at hand. So...I'm comfortable identifying these mushrooms, however, last winter I walked the woods with my gps and marked all the trees that I found dried up polypores next to. I thought that these were all hen of the woods, but upon seeing the black staining polypore for the first time this summer, i'm not sure of my waypoints. My question is: Does anyone know if hen of the woods deteriorates or simply dries next to the tree? I know that certain polypores, like the chicken of the woods, deteriorate and disappear fairly quickly. I'll keep checking these trees and report my findings back once I know what the ###### is going on. But until then I could use any information you guys have. Thanks.
  8. Agreed with Dave. I found some last week. I'll post a picture as soon as I find my camera (which may be awhile).
  9. Mayfly, The first mushrooms are definitely oysters. I've hunted those for around 4 years in my area and am very confident in my oyster mushroom identification skills. However, I don't think the white ones are oysters. The gills of an oyster mushroom extend from the edge of the "cap" to the myceliumn (see your first photo). The gills look as though they stop below the cap like a chantrelle. Again, I'm not certain, but it's something to consider.
  10. When you go out you should try to remember tree locations or bring a gps. They'll fruit on the same log for a number of years.
  11. For starters: you should NEVER eat a mushroom that you have not 100% positively identified! That being said, those are boletes (the family of the porcini). These mushrooms don't grow in my area so I haven't invested the appropriate amount of time studying their identification characteristics. I can tell you that there are many poisonous members of the bolete family. Cool finds! I'm not trying to jump down your throat, only trying to instil a certain amount of caution that's needed when collecting and eating mushrooms, especially if they are being consumed by your family.
  12. I can't recall what those mushrooms are, but I've found them to appear about a week before the morels come around the same trees.
  13. I like to focus on bends of large rivers. In the plains, these areas are full of cottonwoods, ash, and elm trees. With our extreme flooding last year and high winds this spring we should have a lot of freshly fallen cottonwoods (my favorite).
  14. We've had a very mild winter here too, but precipitation seems to be picking up. Another thing is concerning me this year that I'd like to seek the advice of other forum members on. We had an extreme flood in the Missouri River valley last summer. This is my main hunting ground. It seemed to bode well at first due to all of the newly dead cottonwoods that line the river, but much of the river bottom received heavy silt deposits, in some places feet thick. I'm not sure if the mushrooms will be able to push through this sand. Do you guys think that this will have an adverse effect on the morel season here?
  15. I'm wondering what the range of the chanterelle is. I've never heard of them in the plains region (I'm from Nebraska), but wasn't sure if anyone on the forum knows if they grow in this area. Thanks.
  16. Yes. You've got to get to them even earlier than regular oysters because they waterlog quickly, but they are very good. They range in color from very pale tan/yellow to pale lilac. Try tossing them in oil and grilling them whole.
  17. The first post is definitely oyster mushrooms. Pictures 2 and 3 from the second post are another species of oyster called pleurotus pulmunarius, i.e. lung oyster. Ostreatus is a fall mushroom and pulmonarius is a spring/early summer. I think the fourth picture from the second post is oysters also just overgrown, but still very tasty. I hunt these regularly in Nebraska. New to the site and excited to be a part of the forum.
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