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Monk

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  1. Will hens fruit and grow with temps in the high 40s but 30s overnight? North Ga has gotten a ton of rain the past two days, with more to come, but the cold has moved in fast. October was still hot, now I feel like the cool Fall weather is getting cut short. I'm just afraid a long cold spell is going to end the Fall mushroom season already.
  2. Up until now I haven't had much luck with Fall mushroom hunting. Work had me out surveying a 130 acre boundary in the Chattoochee National Forest and I stumbled upon my very first hen and multiple lions mane mushrooms in the same tree within 20 minutes of each other. Both of them have been great eatin'. The hen tastes way better than the cultivated ones I have tried.
  3. Recently grew some lions mane from one of those grow-in-a-bag kits, it was delicious, but it didnt have the same appearance as wild lions mane. It seems like all the cultivated lions mane i have seen in person and online look more like a sponge, with very short hairs instead of the long tendrils you see in on wild specimens. I was just kind of curious, are these cultivated lions mane a different variety entirely, or is it just an environmental factor in the growing stage that causes this?
  4. Growing out of the leaf litter, mostly pine woods.
  5. Yep, that's a hen of the woods, grifola frondosa! They can occasionally grow under maples as well.
  6. Maybe l. vellereus? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactifluus_vellereus
  7. Thanks, I figured this far south the season doesn't hit until late October maybe even early November. Hopefully they'll start popping up soon though!
  8. Anybody know if these guys would be growing in Georgia yet? I know its fall but I dont think night temps here have dropped much below the high 60s, with a lot of nights still in the low 70s, i've heard cooler nights are kindof a key factor, correct?
  9. Definitely old man of the woods. Strobilomyces floccopus. Thats a good one to, they don't taste as good when they get big.
  10. Look into lion's mane mushrooms. They have been known for their role in aiding the nervous system and are also not extremely difficult to grow.
  11. I have never seen these get very big at all. The one on the right is ready for sure. I usually pick them as long as the stipe has gotten firm, they have a nice peppery taste.
  12. I think you've got lactarius vinaceorufescens. Would explain the yellow color when cut, the physical features match and the bitter taste. They tend to fruit in large numbers like that as well. Someone else here might know more about them, but i wouldn't eat any more, although they are a pretty mushroom! http://www.mushroomexpert.com/lactarius_vinaceorufescens.html
  13. They look a lot like saffron milk caps to me, but I've never collected any myself so I'd wait for more educated responses. It might help to know of the gills bruise any when cut and do they seem to have any milky fluids coming from the gills after you cut them?
  14. Looks like a reishi. Should be white on the bottom like you said, bruises brownish on the underside if you press it.
  15. It looks like hericium coralloides, or a similar hericium species. Beautiful mushroom! Dont think hericium have any bad lookalikes, and with the size of that specimen you can be pretty sure that's what it is. I would just start with a small amount to make sure your body specifically doesn't have a problem with them. But they taste great!
  16. In Georgia there's definitely a market for them especially in Atlanta where the majority of the upscale restaurants are. I'm totally envious of you're haul though, i've only found them twice and it's never been more than a couple dozen or so, but i love the depth of flavor they have from such a thin little mushroom. Do they like specific species of oaks or a specific type of ground cover in particular?
  17. Update: spore print was white and eventually stained the paper yellow, characteristic of l. hygrophoroides. I ate a piece of one with no ill effects, then cooked them all up the next day, they were delicious! A lot more flavor than i was expecting from the absence of smell they exhibited.
  18. Probably a hundreed feet out, they definitely jumped out me. I've always heard they're really common but these were my first find, and my heftiest bag of mushrooms yet. Definitely got me excited!
  19. A little of everything, mostly conifers but small oaks and beech trees around too and mountain laurel in the understory. Don't know the all specific conifers, still working on my tree id's but i do know the woods i found them in are one of the few areas of Georgia with Eastern Hemlock. The milk from them is solid white, there was actually still some coming off them after sitting in the fridge for a day. No pepperiness on the tongue, just your standard raw mushroomy taste, nothing distinctive. I know they aren't the popular milky caps since they dont have saffron, orange or any other colored milk, but i'm shooting for either lactifluus hygrophoroides or lactifluus volemus. Spore printing one now to narrow it down.
  20. Still looking for the hens, but these and a small bag of black trumpets made for a good hike!
  21. Trying to find a species of these i can eat, do these fit the bill? Milk was running when i found them, gills are deep and spaced
  22. I don't, just started looking into forums for this kind of thing a few days ago. I will join and post them there soon. I'm hoping to go back to the site in the near future and see if they have come back.
  23. Yes, the majority of the cap was a pale pink with only small amounts of orange coming through on sone. The gills were a more bright orange than most of the normal chanterelles around here. Unforunately I was working when i found them a couple weeks ago and only got this single photo in a paper bag i happened to have with me, i knew they were in the chanterelle family so a coworker and i split them ate them, of course later i did more research and kicked myself for not sporeprinting and taking more photos. I will be going back to the house sometime soon to see if they have returned.
  24. I think these are cantharellus roseocanus, but I found them in Georgia in moss under an old oak and everything online has told me these are mostly in the Pacific NW under Spruce and Jack pines.
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