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  1. Sorry to hear this. The only Canadian company I have dealt with is Grow Mushrooms Canada. They are based on Vancouver Island. Always had good service from them.
  2. A friend harvested Oyster mushrooms after putting spent spawn of a table top kit into an out door bed of Aspen wood chips and leave mulch. But it was not a huge harvest. My attempts with Pioppino and Chestnut Pholiota have all failed
  3. Again, possibly Lyophyllum. This is a difficult species because there may be many morphologically similar species that can only be differentiated from each other by DNA testing. All the mushrooms that I have called Lyophyllum have been white or very faintly yellow to pale brown. The difference being how old they are and how wet the ground is. Yours show gills attached but with a wee notch at the attachment point. Mine have always been slightly decurrent (running down the stem but only a tiny bit). Kuo describes both variations on MushroomExpert.com If you have access to a microscope, seeing round spores would help to confirm.
  4. More than one species can grow from the same wood. There may be competition at the mycelia level but either one wins or several find a balance and co-exist. Inspect a very dead log in a wet forest and you might find many species on it. For edible mushrooms, I have seen Dryad Saddles growing side by side with Oyster mushrooms
  5. Agree possibly Lyophyllum They grow every summer in a walking area in bush behind my house. But it took me three years of studying multiple websites, books, spore prints including microscopy before I was confident to try eating them. . Several toxic look-alikes but I think most of those are found in the Western Mountains See my Post on Lyophyllum from several years go. Ultimately I decided they were Lyophyllum when I saw spores were round under microscope view
  6. Hey Z. The Gas you had could be a personal reaction that most do not get. Lions Mane Hericium is a choice edible mushroom. But all mushrooms can produce some GI side effects in rare people and yet not be considered toxic for the majority.
  7. Brown ring of the stem says Cortinarius. Potentially very toxic
  8. Butter salt garlic shallots and top onto a seafood risotto or Spanish Saffron Rice (Paella) with fried red bell peppers, onions and a lot of garlic.
  9. You lucky guy. They are delicious. Sort of a seafood and mushroom combined flavour profile
  10. Curious. My experience and most sources say a pinkish spore print for blewits. Cortinarius is definitively brown If you had access to a microscope, the size and shape of spores might be more convincing.
  11. It looks like a Blewit. But I always spore print a few before eating them. Although I see no ring on your specimen, it can be challenging to differentiate a Blewit from some Cortinarius species which are often GI toxic.
  12. Pic #2 is impressive. I've never seen so many of them in one area. I want to call them Slippery Jacks, Suillus luteus, but the lightly concave cap does not seem right. Normally,S. luteus that I find all have a symmetrical convex/dome-like cap Perhaps because these are older?
  13. Good morning mb27. Could you add in a picture of the underside and stem. That will help a lot for possible identification
  14. If the tree was a Maple or Beech, your specimen is more likely Climacadon septentrionalis.
  15. Yana, old guide book from North America all say Red capped Leccinums are edible. But now some folks have reported GI upsets from red cap Leccinums. That includes Kuo who says he personally was affected. But many others like myself have never had any problems eating red (or brown) capped Leccinums. Also you are asking from a European perspective which makes it unwise to follow North American recommendations. There are many mushrooms that morphologically look the same in North America and Europe and yet are different species by DNA probing. Strongly suggest you consult a north European expert source before eating those.
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