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  1. Very nice pictures ladyfish! I have been up in Canada fly fishing for most of the last two months. I thought I would check in.
  2. I bought the spawn through Parks Seed but it came from Mushroom Mountain.
  3. You will never know unless you try. Besides, purple and gold would look cool!
  4. Thanks Ladyfish! To my knowledge, they don't grow around my area. I decided the only way to that I was going to eat any was to grow them myself. If nothing else, they help break down compost for the garden.
  5. Last fall I bought some blewit spawn to spread around my house. I stored it until March and then added it to a compost barrel that I had in my garage. In April, I took it outside and started a compost pile on the north side of the house. Today, I found the first of what I hope will be many blewit mushrooms under some juniper trees adjacent to where I planted the blewit laden compost.
  6. One of these years, I should try to make that trip. The worst part of the drive would be here in NW North Dakota. The oil traffic here is nuts anyplace west of me.
  7. Nice haul! WE are suppose to get 3 inches of rain this weekend. I will have to get out next week.
  8. I don't know anything about Matsutake. I have never attempted to collect them. When Dave stops by, he can probably render you some help. I just wanted to welcome you aboard. The slow approach is a good one. I try to learn about two to three per year myself. It doesn't take too long before you have most of the good edibles in your area covered.
  9. You are making me drool Dave! Arcadia National Park sounds like a nice area to do some foraging. I have been to Maine but I have never been to Vermont. It is the only New England state that I have not set foot in. Well, good luck with the rest of your vacation. We will see you when you return.
  10. Are you back from your foray Dave? How was it?
  11. That would be a great lunch break find. However if I found them, they would have ended up in an omelet the next morning. Nice find!
  12. Those are cool. Maybe they should call them Cantharellus flamingoae.
  13. I am jealous coastwx! I have yet to find any form of Hericium. I guess that I am never in the right type of woods at the right time of year. You are right. It does seem a bit early for them but it was a great find. Some of the best finds often come when you least expect them.
  14. Shroomersue, it appears like you had a good lobster outing in southern Ontario. Lobsters are one of my favorites but I have to travel to collect them. I use to clean mine with a toothbrush but it is a lot of work in areas where a lot of dirt in embedded. You loose some mushroom but it makes the job go quicker.
  15. I know one guy that takes the giant puffballs, slices them and uses them like a pizza crust. He has a special method of prepping them to make it more like pizza crust. It is a good way for type II diabetics to get their pizza fix without effecting their blood sugars.
  16. The lobster mushroom, Hypomyces lactifluorum, is a fungal parasite that attacks various Russula and Lactarius mushrooms at the primordial stage. They will not look anything like the host species which are typically white forms. It pretty much takes inedible forms (by taste) and turns them into something that is pretty good. While the hosts have gills, all you will see will be some faint outlines where the gills should be. The mushroom will be thick and hard if they are any good. When they are past prime, they will start turning red. I would Google Lobsters mushrooms. You will see a large number of references. There is a lot of good video on You Tube, as well. It is a fairly easy mushroom to ID.
  17. My recommendation is to take it slow and be safe. I try to add two to three new mushrooms a year to my list of edibles. I rarely eat anything that the first year that I find a presumed edible. I always proceed with a healthy dose of caution and a lot of research.
  18. dakotabob

    Hey

    Welcome aboard Kent!
  19. You normally have to trim away a fair amount of mushroom because them push up from the dirt and they have a lot of embedded material in them but I like them way better than Chanterelles.
  20. I found a bunch of lobsters this week in lichen. For the most part, all you would see is a bump with just a little hint of orange showing.
  21. I had a good trip. I collected a lot of lobsters. I collected the ones in the picture last Monday and collected even more on Wednesday. On Tuesday, I found several large patches of Chanterelles, some hedgehogs and about a dozen butter boletes. On Wednesday, I collected some more chaga, some saffron milk caps and more lobsters. Attached are a couple pictures of the lobsters. I hit a couple spots where I have found kinds in the past but I had no luck with them.
  22. They were quite large. I found 3 Russula's that had this parasitic mushroom on it but this one had the most of the parasitic mushroom on it.
  23. Here is a parasitic mushroom the I found in Minnesota last weekend. I do not know the species but I thought it was cool.
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