1left Posted November 14, 2014 Report Posted November 14, 2014 Checked out a dry sandy gravelly hillside with a few young jack pine the only trees around other than a few inch high other conifers, this area was kind of bare with a lichen here and there. --(photo 1 & 2) maybe a brown small version of Lactarius mammosus as the sweet smell was intense, I never noticed any grey ones today though I did find a gravel area last week with both small grey and brown sweet smelling Lactarius which on that day were under very young tamarack trees. (photo 3 & 4) is a hard one for me as it looks like what I expected the sticky capped Tricholoma populinum to appear as-- if I ever found any under poplars here in New Brunswick, again here Jack pine is the only tree around and these are not clustered enough for T populinum I assume, the caps have a rosy brown tint, solid mushroom, caps near 4 inches across. (photo 5) has what I'm guessing is Chroogomphus vinicolor to the left and Suillus salmonicolor to the right.
Puddleduck Posted November 14, 2014 Report Posted November 14, 2014 The last one looks like a bolete because the gills are spongey but I don't know what type of bolete. That is also only a guess!
Dave W Posted November 14, 2014 Report Posted November 14, 2014 Lactarius mammosus (= L. hibbardae) looks like a very good possibility for the first few photos. My collections of this type have smelled like coconut. Third photo may show more than one type of mushroom. . Fourth photo looks like a species of Tricholoma. They do look like T. populinum, but pine is not listed as an associate for this species. Are you certain there aren't any small poplars in the area? Last photo shows Chroogomphus and Suillus, like you say 1left. C. vinicolor looks like a good possibility. S. salmonicolor has a stalk that is sometimes sheathed below and a partial veil that forms a ring on the stalk. I can't really tell from the photos if these traits are present.
1left Posted November 14, 2014 Author Report Posted November 14, 2014 Yes the Suillus had well developed rings on the upper stem. The area where the Tricholomas were seemed to have just Jack pine, but if you travel 15 to 20 feet higher to the flat area at the top of the hill there were some very poor looking thin hardwoods amongst larger conifers, I am not 100% sure now what they were though at the time I was thinking grey birch which is a common small birch in poor soils in my area. Possibly a few poplars though not obvious ones. I'll also mention now that I did find a few Tricholoma portentosum close to this area and took your advise on sampling a small piece raw to see if it was mild tasting and it was, so I felt quite comfortable eating some cooked as the field characteristics also matched and these turned out to be a nice edible indeed, I peeled the cap cuticle is this necessary? (here are 2 photos of them). At some point I'm hopeful to find T poplinum in a woods of only poplar or aspen and try them as an edible as I've read they are somewhat popular or were historically popular in western BC Canada known as the (sand mushroom and cottonwood mushroom). thanks
Dave W Posted November 15, 2014 Report Posted November 15, 2014 No need to peel the caps on T. portentosum. A really good edible, as long as you are confident in its ID. I have only seen what I believed to be T. populinum a few times, never during the previous 10-15 years. I wasn't even aware they are considered a good edible. Audubon lists only poplars as associates. Sometimes it's tricky to tell the poplars from the birch. But I think I understand the habitat described... thickets of small Gray Birch and conifers.
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