DShroomGuy Posted January 11, 2021 Report Share Posted January 11, 2021 Went to a completely different spot on the other side of town. On my lunch break I run down to a boat landing road and do a quick hunt in an area with oak, river birch, cypress, and Hickoreries. Only get like 10 min to look by the time I get there but can't help the opportunity to look. As soon as I hit the woods line I immediately saw these coming up through the leaf litter. There's so many trees though I'm sure there is wood or dead roots probably everywhere. Maybe they were growing from stuff under the leaves and soil. Was in a hurry and overlooked digging in there a bit to see. Anyways they bare resemblance to the honeys I found a few days ago though maybe not 100% exact. There appears to be white spores on the caps of a few too already. There was a bigger one overtop these in the pic with spores on them. There is a partial veil, gills attached to stalk, spores white, and otherwise very similar to the other ones I had. Think I got a winner again!?! Maybe a different species but the end of the stem is a bit bulbous too like the others. Maybe again A. gallica? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave W Posted January 11, 2021 Report Share Posted January 11, 2021 Armillaria. I think the sam species as the ones in the citrus grove, A. gallica. The stringy partial veil that partly collapses onto the stalk as a white ring zone (as opposed to forming a well-defined ring) points this way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShroomGuy Posted January 11, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2021 Thanks Dave! If I understand correctly I should be able to go back to the same spots every year at the right time and possibly find some there? Gonna have to go back to the citrus spot tomorrow. There was immature ones coming. It's misty light rain all day today here. Might have spurred more action to occur and those others should be grown out. They certainly weren't bad at all. Definitely was good eats. Though my palate isn't hard to please. I'll eat damn near anything so long as it isn't full of man-made junk or GMOs etc. Full blown health nutter here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troutddicted Posted January 11, 2021 Report Share Posted January 11, 2021 Yup, they will come back year after year. Timing may be variable, cool temperatures and rain is the typical jump starter here in my area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave W Posted January 11, 2021 Report Share Posted January 11, 2021 Armillaria plays at least two roles in Nature, parasite and saprobe. When in the saprobic stage the fungus is feeding off dead/decaying wood/roots. I think this is the stage when most of the mushrooms are produced. Once the nutrients are used up the mushrooms may fail to appear again in that same spot. But, the Armillaria fungus seems to readily spread to new trees, or maybe there's another tree that begins to die, and the mushrooms are then found close to where they had previously been. So, some areas get Armillaria mushrooms for many years running. On the hand, I have seen Armillaria apparently dry up in some spots, usually areas that were logged, leaving behind a lot of stumps/roots that produced mushrooms until the stumps/roots no longer contained enough nutrients. As has already been said, weather also plays a role. If the weather is too dry during the time if year when Armillaria is apt to produce mushrooms, then there may be very few or even no mushrooms at all during such a given year. This can basically be said about any type of wild mushroom, saprobic or mycorrhizal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShroomGuy Posted January 15, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2021 Tell you what these honey mushrooms are pretty darn good cooked in a bit of coconut oil with salt and pepper. Glad to have finally found something worth eating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troutddicted Posted January 16, 2021 Report Share Posted January 16, 2021 I love them. I visit my honey spot yearly, timed right I come home with 100+ lbs of mushrooms coupled with a hurting back and hours upon hours of processing. A fantastic soup mushroom. Most get boiled, sauteed and frozen. Happy hunting in your new honey spot! 🍄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShroomGuy Posted January 18, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2021 Dang I want to find a huge haul like that! So far only a handful. Perhaps though at some point the areas I found them in will bloom off like crazy. Be totally insane to find a patch like you see in online pics. Whole stumps straight covered in hundreds of caps. One of these days I'll finally stumble onto a huge fruiting of something good. Really want to finds hens, chickens, oysters (may have just found first ones), lion's mane, etc. Think I have been seeing oysters way up in the top of pecan trees. In dead parts of branches. Look like big hands of fruit bodies. However way too high to get at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troutddicted Posted January 18, 2021 Report Share Posted January 18, 2021 It will all come together - just keep at it and do the leg work. Ive been foraging since a little child and between foraging friends and family, we have many years of combined local knowledge. A lot of leg work over the years! Keep the pics rollin’ Shroomguy! Nice to see some mushrooms while freezing my behind off during the winter months 😝 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShroomGuy Posted January 18, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2021 Fortunately it doesn't freeze much here even in northern FL. Rained a few days back but couldn't get out there until my lunch break today. Not much more activity it seemed either way. Hopefully the oyster like mushroom I found today is indeed an oyster. If so I found another log to check periodically. Only 20' from where I found some of these honeys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShroomGuy Posted January 21, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2021 Here's a mushroom I found at the base of an oak about 100' from where I found these others several days ago. This one was standing completely alone. Looks the same though overall. Is it possibly another honey? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troutddicted Posted January 21, 2021 Report Share Posted January 21, 2021 Thats a fresh looking honey! Oh how I miss Florida... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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