Mushroom foragers

[Birdy Buddy]

When I was on my trip and on my little Walks. I think I found one Bolete. Mousies were finding it too by the looks of some nibbles on the stem there.

Looks like a Leccinum. Was it growing new poplars?

 

[Birdy Buddy]

These are a few of the mushrooms I have found in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. Morels and Spring boletes

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Looks like a Leccinum. Was it growing new poplars?

More Boreal (Balsam and Spruce trees) up there where I got them.

 

[duluthralphie]

When I was on my trip and on my little Walks. I think I found one Bolete. Mousies were finding it too by the looks of some nibbles on the stem there.

I find lots of bolettes the trick is finding one I feel safe in eating. The larch ones are really slimy and ugly. The have to be under a larch tree. Larch is tamarack to those of us in Minnesota. If the spore is right I might try some this weekend

 

[duluthralphie]

Does these grow on fallen logs on on the ground?

The hens grow on the ground close to a large tree, these were all near large oaks I am guessing over 100 years old.

 

[duluthralphie]

I am on my cell so I hope these work out. Here are the 2 old man of the woods I found,...

The book said it should turn red when cut, it was white and went to red right away

 

[katsdar]

When I was on my trip and on my little Walks. I think I found one Bolete. Mousies were finding it too by the looks of some nibbles on the stem there.

So this is safe to eat?

 

[Birdy Buddy]

Here are some of my recent finds. Some I know some I have no idea.




I have no idea what the above one is, I just like the picture.

Below is a picture of a shelf mushroom my cousin and I found, I thought it was an immature chicken, he disagreed. We left it in the woods. It did not bleed "milk" when we cut it.



This is a shelf of some kind. I just thought the white edge and under belly was cool. It is also still on the tree.


Below are the little hard mushrooms, again no idea of the species. I take lots of pictures of mushrooms.




Again I am not sure of this one, could be a parasol but I could not find one like it in the book. It is absolutely beautiful. As I have aged I find wonder and more beauty in things like this.





Above is an "old Man of the woods". We left it too, I was told they are not that tasty. I could be wrong, but we have enough mushrooms so we left this for seed.

Below is one I thought was a puffball, I could not find one like it. The flesh was hard and white and appeared was puffball like. When we could not ID it and be 100% sure we threw it away the thick base had us stumped.




Above is just a large one. So I snapped a picture, again no idea of who it is.

I will post a few more, I wanted to keep the size of the post down... Thanks.

Moderators I am not trying to "Bump" my thread, just trying to keep post size down so my computer does not lock up.

Beautiful photos. The white ones are definitely Amanitas. They might be deadly. We have a similar Amanita on the west coast, Amanita cokeri. I can see how it might resemble a puffball. When the Amanita is very small it has been mistaken for a puffball before with fatal consequences. To tell apart for sure from a puffball,cut the mushroom in half and if it is a Amanita you will see it inside an egg like veil. The the veil expands and the scales on the cap and stalk are the remnants. On the west coast we have some edible Amanitas and the iconic red one with white spots. Other Amanitas are the Death Cap, the Destroying Angel, and the Death Angel.

 

[Birdy Buddy]

This is Amanita muscaria from coastal California.


This is a pretty good day of morel hunting after a forest fire.


These morels were growing in a logged area near Mt Lassen.

 

[Birdy Buddy]

So this is safe to eat?

Most Leccinums are OK to eat but do they taste good? Edible is not always tasty. I have tried several boletes but not a Leccinum. Suillus is another mushroom in the bolete family and they are slimy and tasteless.