Mushroom foragers

[Fluffers]

Is anyone still finding any mushrooms? Someone on one of the FB threads said they found some yesterday.

I have not found anything in almost a month,

I'm still finding them, but they are all pretty much full grown.

 

[Zoomie]

That is way different color than the few lobsters I have seen here. But cool looking. I do mean few too. BC is the local lobster expert.

Interesting! The ones around here are always this sort of orange color. The only odd thing (to *me*) about this particular specimen is it still looks so much like Russula brevipes. Most of the time they are so deformed you can hardly tell what they once were.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Happy to find a mushroom thread. It's too cold here now, but we had a good season up in the mountains making nice finds. For example.... Hypomyces lactiflorum. Yum!

I have never seen a mushroom like that! I'm very new to the world of wild mushrooms though lol

 

[Fluffers]

I have never seen a mushroom like that! I'm very new to the world of wild mushrooms though lol

Me neither! Cool find @Zoomie !

 

[duluthralphie]

The lobster is a great tasting mushroom. I think the best I have had. The ones here are redder. The ones I have seen, and there have not been that many, are more "clawlike" and are the red color of a cooked lobster meat.

They were hard to find when I went hunting them with BC as they were the same color of the fallen maple leafs.

 

[Zoomie]

I'll admit first I have not read this entire thread. So maybe someone else already said this, and if so, sorry.

Hypomyces lactiflourum for those who are curious is actually a fungus attacking another fungus... crazy, right??... You start out with Russula brevipes, and then it's attacked and parasitized by Hypomyces. Generally they are so deformed by this, that you can hardly tell what it started out as. They are often just sort of lumps. Here, we would find them under Ponderosa pine in the duff. Generally speaking and taking one thing with another, I can usually start finding them about the second week of July. I have found them as late as September but that's kind of pushing it, and again depends on weather and so on. It's pretty exciting when you see a "shrump" with hints of orange.

This whole hobby puts the "fun" back in "fungus" as (in my opinion) mushrooms are really cool and interesting. Very happy to find a thread here about this! I'll have to pay more attention and maybe I'll even read the whole thread!

 

[duluthralphie]

I'll admit first I have not read this entire thread. So maybe someone else already said this, and if so, sorry.

Hypomyces lactiflourum for those who are curious is actually a fungus attacking another fungus... crazy, right??... You start out with Russula brevipes, and then it's attacked and parasitized by Hypomyces. Generally they are so deformed by this, that you can hardly tell what it started out as. They are often just sort of lumps. Here, we would find them under Ponderosa pine in the duff. Generally speaking and taking one thing with another, I can usually start finding them about the second week of July. I have found them as late as September but that's kind of pushing it, and again depends on weather and so on. It's pretty exciting when you see a "shrump" with hints of orange.

This whole hobby puts the "fun" back in "fungus" as (in my opinion) mushrooms are really cool and interesting. Very happy to find a thread here about this! I'll have to pay more attention and maybe I'll even read the whole thread!

There is also some caution in the "books" about eating the lobster because it might be attached to other shrooms that are not save to eat and pick up some toxins. It is an amazing thing.

 

[Fluffers]

I'll admit first I have not read this entire thread. So maybe someone else already said this, and if so, sorry.

Hypomyces lactiflourum for those who are curious is actually a fungus attacking another fungus... crazy, right??... You start out with Russula brevipes, and then it's attacked and parasitized by Hypomyces. Generally they are so deformed by this, that you can hardly tell what it started out as. They are often just sort of lumps. Here, we would find them under Ponderosa pine in the duff. Generally speaking and taking one thing with another, I can usually start finding them about the second week of July. I have found them as late as September but that's kind of pushing it, and again depends on weather and so on. It's pretty exciting when you see a "shrump" with hints of orange.

This whole hobby puts the "fun" back in "fungus" as (in my opinion) mushrooms are really cool and interesting. Very happy to find a thread here about this! I'll have to pay more attention and maybe I'll even read the whole thread!

interesting!

 

[Bogtown Chick]

What a beautiful lobster mushroom. It's perfect!

 

[duluthralphie]

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What a beautiful lobster mushroom. It's perfect![/quote




And huge