MUSHROOM GENERAL BOII What mushrooms are you hunting? Best

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I found this really strange one that I can't identify.

It looks like an overcooked egg.
Flip it over and it looks like a Lovecraftian monster.

I found chaga when I was rock climbing a few days ago

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Chaga grows like weeds where i live... For how much it sells in us? We could make somekind of business with it. Found this shit last time

>>832431
Looking online it seems like they sell 500g of chaga for 32 dollars.

I've never seen chaga. Whether or not this is profitable really depends on how huge these things grow.

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They can get pretty big. I have one average size... around 500g piece at home.

>>832540
You can sell it to hippies and health food stores and shit>>832540

>>832540
I'd look into it. Even if it's not worth collecting them to sell, it might be worth collecting to use yourself.

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Chanterelle

They grow like hell this year.

>>832551
People make their living doing nothing but collecting chaga

I could get a lot of chaga just need a way to sell them.

>>832585
Chanterelles are the best.
Easy to identify, taste great, they grow in most places.

Any place in so cal near LA to forrage?

>>832405

Maybe this anon?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geastrum

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>>832833
Yeah, that's it. I found it myself.
Didn't even know it would end up looking like a star.
Mushrooms are fucking weird.

>>832892
>Mushrooms are fucking weird
I have a PhD in mycology and I'm still not convinced mushrooms aren't alien life.

Filamentous and pathogenic fungi are even weirder

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>>832402
>What mushrooms are you hunting?
The ones that grow in my woods: Leccinum, Morchella, Gyromitra, Russulas if nothing better is fruiting. And of course the liberty caps from a nearby pasture. Recently found a bunch of pic rel growing in an old ants nest. They're supposed to be rare around here so I was very pleased with the find.
>Best mushrooms?
Rozites out of the ones growing here. From around the world I'd say Shiitake.

>>833242

Laboulbenia is def. an alien.

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>>833242
Great! Maybe you can direct me into identifying this funky mushy. Found it growing in my garden. It likes wood and seems to also grow into pine thorns I use as 'mulch'.

I thought about taking a spore print and microscoping to make life easier, but I don't even understand from where it is sporulating... these bead like things?

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>>833785
I'm fairly certain I found out what this is. Now my next question: say I take one of those things inside of it, called 'peridioles', which contains 'basidiospore', would it be possible to grow it out on say something like cardboard? Or will this be a futile attempt? I kind of like them and I already have a little infected stick that has some fruits on it that have matured nicely kept at home in a container with high humidity.

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Chanterelle grow in my area and I think I found some. Are these them? They aren't very big and aren't "gold". These are in Southeast Alaska.

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>>834037

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>>834040
I meant to post this cause it's a little better.

>>834037
I am no expert, but that to me looks NOTHING like chanterelle.
I've been eating them since I was a little kid, and that's just not it.

Too long. Wrong color. The cap shouldn't look like a bellybutton or an asshole. Too slimy.
It could be one of the poisonous lookalikes.

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>>834214
I have some right here. They're very small and bright yellow. If it's not bright yellow it's probably not it.

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>>834214
>>834216
I've been googling all day and found this. I guess we have to different kinds. I positively can identify shaggy manes and COTW, I've eaten them, but these are kinda making me not want to die if I'm wrong.

>>834218
Yeah, that does look like winter chanterelle. Never heard of it, but that's a perfect match. I'd eat it.

im in alaska for the summer.

been eating hedgehogs, yellowfeet, grisette, cotw, porcini, laccaria, blue chanterelles, angel wings, and leccenium.

been searching high and low for herricium to no avail. grisettes are the best edible right now.

Anyone know anything about Liberty caps?

I've been trying to find some, but can't find shit. I thought they should be growing in August. People find them at the end of July.
There's a cow field nearby, it's raining plenty, everything seems to be perfect, but no Liberty Caps.
Do they just not grow here? Too early? Wrong kind of grass around or something?

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Anyone know it?
Is it edible?
How can I cook it?

>>835037
These look like Shaggy Manes.
>>835040
This one definitely.

>>835191
>>835037

lepiota lutea

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>>834041
Well I went and got some and am going to try them. I do have a dryer so I might also dry them. I think I will make mushroom nachos and wash them down with lots of beer.

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>>832585

Goddamn, where!?

My favorite mushroom and I'm always too late in the season to catch them.

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if you had to guess what this is inside in my air conditioner thats been in a shed for 3 years, would you guess that its a mushroom or some kind of insulation?

>>835390
>>>832585
>Goddamn, where!?
>My favorite mushroom and I'm always too late in the season to catch them.
In Poland. :-)
We just finished eating bucket of them.

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>>835037
Shaggy mane/ inky cap

Personally, I hate them. Will eventually melt and leave a black inky mess.

>>835037
shaggy mane, dont listen to the haters. pick em when they're still little buds about the size of your thumb and then fry them up in a tempura batter. Tasty as fuck. Just eat and use them quick or they will do what they do and ink up. You've got about 12 hrs once you pick 'em!!!

>>834255
Is there really no one who is interested in Liberty Caps?

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>>835390
South Europe starting now until November. Yesterday I got some kilos of Cibarius variety

I found this grostesque and oozing ball of orangey brown stuff with holes in it, totally gross, I will take a picture and post it here, BRB 20 minutes.

>>836729
I'm curious

>>836608
Sorry, i prefear amanita cesarea ;^)

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I know nothing about mushrooms but here are some pictures of what I see often around my area.

Can anyone identify these for me? Im in West Yorkshire, England

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>>836870

>>832823
>Chanterelles are the best.
Pleb tier mushrooms. The only one even more pleb is the Champignon. Git gud.

>>833242
I got histoplasmosis all up in my lungs.
Is it abien?

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>>835390
Austria(south) in July.
Was in Slovenia last week and foun some too.

German friend of mine told me he found some in bavaria.

Polish anon posted aswell, so i guess they grow all over Europe this summer.

>>833785
Looks like a cup with mentos in it

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>>836729
>>836831

Ok this is the weird shit I found.

WTF is this ugly cunt ?

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>>837002
oh god it's oozing evil. that is fukken gross.

here's a gross little thing i found a couple summers ago. it's about the same time of year, i should go back and see if i can find them again. it was like mushroomy fish eggs or something.

>>837008
At least mine looks like it belongs on earth.

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>>837010
am i gonna die

>>837015
It seems you were lucky this time, it most likely killed some unsuspecting soul when it hatched.

Well done for capturing such a specimen, comrade, and keep documenting for the human race.

>>834040
>>834041
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craterellus_lutescens

?

>>837008
Calostoma cinnabarina I believe.

>>837002
It reminds me of Hydnellum ferrugineum or Hydnellum peckii. But I just, don't, know.

>>837041
yup, does look like it! th-thanks alfie :3

>>837057
Definitely in that genus.

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>>832402

can someone answer me this; what is the point of hunting for mushrooms? are you looking for the psychadelic ones or tasty ones or what? I can't imagine wild mushrooms would taste better than the ones found at the store or else the store would carry them.

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>>837084
for fun stuff like this

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>>837084
think of mushies like you do flowers, birds, or minerals. people like them, and a lot of them are rare and don't take to cultivation. there are people out there with every hobby possible, one of them is mushrooming. some people like to eat them, some study them, some take pics and enjoy searching for rare specimens, some find rare edibles that can't be farmed and sell them for big monies, and some people just like to get high.

>>832402
what fungus is this?

>>837084
>I can't imagine wild mushrooms would taste better than the ones found at the store or else the store would carry them.
just a reminder that what grocery stores carry isn't what tastes the best, but what i) looks the best, ii) lasts the best, iii) transports the best, iv) can be stored the best allowing for almost annual abundance, etc.

Some stores stock wild mushrooms, small green grocers or specialty stores, however they're often crazy expensive as they need to be found and harvested instead of the industrial production line style of growth and harvest for everything else.

Hell, one of the best restaurants in the worlds has their chefs foraging for local wild produce.

>>837113
>one of the best restaurants in the worlds
i think a lot of them do this actually. the better the restaurant the more fresh, rare, and legit food is paramount to their menu. there's a real fancy place i know in sydney and they pay kids who live out in the bush 100km away to forage for mushrooms for them. the window is only a few weeks so you need an army of scamps out there digging

>>836834
They don't grow here.
The liberty cap is the most common one that grows pretty much everywhere. I don't even have to tell anyone where I am from or ask you where you're from if I want to talk about finding liberty caps.

>>837084
It's fun, but I do eat them and do try to find psychedelic ones.

>>837093
Rhodotus Palmatus

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>>835634
Try some and let us know.
> DO IT FAGIT

>>837115
The restaurant I was referring to is Noma, interesting to read/ watch a piece on if you want to be a wanker and a little over indulgent.
But yeah it doesnt surprise me. Im down in Melb, and if I owned a cafe or something I'd be definitely making connections in a few rural towns that have large pine plantations nearby.

>>837084
You need to be more accurate. What are mushrooms you buy at the store? Do you will find the same kinds in the wild? Here in Italy we have a lot of edible varieties growing in the wild but almost no store sell them. Sure you will find fresh Boletus Edulis in some stores but, likely, they come from east Europe (Chernobyl?) and doesn't taste like the ones from my own mountains.

>>837246
Here in Latvia stores only sell champignons or ''the common mushroom'' because it's easy to grow in a bulk. It's trash. It's what I call the pizza mushroom.

If you want to find any of the good mushrooms you need to do it yourself or go to a market.
Anyone who loves the taste of mushrooms pretty much has no choice but to pick their own. The stores don't even sell chanterelles even though they are so common.

>>835841
god, I miss going mushroom foraging in Poland. spent a summer volunteering there, ate so many mushrooms and yet still never got sick of them.
awesome find anon, I'm very jealous. whereabouts in Poland do you live? I spent my summer down south in the Tatra mountains for a bit, then a couple of months in the small village of Janowice Wielkie. infinite fun times and amazing hiking trails.

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>>837084
For me, the whole culture of hunter/gatherer (Estonian here) and being brought up to appreciate them. Mushrooms are a cornerstone for being a human. It's like taking a miniature hike in the woods, but besides getting fresh air and being connected with nature you also bring home the fruits. And wild mushrooms taste a lot better than store sold mushrooms. Much like wild animals taste much better than store bought animal meat. Plus the stores don't stock real quality products, those you get from farmers/hunters/fishers etc. Plebs go to supermercado for food lol.

>>832431
They sell tinctures of it here for €36 which is for 50ml, I dunno what weight mushroom that translates to. So dear

>>837702
It doesn't translate to any weight of mushroom directly. Mushies have wet weight and dry weight given in kilograms (or grams for convenience). What you're referring to is the tincture volume of liters (or milliliters apparently a very small bottle). You'd need to know what amount of molarity of the "supposedly" good chemicals there are in the tincture and the absolutely enormously varying and completely unpredictable (for wild mushies that is, isolates can be predicted) concentration of the chemical in mushroom mass.

>>837698
Yes there is something very speacial about mushrooms, espeacially wild ones. They are mystical. Cook them however you like they will always taste nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOgR4NsidZg

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My haul yesterday

>>837930
They are ugly.

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>>832402
Mostly Boletaceae, like porcini (boletus edulis). They are pretty safe because there is really only one poisonous species among them where I live and those are pretty rare. Never found one.

They are also quite frequent, still got some dried from last year.

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I have no experience in anything related to mushrooms and plants, where do I start? I'm just interested in identifying local mushrooms I see on my hikes, nothing crazy

>>838151
>go outside
>look around
>when you spot something take a few seconds to take in its various features

Keep doing this and very quickly you will start to see every kind of fungus, plant, shrub and tree as an individual, and they will stand out like so.

This is the first step you need to take, and after that you can start identifying them.

dont eat anything poisonous.

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>>838194
What is the best way to identify once that point is reached? Looking up characteristics? Are local handbooks a good investment?

>>838209
Yeh, both of those are solid ways.

In charity shops you can usually get a local / national fungi book for a few dollars.

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>>838405
Thanks anon, will go digging through a local thift store.

>>834041
>>834037
Do not eat this. This is not a chanterelle. The gills of a chanterelle go all the way down the stalk.

>>838843
OMG!!! I already did!!!
>>834218

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>>838858
†RIP† in peace anon. so sad, you were such a good cunt. I will honor your memory.

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Anyone know what these are?

They're bright red and as they get older they turn bright orange.

>>832405
Earth Star Anon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geastrum_saccatum

Good thread btw.

>>838996
could be Hygrocybe coccinea

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plik:Kirschroter_Saftling_Hygrocybe_coccinea.JPG

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can i eat it
fulton county georgia

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>>834041
>>837032
+1 for Craterellus ID. Could be C. tubaeformus too

>>839254
Doubt it. Looks like Amanita.

>>839440
so youre saying theres a chance

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Heres an interesting find, looked like lichen until i picked it up.

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>>834255
>7 days ago
>still no one cares about Liberty Caps

>>836608
I think elevation, temperature and exposure to the sun (they have to face away from the sun) all come into play.

>>832402
That could either be very tasty of very disgusting.

Im probably guessing its definitely not edible, though.

>>839906
what happened to bill?

>>839717
You can eat any mushroom once, hurr.

>>839906
depends where you are in ontario they put something in the cow food so they wont grow

>>840019
Super AIDS.

>>840062
I don't live in Ontorio. No one here is trying to suppress Liberty Caps. They should definitely grow here, I just can't find any.

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I wanted to make some Amanita Muscaria tea, but all I could find were these.

Can anyone confirm if this is Amanita Muscaria var Alba? Definitely seems like it, but I am not familiar with these.
Also if it's Var Alba, should I prepare differently or the same as regular Amanita Muscaria?

>>839751
It is a lichen, man.

>>833242
>I'm still not convinced mushrooms aren't alien life.
All life is alien life, nigga.
Do you even panspermia.
Sheeit.

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>>832402
Can anyone tell me the name of this book in english?

>>841539
also samefag here, but are there mushroom species that only grow in certain areas? Obviously the area can't be too hot or cold, but that picture got me wondering if Chickenwood or Chanterellies can grow in places like Japan.

>>839254

BOI. Cobb here. I see those every time I go for my runs at my local nature trail.

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What are these? I know nothing about mushrooms. Saw these today golfing.

>>841539
using google translate:
the top part in the boxes says "Yamakei color directory", probably the series name. yamakei can also translate as mountain stream but a name seems more likely.
main title says mushrooms of japan/japan's mushrooms, this is for sure
red text says spoiler alert, pretty certain with this too

>>842011
an amanita. flavoconia, fulva, crocea, and caesarea are what i would check first. possibly
edible, a. caesarea is 'highly regarded'..

>>841493
100% sure those are not. take a look at a regular a. muscaria. the warts are parts of the veil left on the cap, whereas this is the cap itself peeling. you should be able to remove the warts easily on amanita muscaria. the ring should be thin and hang like cloth if present, this is much too think and rugged. can't see the base clearly but it seems on the small side.
other than that, the cap is too dark in the middle, reminds me of parasol mushrooms, some of which are edible.

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Found this beauty yesturday, what do you think?

>>842283
I think its highly toxic

>>837084
Many mushrooms are difficult or impossible to commercially cultivate, so the tasty ones out there are considered delicacies and do fetch a high price when introduced to restaurants and the like.

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>>833242
So would you say it is possible that Terence McKenna actually WAS a sort of ambassador for the 'alien' mushroom entity?

>>836608
Could be too early famalam, may also depend on your location. In western Europe they usually become abundant from mid september til the end of october.

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>>838209
If you live on the West Coast of America "Mushrooms Demystified" by David Arora is highly regarded.

Even if you don't life in that area or even the US, it may be useful as he goes through ways of identifying mushrooms, their characteristics and where to look for them in the environment, their relationship to various species of trees etc.

There is also his smaller field guide "All That the Rain Promises and More: A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms" which I don't own, but from reviews it sounds pretty good.

>>832585
I am too afraid to go our and look for mushrooms but those are by far my favorite. I had them once after buying a box full at Costco but I've never seen them again. Where can I go to buy some?

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WHY DID NOBODY WARN ME THESE TASTED SO BAD HOLY SHIT

>>842619
anon the #1 rule for mushrooming is the more it LOOKS like ya mum's pussy the more it TASTES like ya mum's pussy. everyone knows that. you did it to yourself friend.

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>>832402
Anyone know this? Feels spongy. Grows in big patches about 1/2 foot in diameter

>>842824
Clean under your filthy fingernails first.

>>842827
have you ever been /out/?

>>842619
they didnt for me. not even sour like they should be, just tasted like nothing. nothing bad but the only real good part was eating something i found myself

>>835337
>>835390
Why does no one put Chanterelles on pizza? They are so good.

>>842824
Some species of Ramaria.

>>842956
I do. I use marinated ones. My pizza place has salted variety as an extra topping, it's pretty good.

I live by the border of WA and OR, one of my friends is planning to take our group up into the mountains in September to go mushroom hunting. Besides that, we've only gone on one for-funsies expedition with him. Any tips? Last time there was a problem with me being way behind everyone, and I don't know if I was being rightfully careful in my search or if they were rightfully walking until the mushrooms were more obviously widespread. Also, is it necessary to cut them with a pocket knife, or just more convenient? Also, how does one deal with authorities in the possible scenario of getting caught when your mushroom hunting friend walks you through private forests without telling you (half-joking)
>>842358
You can buy kits online to cultivate all sorts of edible mushrooms at home, including chanterelle, but you may or may not have to get some other equipment as well. A quick google search says you can also get them dried, if you don't mind that. If neither of those suit your fancy, you might just have to wander around your local stores and gently, politely harass the employees for any info they may or may not have.

>>837002
Get a sample!

>>842824
>>842986
maybe clavaria aurea, im not sure tips looks like dried

>>842860
Of course, fingernails should be kept short.
Use a twig to dig around mushes!

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How do you make 100% sure you have identified a mushroom?
Take Psilocybe cyanescens for example.
I think I found them, but I just can't be sure. I look it up and people warn others that there are a lot of lookalikes that are deadly.
I look that up and the only ''lookalike'' that looks even remotely similar is Galerina. Other ''lookalikes'' have completely different shapes and colors. Yet I still can't make sure I found the right stuff, there's just not enough information online.
Maybe if I had a microscope I could make sure by looking at the spores, but other than that I am going completely blind here. Eating any of these is taking a gamble.

>>844241
Here's my ~99% procedure.
1. look at what it's growing on
2. look at the colour, young/mature if possible
3. look at the physiology, shapes of cap, gills, is there a veil etc.
4. pick one up and see if it bruises blue (for psilocybes). they also have a very distinct smell and taste which is never forgot

If you really want to go to 100%
1. take a piece of white paper and use a sharpie or something to paint half of it black (easier to see spores that are very light coloured)
2. lay a cap on it and leave it for half a day or so
3. look at the colour of the sporeprint
4. scrub some of the spores on a glass sheet with a drop of water and microscope it to see the shape

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I found these beauties.
Anyone eaten them before or made tea out of them?

I don't have an oven, so I simply left it out in the sun. Might make a tea out of them tomorrow.

>>846496
Fly Agaric? The muscaria could kill you, admittedly it was used in some shamanic rituals but you'll just end up hurting yourself. Chop it up, put it in some milk, let flys drown in it. Dont let the dog drink it.

>>846732
Dehydrate it completely. Breaks down the poison. Still might make you puke depending on how much you eat. I didn't find them to be very tasty.

>>846732
All the cases of adults dying from Amanita Muscaria are unconfirmed. I don't think it's even possible, even at extremely high doses.
I've spoken to people who do these and some of them suggest eating them raw.

I won't be doing that though. I will heat it up in almost boiling water for 30 min. That should get rid of the ibotenic acid.
Putting it in milk doesn't make sense to me, because that does nothing about the ibotenic acid, which is what makes you nauseous.

>>846496
Drank the shroom tea 2 or 3 hours ago.
This is absolutely terrible. It kicked in after 1 hour, I started sweating cold sweat, felt like I had smoked some shit weed and then I vomited.
Now all the bad symptoms seems to have gone away and I feel mildly euphoric.

I understand now why shamans used to use this stuff. It's like it makes you feel like shit, you vomit and then you feel a bit better than you felt before taking it.
They believed that you are cleansing yourself from bad spirits.

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What kind of mushroom is this? Took some quick pics before leaving it back on the ground.

>>839254
Yo dude. I'm in Richmond county. Moved down here not too long ago. Mushrooming alright down here?

>>839906
I care about them. Nothing like a shroom trip. Something about it is more earthy than LSD. It's more expensive, inconvenient, etc, but worth it imo.

>>846750
Aye, food dehydrator = drunk magic

>>847314
There's a fucking heat streak going on right now :')))

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>>847287

>>837698
>the whole culture of hunter/gatherer

This for me as well. I feel like I'm walking in shoes of my ancestors. Eating them is also a bonus.

>>841493
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrolepiota_procera

Looks like this to me. Alfie finds these in his ep 12 of camp aesthetics.

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>>832585

It is the season, and the best one i have ever seen. Here in the southern US it has been absurdly wet. My only complaint is that it rained enough to splash up dirt on them last week.

Gathered these yesterday afternoon after catching a mess of 3 pound largemouths.

>>832402
>tfw south american
>Tfw there isn't much info on eadible mushrooms
>tfw no research in the area
Fugg

Anyone find subs?

>>848495
https://www.shroomery.org/12258/South-America

>>848503
I just wanted to eat not get high ;_;. And what bonker my clonkers is that probably there are some delicious unknown things here.

>>848495
Then become the researcher, go out, get shrooms, eat them, and if you don't die report back on which ones tasted good. You'd be making history anon.

I've been thinking about getting into psychedelics for my divination and spiritual work recently, and I have no idea where to start. How easy and how fast do shrooms grow, and where is some good info on this kind of thing?

Sorry if it's already beenot discussed up above, I haven't read the thread because I'm on mobIle.

>>848687
Shroomery.org
420chan.org
Erowid.org

>>848687
>>849099

None of these have a small amount of information. Go lurk, study, and learn.
Don't just talk about it, be about it.

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>>844241
>How do you make 100% sure you have identified a mushroom?
>Maybe if I had a microscope I could make sure by looking at the spores, but other than that I am going completely blind here.
As this >>844396 guy explains psilocybe cyanescens and related wood loving psliocybe have a distinctive smell like leaves or wood, like the substrate they usually grow on but stronger.

I was very anxious my first few times picking but after a while the differences between psilocybe woodlovers like cyanescens or subaeruginosa and galerina are distinctive.

The psilocybe stem should be fairly strong and woody with some bendy give, whereas galerina stems tend to be frailer and break when you attempt to bend them.

Color can vary due to phenotype variations and growing conditions so it isn't a sure sign of species but taking a spore print will determine whether it is a Galerina or not.

The Galerina has a rusty brown spore print like pic related- a psilocybe cyanescens or subaeruginosa will produce a dark chocolate brown with a purplish oil slick tinge.

Psilocybes will also produce blue bruising when the stipe or cap is pinched. Pinch the mushroom and instantly or after a few minutes they will produce distinctive blue bruising (on the cap it may appear aqua).

So if you do the pinch test and a spore print you should be fairly certain whether the subject is of the psilocybe genus and if cyanescens is the most common species and it was found in an environment with a lot of wood/leaf litter it is likely that sp.

To further bullet proof your identification upload images on sites such as mushroomobserver dot org, or shroomery dot org's hunting and ID forum.

If you are really enthusiastic you can microscopically examine the spores but mistaking cyanescens for a taxonomically near identical wood loving psilocybe sp. such as subaeruginosa (An Aussie native which has naturalized in some parts of the US),doesn't matter.

>>848687
lsd gonna give you more bang for your buck if that's what you're after

>>849099
>>849100
Thanks, I'll check those out.

>>849248
Looking for something a bit more natural that I can grow myself. Since peyote takes ages I figure shrooms are a good timeless choice.

>>849248
Man i love acid.

>>839254
I have suspicions that eating this will kill you quite effectively

>>849629
Meh grow some San Pedro cati, they grow one foot a year so you can get alot if you grow 5 or 10 cati.

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Can anyone id this mushroom?

>>833785
They're called bird's nest fungi and they are very common. They grow on wood in my garden as well, but mine have silver "eggs" and are dark brown on the outside.

>>834255
>Do they just not grow here?
It would be helpful to know where on this planet "here" is.

It has more to do with the ecosystem as a whole, what other types of plants are present, climate, and soil type (substrate).

>>835634
Definitely insulation, nothing for it to grow off of there.

>>836872
>>836870
Kind of reminds me of oyster mushroom.

>>833817
What the actual fuck? New to this whole mushroom thing.
How does something like that even grow? Why? I have this overwhelming desire to kill it with fire

>>838151
looks like a bicolor bolete (Baorangia bicolor). Good for eating I've heard.
Find a mushroom guide for your region. Audobon society has one, there are also various introductory guides to commonly found mushrooms. Soon you'll be able to identify the different types like mycorrhizal and polypore fungi. You'll find a lot that can't be easily identified, I'll warn you right now.

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>>852625
I think your right, went back a couple of days ago and it seems someone has picked them, got a couple more pictures of other mushrooms in the area.

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>>852633
i guess this is a birch polypore

>>852627
Rain lands in the cup, rolls and catapults the spores into the air. Really quite ingenious, especially because it must rain once for the mushrooms to even form, they must be sure it's going to rain at least twice.

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>>852634
sorry about the picture quality of this one, it was on the other side of partial swampland

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>>852637
lastly there was this little fella.


going to try find a book on mushrooms in my area, after noticing them more i find them pretty cool, and you never know when it might save your life to know this.

how do i become a professional mushroom seller

Been picking a whole lot of mushroom's this fall. It's so relaxing and most of all rewarding when you fry those mushrooms in butter and put that shit on bread.

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I saw this colossal fucker a couple of days ago. easily the biggest mushroom I've ever encountered.

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>>853045
Another angle. I'm sure it's poisonous, but damn. It was like a personal pizza on a stalk.

>>853045
>>853047

God damn, that thing looks prehistoric

>>832402
What the hell kind of mushroom is this?

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what kind of mushroom do I have here?

>>852223
excellent find, anon

>>832402
bump

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found this
it had steam/smoke coming from it, but i couldn't capture it well in photo
what is it?

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Woo, found this gigantic shroom, couldn't take more pics, found it near Chiapas in Mexico, anyone knows what it is?

>>853583

Looks a bit like Ganoderma.

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I found these at my job. Anyone know what they are?

>>848495
>>848503
>>848659
I went on trail with a mycologist last week. If there weren't many edible shrooms here or we simply didn't knew. The answer is that mycophagia is a traditional people things. In europe people ate shrooms for millennia and the same in weebstan. Here for some stroke of luck the indians never got any real interest with the exceptions of a few tribes using psilocybin in rituals. (and they are very few too.)

>>853976
> If there weren't many edible shrooms here or we simply didn't knew.
Asked her if-*

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>>853583
>>853595
seconded on the ganoderma ID-- could even be a reishi

Jumaring jay? You in here?

>>833782
be careful of the orange variety that has bright ends

>>835037
small bit of trivia, if you drink alcohol within 3 days of eating ink shrooms you get poisoning

>>841493
thats a lepiota version ,looks like the white lepiota.

you can distinguish amanitas from lepiotas by looking at their skirts. amanitas have a nice skirt going all the way from under the cap , lepiotas have a vertical ring thats can easily seperate

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anyway, over here we hunt parasols (macrolepiota) and fry the caps like steaks. 1000x time better than any chicken you ever had

>>853210
Read the thread / lurk more / >>837227

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Is it possible to identify this shroom? Found it growing in a few pots with seedlings. Popped up in a day, but I've been keeping the soil damp for a while. Any likelihood that this might hurt my plants?

Match head for scale. Shroom sustained slight damage when I touched it. Growing substrate is ACE potting soil if that tells you anything.

>>855192
Oh and my location is mid California USA. Sorry for forgetting to include that.

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>>855192
Without better pictures (a tall order for a mushroom that size) it's difficult to say.

I hazard a guess that it's Mycena or Mirasmius.

Most people I know don't spend a lot of time IDing little brown mushrooms

It's still super dry where I am, but there's early chanterelles and other things coming up along the coast thanks to the moisture coming off the ocean.

Going out this afternoon, will report back with findings

>>855205
Ah I see, thanks for trying your hand at identification anyways. I appreciate it. I guess I'll just leave it alone and see what happens.

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Not bad, although I am unaware of what it actually is.

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>>855454
Also found this little guy nearby

>>855454
>>855458
both look like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactarius_deliciosus to me

pick them and squeeze the gills underneath, if an orange liquid comes out its a Lactarius. touch the droplet with your tongue to check if its spicy/hot

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Can someone tell me what this is?

>>855519
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramaria
Probably

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>>855208
Reporting in.
Good picking today-- oysters, hedgehogs, and a bunch of Chamterelles.

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>>855208
>>855686

Cleaned, breaded, baked. Eaten with chanterelle gravy and mashed potatoes. The oysters were especially good.

>>855688
>>855686

Definitely had a bunch left over too.

bump!

interesting tread

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>>855688
God damn that looks good.

>>853570
I'm no expert on mushrooms, but the steam/smoke was likely spores.

Has anyone found any liberty caps this year? I am starting to think they might just not grow at all because it's too dry.

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SOON

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So I'm new to mushroom hunting and I found these guys in the woods. If anyone knows what they are let me know, location is Northern Kentucky:

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>>857238

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>>857239

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>>857246

>>834037
That looks like a chanterelle, but I can't be sure from one pic of the gills

>>834216
There are white chanterelles, and black ones too, but I know of no brown ones

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Where are you from and what is your chanterelle season like? Favorite mushroom? Favorite recipes?

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I think this is P. Cubensis. Can someone confirm or deny? Central texas. Spore print is a really dark purple.

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>>857848

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>>857851
And the stem

>>857848

Eat em and trip balls

>>857863
I just wanna make sure I'm not gonna eat em and die lol

>>857883
physically at least

>>857907
My soul is already dead so I guess I'm g2g¿

>>857911
Oh, great! Maybe the mushrooms will bring you back to life. Now with superpowers like [spoiler]emotional intelligence[/spoiler]!

>>857848
can't say with 100% certainty that it's P. cubensis, but you're in the right area and that blue staining is a dead giveaway that you've got a Psilocybe there.

Nice find! What sort of environment did you find it in?

anyone got black/death trumpets growing in their area? i hear grounding them up makes the greatest flavouring spice for food ever

>>833782
Those are pretty common here in elk country. Are they good to eat?

>>852633
Those look like lycoerdon gemmatum, though past edibility. I like puffballs in pasta sauce, as they're soft, like marshmallows.

When you press on them, do they emit puffs like smoke?

>>858082
Lycoperdon*

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So I found two of these a day after mowing my yard. Can anyone tell me what kind they are?

>>858075
not really , but there are only like 3 kinds of this shroom so its easy to pick

>>858093
looks like a lepiota of some kind, take a picture of the underside so we can see the skirt shape

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>>858121

>>858041
A cow pasture growing right on/near cow patties

>>858124
well the skirt shape confirms its a lepiota/macrolepiota but confirming the species would take some research.

in yurop where i live the parasol mushroom (macrolepiota procera)is considered a good find, but its easily confused for lepiota lilica which is deadly poisonus. i dont know what part of the world youre in and how many lepiota species grow there.
if its a macrolepiota (is the cap wider than your hand?) its almost certainly okay to eat, if not id stay clear. if you remove the cap and it starts reddening at the scar its deadly

>summer in Australia
RIP mushroom hunting season, you barely existed anyway.

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Scottish fag here

Found some mushrooms - is it a wood blewit?

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>>858445
moar

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>>858449

>>858120
There are red/pink ones too, here. Not tasty? Bummer. There's a similar shroom I've heard called Ruffles that looks like a mass of lasagna noodles, and that one is tasty.

Anybody want to go picking in NW OR? Chanterelles, oysters, lobsters, and COTW are starting to come on, and I'd like to go with folks that know other sp. hereabouts so I can learn them. I'd like to learn Russulas, lepiota, hydnum, and particularly, boletus sp.

>>858462
>and particularly, boletus
uh... its all the shrooms that have a spongey underside instead of gills? easiest shit to identify dawg.
just check if poisonous ones grow in your area

>>858462
>hydnum
and hydnum is also piss easy to recognise since its the only shroom with needles on the underside and they always grow unsymmetrical (they look like giiant potato lumps or tumors)

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>>858843
>>858844
lol wrong on both counts. Don't listen to this guy. Never ever believe easy generalizations about IDing mushrooms---there are more exceptions to rules like this than there are species that meet the criteria. Moreover, species composition varies great from place to place and even if these generalization are true for his area (spoiler alert: they're not), they may not be for yours. Don't ever forget that you are considering a hobby that can kill if you fuck up hard enough.

Look for a local club or society. That's your best bet. Most of the time it's older folks who are super laid back and happy to teach. Just don't be surprised if most of them only know edibles well.

>>858921
>wrong on both counts
what exactly was i wrong about?

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>>859038
>boletus
>all the shrooms that have a spongey underside instead of gills?
patently false.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boletaceae
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerocomellus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suillus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laetiporus
>literally any polypore

>the only shroom with needles on the underside
>wrong as shit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hericium
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydnellum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auriscalpium
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcodon

broad generalizations are neither helpful nor safe.

I could go on, but I think you get the idea. If you're picking mushrooms to eat, ignorance is fucking dangerous. Generalizations do you absolutely no good.

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some ganoderma tsugae found in central Illinois

>>858921
Holy shit that is a big chantrelle there.

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Found this on Saturday in central minnesota. Anyone know what it is?

>>861032

Amanita muscaria in limited edition yellow.

Nice find.

>>857238
parchment fungus?

>>857249
>>857246
Maybe turkey tail fungus, idk

>>858180
There's a very good chance that it is then. Magic mushrooms grow on cow patties here too, if they bruise blue I'd say it's a pretty safe bet.

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Oyster in east Texas, delicious.

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Jew's ear, central Texas

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Bicolor bolete, central Texas.

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stinkhorn (Central Texas)

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I don't know what this one is, but it sure is cute (central Texas).

>>832402
I don't normally see these around my area, they just started popping up recently. What can you guys tell me about them. I'm in Southern California.

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>>861899
Forgot pic.

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>>861900
Here's another.

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>>861900
Non sideways.

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Holly schidt this thread is still up!? Anyway, I'm the anon who posted >>837008 some ages ago.

Today I was back tromping around the same area and found many blooms of this crap on a few logs. Is this chicken of the woods or what? Should I stir fry this shit with soy sauce?

>>863071
Yes and yes, as long as it still feels plump and moist.

My favorite two recipes are to grill after marinading in a soy or curry marinade and to cook pieces in broth and eat it like soup.

>>863075
awesome! i might go forage them. how long do they have to cook for? like, int he broth how long should i have them boiling?

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Can someone tell me what mushroom this is? It´s from Germany.

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Found half dozen of these unopened parasols today.... make delicious giant mushroom Neptune's

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>>863071
It's worth noting that you don't eat the whole thing, just the outer edge where it's softer. Eat the hard bit and you'll just shit it out in chunks that are still orange. Also know that some people have a bad reaction to chicken-- of its your first time you may want to start with just a little and see how you feel. Nice find!
I like to marinate it in a teriyaki kinda sauce for 12 hours or mor, then pan fry it. It can be a little tough if you do cook it like you might a chanterelle.

>>863468
thanks for the tips. i think i found it a little bit old (although i'm sure it wasn't there last weekend) because the shelves are really big and starting to look sort of pale. it does seem as though the outer edges are still soft and supple. i might give it a go!

bugggged

>>838151
You can taste any mushroom, just spit it out

>>832402
>are morels white
They are except when they're yellow or black

>>863102
youll need to take a better picture because the sunlight is glaring off the cap.
take a pic of the cap, the underside and if possible cut on in half verticaly and tale a pic of that

>>863102
Probably Hypholoma fasciculare (Grünblättriger Schwefelkopf); always has a neon-yellow/green tinge to it.

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Can anyone Id these? I'm in southwestern BC

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>>864213

>>832832
compton

>>861900
>>861901
>>861902
No nipple

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>>864213
>>864214
This has come up in this thread already, and in basically every other mushroom thread ever: if you want an ID, take good pictures of the cap, spore bearing surface, the stipe, and the whole thing in context. Maybe someone knowledgeable from your area can help you, but the rest of us can't really do much

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What kind of fungus is this
Southern NH

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>>864861
See
>>864353

Moreover, that's not fungus.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotropa_uniflora

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Can anyone ID this? found 3 of them.

Caps have a slightly green tint to them you can't see in the photo.

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found two, NE U.S.

pretty sure #2 is not for eating

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>>865027

>>836885
lol

inexperienced but curious, is there a good guide somewhere on how to find and eat mushrooms that won't kill me?

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>>864937
It's almost certainly in the genus amanita.
I'd hazard a guess that it could be Amanita phalloides, based on the the greenish tint to the cap.
For your information, most amanitas are poisonous to a degree-- and a few will kill you. Like 'skip the doctor, call the priest' kill you. Only the very experienced should pick amanitas to eat.

Where did you pick this? What sort of environment did you pick it in?

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>>865215
the best guides are region specific. On the off chance you're from northern california, I can personally recommend Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast (Schwarz and Siegel) and California Mushrooms: The Comprehensive Identification Guide (Desjardin, Wood, and Stevens).
Probably the most popular pocket guide for north america is 'All That the Rain Promises and More', which is very good but far from complete. For the total novice, I would recommend ATTRPAM or a good, region-specific guide.

Even better than a book is joining a local club or society-- you will learn more from a day in the field with an experienced hunter than a month alone with a book.

Something I usually tell to novice mushroom hunters:

>There are no simple rules to follow. Try to learn both edible and poisonous mushrooms, it could save your life or someone else's.

>>865027
Polyporus badius, maybe?
Not from the north east, can't say for sure.

http://www.mushroomexpert.com/polyporus_badius.html

>>865245
that looks close to what it looked like
it's supposedly not very edible since it's really tough? I've been waiting to try to make some mushroom jerky

I can always go back for more pictures to make sure it's safe to try

>>865242
sounds good, I'll look into local clubs and see what I find. Thanks for the info.

>>865238

North England in some woodland.

So these probably no good/throw them out?

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>>865685
yeah, I wouldn't keep those.

Where in north England? I spent last spring studying abroad in Newcastle was super bummed that there were no mushrooms out :(

>>864861
hoh shit that's a ghost plant. Nice find, I've been wanting to see one myself. If you make a tincture out of it it's supposed to be excellent for pain.

>>865702

West Yorkshire, plenty of mushrooms here.

>it has been raining all day.
>I have the national audubon society mushroom guide.
>I have never attempted to forage for mushrooms.

What I can expect in the north eastern US especially PA?

I plan to go out tomorrow morning and take pictures as well.

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Found these guys in PA

anything interesting or common? they dont exist by me.

hey out, I want to be able to identify mushrooms and what kind of species they are,
but I don't even know the first thing about how to tell them apart and what kind are around my area

I'm from England and would like to hear any tips or books that cold help me identify
mushrooms around my area.

thanks

>>846908
you should dehydrate it in the oven until completely dry

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Is this chicken of the woods?
Maine, near a lake

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>>867260
No spore print. Shitty pictures.

>>867260
i'm thinking definitely not. chiggin' of the woods doesn't have any stems, or caps for that matter. they're just shelves that grow directly on wood a foot or two above the ground. they don't grow out of the ground near wood like it appears if you photato

>>867260
>>867261
definitely not chicken of the woods. more likely its honey mushrooms (see: Armillaria mellea complex)-- also edible-- but it's tough to ID froml from bad pictures of old mushrooms

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>>832402
Mini Mushroom love coming your way.

Found a few on my exploration of a nearby creek. These are from West Michigan.

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>>866275
1-- looks like a russula sp. Probably not edible. There are edible species that look like that (see: Russula xerampelina), but I don't usually waste my time with them.

2-- Woolly Chanterelle (Turbinellus floccosus). Inedible. Will make you sick.

3-- Can't say for sure, but i'd hazard a guess that it could be a false chanterelle like Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca.

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>>867878
I have no idea what anyone of them are. I took pictures of the tops and bottom for someone a bit more knowledgeable to ID them.

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>>867880
Little spires of whiteness. Reminds me of Coral formations.

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>>867884
A blob of something that doesn't really have a striking features. Took a few other pictures of it but they came out too blurry.

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>>867885
Pretty big formation of Lichen. Was surprised to see how much has grown.

>>867886
Blurry pic, but I think it's got enough physical features to be distinct and able to be ID'd

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>>867888
>mfw forgot the picture.

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>>867889
More lichen I believe, Looks like it took some bullets.

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>>867890
And lastly whatever the fuck this thing is. This picture is of it's top so I'm interested in why it has a hole in it.

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Anyone know what are some good shrooms that grow in the South Georgia region this time of year?

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Hi can someone please identify this?
I live in Ontario, it had just rained and I found this on a dead tree. There were small oysters near by. It smells really earthy and weird. The top crumbles but the inside is hard.

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>>868027
Bottom and inside

>>868030
Wait just realised these might not be oysters.
This was found on a dead tree

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>>868033
Pic

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>>868034
Also another one, this is a different coloured bottom and top

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>>868027
Just washed it looks like this, I'm thinking Sarcodon scabrosus, look alike of the scaly hedgehog

>>868027
looks like a pheasant back

does it smell like melon rind?