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>>878782
id pls

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>>878794
Agaracus bisporus

>Shroom season

I wish...
It's too cold here. Absolutely SHIT season for mushrooms this year.

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>>878806
Damn, that sucks. NorCal here and it's just kicking off now.

Where are you from?

>>878819
Slovenia.
We're expecting snow at heights over 1000m

It's not exactly cold today, about 10C, but last week we had sub 0 temperatures, no chance of anything growing.

All I've got is an umbrella shaped mushroom growing next to my car, but it hasn't even opened up yet. Hopefully it grows up since I love those.

Last year was too dry, but I still managed to find about 30 of OPs picture along with other misc. shrooms.
This year was just ass. Which all in all doesn't make much sense, since the seasons were more or less as you'd expect them to be.
I guess the terrain is fucked since some larger scale forest cutting happened a few years back. Since then our shroom yields really dropped.

I found amanita muscaria around stevens pass in washinton state. Should i eat it? Dry it and then eat it?

>>878831
I wouldn't eat it unless you are pretty desperate to get fucked up. They are known for giving very uncomfortable trips with bad physical side effects. I love psychedelic shrooms but even I won't take amanitas.

>>878831
I have heard that the trips are varying a lot according to where the mushroom is found, how big it is, how much it has folded out, if it is clustered with others, if it is the biggest in the cluster, how far apart the mushrooms are from eachother and what the climate it has been growing in is like.

Don't eat clusters. they are often very poisonous.

Eat ones that stand by themselves. But don't eat a whole one the first time. Your body needs to adapt to the mushrooms. You will die if you overdose.

People say that some people need to do it many many times before they can feel an effect. but when the effect is reched it should be amazing.

I heard that sometimes, if the "right amount" is taken(a heavy dose), you will actually die in a way. that is one of the chemicals in the shroom that does that. It stops all of your cells somehow, and then another compound kicks in and activates them again. Amanita shamans say that the "dead" state can last from minutes, to days, to weeks, and even years before waking up again.

If you are not ready for the dying experience, then you will certanly die from shock and fear.

They can be addictive

So be warned if you try them.

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>>878831
Probably not. As others have said, it's not a fun trip. My old roommate had tried them and described the trip as being unpleasant, with a heavy body load and a strong urge to perform superhuman feats.

>>878875
>Amanita shamans say that the "dead" state can last from minutes, to days, to weeks, and even years before waking up again.
Wait, it 'feels' like it lasted an indefinite amount of time? Or it leaves you in a comatose like state for an indefinite amount of time?

>>878875
You need better sources my friend

>>878782
That's a nice fucking Steinsop, friend.

>tfw gf is norwegian so I only know Norsk mushrooms

>>878964
btw that is NOT a chantrelle.

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>>879406
Thanks, I'm well aware of that. I ever did I'D it. Gomphidius, maybe? I found it late in the season, NorCal. Any ideas?

>>879484
Looks like Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca and Pleurotus ostreatus in that image.

>>878964
A dull Omphalotus olearius

Going mushrooming with a cute girl tomorrow. Tips? I've never gone so she's going to be taking the lead.

>>879596
>Tips

Learn how to identify properly using as many as to identify as you have equipment for.

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>>879484
>Hygrophoropsis
I was asking about >>878964
I know my falsies. Pic is of C. formosus. >>879596
learn some basic fungal anatomy / terminology. Learn what mushrooms associate with which trees-- good mushroom hunters don't look at the ground. They look at the trees.
Learn what deadly poisonous mushrooms grow in your area and how to ID them.

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is this Panaeolus foenisecii?
Also how do i know how im on good soil to find some psilocybe semilanceata?

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My haul from a couple months ago

>>880900
Those slippery jacks?

>>880900
Wow! Quite the haul-- what kind(s) are those?

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Any good places to find around sydney ?

>>878831
nooo. I know a guy who knows a guy who died!

>>880900
beautiful boletes!

>>881380
I wonder why kids these days think you cant eat amanitas. Muscaria will not kill you.

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had a bunch of pics of what I think were boletes but I deleted them. Some were pretty big.

how to harvest shrooms higher up?

literally just a knife stuck on a stick?

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>>881836
lmao yeah, actually. Just last week I nabbed some oysters from 10 ft up a tree by taping my knife to a stick. Another good reason to keep medical tape in your backback. If you dont have tape or the inclination, just smack it with a stick. You'll probably destroy more delicate stuff, but it works pretty well for hardier spp. like chicken of the woods.

What kinds of equipment / stuff do you guys take hunting?

I usually pack pretty light. backpack with water, bag, knife, old toothbrush (to get the dirt off before they go in the bag), lighter, medical tape.

>>881979
those look taaaaasty

I had bungee cords but I didn't know if that would hold...I might go back tomorrow with some rope and give it a shot

I think any of the ones closer that were to the ground got killed by frost

>>881979
oh, and I learned the hard way to always take a bag with a seal or use a rigid container

I picked some earlier this year and did not realized till I got home that they were riddled with worms....they left the plastic bag and covered everything in my backpack

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id pls

Do I need a mushroom knife? I'm looking at the opinel

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>>882075
Definitely not necessary. The only real advantage of the opinel in that the blade is really thin. As I see it, the upkeep needed to maintain their knives just isn't worth it for something like mushroom hunting where it's constantly getting wet.
Moreover, their blades are too thin and small to be useful for anything else. You're better off with a $20 Kershaw beater knife for mushroom hunting. Something that can take a little abuse.

Source: bought an Opinel (not the mushroom tool) for mushroom hunting. Was dissapointed.

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oyster mushrooms?

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>>882075
just take a Maserin

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I want to try all these different mushrooms but if I'm honest I've no idea how to identify anything but shaggy manes, and that just because you goys helped me ID them in another thread

How do I get good at finding mushrooms

Pic related, my local green grocer is too expensive for me

>>882029

Pizza Hut.

Trim your fingernails.

>>882371
lrn2taxonomy

Australian reporting in
Where do I get started in terms of fungus?
What should I read? Has anyone made a really good book on identification that you guys would recommend?
I'm starting with next to no knowledge right now

>>882247
bump

>>882408
Teach me oh wise guru

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4lbs

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No spore print.
maine
Sebago lake area.

Identify ?

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>>883282

Morels are the only fungus worth hunting

>>883290
Lol no...

>>882371
In pinewoods (were I live) Lactarius deliciosus is the most easy, and they are very common this season. What you guys call Niscalos, orange or wine red all over. Discard the white/yellow ones under the head. Delicious, the one than grow in my zone taste like meat, very good with a little olive oil, minced garlic and fried/griddled.
Hygrophorus latitabundus is another typical one, they have a mucus in grey/brown cap than is more dark in center, woody stalk, tend to gather in spots. We call them llanegas. Check them in the web, and try to go with some one than knows a little the first trips bro, on hands experience is the best way to gather than kind of knowladge.

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>>882798
nice sparassis! West coast?

>>883429
Yes. The Olympic Peninsula

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I've got a thuja growing in a pot on my balcony, and just now discovered these things growing around it. Any idea what kind of a fungus it is? Is it bad for the plant?

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Don't eat me

Going hunting today jn Mendocino county,CA. Hoping to find coccora, white chanterelles, maybe C. cacadensis, and hiricium. Wish me luck!

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Eating two muscaria today, you guys that told me not to are pussies. Will report back.

>>882327
>Maserin
no.

get an opinel

>>883897
Shrooms are not often a good sign for plants but they could just be there for the soil, potentially.

>>884505
Didn't find shit. Only found decomposers-- bunch of oysters, couple lions mane, and a chicken of the woods. Only mycorrhizal species I saw were suillus. A little dissapointed, but whatever. Saw a bunch of salamanders lounging on an oyster log.

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I have always liked mushrooms, but I'm not sure if there's any around me (live in a desertic area)
do you guys have some kind of resources or tool to know where to find mushrooms?
pic related, some mushrooms I found some months ago

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Bolete season has arrived in northern california. Shit is popping off in a big way. Haven't had a good flush of chanterelles for a month or so, but boletes are in full swing. Found B. edulis, B. fibrilosus, and Boletellus mirabilis today.

Also cyans are starting :)

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>>884539
RIP Anon-kun

>>888773
Shit i forgot, i did them. Would recommend. Smoking them with weed is a lot of fun, too. The trip is very unique, very lucid and clear but i found it hard to recognize things.. Like everything was actually the light and an acute sense of being here in the universe like melding into the background of things.. Becoming one with a fridge because it is the ultimate truth of life, stuff like that. Smoking them with weed brings on a very powerful body high similar to the dmt body high. Very warm, and it makes you salivate so it counters the cotton mouth. Nice. Lasted about 4, 5 hours eating. About 2 hours after smoking the last traces of the mushroom high were gone.

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>>888977
nice report and nice dubs too but I'm not going to try it. I'm enough satisfied with my yesterday hunt

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No mushroom season to speak of this Fall in Germany, at least in my region.

Only one of my outings yielded any success, and then only marginal success. Pic related. Cooked up a stew of wild boar, mushrooms and chestnuts I picked up while looking for the mushrooms.

I reall love mushroom season. At first it was warm, but way too dry. Then came the rain, but it is too cold now. And winter has com knocking, so I guess thats it for this year *sigh*...

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I only pick up boletus. I wonder what this one is - did not look edible, but I have never seen this one before, and I am going for shrooms since I was a kid.

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These I have seen often, but like I said - I only ever picked of boletes species and am kind of anxious about collecting anything else.

Duno what they are.

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>>891146
Oooh! That looks like a young hericium! Edible and choice. Go back to that tree next year. if it is, you're in for a treat

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Id?

>>891815

Why is it so hard for you retards to take a focused picture?

Set it on the table like the mushroom that's actually in focus and it'd be a lot easier.

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>>891817
Lmao

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they are oysters?

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Found this today. Bottom side. 1/3

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>>891987
2/3

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>>891987
>>891988
3/3

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Another needing ID.

1/2

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>>891992
2/2

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I'm lucky to live next to the forest and this year has been very good for honey fungus, picked loads of it and they're still growing.
Pic not mine, but these fuckers grow everywhere.

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>>892184
Some more mushrooms I found. These ones are edible but they're bitter and don't have much culinary value.

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>>892185
Same mushroom, undercap.
Scientific name is Psathyrella piluliformis.

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>>892186
More mushrooms, these ones are inedible.
Hypholoma fasciculare.

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>>892187
Horn of plenty.
Easily one of my favorite mushroom, impossible to mistake for anything inedible.

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>>892189
Ramaria Flavia, also edible.
Will post more if anyone is interested and maybe help identify edible mushrooms in Europe.

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What kind of mushroom do you guys think this is?

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>>892200
Here's another picture. Same fungus.

>>891924
Looks like oysters, but they're not worth saving at that age.I don't eat them unless they're young; they tend to get an unpleasant, fishy taste after they've been out for a while

>>892200
>>892202
Looks like some type of honey fungus, not sure if edible though.

>>891987
Looks like the genus mirasmiellus. White spores, white flesh, small, grows on wood, widely spaced, decurrent to subdecurrent gills. Inedible, or too small to be worth collecting. Extremely common most places

>>892187
I questIon that those are H. fasiculare. I can see why you might have keyed it out as such, but I kinda doubt it

>>892189
Nice! They're a bitch to clean, though...

>>892219
Spore print and greenish undercap confirmed it though. Even if they weren't, they don't look like the typical honey fungus so I would have given them a miss.

>>892220
Cheers. Normally they don't need much cleaning, either that or I've been lucky with clean ones so far.

>>892211
hmm, the smaller ones I sliced into before looked like there was practically no "meat" to them, it was nearly all gills

some were a bit more dried out than others, I did toss those....they looked very fresh just a few days ago

I sliced them up and they're drying right now, not sure if I wanted to grind any or not....I guess I'll see if they taste okay....who knows, with the weather being so crazy they might just start growing some more

>>878831
You need to dry them before you eat them.

I've eaten them a few times and didn't experience anything other than a bit of fogginess.

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Yesterday's hunt

lepista nuda
hydnum repandum
craterellus cornucopioides
cantharellus cibarius - tubeaformis - lutescens

>>892978
>dat horn of plenty hoard
I am going to die

>>882029
agaricus bisporus

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so tasty...

>>882524
There's exactly one good Australian mushroom identification book: A field guide to Australian Fungi by Bruce Fuhrer. Fungimap is also a good online resource. An excellent online resource, even.

>>882524
Where do you live?

Shroomery.org is where you should start.

I used to live in Adelaide and they have golden caps there, problem is that there are poisonous ones that look exactly the same.

I live in Melbourne now but I honestly can't be fucked looking for shrooms here because I know that the good spots probably get absolutely fucking smashed.

>>878826
>not getting 1 kilometer high of snow every year
why even live senpai

>>886218
The fuck is this one? There's a bunch of these fungi innawoods near my place.

Can someone id all these ugly ass mushrooms.
I'm willing to pay in these extremely rare pepes for information.

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>>893704
Aaaand I forgot the image.

Are magic mushrooms common in south florida?

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>>892978
nice!! I have serious mushroom envy

>>893683
Hericium erinaceus

choice edible-- one of my favorites

>>878831
You need to either boil it for 10 ish minutes and drink the tea and eat it. Or cook it over a fire and let it get good and cooked.

You need to convert the ibotonic acid into muscimol. Ibotonic acid is a neurotoxin which semi converts to muscimol in the digestive tract. But high doses of ibotonic acid can fuck your trip up. Heat helps destroy and convert most of it.

>>878831
Hey guys. I bought some dried muscaria a few months ago and was not able to eat them because they are fucking disgusting. I don't want to put them to waste so what is the best way to eat them or consume them?
I have a bunch of them.

(Muscaria absorbs moisture so even if they are dried they dont even look like it)

>>895433
Nigger u wot?
>>884539
They dry out completely.

Dont eat them moist. If youve had them laying around for a while moist they are most likely fucked, also they do not taste bad which is a further sign there is some shit growing on them that shouldnt be. If you want to dry them an easy way is to wrap each one individually in a paper towel and place them on your cars windshield defrost vents with the heat on them. Youll have to let it run a while but this is probably the simplest way besides baking them. Baked they taste like french fries. Drying them converts the ibotenic acid (which will cause the nausea and shitty feelings) into mucimol which is the chemical that makes you trip.

These mushrooms do not wick moisture into them. Im not sure where you heard that but considering ive picked, dried, and eaten 5 of them just this season i can tell you that is not the case.

>>878782
any info about florida? i frequent the parks a lot. should i hop a fence into a cattle range and look?

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>>878782
please, can anyone try to identifiy these for me?

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>>897626
second image. all i have right now
found near the water at a florida park. near a lot of mud.

I recommend blending them in coffee grinder and capsulizing them, but only once they are completely dry.

>>892978
where are you located? pnw?

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mmmmm.... .... Chanterelles!!!

>>897775
Holy shit that looks good

>>897782

Plenty of butter on a hot pan
add shrooms
let it fry
when nearly done add finely chopped parsley (save a little for topping)
Salt and freshly ground pepper

put on toasted bread
grate parmeggiano on top with the rest of parsley

You could add a little full cream or som grated lemonpeel

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Y'all fungus lovers disgust me.

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Posting stuff from Northern California. Any help IDing would be appreciated.

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>>897951

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>>897951

>tfw all i can find is lobster mushrooms and can't find any fucking chanterelles.
Might be past season now here in oregon.

>>878794
Large Flat Mushrooms.
Duh.

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>>881995
Hold my beer and watch this
>Bungee knife to stick
>Trytocutsomethingwayupinatree.exe
>Bungee stretches
>Knife falls from on high
Should have brought the tape!

>>878826
>Getting a km of snow.
>Comparing instead of going full send.

>>897951
Woo nor cal. 707 SR and Arcata here.
Big orange ones are western jack o lantern. Omphalotus olivascens.

The rest if your pictures are too bad to make meaningful IDs from. FFR: pictures from the top, bottom, side, and in context will get you an ID-- anything else is a crapshoot.

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Butter bolete??

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Rough skin newt with cocorra. Nor Cal

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Unidentified bolete. Sonoma County ca. In Manzanita Chaparral with cypress

>>900530
omg yes

>go innawoods camping with a few friends
>I like to survival camp as much as I can so I supplement the fish I catch and the food I forage with MREs as needed
>find a big bunch of chicken-of-the-woods growing on the side of some vertical trees
>clean it up and plan on grilling it for dinner
>friends are all like omg anon you shouldn't eat mushrooms the difference between food and instant death is a few shades of color
>try to explain to them why chicken of the woods is one of the easiest identifiable edible mushrooms in North America
>they treat me like I'm an idiot
>eat the mushroom anyways
>this was over a year ago and I was fine and I'm still fine
>they still think I'm stupid for eating wild mushrooms

The anti-shroom propaganda is real

>>901512
White bread fear is a powerful thing anon, most people are still such cucks they believe you eat spiders at night and daddy longlegs are poisonous.

>>878831
holy shit bro, stevens pass? I'm a hop, skip, and a jump away.

>>901562
Trichaptum biforme

>>901559
Fomitopsis pinicola

>>901555
Some Pholiota sp.

White birch, American beech showing signs of beech bark disease, red oak, sugar maple, white pine... basically my forest type too. NE America or SE Canada.

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>>899178
Update: Found a few chantrelles and late season still firm lobsters today, and so.how managed to find and dig up two white oregon truffles.

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>>903018
Nice!! How'd you find the truffles?

>>903124
Just extreme dumb luck. Found a spot that looked like something was digging, ran a rake through it. There must have been a few there as you could smell a garlic like scent in the air as soon as the soil was filled, spent like ten minutes raking and was about to give up when I found a small ball bearing sized one and then a fairly decent sized one half the size of my thumb.

Small one seems fairly weak but the large one has an amazing scent to it.

>>903018
That's such a sad looking mushroom forage.
Congrats anyway for finding some chanterelles and lobsters too.

>>903438
Yeah I wasn't very successful, but I was happy to find anything really. It's been extremely wet here lately and there hasn't been much dry days, I had to pass alot of lobster and chantrelles that were just mush. My area is absolutely littered with pscilos but I'm not very into tripping. I'm a novice picker so even these small finds are a learning experience for identification and knowing signs of where to look.

I want to go mushroom hunting around dallas, I was thinking about going to Cedar Hill park. I'm close to it and I imagine I can have a good time there. Any dallas area people with tips?

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>this thread
I didn't know americans picked shrooms. I heard almost nobody does it in foreign countries and that there are giant edible mushrooms growing everywhere and nobody picks them. I am from Czechia and it's a "national hobby" around here and none of our country's neighbors do it. There are mushroom pickibg areas full of people and unless you wake up veey early or know the secret places the forests are actually empty as many people picked all of them before. But it's the comfiest free time activity ever and I live in the middle of nowhere and not many people do mushroom picking in my forest.
I just like the philosophy of it that the more slow you are the nore succesful you are at it. You have to relax and take your time.
But I don't actually enjoy eating fungi in majority of it's form of food. I like some but usually pick everything my family eats and they are grateful to eat it or just trade it to my neighbors for some fruits or wine

>>886218 isnt that lions mane?

>>903994
yeah

>>878782
Fungus (12x)
Badger badger
Fugus (12x)
Snek
Fungus (12x)
etc.

>>903989
In Germany it's not very popular because of chernobyl (radiation).
Still, when I was little I went mushroom picking with my parents a few times.

>>904245
Well we in Czech rep are even closer to Chernobyl than you. I study Experimental biology and they told us in ecotoxicology that you would have to eat about a kilogram per day for many years to build up some harmful amount of radioactivity inside you body.

Okay bit of a long story here

I ordered Chicken of the Woods online from ebay, and im really starting to regret my purchase.
The mushroom looks NOTHING like the picture, smells rotten, and was covered in maggots when it arrived. Is this seller trying to rip me off???
Here are pics.

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>>904530
The smell is really bad, and its like brownish color. Not the bright orange and yellow its known for.

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>>904531
one of the maggots

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>>904532

>>904530
No, buying unknown rotten mushrooms covered in maggots is normal. You definitely didn't get ripped off and shouldn't regret your purchase.

>>904568
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
What a horrible idea never doing this again

>>904575
Mushrooms are typically highly perishable, so I would be suspect about ordering them online. Also, depending on the source, you may not have reason to have faith in their ID skills.

Maggots, bad smell, contaminating moulds, wet rot (bacteria), etc. are not good signs in mushrooms.

You should look for a mushroom club in your area. It'll be a good way to learn, find spots to collect, and socialize with like-minded (usually weird but friendly) people.

Fuck Australia. We have goddamn no mushrooms for all of autumn and winter, and now we're getting 45 degree days all week.

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Found these little guys around. Downside.

Mind you, southern hemisphere, west.
Humid pampas, to be more precise.

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>>904850
Upside

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>>904855
The tree I took then from. An evergreen. Dunno which tho.
Not native, of course. There are barely any trees at the pampas, much less evergreens.

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>Buy mushroom book
>Half of the descriptions don't even mention if they're poisonous or not

What's a mushroom guide that doesn't suck? Should I just lurk more?

>>905001
>Half of the descriptions don't even mention if they're poisonous or not
I feel sorry for you americans. i guess really nobody eats mushrooms there. I live in a "mushroom picking nation" and the Atlases are really thorough and majority of people learn which mushrooms are good, edible but taste horribly and which are poisonous or lethal.

>>905001
George Barron's guide is awesome. There is more to a mushroom guide and mushrooms in general than edibility. I have led forays and the people that only care about if something is edible or not can be a little annoying. Forgivable in new folk just getting interested of course. Funny when you show something 0.5 mm in diameter to someone and they ask if it is edible...

I'd have to check my copy (don't feel like going upstairs now), but I'm fairly certain he mentions edibility of some species. Obviously polypores, sac fungi, etc. aren't going to be discussed in terms of edibility.

Mushroom Demystified by David Arora is good.

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Saw this guy on hike in Wa. What is he?

>>905180
Just based on macroscopic characters in this pic I'd say Helvella lacunosa.