foraging general

It's winter in the USA bro. Wait a month.

>>19990
Hericium mushrooms grow from fall to spring in the south, my friend!

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>>19989

Foraging is pretty much outta season here in NorCal. I suppose if you're knowledgable and look hard enough you can find something at any time of year, but this is kind of a lean season for foraging.

>What's growing in your neck of the woods?

Fiddleheads just finished, bigleaf maples are done flowering, black trumpets are winding down, and morels aren't quite popping yet. Soon though. Can't wait for spring.

Any recommendations for plants to forage in NorCal / PNW? I know mushrooms really well, but somehow managed to never learn plants :/

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>>19991
What kind of trees do you find hericium on in the south?

>>19989

Houston here. Wild blackberries are coming in good. We had a mild winter and I think they're a little early. Picking can probably start next weekend. I raise some Rosborough and they *just* started blooming so your strains may vary.

The Mustang grapes are coming along nicely with the vines starting to bud out like mad. I think some non-producers from last year are going to be full of grapes this year.

Last Fall's Texas wild persimmon was lower than usual (at least in the groves I know). The Mexican plumb was nice, however, and I collected several quarts of juice that I still have frozen. I will probably go on a jelly making binge within the next few weeks. I got lazy on the elderberries but they were plentiful. Also, my secret hickory grove didn't produce as much as I would have liked (round, sweet type) but I still have some.

How does one get into foraging? I live in the Ozark Plateau, and about the only thing I can tell that is growing is wild onions, and lots of them

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>>19993
I gotta be honest, I'm really bad at trees so I have no idea. There's a log in the yard with most of the bark sloughed off that grows them every year, and you can find them in hollows in trees.

I live in Florida, not much to forage in my neck of the woods

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>>19999
>>19996
Do you just have these on tap? Do you have one for the south?

>>19999

Awesome book. Totally recommend.

>>19998

Where? Florida is a bit inhospitable, but it's still lush with all sorts of shit. Fungus and berries, mostly.

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Went out today and found some chicken of the woods.

>>19996
like this book, any similar for WI and MN in particular you'd recommend? for Fungi as well?

>>19996
I'm the guy from the Ozarks
How about fungi? I know morels grow like crazy here, but I'd like to know about more of the edible mushrooms out here too

>>20001
I'm on the outskirts of the Everglades, around the collier/Lee county are

>>20002
1) that's old as fuck
2) don't eat chicken of the woods unless it's growing on a deciduous tree

>>19994
Where in the literal fuck are you foraging in Houston? You must be out near Montgomery or something. Still lots of woods there.

>>20007
Also I've literally never seen a black berry anywhere here. You must mean raspberry.

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the best edible mushrooms are fairly universal with only a few east/west variants.

>>20006
>that's old as fuck
I know. I posted this
>>19990

>>20010
>>20012
nice, thank you!

>>20012
>>20011
That Michael Kuo really knows his shit. Mushroomexpert.com is probably one of the best resources out there, and at the very least is entertaining to read.

Speaking along those lines, does anybody know what happened to Rogersmushrooms?

All I can think of right now in northern wisconsin is getting my fill of maple sap now that it's too warm to harvest chaga.

>>20016
Is harvesting maple sap possible in the south?

>>20017
I'm guessing you could as long as the temps get below freezing at night, and rise above during the day. Maybe during the winter moreso for you guys, not sure how rapid the temps change down there.

>>19992

where you at in the pnw?

yeah morel season is starting soon. velosa and vernicoccora are out. still some stray candy caps here and there. caint wait for rex-veris and butters

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I live in New England any more books I should get, I have ancestral plants volume 1 on ebook some day I would like to get Native American enthobotany by Daniel e morman , it would be so cool if he included pictures with his book aswell

>>20010
Got any for maine?

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I don't pick them, they're too cool for that. I prefer to take a pic and not disturb them

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If anyone has IDs on any of these (mid michigan) or ideas please let me know

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>>20029
Heres some rhizoids I cultivated

>>20026
Most likely hen of the woods. Not very edible. Basically you're chewing soft wood.

>>20028
King bolete most likely. Most boletes are edible. If they have a white bottom and don't bruise blue they're good. Taste very Woody..

>>20026
Trametes versicolor

>>20024
Exidia glandulosa

>>20023
>>20029
Dacrymyces palmatus

>>20027
Ramaria fennica

>>20028
Fomitopsis pinicola

>>20030
Nice.