Sunday, October 2, 2011

Mycological exploration

With the weather being so wet and fairly warm, there is a plethora of mycological activity happening in the woods! It's like a mushroom party and I have has fun exploring and finding them! Now if only I was better at identification... Feel free to comment if you know any of these. I know there are some turkey tail in there and possibly some reishi, but besides that I probably should try to look them up in my guide!

Anyway, happy Sunday!
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6 comments:

  1. Potter DeeOctober 3, 2011 at 9:22 AM

    2 and 3 are honey mushrooms not bad eating, not amazing
    5 Hercium spp. VERY edible
    6 and 8 stinkhorns

    7 and 9 look like chicken of the woods or maitake.

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  2. BrittanOctober 3, 2011 at 10:36 AM

    yay! thank you potter :)
    i definitely wonder about the ones you think might be chicken of the woods or maitake... they are on the ground near a really damp area and i feel like they have a bit of growing left to do, which might help id them better.

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  3. kOctober 5, 2011 at 1:44 PM

    that big crazy coral white thing (#6) on the tree is edible and good, as i understand. can't remember the name just now, will look up later at home. #11 i am pretty sure is a dye polypore, phaeolus schweinitzii.

    looks like you are doing some fun exploring, although i'm glad you are getting lots of opinions before eating anything. i have picked chanterelles loads of times but last night a lot of my dinner came back up - still not sure if it was them or something else, or if there was one in the batch that was masquerading as a chanty, or... and of course there are lots of worse things that could have happened to me. made me a little shy on foraging all of a sudden.

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  4. AnonymousOctober 17, 2011 at 1:44 PM

    MY MY MY SOME I'VE NEVER SEEN IN MY MANY OLD AGE YEARS. JUST LOVE YOUR BLOG

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  5. BrittanOctober 20, 2011 at 4:41 AM

    thank you annonymous :)

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  6. Comfrey CottagesOctober 29, 2011 at 6:17 AM

    i think your 6th is either lion's mane or bear's head, hericium family! here is a lovely monograph on the medicinal benefits of lion's mane:)
    https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150316300482475

    xxx

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