Any good (mushroom) finds lately?

[jerkin'm]

Yep, for some reason my phone and iPad force them sideways......not smart enuf to figure out why....

[Deitz Dittrich]

man i would like to find a puff around here!!!

[eyeguy 54]

send me a note pushbutton. you are over the limit.

[john.wells]

man i would like to find a puff around here!!!

Just saw a bunch of them in my lawn, baseball to softball sized. I live fairly close to Lindstrom, so I would assume the conditions should be right in a lawn near you

[JP Z]

Just go Ninja on someone's lawn Deitz

[jerkin'm]

Yep, I saw a few on a golf course by me in the West metro today too...so they are popping down here too...zero interest in picking any more however...

[pushbutton]

I bet not...lol. Jr. and I finally found a few yesterday. Also saw some of those scalycaps Stick was talking about, but they do not recomend them for people who consume alcohol....guess that leaves me out

[eyeguy 54]

you drink?? shame on you...

[Stick in Mud]

I didn't know that about the scaly pholiotas...I'd read they're edible for some and stomach-clearing/colon-cleansing for others. I've left them alone.

[JP Z]

you know..........I'm good just looking at them based on your description.....yep I'll enjoy the non "wish I were dead" ones.

[Matt Breuer]

A couple of things in catching up...

JP, those things you thought might be honeys are pholiota squarrosa. Beautiful photo subjects, not tasty at all. Lots of them popping up here...

Stick, the chicken fat mushroom (suilius americanus) is not a bolete. Did you get pics of the unidentifieds? Post 'em up!

I haven't been out searching much as of late, but did pick some puffs (out in full force everywhere) and some COW while grouse hunting though. Got this nice 37lb. cluster the other day with the wife and kids!

[Cicada]

[pushbutton]

Welcome back Matt! Wow....amazing what some rain will do. Getting pretty late in the game, and the 9th inning closers are out in full force. Jr and I went out after work and saw a bunch of shaggies that were getting too inky for my liking. Literally hundreds of lbs of chickens that will leave to make more chicks. Another nice hen that I also left. The puffballs are getting huge, and kept a gorgeous bears head tooth, part of which will be enjoying shortly

[Cicada]

Guess the pic was too big yesterday. Found several COW that were past, but a couple that were goo, only one puffball that was good and a bunch of shaggy mane. First time with shaggy mane. Kind of like those.

[Stick in Mud]

Stick, the chicken fat mushroom (suilius americanus) is not a bolete. Did you get pics of the unidentifieds? Post 'em up!

Hm, might be an issue of semantics / formal Latin terminology rules (by "bolete," do you mean a shroom in the boletus genus, or in the order?), but I've read that the suillus IS a bolete. My source is a bit old, though (1986).

No pics for me. After a mishap that shall remain forever undescribed, I've figured it's safer for me to leave the phone behind, lest it (or I, with it in my pocket) end up falling into a swamp. No funny story here...move along.

[Stick in Mud]

Went out yesterday for a bit of a walk. Found the usual past-prime COW's and a few other ones I've never seen before.

I did get a nice batch of stumpers, though. They were good on the eggs this morning.

[JP Z]

And a stumper is?????? One you're stumped on and just take a gamble it's safe?

[pushbutton]

Assuming it's a honey cap JPZ, but seriously Stick, what tells it apart to you from all the other LBM growing on or near logs? Am sure I have seen them but never gutsy enough to try them.

[Stick in Mud]

Yup, honey mushrooms / honey caps are what they're more commonly called. I've also read of them being called "cinnamon tops." For reference, the scientific name is armillaria mellea (not sure on spelling).

It is one to be careful with. The only really dangerous (as in, deadly) one that might be confused with them is the galerina, which has a brown spore print instead of a white one (honeys often fruit gregariously--I mean, really gregariously--so you can often see the white spore dust on the tops of the caps of mushrooms lower in the cluster). The galerinas are also usually smaller, and (as far as I know) their cap surface is never scaly, the way that honey caps often are.

The other poisonous look alikes don't look that much alike, in my humble opinion. I can't imagine someone mistaking a jack-o-lantern for them, and the gymnopilus (sp?) have a rusty orange spore print.

[Stick in Mud]

Here's a photo of what I mean by "gregarious":

And if you fast forward to the end of the video, you'll see more examples of how massive are the clusters of these things (at least some of the time). Start at about 10:30 for the honeys.

[JP Z]

Very cool, yeah I think I saw a bunch of Honeys this weekend. But there weren't by any trees at all so I don't know.

[JP Z]

Here is what I'm talking about

[iland99]

My daughter found this porcini last night all by herself. I'd say this qualifies as a good mushroom find!

[pikestabber]

Here's a photo of what I mean by "gregarious":

Man, I had a TON of these five feet from my driveway and let them rot away...had no clue what they were. Still learning the ins and outs of what is edible, but it seems to me that will be a lifetime endeavor.

[jerkin'm]

I couldn't stand it and had to get out for a hike today....didn't expect a whole lot but was pleasantly surprised...I did find a ton of "I have no idea" specimens..

Ended up keeping one nice hen, one chicken, and three leather capped boletes..the last three pictures are shrooms that had fairy rings littering every woods I checked. They smelled almost like a radish and not like a mushroom at all...