Mushroom ID

[jonny_redhorse]

I spend alot of time in the woods with camera in hand(my passion) and have always liked capturing these different "fungi" for intersting images....I don't eat em usually(a few shaggy manes I have years ago) but still find em interesting in there unusual shapes and colors....here's a couple images from last fall and I "think" they are either "Hen of the Woods" or "Chicken of the Woods"...huge things that apparently are edible(not trying em though )...

[Jameson]

Beautiful pics! That would be chicken-of-the-woods which is different from the hen-of-the-woods. As far as eating goes, the mushrooms pictured are past their prime. Gotta catch that shroom when it is young and tender.

[jerkin'm]

Here is a pic of a chicken and a hen I took last fall...the chicken is not any good at this point but the hen was great..that chicken will be back on the same log next summer, get there sooner so you can eat it too..

[pumpkinfisher]

Whats the name of that white mushroom in the middle? We wad some mushrooms that look like that come up through the floor of our shed. The shed has been standing for a while but does not have concrete floors yet. The shrooms busted right through the compact dirt on the floor. There is some hey bales in there and i wonder if they had some spores on them.

[CrappiesNCats]

thats a shaggymane, another delicacy. you want to catch it when it looks like that.

also its not necessarily true that chicken of the woods, or sulfur shelf, will certainly be back in the same spot. many times it takes a few seasons for it to grow back on the same log again

[jonny_redhorse]

Looks like the Chicken of the Woods is edible according to my Peterson's Field guide(actually "edible with caution"...highly prized by some and eat em at the young stage....some people get "digestive upsets and other mild poisoning symptoms"....Like I'm going to eat these guys?...I don't think so

[jerkin'm]

My last few seasons of chicken hunting w/ the gps tell me differently..Every one has come back the following year..timing is different but they are always there...And actually that shaggy is also shot, tough to tell from the picture but the bottom had started graying already..

[MOBY RICHARD*]

Alright, the Chicken/Sulphur Shelf grows on trees, how about the Hen...

And what kind of tasty preparation for these, the Sulphurs that I have pulled pieces off seemed very leathery...

[jerkin'm]

The hens grow on the ground, usually at the base of oak trees. If the chickens are really leathery they are too old..You really need to find them a few days after they pop up. Usually the outermost edges of the chickens stay best the longest. You can do just about anything with the hens, grill, saute, etc...

[MOBY RICHARD*]

Thanks for the info, I will try some this year, and try to post pictures...

[fnord]

Anyone care to take a stab at these? Mushroom I.D. is hard for me.

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[Jameson]

fnord,

My guesses

1, horse mushroom

2, ??

3, Something that resembles Oysters, but isn't Oysters

Does that help?

[fnord]

Helps somewhat. Thanx for trying. I know the first isn't a horse mushroom. I just looked at a Wisconsin mushrooms site and I think the oyster is called a pale oyster mushroom. I fried one up last year and it tasted great.

[jerkin'm]

fnord am I reading your post right? It says you just now looked up a Wisconsin mushroom site but you ate the thing LAST year? You are taking a big gamble eating something you aren't POSITIVE is edible..I don't even touch a mushroom unless I am positive I can identify it as edible...I had some relatives that were hunting morels and picked a few suspect shrooms..they weeded them out of the mix later but were sick enough to be admitted to the hospital later..these were not even eaten but made contact with the real morels...risky business...I would recommend you take some books out with you while hunting for verification in the field..

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[fnord]

You're right jerkin I should have been more careful. I brought one home and looked on the internet and thought I had an angel's wing. That's the most I've gambled with shrooms. Otherwise all I ate last summer was morels, chickens, shaggy manes, puffballs, aspen boletes. Now I know to do a spore print and stain test and use a couple references and just try a bite to start any new species.

[lovebigbluegills]

I've never seen boobyshrooms before...pretty cool

[MinnesotaMongo]

That last photo reminds me of the "Capezzoli di Venere" candy that the movie "Amadeus" talked about.

[fnord]

Yummm! Vanilla nipples of Venus candy. Looks like it's part of an erotic cake, doesn't it?

[not_nuf_time]

Areola (shrooms) I usually see them in pairs. I think their in the muffin top family:)

[SrBrits]

i came across several of these last fall, but couldn't get a pos id so i left the others alone. any one have any ideas?

[nate larson]

Were you near a campfire? They look like state puff shrooms to me.