Mushroom foraging

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/19/the-fungal-awakening-how-we-came-to-love-and-fear-fungi

Found these growing at the allotment today.

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Saw these growing out of a leaf pile on the way to work this morning (Yellow Fieldcaps)

I put wood chip in my garden last year and now. MORELS!

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Wowzer! Nice work

Morels on toast for breakfast. Delicious, I just sauteed them with shallots/garlic/vegan cream and a dash of Henderson's relish.

10/10

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Looks delicious.

So random woodchips? Or did you inoculate them with Morel spores?

I've had wood chip morels before, you get them a lot in council wood chip

Random bags of wood chip I bought last year to cover the borders. Got lucky.

On a bark on Barra, Outer Hebridies

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Went out for a forage on sat, looking for parasols and field mushrooms. Seems it’s a bit early as last year they were still fruiting in October time.

Did come across some shaggy ink caps but they’d already sludged and a couple of others I’m not too sure about.

First up I think might be a yellow cracked Bolete? Pretty fly blown and soggy but under an oak growing in grassland. Didn’t bruise when torn but saw some red patches where the slugs/maggots had had a go.

Next up is some member of the parasol family, any ideas?

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Saw loads out today and stumbled across two old boys who had a carrier bag full of field mushrooms.

There were probably hundreds of the Fairy Rings in one field

Hedgehog mushroom season is here!!

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Great haul!

I went back again a week later and picked another kg of hedgehogs, picked the biggest one I've ever seen. This time I pickled them, they'll be ace in December.

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Common Earthball (Scleroderma citrinum) in the New Forest this weekend. Looks good but don't eat them!

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Two recent spot. Earthstars growing in my garden. Chicken of the Woods on a local tree.

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Not sure what those remind me of more, either the pods from Alien or the plant from Little Shop of Horrors.

Proper creepy. They can move as well..

They WHAT!? I have just remembered I have an urgent meeting above the snowline in Nepal.

Earthstars

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Just when I thought it was safe to come out from behind the sofa!

I hid the fb post & deleted my screenshot after posting this. Sorry. He recently posted a close up of bolette gills that was fully Trypophobia launching.

P.s. So glad the browser jumps to bottom of page too.

Just noticed that my lawn is full of glistening ink caps, for the first time. I have seen a few in past years around an old rotting tree stump but I guess the mycelium has suddenly spread out.