Mushroom foraging

Love it when this thread comes alive again.

I also enjoy it, with a side plate of anxiety that something very bad will get eaten. I don't eat any, even supermarket mushrooms, but do enjoy seeing the wild ones in the wild.

Good time to remember everyone not to much on a hunch.. 😄

I avoid munching wild shrooms as I don't have confidence in my IDs but have been very disappointed that my bolete spotting patch has no fungi growth of any type this autumn.

Yurp. I had walked past the panther cap egg, thinking it was a puffball, but was surprised at the amount of earth it had moved! Good reminder to always cut any tasty looking puffballs in half to check for gills!

💯 they should all be checked!

First porcini of the season. I also found so many winter chants and hedgehogs.

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There were clearly some spores in the fresh woodchip at the allotment last week, all had appeared on my visit yesterday.

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My dad just spotted these in his garden. Chicken of the Woods?

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Not chicken of the woods, doesn’t look like a bracket fungus at all. Maybe some kind of honey fungus.

Those logs look like they've been drilled for spore plugs - which you can get for chicken of the woods. Although if it's your dad's garden I'd have guessed he'd know if he basically planted them!

He wouldn't have done anything that adventurous believe me!!!

If anything, it would be chicken of the garden. :)

Those logs look like they've been drilled for spore plugs

Or for stump killer poison caplets

I found some oysters at the weekened but sadly only a couple of old ones that didn't look worth eating. Plus I was camping without books etc to double check ID so left them be. Also found what I think were amythyst deceivers (also left alone for same reasons). Didn't think to take pics to refer back when I got home for some unknown reason :(

Another good day in the woods. 800g in total of chants and hedgehogs.

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Been working at a heritage railway this week and spotted this albino mushroom / fungus about 1/3 way into one of the tunnels. It’s 100% as white as it looks with grey flecks and it’s growing on ballast covered in coal smoke deposits. It’s pitch black that far into the tunnel and one of the drier bits.

Anyone recognise it? It’s the only colony in the whole tunnel.

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^ Are there wooden sleepers within the ballast?

Maybe Trametes pubescens ?

Yes

Dolly was convinced she should be allowed to eat these, I wasn’t so sure.

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Few nice ones from yesterday. Couple of Prince and white saddles. Are these giant or trooping funnels? Umbo present on a few but most not

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Dolly also found these. Next stuff truffles? :D

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Liberty? Or look alike

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I don't think they'll get you anywhere,, contrary to standard advice, give it a go..