Mushroom foraging

haha, welcome to life, a game of ups and downs.

went to the new forest with my gf this weekend - she apparently knows what wont kill us - came back with these. am being susie homemaker today drying them

Nice - My FIL came home with a similar haul two weeks ago and dried them in the oven......unfortunately he burnt them all and now they are pretty much inedible!

@Carson, where abouts did you go exactly?
not trying to crash your stash,
I likeit around Denny lodge very much, old growth Beech forest,
came home with a few field mushies yesterday,
spores from parasols on my usual patch not yet activiated- which is good as means I havent missed this years anyway.

@Carson, where abouts did you go exactly?
not trying to crash your stash,
I likeit around Denny lodge very much, old growth Beech forest,
came home with a few field mushies yesterday,
spores from parasols on my usual patch not yet activiated- which is good as means I havent missed this years anyway.

not at all - my gf said she wanted to get out of london and for some reason wanted to go to a forest so i thought of the new forest (never been there before). i didnt realise she wanted mushrooms until she started dissapearing and reappearing with fistfulls.
there were loads of them in tons of different places. without being there its hard to be precise but we were walking in the area i have marked on the map, north west of brockenhurst, and kept on finding them. :)

Wisley, on a damp Wednesday morning....

The big ones are looking a bit lived in, so there will be judicious trimming done before supper.

I have a good feeling about this rain.

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I love looking for mushrooms (although with the Roger Phillips book and a few others I never feel that confident) but haven't looked locally since I moved. The biggest woodland near me is Richmond Park. Does anyone know if there are any rules about taking mushrooms from there.

@Carson, looks like Hursthill Enclosure/Gritnam wood area, might go there tomorrow.
been out today all day, found this amalgamation of spores, amazing thing, not so much bothered about eating but these were fascinating. no idea what type.

Do you have any more pictures of this? Failing that, can you describe it? Did it look like one big mushroom, or lots of individual mushrooms joined together? Difficult to tell from the pic.

no more pics,
the single one in hand was plucked from the bunch, if you look I sat it at the front of the bunch before taking pic, they seemed to all be growing individually really close together, came across some others today too, but nothing like that^

good day out again, lots of finds, wont bother with agaric pics, all seen them millions of times, quite a few slippery jacks, few boletes (poor condition)
wasnt sure about this, slightly orange staining,

leaving these for a few days.

loving these for tea,

and a shot to warm any foragers heart

Master Forester

I really wish I had picked those parasols the time I came across them. Ive collected mushrooms like 3 times this season and have bottled it each time. Because the only edible stuff was small and crap anyway, not worth the risk of poisoning.

When I saw the parasols I thought they were poisonous for sure, too big and scary looking I thought.

awesome thread...thought it was all about magic shrooms! I imagine if I'd picked my own mushrooms eating them might be a little...thrilling? Especially given nickyspaghetti's hesitance in some cases, and even if you think you have taken a lot of precautions. It looks like it would take a long time to master.

In Germany, these are the best-known example of a poisonous kind of mushroom.
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Those look like fly agaric. Can be cut into strips and boiled in milk, this breaks down the toxins while leaving the psychoactive bits. Not for the faint hearted, or for those who need to do anything useful/non-psychotic in the next few hours.

Makes for an interesting Steak and Mushroom pie dinner experience.

Fly Agaric: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria

There were loads of mushrooms at the Polish festival today (Borowik aka King of the Forest aka Boletus Edulis, Podgrzybek aka Boletus subtomentosus L, Kurka Kurka which appear to be Chanterelle

Yes, they're called 'fly mushrooms' in German ("Fliegenpilze").

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Did they not call them 'kurki' in the polish market? That is what they are known as here.
When I brought my hedgehog fungus and chanterelles home my FIL though they were the same thing, so I told him I won't eat any mushrooms he brings home!

Didn't go hunting this weekend as my in laws garden needed dealing with (it has been left for ten years whilst they rebuilt the house and is about 6-7 feet tall and 800m2) I only had a scythe, a sickle and a rake to do it with. After 5 hours yesterday and 6 today I am about 4/5 done - I had to stop on both days due to the neighbours bees not taking too well to me cutting down their food. I did however find plenty of mushrooms, all inedible, but interesting nonetheless. The best find was Stropharia aeruginosa which I found at 7am this morning and almost thought I had found an aniseed toadstool. Alas another poisounous one!

Oh, but I did get one good edible find! I harvested over 4 kilos of elderberrys from right next to the beehives - I felt pretty smug as I got them before the bees had woken up so I managed to get a huge bucket of them. Roll on elderberry wine for Christmas.

Spotted lots of shroomage (the other kind aswell) today in a plantation not too far from my home. I was racing so didn't have a chance to stop. Will pop back later in the week.

I was racing so didn't have a chance to stop.

Were you 'racing' at the Southern Sportive? Hampshire/Sussex border has gone crazy.

I've never found Ceps until a few days ago, and now I'm getting a little weary of them.

There were plenty of others, notably oyster mushrooms, which I didn't pick, but the Penny Bun took the prize;

First pic is what my boys came back with, having been 'sent out' after lunch on Saturday.

Second is what I found with some casual kerb crawling later on. Finally some chanterelles. The little one in the middle is a baby Bay Boletus, so good in my book.

Third is Sunday's haul from Wisley. I don't get this; Wisley is an RHS effort just south of the M25/A3 junction in Surrey.
Why do gardening types in their thousands, and presumably the people who work there, leave these mushrooms on the side of the road?
It beggars belief.

Sorry about mahoosive pics. (i've tried it all)

Did they not call them 'kurki' in the polish market? That is what they are known as here.
When I brought my hedgehog fungus and chanterelles home my FIL though they were the same thing, so I told him I won't eat any mushrooms he brings home!
Didn't go hunting this weekend as my in laws garden needed dealing with (it has been left for ten years whilst they rebuilt the house and is about 6-7 feet tall and 800m2) I only had a scythe, a sickle and a rake to do it with. After 5 hours yesterday and 6 today I am about 4/5 done - I had to stop on both days due to the neighbours bees not taking too well to me cutting down their food. I did however find plenty of mushrooms, all inedible, but interesting nonetheless. The best find was Stropharia aeruginosa which I found at 7am this morning and almost thought I had found an aniseed toadstool. Alas another poisounous one!

Yeah "Kurka",I'd typed that but the link editor fucked it and showed Chanterelle.

@ 36x18 I'm really impressed by the ceps this year, lots more about than I have seen in recent years, and some really good sizes. If you're getting weary of them, drop them off at the mushroom seller's stall at Borough Market: you'll get a decent price for any you don't want. I spoke to him last year about selling on surplus, though my haul was so poor I didn't use the option.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/sep/16/wild-mushroom-picking