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Found this Today and not sure what it is!
Funny, same thing here today too. My wife spotted them.
It's the first steps to the new "Body Snatchers" :D
Best to include a pic of the underside of the cap. Gills, pores or etc goes along way in mushroom i.d.'s.
Quote from: bluthum on September 05, 2021, 02:31:18 PM
Best to include a pic of the underside of the cap. Gills, pores or etc goes along way in mushroom i.d.'s.
A lot of them a decaying now, still might be a couple good ones around I can find for that
I haven's seen that one but....
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I have seen these and this one is larger than my hand. :)
Be careful when you pick it & eat it. If confirmed it's a real shroom then see how the taste compares to what you know that it might be. That's my idea of a good start. Sometimes it's the tasting thing that tells me specifics about "things". Be warned; NOT the safest way to do things :o
Quote from: Tacotodd on September 05, 2021, 07:43:11 PM
Be careful when you pick it & eat it. If confirmed it's a real shroom then see how the taste compares to what you know that it might be. That's my idea of a good start. Sometimes it's the tasting thing that tells me specifics about "things". Be warned; NOT the safest way to do things :o
There are certain mushrooms growing around that may have strong effects be careful :)
The only ones that I would trust to eat would come out of a can.
Seen an orange one yesterday, but huge, and not umbrella shape, more drawn in like pleating. Maybe he was cold. :D
How about this?
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Quote from: Hilltop366 on September 06, 2021, 08:37:48 AM
How about this?
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Never seen one around here, I mean they could be here but I never noticed them, I'll try look out for them. So many things I don't know they species or name to in our woods, I got pretty well every tree known like the back of my hand but still need to get better with the mushrooms, bushes, lichens, fungi's etc
Quote from: Hilltop366 on September 06, 2021, 08:37:48 AM
How about this?
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Earth tongue
Quote from: Texas Ranger on September 06, 2021, 08:54:36 AM
Quote from: Hilltop366 on September 06, 2021, 08:37:48 AM
How about this?
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Earth tongue
Microglossum rufum?
Ontario government has a good mushroom book. I had one, but my brother got a hold of it. :D
"Mushrooms of Ontario and Eastern Canada" has your 'shroom on the cover. ;D
Underside of red mushroom
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And what might this be?
At first this reminded me of your picture you posted in the first post of the thread.
(27) Cinnabar-red chanterelles: the most beautiful mushroom! How to find, ID and the story of its biology - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-VWRzUUECk)
Cinnabar-red chanterelles.
But the caps may be different.
Quote from: HemlockKing on September 07, 2021, 08:50:51 AM
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And what might this be?
Edible Mushroom Identification - Coral Mushroom - GardenFork - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6If-JNwwayE&ab_channel=GardenFork)
Quote from: Texas Ranger on September 07, 2021, 06:37:46 PM
Quote from: HemlockKing on September 07, 2021, 08:50:51 AM
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And what might this be?
Edible Mushroom Identification - Coral Mushroom - GardenFork - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6If-JNwwayE&ab_channel=GardenFork)
Thank you TR, you've been very helpful.
MagicMans mushroom looks to me like a type of Lepiota I'd venture to guess it's one called Parasol Mushroom.
HemlockKings orange one may be a species of Hygrophorus or a waxy cap.
It is not a cinnabar Chanterelle.
I have opinions on edibility of both but anybody that takes edibility advice on the stuff people post on internet forums is advised to not do it anymore. Haha.
If you like the taste test for fungi-good luck on that one...
I'm a nut picker upper and would have been a hunter-gatherer in previous centuries, I guess.
So, a few years back I decided to graduate from easy to tell (but often hard to find) Morels into other edible fungi out there. I bought several mushroom books after much choosing and quickly learned it's often way over my head to pick many of them out. I'm more into eating stuff not spore prints and much more detective science in the woods.
Next to my shop entry door as we speak, is a largish, ~ 22-24" dbh, formerly twinned White Oak that one side blew over few years back and the base now has what seems to be the largest oyster shells I've ever seen. Size of a basketball, maybe bit more!
Using google they might be what's called a King Oystershell mushroom?
Post a picture and maybe someone can help out!
I'm not really into eating them either I just wanted to know for knowledge sake. Maybe I could do one mushroom logging like OGH, for desired mushrooms, since those threads I've paying attention to all the mushrooms growing on the decaying logs
Quote from: HemlockKing on September 07, 2021, 08:49:37 AM
Underside of red mushroom
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Hygrocybe Turunda?
I took this picture couple weeks ago while walking the property. Never seen this one before! Brian
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PM me for an answer 🤫 . It's funny but not appropriate to a family site 😵💫
I don't have a photo, but I have noticed along one of the trails an old rotten stump smothered in turkey tail mushroom.
But other than that it has been a mushroom year up here, the forest floor had 100's and now they look like little black piles of fresh greasy dung. ;D
HK, look in genuses Hygrocybe, Hygrophorus, Hygrophoropsis, and Mycena. Might be in one of them. Is cap moist?
Well I am gonna kick up this thread rather than start a new one. I found these at a neighbor's home today. Exceptional examples, I thought. Anybody have a guess?
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The samples in the above photo were 5-8" wide.
The one below is juvenile, emerging from a root..
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Mid-range of growth.
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and underneath, no gills
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This is another root cluster, over 10" across:
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Here's a hint: it's growing on a Hemlock.
It's ganoderma tsugae, commonly called reishi or hemlock reishi. It is the only mushroom I know that grows on Hemlock. It's not poisonous but is not considered an 'edible' because of the harsh taste. Used mostly in extracts for an immunosuppressant. Also supposed to good for blood pressure, liver issues, respiratory, and histamine response.
All I know is that it's really pretty. ;D :D
I always call shelf mushrooms polypores, that's the extent of my knowledge on them. Except maybe red belted polypore. ;D