Yes sir, in Masset BC. You'd love it here, it's a genetic isolate ecosystem.@Altreac You live in BC?! A destination point for me! I'd love to forage there, I hear it's quite...magical
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Mushroom hunting
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False truffle
My friends have pet rodents and the rodents love false truffles.
In the hemlock part of the woods, there are little holes around
the hemlocks where various rodents dig up fungus
and bury nuts.
Those fungi are towards the end of their season.
The Corn Lily aka False Hellebore, is out now.
This is an extremely deadly poisonous plan.
It is at the height of it's toxicity right now.
Ramps can be seen in the background (they're good eating)
and Trout Lilies in the foreground.
My friends have pet rodents and the rodents love false truffles.
In the hemlock part of the woods, there are little holes around
the hemlocks where various rodents dig up fungus
and bury nuts.
Those fungi are towards the end of their season.
The Corn Lily aka False Hellebore, is out now.
This is an extremely deadly poisonous plan.
It is at the height of it's toxicity right now.
Ramps can be seen in the background (they're good eating)
and Trout Lilies in the foreground.
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Found some Mica Caps(Coprinellus Micaceus) yesterday in the backyard growing on an old chopping block I had sitting around.
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FINALLY mid South Carolina has gotten some decent rain. Very dry spring, have found absolutely nothing except some bracket fungi. We had a friggin awesome storm the other day, though, and a couple things are starting to pop up. But first, one of my regular log flips revealed a beautiful mommy five lined skink with plenty of eggs!
And my first Amanita of the season just happened to be Amanita bisporigera, the Eastern American Destroying Angel. Still waiting for my delicious Amanita jacksonii to pop up...
And my first Amanita of the season just happened to be Amanita bisporigera, the Eastern American Destroying Angel. Still waiting for my delicious Amanita jacksonii to pop up...
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OK, it came to me and I just need to clarify to NOT equate the name Amanita and edible. There's a couple species, sure, but anyone new to this please DO NOT consume anything without identification from an expert. I've been studying fungi and mycology for two years and it wasn't until after my first year that I was even confident in eating things I've found.
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See, I was wrong! I definitely knew not to eat it, as I asked an expert and they said it's likely Amanita sect Lepidella and not bisporigera. Mycology is amazing but identifcation is notoriously difficult. I belong to several subreddits, but it's amazing to me how many people will post, "just ate this, is it poisonous?" Some species are only readily identifiable via a spore print and microscopy. You'd be surprised, but I feel I'm talking to a fairly intelligent crowd on here...
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Watch your step, these are easily our most common venomous snake and they're all over the place VERY well camouflaged. A bite probably won't be lethal, but you're looking at a week long hospital stay...
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I love finding dinner! South Carolina is finally getting enough consistent rain, and sure enough one of my spots for these flushed! These are Amanita jacksonii, the Caesars mushroom. Not only are they stunning, but absolutely delicious. Now to figure out what to make...
This is some variety of destroying angel, also Amanita
And I'm fairly sure this is Carrot Footed Lepidella, also Amanita (and probably toxic)
This is some variety of destroying angel, also Amanita
And I'm fairly sure this is Carrot Footed Lepidella, also Amanita (and probably toxic)
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Nice forage this morning. I also found my first Reishi in the wild.
Caesars Amanita, Agaricus sp (very similar to white button mushrooms), Bolete (porcini)
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Caesars Amanita, Agaricus sp (very similar to white button mushrooms), Bolete (porcini)
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Was on a quad trip/elk scouting trip and took some pics of some fungus. Got a nice big harvest of Pleurotus Populinus(Aspen Oyster) that I shared with my dad and brothers.
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Found this and a smaller one growing along the tracks in a split in a railroad tie which I found funny since it is Neolentinus Lepideus aka Trainwrecker.
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That's why it's important to not be an utter moron and not consume anything you're not 100% sure of. There are tons of resources out there, but it still took me all of a year of persistent research before I was comfortable eating anything I picked and I still refer to experts. You can never know too much. However, you'd be amazed how many people will eat something, then ask for it to be identified. But that's just Darwinism.
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This is true, I plan to take some wild edible classes. I've met Darryl Patton at a survival class in Alabama many years ago, but he specializes in plants out his way. About the only thing I can comfortably Identify is pizza. But I'd like to change that.
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Looks like a dead "Popple" tree to me...
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Start with easy to identify varieties. Chicken of the woods, lions mane, ect. I have been hunting for more then a decade and really only collect a few choice varieties for consumption.
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Same. I've got some great looking boletes (porcini) but I'm positively IDing every single one.
Lemme give an example...Green Russula and Death Cap. To and for many, they have common identifying characteristics; although destroying angels are often mischaracterized as all white, they can also have off white or greenish caps (see amanita phalloides)
Never, ever even think of consuming something you can't identify. There are lots of lookalikes out there that are best avoided by anyone but experts.
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Has anyone here ever gathered and eaten young fern sprouts? Supposed to taste like asparagus. I have TONS here in Spring, have just never done taken the opportunity.
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