I take it then that you also have been to some of your usual good spots with poor results. I'm guessing widespread high temps and lack of rain would be to...
Yes, that is the case. High temps alone wouldn't be the problem (hot and humid is normally good for both species and other chanterelles, too), but lack of...
Thanks for the info Jim. Just to give everyone hope, I found that here in West Milford they were the heaviest the second week of August, and that's when I...
Hi Frank... It's hard to say if it's a Giant Puffball or some other kind of puffball. It seems pretty deformed (perhaps from the dryness around here this...
It is at least the size of a football, is there anything else that even gets this big? Assuming inside is pure white and this size does that leave any other...
There's not much else that gets that big that I can think of! Giant puffballs often do get much larger than that, but with the dryness, football size is pretty...
It has gotten slightly more discolored because it has been in the fridge a few days. I posted a photo of the inside with a nickel stuffed in it to show size....
Yes, it is a giant puffball! Unfortunately, it's beyond edible stage (and probably was even when you picked it, as refrigeration doesn't generally cause them...
Well that is exciting, this is at least the second year it has appeared here. Better luck next year. I spent a few hours in the woods on Saturday and can...
I just read that Nicholas Evans, the author of "The Horse Whisperer", his wife, and her sister and brother-in-law were all sickened after eating Cortinarius...
They say that a lot of immigrants get poisoned because they mistake a species for an edible from their homeland. I wonder if there are any poisonous species in...
Hi All, SOrry I haven't been more active lately with the group, but as the shirt I saw at Kennet Square said last weekend... "Shitake Happens". So that is a...
First, I have to disagree about rainfall. We all received some showers last week but not a lot! It does appear that western NJ and eastern Pa received the most...
Hi all, I am a new (rejoined) member of the club.? I am in eastern PA.? I was lucky enough to have a Grifola in my backyard for a couple of years.? It was...
It doesn't appear that we here in northwest NJ got as much rain as the weather service is saying we did, even with both storms of the past week. Streams are...
I found that there are few who eat certain Amanita species.....not just in our group...they are still walking and talking and say that they are quite...
In Northampton PA we didn't get as much as reported either and I have a digital rainguage. I measured 3.12 for the month so far. Only 1.4 of that from Hannah....
In general, I wouldn't even do that. Rod Tulloss and NJMA officially do not condone eating ANY Amanita, even if it's said to be edible in field guides or on...
I have to correct one statement that I made. It was last year that we found some Grifola frondosus around a monument and not this year (And a few years ago we...
Just a heads up. The extended forecasts that I'm seeing are making it look like the rains we've recently gotten may be all we're going to get for awhile. It...
Yes, good point, Carol...with all the crazy weather we've been having this year, we can't count on rain between now and Fungus Fest. Get out there and collect...
I have found and eaten a bunch of Agaricus campestris in the last few days. I'm still finding new ones, but after this weekends hot weather and now less humid ...
Same here. We had a great foray (in terms of number of species) at Stokes on Sunday, but there weren't many edibles, nor were there many of any one species....
What a beautiful day for a walk in the woods, and I actually found mushrooms!!! Lots of amanita virosa, cortinarius alboviolaceus, a beautiful grifola...
