It's difficult to tell from the photos, but it's not unusual for A. rubescens to be appearing around this time. In some years, they are so plentiful that you...
Hi Jim, Thank you for the info and the good advice. Fortunately I'm not that hungry so eating these guys is not in my plans. I Included four new pictures in...
Penny, If you can post messages you can see the photos. Just go to the left of the page, click on Photos and you will get all the albums in storage. Then...
Hi Patrick,   That last bunch of photos is really great - shows the volva and cap. I agree with Jim - it really looks like Amanita rubescens. "Blushing"...
Hi all, Again mushrooms growing in my front yard. These are appearing next to the house on a bed with camellias and a heavy straw mulch. Spore print olive...
I wouldn't say those were bicolor. The stem is too twisty. They are so faded I can't be 100% sure, but I think they are probably Boletus chrysenteron, the red...
They don't look like B. bicolor to me. The stipes are too thin and curvy for what I know as bicolor. Interestingly enough, I have found two similar boletes in...
I went for a walk in some of my usual spots and saw only the dried-up beginnings of smooth chanterelles and a few large old and dried trumpets. Did I miss them...
Well I think I answered my own question... I checked the messages from 2 years ago and it looks like they were fruiting strongest in my area the middle of...
Hi Frank,   Don't wait until August. We get out best fruitings here on the Delmarva, in mid-late July depending on the rains.   [Just across the...
Hi Frank - Â Â It looks like Boletus miniato-olivaceus. Best Wishes, Lance ... From: Frank <wildwestmilford@...> Subject: [NJMYCO] bolete IDPlease check...
I found chanterelles at King's Gap last weekend, and people were finding black trumpets in June. It seemed at the time as though July stuff was coming up early...
I found black trumpets under oaks the last week of June, but so far haven't found any chanterelles. I have never had much luck finding chanterelles in...
Hi All, Well I've been waiting for the schooms to get going here in Eastern PA. Finally things have picked up. I found my first Chanterelles, but they were...
Hi Bruce, Â Â Your stinkhorn is Pseudocolus fusiformis or the Stinky Squid. You may want to contact Greg Mueller at the Field Museum of Chicago: Â Â ...
Hmmm I looked in my guides yesterday and did run across Pseudocolus fusiformis, but it says 3-4 arms and connected. I thought I also read that the arms...
OK found some more of an unidentified bolete. Pictures are in 20090730. These are growing in a deciduous forest. Some were actually gorwing on logs but...
Hi Bruce, Probably Boletus rubellus - From the "Mushroom Expert:" The "Campellus" Calculator The calculator assigns points for Boletus rubellus ("R") and...
Thanks Lance, It's a toss up until I get some samples under a microscope. I also want to read what Bassette, Roody & Bassette has to say about these species. ...
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: NJMA will conduct a foray at Waywayanda State Park in Hewitt, NJ (northern Passaic County north and west Upper Greenwood Lake) on...
Hi, It is nice to see all the posting activity in the last few days. I guess the Chantarelles are out asking to be picked. I Myself with two friends collected...