Hello. I have been an avid morel hunter for 35 years. Looking to broaden my shrooming. I hunt Shaggy parasols, shaggy manes, puffballs, oysters, and of course...
The last ones I found were in Pa.....I found them long banks and edges of gravel roads. Quite a few were actually in the gravel! Also where the state had taken...
Try Putting them in plastic bags and putting them in the Fridge. When in paper bags they tend to dry out. What ever you do dont freeze them because when...
I am totally new this summer to mushroom hunting and cultivation and plan to be at the fall foray for at least a day. I'm was wondering is if anyone who sells...
Hi Tom, Welcome to the group. I don't think there will be any commercial growers or kits for sale at the foray. Joe Christian should be at the fall foray and...
Hi to all, my name is Richard Smith and live in the Chillicothe area. I am new to your group and am looking forward to meeting fellow mushroom nuts like...
I was walking around on my lunch hour and came across a bunch of boletes (pic in Photos>Need id help>mystery_boletus). The pore surface is yellowish, the stem...
Not being an expert by no means, but I would think it is a Suillus Luteus (slippery jack) ??? nice_tech <skidmore.22@...> wrote:The trees are 3 needle...
Just found a huge bunch of comb tooth's on two old beech logs here in Delaware County. (herciriums,, sp? ) They fried up very tasty. Similar to what the books...
Hi Heather. I know black cherry trees exude a sappy type stuff usually an amber or brownish color. Perhaps that is what you found, albeit a more whitish ...
To those who posted publicly and those privately, thank you for your advice. It must be a slime mold according to the tips I followed up on. How interesting...
Jack, Here is a link to the newsletter which gives the foray details: http://www.denison.edu/collaborations/ohmushroom/julaug/julyaug03.html I don't have an...
Today I saw several Grifola frondosa (Known as sheephead locally). Also known as hen of the woods. Picked beautiful sweet tooths--- Hydnum repandum. Also saw...
I work for a heating & cooling company, my job requires me to go to alot of different locations. Yesterday while working on a furnace I noticed in the ladys...
Good find. I always look for broad leafed weeds when gathering lawn mushrooms or I ask if the area was treated with weed killer or insecticides. I suspect...
I need to ask a favor of the members of this group. I am doing a presentation for a 4th grade class where I am dressing up as a mushroom (specifically a fly...
Hi Everyone, I am wondering if anyone has a good recipe for either Laccaria ochrepurpurea or Entoloma abortivum. They are quite common here and good sauteed,...
I've been seeing shaggy manes all over Dublin roadsides this week. I even stopped to get a few on a rural road. They've got a pretty short shelf life, don't...
today at Cook Forest in W.Pa., Hygrophorus flavodiscus, H. fuligineus. and H.chrysodon., a pristine Grifola frondosa (sheephead), several Tricholoma spp.,...
Saw lots of Tricholoma portentosum today in a pine plantation. It is a decent edible and one of the better Tricholomas. It is an unattractive gray with...
`Evening… I am not sure who puts all the work into planning the annual OMS banquet, but I wanted to say "thank you" to whomever orchestrated the event. The...
Hi Elizabeth, My wife and I organized this years banquet (mostly my wife!). Every two years we move it to a new location and different board members volunteer...
Hi AKHUNI & ALL have NO fear about the sulphur contents in the chicken-of-the-woods (sulphur shelves). The "sulphur" in the name applies ONLY to the color of...
Greetings MYCOPOSSUM & ALL... ....hope that you all had a wonderfull turkey and that all the leftovers are GONE by now! I'm so glad to find another myco who...