This weekend's foray should be fun and educational. Fresh fungi might be scarce so bring mushrooms if you have them in your area.. Found Calvatia rubroflava...
The Group Owner or a Moderator needs to delete messages from "m_g_bus12000@...", delete him as a member and ban him, and report him to Yahoo as a SPAMMER...
Hello. I am intrigued with the pictures on page 105 becuase it looks like it might grow fast...and it appears to grow heavy/form many sclerotia. The sclerotia...
Thanks for the heads up! I dont always check daily and these knuckleheads sneak through. This spammer is NOT a group member so, Im not exactly sure how the...
Hi, I live in the Fredericktown, OH, area located in Knox County. Could someone identify the mushroom in the picture that I have put in the album IDENTIFY? I...
Sorry, I meant to mention that the mushroom was found in a grassy area on the edge of a woods. Don't know if that will help or not. It has white gills....
Hi there- It is very hard to give an exact identification from the picture you posted. Also, there are many more knowledgeable people here than I. That all...
Lawn areas under oak are continuing to be productive. Saw many Boletus variipes yesterday and got enough good condition Xanthoconium separans to add to the...
Thanks for the replies about the mushroom. I was so relieved when I found your message board. I had been scouring the web for information about poisonous...
Good collecting with lots of edible chanterelles and boletes is happening in parks and cemeteries under oak. For the taxonomists and photographers there is...
from the bionet website: Dear Harry, Lepista nuda, Clitocybe nebularis, Rhodopaxillus nudus contain a lot of polyacetylenic compounds with bacteriostatic...
Hello, At last weeks foray i prommised to post the website of where i get my mushroom oils from. Here it is http://www.oystercreekmushroom.com/ Thank you, ...
I agree. Picked a dehydrator full (my large commercial one) of black trumpets Craterellus fallax. Also 3/4 of a grocery bag full of chanterelles. Other...
To freezer my mushrooms I always cook them first then allow them to cool and place them in a ziploc bag and freeze. I never freeze them uncooked i know two...
At the summer foray, I promised I would post a link to an inexpensive 10X loupe. I checked and realized that I posted this back in 2003. See message #61 on...
... Hi, all. I'm new to the group here, but thought I'd post this link to a place selling the Belomo for $15. http://www.geo-tools.com/lens.htm Also, and this...
Unfortunately I was unable to attend the foray in person, but I would like to add a page to the OMS website (http://www.ohiomushroom.org) to commemorate the...
Hello, Wow! We're REALLY getting spammed here in the last few weeks. Although it's regrettable, maybe it's time to switch the board to mod-approved posters...
Lots of chanterelles out now. Also lots of boletes, Russulas and Lactarius species. With last nights rains the woods should explode with fungi this week....
I went out today, looking for boletes and chanterelles. I only found what I believe to be one type of boletes - boletinellus merulioides, or boletinus porosus,...
Assuming the mushrooms were found near an ash tree, your identification sounds right. It is edible but not very good according to most folks who have tried...
Thanks for the suggestion, Elizabeth. I agree. It's time to shut down the spammers. I will switch the board over to moderator approved. Thanks, Jerry Elizabeth...
As of today, per Elizabeth's suggestion, the board has been switched over to moderator approved membership only. The welcome message has been changed to...
I found about 25 of these in a picnic setting in a state park in western NY (Chautauqua) growing on the ground of grass and bare earth. All found around a...
... western NY (Chautauqua) growing on the ground of grass and bare earth. All found around a single picnic table. The pores bruise blue. Ranged in size...