wild mushrooms in my yard!

[HiDelight]

I am completely in love with David Arora's books
All The Rain Promises and More (for a pocket guide)
and Mushrooms Demystified is my mushroom bible

I have probably 50 books on mushrooms and these two are the best I have ever used the photos are very clean and he is a brilliant man

but really you need elders they are the best

BBH I am kind of an elder at least to you I am

we are very very lucky around the Salish Sea our climate is perfect for fungofiles to live

and yes be afraid ..because one error is not good!

the trick is learn the ones that kill you first!
then learn the ones that make you so sick you want to die!

once you know those by heart the rest is adventure!!!

 

[big brown horse]

Turely don't wanna die here! Nor do I care to get so sick that I wanna die!!

Thanks for those book titles!

We do have fungus among us in this neck of the woods.

The other mushroom that was guarnteed to grow on our property is Chanterelle. (I couldn't think of that one earlier.)

 

[HiDelight]

well if you have chanterelles and morels on your property they are very easy to ID but I think just to be sure you should have me come remove them all and test them in my kitchen eat them all prior to you trying them ..we want to be safe you know

 

[big brown horse]

well if you have chanterelles and morels on your property they are very easy to ID but I think just to be sure you should have me come remove them all and test them in my kitchen eat them all prior to you trying them ..we want to be safe you know

Just invite me over for a taste test!

 

[HiDelight]

here are some of the pics my husband took of what we found in our yard! very exciting for us!

above are prince mushrooms meaty and very good (Please do not pick and eat based on my pictures if you find one have someone check it) they smell of almonds that is the give away on the prince ..they grow HUGE the size of plates but by that time they are usually full of maggots ..this one was perfect the size of a softball and made a nice meal! if you find a patch of prince they will stay there and come back year after year!!! so for sure I will be watering this area often ..if you look close you can see a baby next to it ..the dog squished it but more should come up here if not this year next year for sure I used to have a secret patch in a park that I picked from for 10 years every june and July ..they also show up other times of the year ...
below are morels ...from early this summer they are a spring mushroom and we had one quick flush that was it..I hope they show again!!! ..most folks know these ....they were itty bitty but they were morels so I will not complain they were the size of a marble! one time after I hauled some fire wood in I had a giant morel grow in my yard that was about 10 inches tall! it was AMAZING!!!

my husband was a president of a local club back in the day ..I was the secretary but did you know that they actually wanted me to keep notes????
here is the big cheese for mycofreaks!
http://www.msafungi.org/
also this is a good site out of California that has lots of info on it
and a list of clubs in the US and Canada
http://www.mykoweb.com/na_mycos.html

I love mushrooms

 

[DrakeMaiden]

Hey that is cool, HiDelight. I think now that I have seen your photos, that we have the Prince that grows regularly under our pine trees, but all I could figure before was what family it was in, not what it was exactly. I will have to sniff it and see if it smells almondy.

I taught myself to ID the chanterelles, because I read that there is nothing else that grows here that can be easily confused with it. I was still a little intimidated to try my first one. LOL There is nothing like a fresh picked chanterelle!

I have yet to find a real morel. I keep finding the false (and deadly) ones on our property. :/

 

[big brown horse]

Hey that is cool, HiDelight. I think now that I have seen your photos, that we have the Prince that grows regularly under our pine trees, but all I could figure before was what family it was in, not what it was exactly. I will have to sniff it and see if it smells almondy.

I taught myself to ID the chanterelles, because I read that there is nothing else that grows here that can be easily confused with it. I was still a little intimidated to try my first one. LOL There is nothing like a fresh picked chanterelle!

I have yet to find a real morel. I keep finding the false (and deadly) ones on our property. :/

That is good to know about the chanterelles, b/c I have them here. Now I won't be afraid to eat them. I'm staying away from anything that looks like a morel!!

 

[DrakeMaiden]

Well, you might be luckier than I, BBH, when it comes to morels. If you find something that looks like a morel, you should call one of us to come look at it. It would be good to know which ones are edible and how you can make the distinction.

 

[me&thegals]

HiDelight--That is the coolest story EVER of how you learend to forage!!

I had the luck to marry into a family that knew morels. They are the only shroom I feel comfortable eating since they're the only one taught me by living humans

Happy mushrooming to you! Michael Pollan's description of mushroom hunting in one of his books had me laughing my head off, by the way I forget the title, but if you read him you will really enjoy that description!