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Post: # 21455Unread post worth1
Thu Jun 04, 2020 4:56 am

These look like chicken of the woods.
They were more yellow the other day.
I wish I knew more about mushrooms.
No way will I take anychances.
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Thu Jun 04, 2020 7:40 am

Can’t see the underside, is it a polypore? Chicken of the Woods is a polypore, no gills.

Chanterelles been coming up on my plot. I regularly forage for and eat those. One of the ones I’m 100 percent about. We get oyster mushrooms here occasionally. There are other edibles here, but the chanterelles are the ones I seek out.

The best wild mushroom I’ve ever foraged was Morel mushrooms. Too bad they don’t seem to be this far south along the coast. They are found in Texas, probably near Bastrop in a February to March time frame. I found mine in May at 8,500 feet asl in Colorado.
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Sun Jun 07, 2020 11:20 am

Looks like a polypore to me.
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Sun Jun 07, 2020 7:55 pm

Not quite sure what that is but it doesn't look like Chicken of the Woods to me.
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Sun Jun 07, 2020 8:04 pm

PhilaGardener wrote: Sun Jun 07, 2020 7:55 pm Not quite sure what that is but it doesn't look like Chicken of the Woods to me.
There are a lot of different types of this fungus, the first picture is bleached out because it is an older fungus.
When I first saw it it had the reddish stuff on it.
I would really like to know about this thing because I would like to eat it and not be scared to.
It has all the properties of the fungus and where it grows from what I have read.
There is also a black fungus that will take over a stump here and rot it out in no time flat.
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Sun Jun 07, 2020 9:28 pm

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I get these from time to time...always under one particular Bradford Pear tree...
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Mon Mar 08, 2021 12:15 pm

Grin I am actually going to try raising mushrooms in my garden this year. Wine caps will go in the straw mulch under the tomatoes. Blue oysters will go in another bed in the mulch. I am following a few videos on YouTube that show how to do this. I hear the wine caps and tomatoes are a great combination as they both grow better. While the mushrooms will be a nice treat the main reason is to help improve my soil.
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Mon Mar 08, 2021 7:20 pm

Those are very pretty Worth and I'm sorry I don't recognize em but what are the chances, between Texas and NL I bet you have a lot of different things. One of the key identifiers for fungi is to take a spore print. The color of the spores is important and often enough to get a positive id.
Just take one of those mushrooms and lay it on a white piece of paper with a bowl over it overnight.
Then take a pic of what you can see. If the spores are white, brown, yellow, pink, those are important keys and you may find out what it is.
Sometimes color is not enough and you need a microscope for species but color should get you family in many cases, and some idea whether you're on the way to an edible or an 'ornamental'. ;)
I have books here on identification of mushrooms so fire away with details, i'll see what I can look up.
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Post: # 42724Unread post worth1
Tue Mar 09, 2021 6:13 am

From what I could tell it was hen of the woods.
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