Foray / Event Schedule
Tentative Schedule … Date Event • February 13 — BoardMeeting : 6:30-8:00 PM • March 13 — Board Meeting : 6:30-8:00 PM • March 23 – AGM : 8:00 AM — 5:00 PM • March 23 – President’s Dinner : 6:00 PM – 10:00 […]
AMS Forum: looks like chicken of the woods but with gills (1/1)
Chicken of the woods is a laetiporus which is a polypore, so those do not have gills. Your mushroom does. Your picture does not show the Orange colour, if they are orange they could be phyllotopsis nidulans, the stinky oyster. Which are only stinky in warm weather. What I think you have is a Lentinellus, […]
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AMS Forum: Just getting into it. (1/1)
Check out the resource section of the AMS website. There is good references there that should have answers to all the questions you asked. The best place to look for mushrooms is wherever you are. They grow everywhere. Start in your front yard or local park. Focus on one genus of mushroom at a time […]
AMS Forum: Pine Top June 3 (1/1)
15 people came to the foray. A total of 19 species, including bracket fungi from previous year(s). The fungi observed included gilled agarics, polypores, a jelly fungus, cup fungi and a rust. Also noted were the wildflowers Wild Clematis and Calypso Orchid. A big thank you to Suzanne Visser for identifying the specimens with acknowledgement […]
AMS Forum: Please help identify this purplish mushroom (1/1)
Hello, I am finding these in quite a few places in a conifer forest. Typically growing in clusters of 3. Looking online brings of purple gilled laccaria? I am not sure that the purple is that vivid, though. The spore print is very pale. I could only see it on white paper after 24 hours.
AMS Forum: Calgary Policeman's Flats (1/1)
Foray Monday, June 25, 2018. Near De Winton, Alberta. Good attendance. Oyster mushrooms had been reported in the area. However, some areas were inaccessible due to high water volumes after the rains on Saturday. Unfortunately, no significant mushrooms were found.
AMS Forum: Pholiota? (1/1)
No, they don’t appeal to me at all. Also have been connected with causing gastric bleeds. Lots of way better mushrooms. Some are eaten in Europe and even though they are named the same that does not mean that they are.Lots of examples of this.
AMS Forum: chantrelles (1/1)
The only chanterelle we get in Alberta is the yellow foot, canterellus tubaeformis. They grow in bogey mossy areas but it maybe a bit early yet. We don’t get e yellow chanterelle in Alberta, like Saskatchewan or BC.
AMS Forum: Lyophyllum (1/1)
Lyophyllum is a big genus that encompasses a lot of different mushrooms. Lyophyllum Decastes does not generally grow on trees so I would suggest these are not Lyophyllum Decastes. At any rate, Lyophyllum Decastes are not a beginner mushroom. I would not recommend eating something that you think is Lyophyllum Decastes without getting an identification […]