2016

I harvested some chaga at the Lac La Bische Great Foray. When I got home I cleaned it and started to cut it into chunks, much of the black outer portion was very soft with a lot of moisture, the inner core was normal. I was wondering if the soft black stuff is usable, it…

Thanks Candice. It wasn’t that small (about 2 inches across) and it definitely didn’t have gills or spongy pores like a bolete; the underside reminded me of polypores (kind of a tougher pore surface) and the orange colour on cutting was surprising. We did find Lactarius delicious in the forest, but this mushroom was definitely…

If you leave them moist they will go bad in a hurry, salt may help. Dry them and they go black and do not rehydrate all that well. You end up grinding them for mushroom powder which is a waste when you can pickle them. Best way to eat leccinums in my mind and taste.

My jaw hit the ground when I stopped near red deer at a conservation area. Besides the leccinum which was there in more abundance than I’ve ever seen before, I found a King Bolete! Surrounded by tall grass and aspens I nearly missed it! It’s excitibg what 7″ of rain in a week will do…

Maybe, Kinda….. Superficially it looks like a blewit. Right couloirs, shape, etc…. But check the spore colour, I notice a bit of a hairy ring on the stalk which mean it could be a cortinarius. Have a closer look for this and if it has a rusty brown spore print. That’s what you have. Lots…

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I left it where it was but I did scratch the stem and the cap both scratches stayed white. Would cutting the stem react different from scratching it? In the 4th picture I took you can see the scratch I made lengthwise down the stem its facing straight up.

This one is a tricholoma flavovirens, the man on horseback. There are two other mushrooms that look almost identical. Tricholoma suflurereum which stinks real bad and Tricholoma sulrurescens which just smells bad.

It’s a big confusing group, (c. subconnexa) with some other choices as well. So probably square two…. Unless you have something new for the boreal forest. I’ll check the swiss books if there is something else and send you the microscopic details.

I have mushrooms growing on my lawn with all this rain, but they are definitely not the typical Calgary lawn mushrooms. Can anyone help?!? I cant seem to load a file picture here but my phone number is 403-671-4534, I can text a photo to anyone who would be so ind as to help me….