The President’s Dinner was a smashing success, as always! Kudos to the fine chefs at Ernest’s – they truly outdid themselves.  If you couldn’t attend this year, you missed out. The night was filled with 5 courses of mushroom infused goodness (see photos below), great tales from our guest speaker Larry Evans, and plenty of…

These were found in grass near a forested ravine in Edmonton. White with cream/tan shading on top. Dark pink turning brown gills. Ragged ring had brown topside. Stalk stained Brownish pink. In fridge overnight the stalk stain looks more yellowish. Agaricus edibility? Enough to know it doesn’t stain yellow at first?

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…

If you are submitting a Mushroom ID please follow these guidelines: Submit one mushroom ID request at a time. We don’t want to have any confusion about which mushroom we are discussing. Please include a spore colour. This is one of the most critical identification features of a gilled mushroom. Cut the stem off the…

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.