Black Trumpets
It may be difficult to believe that some of us diehard mushroom foragers are still combing the woods looking for those few remaining yummy edibles. However, what the woods may lack...
Category: Mushroom Identification
The Cat’s Tongue Mushroom
When the woods seem to be mostly empty of our more sought after edibles, it’s time to take note of other, more unusual forest mushrooms. One of those is Pseudohydnum gelatinosum. As...
Yellow Foot and Hedgehogs
Slim Pickings – Unlike the diversity of edible mushrooms available for picking in October, January offers up only a few hardy species in our area. Two of the most readily...
Will the real Candy cap mushrooms please stand up?
It would be so much simpler if mushrooms sprouted with barcodes on their caps. While I have no doubt that some crazed geneticist is secretly working on doing just that,...
Is that wax on your gills?
If it is, you may have found a species of mushroom commonly referred to as a Waxy Cap. In older mushroom books, before the time when “Genus Name-Splitting” became all...
A Bolete worth admiring
One of the more desirable and sought after early fall season mushrooms is Boletus edulis or more commonly known as the King Bolete. And while I agree it is a...
