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...
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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...
What is that odor?
Fall mushroom season brings on a multitude of mushrooms with varying shapes, colors, sizes, and interesting peculiarities. We use each of these characteristics to help identify exactly what we are...
The Body Snatcher Mushroom
Fall is getting closer and with the change of season comes the rains and the rains bring mushrooms. Some mushroom species require quite a bit of moisture to get kick...