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Hey all, need a quick opinion.....Armillaria


brianf

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My main purpose for stopping by is to ask for some opinions ona da huney fahngas. Did find an absolute mega haul - even by armillaria standards. Not ONE mature specimen to be found out of probably millions. It would have filled several shopping carts, let alone bags and baskets. Took 25 pounds to experiment with. Going to try pickling, dehydrating, boil and freezing, as well as eating fresh (but well cooked) They are really beautiful mushrooms. Also found enough psilocybe cubensis to make a hippy blow a gasket. Not of much use to me, but it's certainly interesting to see any mushroom in such massive quantities. I honestly assume I stumbled upon a wild cultivation site on accident. The area looked reasonably maintained. Have also been coming across small flushes of Laccaria Ochropurpurea, Cortinarius Violaceus, Clitopilus Prunulus (sweetbreads, sketchy territory here though) as well as having another mega bi-color flush. Missed out on most of them, but that's fine. Plenty of spores for next year.

Hope everyone is doing well and having a good season. I'm looking forward to an even busier fall but I hope to be able to pop in a little more frequently and check out what's been going on in the wild wild world of mushrooms.

So, in your opinion, Mellea or Ostoyae (I know it has another name, it escapes me)

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And a couple of L.Ochropurpureas and some of the recent bi-colors (and a couple chanterelles, r.mariae, r.turci, and a piece of conk)

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Top three photos show a species of Pholiota, probably P. squarrosoides. Spore print will be brown.

Bottom photo... mixed bag... I don't see nay caps with the rosy red color (usually) seen on B. bicolor. Possibly on account of the photo being taken indoors.

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Cool, thanks Dave. I've never explored the pholiota genus what so ever. I assumed they were an armillaria other than mellea. Fortunately I have not experienced ill effects while eating this mushroom! I knew enough that it wasn't deadly, so I'm willing to gamble there. I don't consume alchohol in any capacity so perhaps that's the ticket.

The red boletes are a bit dull. The poor surface had the minimal blue staining, the flesh none. I think these are techinically known as B.Subreticulatus. The top 1/4-3/8 inch of the stipes are heavily reticulated revealing more of the inner yellow color. The remainder of the stipe takes on the typical minimal reticulation of the regular B.Bicolorus. Gastrointestinal effects? Zero. I'd say the cap surface qualifies as brick red. It's become a VERY PROLIFIC mushroom over the last couple of years up here. Occuring for a longer and longer season. It's flavor is somewhat eggy, similar to shiitake, but sweeter.

One of two things is true. Either my id's are safer and more on point than most would think, or I'm super human. I'll take either.

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Some of the red/yellow boletes other than bicolor are considered to be edible. Yours may actually be bicolor. The caps do often fade, especially in hot/dry weather. In fact, old bicolor specimens with yellow caps are not uncommon. Believe it or not, I think these are bicolor...!

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If I found those I would have considered them bi-color. If they were bug free, I'd definitely eat them. My girl and I took a late morning in and made up some nice breakfast sandwiches using the last of those bi-colors. Under proper lighting there is still a bit of a rosy hue.

What I'd like to get my hands on is a really large flush of the ochropurpurea's. The stipes aren't really edible, but the caps are fantastic.

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I've actually been doing that. I save the stipes from our cultivated shiitake's for the same reason.

And thanks again Dave for setting me straight on the Pholiota. The mushrooms I've consumed fresh from the above haul were actually fantastic. And the mushrooms dehydrate well whole and look awesome. I think they'll make a nice new hampshire hillbilly soup.

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