John Smalldridge Posted May 22, 2016 Report Share Posted May 22, 2016 I've been a little busy lately and haven't posted much, but I have been making a few finds. There seems to have been a fairly large flush of pluteus in my area. This is a laetiporus sulphereus that was growing inside of a hollow log. It was a little old and dirty, so I left it to do it's thing. I also found a couple of amanitas. I also found some agaricus in the grassy areas. This is an unknown russula or lactarius. And the ever present red russula. And finally my harbinger of summer. Three types of chanterelles that popped up in the last week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave W Posted May 23, 2016 Report Share Posted May 23, 2016 Nice to see the chanties working their way northward. The mushroom with the concentric zones of color (brown, tan, buff) is very likely a Lactarius. I think the shallow pits on the lower part of the stalk are an example of a "scrobiculate" stem surface, something seen on some Lactarius species. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Smalldridge Posted May 24, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2016 Thanks Dave for the info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adawg Posted May 28, 2016 Report Share Posted May 28, 2016 I got inspired by your Chant finds, and decided to hit one of my best spots from last year . We have had abundant rain, but cool temps and the woods were still rather void of fungi . No Chants here yet .. These are from last year . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Smalldridge Posted May 28, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2016 Wow Adawg, that was a nice haul! We are expected to get rain all this week. This will be just in time to hopefully kick off another fruiting of chants along with some other mushroom growth. This has been the earliest chanterelle harvest that I can remember for me personally. I'm hoping that everyone will find lots of nice mushrooms this year and post lots of photos of their finds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CajunShroomer3578 Posted May 28, 2016 Report Share Posted May 28, 2016 I decided to get out yesterday morning for a little while and kayak to one of my chanty spots. Wasn't a dry run by the chantys were a little dry. Missed them by a couple days. Managed to salvage a few. We still have plenty time for more fruitings though. No complaints here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CajunShroomer3578 Posted May 28, 2016 Report Share Posted May 28, 2016 A few other beauties I found...... Found a few look a likes in my guides similar to the filled mushrooms but nothing strong to propose a ID Haven't got around to looking up the petite bolets yet. Pretty small and awesome if ya ask me Played a little joke on my roommate and plugged the gilled mushrooms in his bonsai plants ? Hopefully they're not parasitic and damage his plant? Just thought of that as I was typing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Smalldridge Posted May 28, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2016 Looks like enough to accompany a meal. I've only harvested a couple of pounds or so from the first fruiting but l'm expecting a lot more next week. I usually will leave about a third to a half of the chants I find unpicked because they are too small or old and because some are growing on bare ground. The ones growing on bare ground are usually very dirty and hard to clean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Smalldridge Posted May 28, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2016 I agree, pretty little boletes. Those first ones look a little like Armillaria tabescens but I usually don't find those until late summer or fall. If that is what they are, then I would remove them immediately. They do parasitize living trees. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CajunShroomer3578 Posted May 28, 2016 Report Share Posted May 28, 2016 Had just enough to sauté with a little butter to let my girlfriend try for the first time. Snap !!! Thanks for the heads up on the gilled mushrooms !! I'll remove immediately Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave W Posted May 29, 2016 Report Share Posted May 29, 2016 Some interesting stuff there, CajunShroomer. I agree with John about the cluster being Armillaria tabescens, although these look somewhat different than what I find up here in PA. Gills are kinda widely spaced and wrinkled. This species seems to vary in appearance. I also considered Lentinellus cochleatus, but this species always has serrate gill edges, unlike the even ones seen here. The little boletes have me a bit perplexed. Overall, they look like Aureoboletus auriporus. But the pore surface of this species should be brilliant yellow. Maybe Boletus campestris...? Or one of the campestris look-alikes (rubellus, fraternus, subfraternus, harrisonii)? These types usually bruise blue --sometimes faintly-- on the pores or cut flesh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CajunShroomer3578 Posted May 30, 2016 Report Share Posted May 30, 2016 Yes Dave ,Armillaria tabescens was my first guess but the photos in my guides weren't precise enough for positive ID. If I'm not mistaken, these are aka ringless honeys? As far as the boletes, I haven't found anything on tiny boletes. But my resources are very limited at this point. With the exception of the Internet. I would actually say that the pore surface was a brilliant yellow. As discussed in a different thread , I'm thinking my camera phone had trouble picking that up. Apologies for the blur as well. I was having trouble focusing while trying to get a close up. Oh, and I didn't want to disturb them too much so I could not tell you if they stained blue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave W Posted May 30, 2016 Report Share Posted May 30, 2016 Digital photography seems to not reproduce yellow very well. I have photos of sectioned Boletus bicolor for which I am certain the flesh is yellow, but the photo shows white. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Smalldridge Posted May 31, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 31, 2016 A lot of cameras have custom picture settings that can be used to adjust the color. Also white balance can affect the color recorded by the camera. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott C Posted June 11, 2016 Report Share Posted June 11, 2016 I just wish there was something to photo in W/C Ohio good bad or ugly, we have had heat and some rain but nary a Lactarius nor a Russula even, odd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Smalldridge Posted June 11, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2016 Hope you get some mushrooms soon Scott. The problem I'm having is that we got them all at once and now we haven't had rain, so everything is drying out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave W Posted June 12, 2016 Report Share Posted June 12, 2016 Here in NE PA it's a spell of cool weather that has slowed things down. Summer mycorrhizals were just getting started a couple weeks ago, but nothing new since the temp dropped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Vault Dweller Posted June 14, 2016 Report Share Posted June 14, 2016 Last weeks trip for me was one of the most productive ever due to heavy rain a half week before, but there's been no rain since then and yesterday I found just one fungi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave W Posted June 14, 2016 Report Share Posted June 14, 2016 Yup, now the issue is rain. But there's no serious drought here, and rain is forecast for Thursday. Late June is usually when the fungi take off in eastern PA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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