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    Hunting, fishing, dogs, cats and my full time job; making hand made briar smoking pipes.

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  1. Dang. This is just going back 7 weeks in my pictures...and I tend to just take pics of mushrooms that look new to me. It will be fun to post them all in one place, and get a real tally ! Will post more later. These are just the most recent !
  2. We bought a house on 3 acres in East Texas between Dallas and Shreveport about 2 years ago. About a year ago, I took an interest in the mushrooms that kept popping up, and started trying to identify them. I am amazed by the diversity here. Trees, plants, birds, mammals, reptiles, bugs, mushrooms, this small piece of land has a ton of diversity in my opinion, and it is just one reason I love it here. This thread is just pictures of the mushrooms I've found, all from my yard in the last year. I will try to post just a single picture of each type. It will take some time to make it all the way through posting them. I thought I had found about 40 types of mushroom, but just now realizing how many I never ID'ed and put on the list... I am trying to post just one pic of each mushroom that I think is a unique type. I have more pictures of most of them if anyone wants to see more views of any particular shroom.
  3. Man, my phone is crammed full of pics of mushrooms ! I will start a thread of just pics. It would take me too long to look up IDs on all of them again.
  4. Thanks Dave. On vocabulary, point well taken ! I never talk mushrooms with anyone, so even though in my head I am talking about the same thing as you, in practice I am using the wrong words to describe it. This is the second time I have asked for an ID, the first was a year ago when I could not tell if I was looking at a Chanterelle or not ! I have at least gotten a bit better at it since then. I just have one book on mushrooms, it is Texas specific and not too up to date or comprehensive This makes 30+ types of mushroom I've ID'ed in my yard, which is pretty cool on just 3 acres. I need to add another 8 or 9 to the list I have just found this year. For now I will call this Auriporus. Thanks for taking the time to answer.
  5. Well this afternoon, they are gone ! It's not surprising I have never seen them. They pretty much melted into a puddle overnight ! Spore prints are in. An Olive Green / Brown in older specimen, with yellow hints in younger one. The yellow could be color bleeding from bottom of mushroom too ? Hard to tell.
  6. I see the name viridiflavus may be replaced by auriporus ?
  7. Found in Northeast Texas under younger oaks and a few cedars. Top of a hill, in a drier part of the yard, about a week after heavy rain (ground just drying out again). Found about 20 of them over maybe 50 sq ft, all were scattered, except for 6 or 7 in a row together. Smell is faint/mildly earthy. No distinct taste. The cap has a bit of mushy consistency, the spores were very crunchy. I only tasted a small sample. The spores peel cleanly away from the cap. A bit of bruising on spores of older cap, but not a color change. Younger specimen has white flesh, older is white streaked with red. Waiting on spore print. So far all of my boletes have been red capped, blue staining species. Hope these are edible ! And here is the bottom of a cap, peeled back, and the top of the gills where they were attached to cap. The Spore print appears to be an olive green/brown, but I just have a tiny bit of a print so far.
  8. Well I slipped out between showers and picked a big bag full. Sautéed with just some butter, they were absolutely fantastic. I am totally hooked. This is the most exciting new hobby I've found in a long time. I can't wait until I have the $ to order the Mushrooms of Texas book so I can start ID'ing everything in the yard. A short hike today showed 6 other types, one I am sure is a Bolete. I am happy eating just the chantarelle until I'm comfortable with other ID's, but can't wait to learn as many as I can.
  9. Thanks Rob I appreciate it. It rained heavy all day today, so I didn't get out to collect any.
  10. WOOHOOOO ! Thanks so much. After doing some homework, I was nearly certain but wanted another opinion. Venison Roasts just got a lot more tasty And so my first few steps down the rabbit hole begin haha. Now to ID the rest of them around the yard...
  11. Complete Noob here, but I've done as much research as I think I can, and want a second opinion before I toss these in some stew. They are all located within 6 or 8 feet of Oak trees. They grow in soil, in groups covering a few square feet. The mushrooms grow individually, within a few inches or feet of each other. My concerns are 1. I have no idea what I'm doing! 2. I keep hearing Chanterelles will have an Apricot smell, and I just don't get that from them. Even tearing them apart, squeezing them, practically shoving them in my nose. I get sort of a faint earthy smell, not mushroomy, just sort of a light earthiness. 3. I keep reading that the flesh is white, and the flesh here is lighter than the skin but sometimes it is a creamy yellow or tan. I keep reading that Jack o Lanterns and False Chanterelles are the only lookalikes. Is there anything else out there that could be confusing ? I am certain they are not Jacks anyway. If we are fairly sure they are Chants, should I proceed by eating a few and waiting ? Should I try to take a spore print ? Any advice or a nudge in the right direction will be helpful ! I hope they are Chants because I seem to have a lot of them here ! [/url
  12. Hello All, I am completely new to mushroon hunting. I bought a few acres of woods in North East Texas last year. There are LOTS of mushrooms out here! I'm basically scared to touch any of them, but for some reason these funny looking orange ones caught my eye, and I thought to myself, these look like you should be able to eat them hahaha. I *think* they are Chanterelles, but I'll start a separate post about that. After 10 or 12 hours research, I've learned enough to whet my appetite for mushroom hunting, and I can see myself getting very involved in this hobby in the future. I like smaller friendlier boards in all my other hobbies, and I liked the feel of this forum. To describe my "hunting grounds" here, I am north of Canton Texas, in a zone called "Post Oak Savannah" that is thickly Forested sandy to light clay soil. I sit on the margin between the Grand Prairie and Blackland Prairie to my west, the Piney Woods to my east and the Big Thicket to my south. I have 4 acres that is mostly big Oaks both Redoaks and Whiteoaks, but at least 10 other species, Hackberry, Mulberry, Black Walnut, Redbud and Beautyberry with several other types. Other than a few small clearings, you can't really walk 10 feet without being under a tree. Also, a good bit of the place is covered in blackberry and other vines. So, thats where my mushrooms grow! If I find anything good, I've got probably another 15 acres in my neighborhood I can hunt, where the land is overgrown, but has been cleared or maintained at different times over the years. I also have a large ranch behind me that has several hundred acres where the woods haven't been disturbed in 30 years, other than light use for grazing horses and cattle a few months out of the year. I don't know if the different uses over the years would yield different types of mushrooms ? Well, that is probably more than any of you were interested in knowing !!! I look forward to learning as much as I can about this interesting new world !
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