Hello fellow fungi lovers,
It's already #fungifriday! (How time flies!) I'm afraid I did not have another amazing mushroom morning and who knows? Maybe never will again. But if you ask me, even once is pretty damn lucky.
This week we had very little rain (ergo very few mushrooms). Last week my winecaps had a two day run before melting back down into the earth from whence they came. Hopefully today's deluge will bring a return visit. 👀🙏🤞🤞🙏
But there are other mushrooms to be found...
Have you met megacollybia playtphylla? (Try and say that ten times fast.) Commonly known as the platterful mushroom, these unpretentious fungi have been practically the only game in town, at least along the wooded paths I roam.
I've been cautious about expanding my foraging to new species, sticking with the "beginners" mushrooms for my first two years.
But last winter I had a number of enoki finds, which I thought were quite recognizable. They are not considered a "beginners" mushroom. So it made me feel qualified to maybe try some new ones?????
I really had no intention of trying this species when I took the pics.
It wasn't till I came home and did a little research. I felt reasonably certain of who I was dealing with, and, of course, found out that it was an edible mushroom.
The next day on my walk, there they were, plentiful platterfuls along the pathways.
Mature specimens can become radically inverted. Maybe it's just me but I think the gills kind a look like flaky white fish.😋 It's not considered choice and probably doesn't taste like halibut, but I've decided to give it a try!
Course it had to pass the spore print test, (making for a pretty cool photo op). Other identifying characteristics are white, fibrous stem with a hollow spot up the center and no ring.
I'll be cooking them up tonight and will let you know what I think.
Thanks for reading my post and thanks again to @ewkaw for hosting #fungifriday!
Ohhh nice! There is always more mushrooms ti be found.
I still have to try the spore print thing. It looks so cool!
Happy Fungifriday :)
Yeah, they aren't real challenging and yet when you move the cap and see them, it's always amazing:o
And thank you again for your support. I'm loving this community. It's so cool to share with other people that are as into mushrooms as I am.<3
Glad you like it here. Some others know a lot about shrooms. I just love to shoot them :)
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Cool let me know how they taste. Be sure to only try a little at first just in case you might be allergic to something in it. I see these often after a rain here but I never knew they were edible. I suspect only the cap is the edible part as the stem might be too fiberous?
Thanks for the warning. Believe me I tried, but they were so good!
It's not the first time I've read that a species was not a choice edible and I have no idea what they're talking about. These were just plain delicious.
Yeah, I've seen them before too. I guess I thought they wouldn't be that easy to identify, but there is not as many look-a-likes as you might think.
I didn't even try the stems. There was a bit more fiber even in the caps than I expected. But it wasn't a bad thing. I know I ate more than I should have. Hopefully I don't have any issues with them tonight. I'm not prone to that sort of thing but you never know.
Guess I'll know soon enough. 🙄
Yum what do they taste like? A typical mushroom or something a bit different?
Mushroomy but mild for wild.
And fortunately no stomach upset:)