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RE: collecting mushrooms

in Fungi Lovers5 hours ago (edited)

This was a fruitful walk, at least in terms of biodivercity and nice finds, tho you did not show us your full basket in the end.

Those are overmatured but I assume it is a family of nice edible honey mushrooms, - this is the sufficient reason why do we go to autumn forest for hunting. At the peak of their appearance, these mushrooms can be collected with huge baskets (and it is better, of course, to pick up them young, when they just pop-up).

I see you tried to shoot the spores "smoke " going off the puff-ball. This never happened for me, never could make a proper capture - I afraid you need a lucky combination of circumstances, like a sunbeam illuminating the air... or use a flash. They are edible not before they start to produce the spores, thats not correct statement - but till they are white inside. When you see their flesh started to darken inside, i.e. the fungus started maturing, then they are no longer worth taking.

grey coral is a very pleasurable find for taking a shoot! as well as fly agaric.

I assume these may be edible too, but not sure. There exist a big family of mushrooms from Tricholomataceae family - which include a lot of edible species... sad to confess I am not well acquainted with them, and cant identify certain species. These mushrooms in the photo may be Clitocybe nebularis (clouded agaric, cloudy clitocybe, or cloud funnel) which is nice and edible. Similar species you can easily confuse it with: Tricholoma portentosum, Tricholoma saponaceum, Lepista glaucocana.