I recently had to go back to Missouri and found some more #mushroommonday finds.
It is still warm and rainy enough down in Missouri for the red russulas to be out.
The Latin name is Russula emetica and it is often nicknamed the sickener because it causes upset stomachs and bad gas as well as vomiting.
There is a way to cook these by parboiling them then throwing away the water. After that you can pickle them. With all this work to detoxify them there is no great reward in taste as they are pretty bland. Mushroom hunters are better off looking for the green cracked russula (Russula virescens) which is not toxic and can be eaten raw.
I found quite a bit of lemon disco fungi aka Bisporella citrina.
At first glance this fungi looks like it might have a jelly texture but these are hard as plastic and break similarly to a plastic texture. Definitely not edible unless you were one of those strange kids who ate their legos instead of putting them together.
I suspect these might be really old turkey tail.
They have the same look as turkey tail fungi aka trametes versicolor but they have no color and are solid white. I suspect they might be something different...
Here is a UFO polypore. I suspect it might be giant polypore as it was growing off the roots of a tree. If it is Meripilus giganteus this thing will start growing some large leaves.
Out in the forest I found a strange sight. A pile of rocks randomly placed with different drawings and writing on them.
Who knows what sort of occult rituals go on in this forest at night lol. Each of these stones had some kind of drawing or writing on them. I'll be sure to only hunt for mushrooms in Missouri during the daytime to avoid the black mass.
that's all for now, thanks for looking :-)
Noooooo, that's a baked potato. 😄
Those disco fungi are neat. I didn't know there were plasticky-textured mushrooms.
Haha it does look like a baked potato, too bad it tastes like a sponge, there are ways of cooking giant polypore but I haven't found the right one yet. The plastic disco fungi are strange, I should have collected one of them to see if it decays into a powder or if it just stays yellow in its current form.
OOooooo, next time! Or ask your Missouri connections to send some in the mail.
Sadly my Missouri contacts are aficionados of the great indoors lol. They think I'm weird for going out into the forests all the time and I'm not even hunting for deer.
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This is a very beautiful mushroom, I have never seen it at my place, thank you for sharing
They are quite common around here, if only they were edible. There is a green version of these also that is fully edible and one of the few ones that can be eaten raw without cooking.
this is really rare, almost every day I look for types of mushrooms, but I've never come across anything like this if only I met this mushroom I would make the picture perfect. hehehe, ,
The red color is quite bright, too bad it causes vomiting and stomach ache if you eat it (at least its not deadly).
true my friend, this mushroom contains toxic substances, if we eat it we will get diarrhea all day long,
Nature is like that the brighter the color the more chance it is poisonous, unless its a large fruit of some kind.
Very unique mushroom and you take very good pictures.
Thanks for looking, there are so many different unique mushroom species that grow here that I haven't had a chance to photograph yet.
Wow, you show various types of mushrooms that are very beautiful.
I like the yellow one.
The yellow ones are very tiny and a bit weird because they are like brittle plastic.
Yeah, I saw it was very small.
But it's beautiful.
Sweet little mushroom ... better in the woods than on a plate hehe ;))
Haha definitely these are pretty gnarly tasting and they make you feel like you have the stomach flu. Green ones are really good though.