Here are some spring fungi finds from last year for this #mushroommonday
A mushroom as big as your hand.
A mushroom as big as your head.
This is dryad's saddle aka Polyporus squamosus.
Here's the underside. Nice evenly spaced polyores.
These are the pores of a smaller specimen that is worth harvesting for eating.
Some baby dryad's growing. I like to look at these in spring while I'm looking for morels. You can collect younger sized specimens for cooking, but if you find them as big as your hand or head they are too tough to eat. They are like tough sponges at that size.
This is amber jelly roll aka exidia recisa.
And more exidia recisa. I collect this stuff for spicy soups. You can dry it and save it for later then rehydrate it by soaking it in water. So collect this stuff over time and you will have enough for a meal eventually.
Here in Illinois I find the fungi above once I start hearing the spring peepers making their loud songs.
Now for some eternal mushrooms. This is thin walled maze gilled polypore. Not much use for medicine or for eating but it has a trippy look to it.
Once you see spring popping in the moss that is the time to start looking for the best mushroom around.
Morels will be out soon, lets hope this spring will be bountiful with them.
I vote for trippy look -- its
betterway more important than medicine or eating!It almost has a lenticular effect as you turn it in the sun. For trippy looks I finally found an artist conk to try a woodburning design on yesterday. But a stick was absorbed by the mushroom so I'll need to incorporate that irregularity into the design somehow...
googly eyes could do the job here :)
Just need to figure out what kind of face can work with that eye.
Gorgona-Medusa-esque type of face!
Awesome idea, my fiance just finished a wood burning design like this on an axe handle. More thor-like less medusa-like.
wow ... all the mushrooms here are unique and beautiful ..... the most unique is that the morels mushrooms look very attractive ...
They are the most sought after mushroom around here. Hopefully I can find alot this year.
How cool are the pictures of the mushrooms ...
Thanks :-)
I love morels very much. It's a pity that the collection period is very short. And they have a wonderful smell - real forest mushrooms
Yeah I have to get out there and look for them, season should be starting from now until the end of next month here.
our season usually lasts less than a month
Yeah same here though in theory if I plan it right I can go to the state south of me first to look for them. Then in a couple weeks look for them in my state then in another couple weeks look for them in the state north of me since the temperature gradually changes.
that's a good idea. Our territories allow us to do this. But you have to be a big morel fan. And they often change their places of growth. I remember very well when the next year, the old seats were empty. We had to look for new settlements. It is good that they often grow in large colonies. There were cases when a whole trunk of morels ' car was collected from one clearing
Wow that is a good find a whole trunkload. I've only found small patches so far just enough for one meal.
we still have large pine forests