These are amazing pictures. Thank you!

I agree. I just found this thread this AM. Now I will try to get some pics.

FWIW - Fall is the best time as the weather changes. Spring has its varietals also, but this last two years have been really odd and the summers have been productive as well.

I just saw about a hundred of these in some guys yard. I'm not sure what they are either, I didn't have my book nor enough time to take a really good look.

I got it - it's an Amanita, but I'm not sure which. I didn't think so at first as they are typically very colorful or completely white. However there is a common variety that looks just like this. Not that common to me - its only June!

Ya thievin' bastard! :lol:

Those look like sesame seed mushrooms.

Grrrr

Thanks all, I'm gonna go with this one. Had I searched "Fungus" like and intelligent man, that would have solved the issue long ago. Now if I could only remember why I was looking for this thread in the first place...

So - since I have a little free time on my hands being unemployed at this most beautiful time of year, I've been out hunting and foraging a bit. I've been finding a good number of shrooms out there, but many were too small and/or immature to harvest.
The well known Chicken Mushroom. Same shroom - one week apart. Note the size of the Swiss Army knife - also the same knife. Dealing with too many issues trying to resize images today. Was gonna show how much it grew, but ... sorry.

Does it taste like chicken?

yep, thats where the name comes from.

Wise...

I have a guide shirt that has the same saying on it

Ha!

A few from the last week or so...
1 - Giant puffball
2 - Many teensie weensie REALLY TINY shrooms
3 - Large Hen before
4 - Large Hen after
*Note - the Swiss Army knife is 3.5"

mmmmmm...

Cool!

A Little Help?
 

Any o' yas know the name for this cave-formation-looking tree fungus? It is/was on a water maple.

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Alls I could find was 'tooth fungus'. Which just sounds nasty.

Benny and I found two sets of these yesterday. Delicious?

Not to the eye!

Fabulous, Griff. You could eat it. Maybe only once.

I just love the look of them, that is some other-worldly nonsense. ...and probably delicious.

Classicman says DO NOT EAT!

He did not, however, comment on how they taste.

c.man is a mushroom wizard. I've seen some things on his posts that are out -of-this-world

I'm not sure c,man is a good abbreviation :eek:

Are you cancelling flint? Damn no free speech here at all!

ah'll be back

I hope you get run over by a train.

STOP THAT. The Cellar continues, just at a different URL. Flint just lived up to his name and provided a spark ....which unfortunately ignited the methane from ancient shit that got dug up and new shit that was laid on top of it. Fires and the subsequent regrowth are a natural part of the cycle. And fungi are helpful too! Maybe some interesting new ones will pop up to help out. But if that happens to be in the form of an iridescent jock itch, please don't share....

Found this one during our bike ride this Sunday :

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And these guys :

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Magic! As in Amanita muscaria.