[Dave W]

Rainfall has been dwindling around here, and forecast is for a dry week ahead. Walked my favorite summer trail today for the first time this year.

Experimenting with various file sizes for my photos. Hope I can post all the stuff listed here!

Russula species.


Cup fungus. Awaiting ID proposals.


Cantharellus cibarius.



Russula species.


Xanthoconium affine.


Tylopilus chromapes. The chrome yellow stalk base is distinctive.

[SHROOMY]

Great photos Dave!

[Dave W]

Made the drive up to NYS yesterday to pick some chants. Didn't get quite the amount that I had hoped, but I did okay. These particular gilled chants (Cantharellus cibarius type) that I found were very dry. I think the last bunch of showers that hit the area probably all missed this spot. There were a few chants that were so dry around the cap edges that I trimmed off a little. But there were also some really nice ones.



They all sat together in the same two bags, whch helped to rehydrate the dry ones. Ended up with a little over a gallon. After they were sauteed and ready for freezing, it was a litle less than a gallon. Got 9 frozen packs, and one fresh meal.... soon at Gormet Kitchen.

[SHROOMY]

Nice batch of Chanterelles Dave!

[Dave W]

Things are really drying put around here. No rain for a week, temps in the mid 90sF, low humidity... The one with the streaky cap is either a Tricholoma or Megacollybia. Looks a lot like T. portentosum, an infrequent mid-fall mushroom around here. But it amy be that this is just another M. rodmani ( formery known as Tricholomopsis platyphyla) with the streaks produced by quick sun-drying in-situ.


The bolete is Boletus miniato-olivaceus; looks somewhat like B. bicolor... listed as a sickener.




This cup fungus is probably an Otidea species. One generally expects these to have brittle flesh, but the sun likely dried these out to a leathery texture.


Good old Amanita muscaria... except now the eastern NA version has a brand new name... Amanita amerimuscaria.


Russula compacta has a fishy odor, close gills that bruise brown, and a beige cap surface that looks like someone made a pass or two with a can of brown spray paint.


This may be it for me for awhile. It'll take a few good rainfalls to reverse the effects of the desert-like weather we've got at present.

[zora]

Rain!!!!! Come on chants! I can hear them growing.

[mushroom mary]

zora, on 10 July 2010 - 03:54 AM, said:

Rain!!!!! Come on chants! I can hear them growing.

Raining here too Zora...how long does it take after rain to fruit chants around here? It's raining hard now...yipee!

[zora]

I found some babies last weekend so I am hoping they didn't just dry up and this rain will get them started again. I am going to go check on them either later today or tomorrow. It is not raining here now. Sun is out. Last year I really didn't start seeing a lot until the end of July into August. But they may be early this year since we had an early warmth. Just found something down in the manure pile that looks like a shaggy mane. He is small so it is still hard to tell.

[Dave W]

I see that parts of SE PA received alomost 5 inches of rainfall last night and this morning. That should get things going really well in this area... but probably not for a few days. After such a large amount of rainfall it'll need to dry out a bit before new mushrooms fruit. But if you know a spot where the chants had already formed buttons, then maybe by tomorrow there'll be some for the picking.

[Evan]

Hey, Guys. Finally have internet at the new house. We've been going through a drought for the past few weeks with very high temps. But, we had a nice storm come through last night. I'm guessing the summer shrooms will be coming in later this week. I've found two small chickens, but that's it. I'm looking forward to hiking the woods behind my house to see what mushrooms are growing there. The berries are doing great. We have red and black raspberries, black berries, huckleberries and blueberries growing here. I might make some wine.

[zora]

These look like shaggy manes to me. What do you think? They are growing out of the manure pile.




This one was there too.





I have only had shaggy mane once and I loved them. And there was not mistaking them. This one needs to get a little bigger for me to determine if it is indeed Coprinus comatus.

[zora]

Was not expecting to find too much today but I did find a nice stash of oysters and enough chants for dinner. I found this other one I could use some help with. I am posting the picture in hope someone will give me hint where to start with this one. Like a little flower but I really wouldn't say that was one stem though it did seem to be coming from a central point. Hollow stems. It puts me in mine of the umbrella polypore.

[mushroom mary]

zora, on 10 July 2010 - 02:32 PM, said:

Was not expecting to find too much today but I did find a nice stash of oysters and enough chants for dinner. I found this other one I could use some help with. I am posting the picture in hope someone will give me hint where to start with this one. Like a little flower but I really wouldn't say that was one stem though it did seem to be coming from a central point. Hollow stems. It puts me in mine of the umbrella polypore.
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Looks chanterelley to me. Maybe in the Cantherellus or Craterellus family? Has that look to it.

[mushroom mary]

So what are the trees associated with chanterelles in the east? CA is live oak, OR is Douglas fir but not sure out here. Also for boletes and black trumpets?

[zora]

I would say oak. This woods is mostly oak, maple, beech. I find my trumpets in mossy run offs. My boletes barely got started this year before the rain stopped. We still need more rain.
So that looks like a chant to you? I kept looking at the "gills" because I thought the same thing but just never seen one like that. I found a couple nice chanterelles yesterday.
Here are my ??????? shaggy mane ?????
These are the ones from yesterday. Is this what they look like blown?


Here is a new one.