Today I was fortunate to find several Hydnum umbilicatum and Hydnum repandum- the hedgehog mushrooms, sometimes also known as the sweet tooth. In our area, the Hydnum repandum tend to be larger. They have a rounder cap and they tend to be more pale in… Read More
This post has background music. Lanquidity by Sun Ra and the Arkestra. http://youtu.be/y3sa-5_rPm0 I pulled into the Indian River Campground with the duel idea of fishing the river and checking out the campground, with an eye to setting up camp there for a couple days.… Read More
What a perfect day for a walk in the woods. My friend Tiffanie had mentioned quite a while ago that she’d like to pick fiddleheads. Since I know where to find some and since ’tis the season, I suggested we go pick a good bag… Read More
Somebody landed on this blog after searching, “where do lobster mushrooms grow in Ontario?” The answer is, in the Enchanted Mushroom Forest, that’s where. Curiously, I find more lobster mushrooms in the forests I forage than any other single species, and yet I some people… Read More
Today I received two requests to identify mushrooms. One was based on a photo and the other on the real thing. The photo looked to me like a large batch of mature honey mushrooms growing on wood, but based on a photo I’d never say… Read More
I took these photos on a walk through a lovely suburban forest, one of those places you wouldn’t know was there unless you knew it was there. The photo above shows a breat’s head tooth growing from a felled tree in the forest. This forest… Read More
Gentle readers, I confess I may have exaggerated a wee bit when I declared that there were no edible mushrooms outside of grocery stores in Southern Ontario. While out for a stroll in a small woods with Tuffy P this afternoon, we kept our eyes… Read More
In the last few days, an alarming number internet surfers have landed on my blog after searching for information on edible mushrooms in Southern Ontario. I would like to ease the troubled minds of these individuals right now. There are no edible mushrooms outside of… Read More
After all the rain, I expected to collect buckets of tasty edible wild mushrooms today. Arriving at my first spot, I discovered to my dismay that the local bureaucrats had declared the only reasonable access to the forest to be NO PARKING. On the other… Read More
Hypomyces lactifluorum, AKA the lobster mushroom, is one of the more common choice edible wild mushrooms in the Southern Ontario forests I visit. I’ve written about lobsters a number of times before. They’re unusual in that the mushrooms we pick as lobster mushrooms are in… Read More
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