Somebody landed on this blog after searching the question, “Are there poisonous mushrooms in Ontario? A. Yes, plenty. Be careful please.
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The Mysterious Forest
Years ago, before I started paying attention to mushrooms, the forest was something I quickly walked through on my way to a trout stream. When you slow down and start to look carefully, though, you can find the strangest things growing in the woods. These… Read More
Craterellus ignicolor?
Please excuse the quality of the photograph…I was rushing because it was drizzling some and I didn’t want to get my camera phone wet. We found some of these on the Go Home Lake mushroom hunt. I checked some different references and have seen them… Read More
Go Home Lake Mushroom Hunt
Saturday morning I drove up to Go Home Lake, where I was invited to lead a mushroom hunt – the second annual. I’m no pro mycologist, but I can reliably identify a good number of tasty edibles as well as some of the nasty poisonous… Read More
Look what I found…
I drove a couple hours north of the city early this morning in search of some brook trout in a particularly gorgeous and challenging trout stream I know. As a bonus I found a few edible mushrooms. These are “milk caps” or Lactarius mushrooms. When… Read More
What big teeth you have…
Here you can see the underside of a couple of the Hydnum repandum I found this morning. As you can see, these hedgehog mushrooms have teeth. Some people remove the teeth before cooking, but I don’t see any need to do that.
Hydnum repandum – Hedgehog mushrooms
You don’t see the distinctive teeth on hedgehog mushrooms until you pick them. Tuffy P and I picked a few this morning. Here’s how they appear in the forest. There are two types of hedgehog mushrooms, Hydnum repandum and Hydnum umbilicatum. These are Hydnum repandum.… Read More
Ontario Mushrooms
I was just looking at the stats for this blog and I could not help but notice that many of the visitors here came looking for information about foraging for wild mushrooms or cooking wild mushrooms. There have been searches for edible mushrooms, poisonous mushrooms,… Read More
Foraging….checking out some new spots
Today was an exploration day. The dogs and I found ourselves in some interesting forests today, and as a bonus we found enough mushrooms for a couple dinners. Mostly I found chanterelles. There were a few boletes around but they were mostly not in the… Read More
Mushrooms!
Enjoyed a great afternoon with my friend Jamie and the dogs foraging for mushrooms. We found mostly chanterelles but also a few hedgehog mushrooms and a couple lobsters. I had expected we would find some boletes and more lobsters, but the quantity of chanterelles (we… Read More
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