I’ve been to Yellowstone and to grizzly country in other areas many times, and I will admit there have been occasions when I’ve felt like I’m being watched. Grizzly attacks fortunately don’t happen very often and this London Ontario woman is lucky to have survived… Read More
I laid today’s bounty out on a table on the deck. There are some different species of boletes, two types of chanterelles, hedgehogs, and lobsters. I gave away quite a few, I have a lot in the dehydrator, and I made some soup tonight. The… Read More
My brother Salvelinas finds these all the time up near Fontinalis World Headquarters. These were the first ones I’ve found. There were only these two and one more around, and when I found them, I scoured the area around them very carefully. There were lots… Read More
I scored the bottom of the cap on this bolete with a pocket knife and it immediately turned a dark blue. You can also see blue staining at the bottom of the stalk. I don’t know what species this one is, but with reddish pores… Read More
I think the mushrooms in the lower photo are Omphalotus olearius, known as the False Chanterelle. The gills and the colour look quite a bit like chanterelles but they are growing in a batch, growing on wood, and they are light and hollow, unlike chanterelles,… Read More
Today, I found quite a bit of coral fungi in the woods. I don’t know if all the stuff I found was the same species or different. Some was quite bright white, and other specimens were distinctly yellow like in the posted photo. I haven’t… Read More
I found lots of these boletes with the red pores. I don’ t know a great deal about boletes, but I do know the rule that says, “don’t eat the ones with the red pores.” Aren’t these chanterelles beautiful? There are some days when it… Read More
Some people I know won’t eat lobster mushrooms. These fungi are Hypomyces lactifluorum, basically a red-orange cup fungus that has attacked a host. The host is usually considered to be either Russula brevipes or Lactarius piperatus. The problem is that the host often gets distorted… Read More
We call them hedgehogs, but in fact they are the mushrooms known as Hydnum repandum. They are easy to identify, as they are the only tan coloured mushroom you’re going to find in the woods with teeth rather than pores or gills. The ones I… Read More
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