Over the past few days, I’ve seen more mushrooms of the genus Amanita than I have since I started paying attention to fungi in our forests. It seemed as if every spot I visited was punctuated by some of these often striking and beautiful mushrooms.… Read More
If you look closely, you’ll see that Ellie Mae is posing beside some mushrooms. We hiked into Duck Chutes on the Muskoka river. The dogs are loving the swim. Memphis is posing in front of a huge basswood tree, on a trail around a lake… 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 awoke this morning and looked out on the back deck to see that it was raining hard. More than that, it looked as if it had been raining much of the night. For a Sunday mushroom-hound, a big Friday summer rain is most welcome.… 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
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