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
for the next few days. I’m blowing town to wander some forests and forage for mushrooms. I’m looking at this as an educational venture. I want to see how many species I can identify while I’m away. Beyond that, I’ll be having fun, goofing around… Read More
I only started foraging for mushrooms last summer, with the help of my brother Salvelinas, a load of books and a night course at the university. Last year, Salvelinas kept telling me about all the various boletes we were going to find, but we never… 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
Start off by packing some cold drinks and heading off to a forest. If you have a couple huge slobbering canines, they’ll want to come along. Find and pick a selection of tasty edible mushrooms. Avoid the deadly poisonous or the sickening kind. Drive home… Read More
I hadn’t planned on visiting a forest today, since we haven’t had rain in a while and I thought there wouldn’t be many mushrooms around. However, the dogs seemed to have the idea that on weekends I’m supposed to take them for a walk in… Read More
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