Somebody landed on this blog today after searching “Lactarius thyinos edibility”. The answer is that they’re delicious. They’re an orange milk cap – different from Lactarius deliciosus (the saffron milkcap) in that the thyinos don’t turn blue or green when bruised. They exude a bright… Read More
The other day one of my colleagues spotted some shaggy manes growing on a lawn across the street from where I work. They are delicious mushrooms and there were lots of them. Unfortunately, I wasn’t going to be able to use them that day, and… Read More
A fellow named Jamie commented here at the land of milk & honey….he was interested in finding someone to lead a little mushroom walk at his cottage. I’m no pro-mycologist but I can identify a good number of tasty edibles and quite a few assorted… Read More
I was contacted recently on this blog by a fellow looking for someone to lead a mushroom walk up in cottage country. It’s getting right toward the end of our season here, but I agreed to do the walk on Saturday, and hopefully we’ll find… Read More
This morning, Memphis and I headed up to the Enchanted Mushroom Forest to see if we could find some tasty edibles. Ellie Mae really wanted to join us (for those who are not regular readers, Memphis and Ellie Mae are our Newfoundland dogs) but with… Read More
A number of people have found this blog recently after asking that magician Mr. Google for the location of King Boletes in Ontario. For those who don’t know what I’m talking about, these are the tremendously tasty edible forest mushrooms also known as Porcini. I… Read More
I’m off work for a couple days so this morning I asked the dogs if they’d like a car ride to a forest. It turns out they were quite excited by the prospect, so off we went. There was a particular forest I had in… Read More
Here’s a short video I shot in the forest yesterday. I was finding hedgehog mushrooms. I believe these were Hydnum repandum, with the lumpy cap. I also found some Hydnum umbilicatum, with the flatter cap and the belly button.
Hypomyces lactifluorum is also known as the lobster mushroom. In fact it is the product of one fungi attacking another. The host mushroom is either Lactarius piperatus or Russula brevipes. The attacking fungus is a sac fungus, or ascomycete. It’s the red stuff. It colonizes… Read More
In the forests I visit, I mostly find smallish chanterelles – one over two inches tall or with a cap over two inches wide is uncommon. Yet today I found a cluster of chanterelles, all in one hollow, that were much bigger than the norm.… Read More
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