Fungi Lovers

Some Fungi I Fround in the Forest Last Fall

Let me be clear. I am no expert on fungi. I don't know which ones are edible and which ones kill me; I only know the most famous ones here in Estonia. So I steer clear of picking them myself. Last year, by the way, exactly one year ago on 11th August, I went to the forest with my girlfriend, who tried to find specific mushrooms to bring home. I spent the time finding as many different shrooms as I could and took some photos of them.

Since I have no idea of the names, for the most part I am using AI to give me the names.

I actually know this one, but in Estonian, it's called Puravik and is edible. In English and in Latin, it's birch bolete (genus Leccinum).

This one is Russula. Not sure if it's edible. There are variations in Russula shrooms. Some are edible, some are not.

That is a bracket/polypore fungus,a tree bark fungus. Definitely not edible. Probably not poisonous but you will break your teeth eating this one.

This is an oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus). It might be edible, but I wouldn't be sure.

This is Russula again, but a different kind. Again, don't know if it's edible. AI also doesn't want to tell me with 100% confidence.

Now this one I know myself; it's fly agaric (Amanita muscaria). It's poisonous and definitely should not be eaten. Red cap with white spots is very distinctive to this mushroom.

A bigger spot of shrooms you probably already saw on one of my photos.

This was all I was able to find at the time. I will most likely go to find some mushrooms with my girlfriend sooner or later because she wants to find her specific ones. Will find more of these fungi and take shots of them.

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@qwerrie(78)· 11d
Red Russula you identified correctly but only in 1 photo. The 1st one on long thin (!) stem is definitely not a russula but some toadstool. On the 2nd photo its not a fly agaric (Amanita muscaria), but a red Russula again. As for edibility - theres a simple test. Bite a tiny bit, and if it has a bitter taste (reminding of pepper maybe), than it isnt edible (but still not toxic). If you see its stem not white but red-dish, pink-ish, very probably it is not edible but bitter one. Simple as that!

Fly agaric / Amanita muscaria may look in a very different way (I mean the intense red colour or these notable white spots) ... check the link, hope it will help you to identify it better next time.

NB: it always have a coil on its stem. A great mushroom to find, for a man with a camera :))))

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@qwerrie(78)· 11d
Indeed you identified a lot of them not very correctly 😉 Would you have any objections to boost your learning curve a bit?..

Oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus) is VERY edible shroom, this specie is cultivated at the farms and 146% you can buy it in your local greenery store. BUT, the shroom in your pic is not Oyster, doesnt matter what Google lens told you. Oysters are very distinctive and easily memorable due to their design and shape. They are light in color, ranging from milky to ivory, to pale gray or amber, but never rusty-red, and the gills are fused with the stem in a very distinctive manner:

Also they often produce a big colony, very rarely they pop up solo or 1-2 caps.