I went mushroom hunting with some friends for this #musrhoommonday
Found some crown tipped coral right off the bat. This is a good sign the mushroom hunt will be a success because often you walk into the forest and find nothing for a long time and end up seeing just one or two boring mushrooms.
Plenty of peppery Lactifluus piperatus were out. These are edible but super hot and spicy.
The best you can do with these is to powder them and used them as spice in soups.
Just an old dryad's saddle starting to die.
Maybe a week earlier and it would have been harvestable.
There is another baby one starting though. They look quite strange at this age but within a couple days or so a nice tender harvestable shelf will be growing here.
A random tiny red bolete. These guys are too small and tough to really harvest for eating. Plus many boletes around here cause stomach upset.
I have problems identifying the numerous smaller ones that all look like one another.
Yellow pores and a red stem and cap. Which of the 10 varieties could it be?
It did stain blue but I didn't get photos of it. The edible one with these characteristics is the bicolor bolete but it tends to be much larger than this.
These guys look oddly familiar I just can't quite remember in my dad brain what they are. Their gills were slightly pinkish too.
The tops became convex too. Our friends also have a toddler so it was a bit of a distraction hunting mushrooms with two toddlers and keeping them mosquito free. At least I have this photo to try and identify them later. Somehow I suspect they are not edible. Now on to round up the kids.
That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)
