Mushroom hunting

mushmire (fly agoric).

On my field trips with Oma and Tante Zeme in the New Hampshire woods in search of the eatable mushroom, I would frequently get admonitions not to pick the mushrooms that had pimples on them, that these were mushmire.

mushmark

what language?

my own, recently invented to bookmark mushroom page

Mushmark as well. (maybe this will catch on)

mushmark...

Blue Lactarius...edible and easy to ID...

I've never heard of those. Eerie... do they taste good?


Picturing the dish... blue mushrooms with.. er.. ah..

Hmm. never seem blue lactarius either. I will certainly be on a lookout... they seem kinda hard to miss.

Lactarius...cooked in a bit of olive oil they taste as good as supermarket button mushrooms...never found enuff at once to make a sauce...summer thru early winter after a good rain is when I see them...


Amanita umbonata...supposedly edible...I shy away from Amanitas...

Does anyone have experience putting up mushrooms, canning etc?

yes, we do that all summer long. or used to, back when i lived in slovakia.

when it comes to boletus-related species, we usually slice them thin and let them dry spread out on newspapers. best is to hang gauze like a hammock and let them dry that way, but newspaper will do just fine.

you can also pickle them (chenterelles and the like) in vinegar (add some onions or peppers if you like) or in lard, if you dare (this makes them excellent for cooking - we add those to fatty stuff like potato latkes, or omelettes, with meat...etc)

Ive decided mine is Chlorophyllum rhacodes

http://www.mushroomexpert.com/chlorophyllum_rhacodes.html

Spore print: White possibly creamy,

Stem: 1-3 cm Thick, bruises brown/orange, knob on the end. Double-edged, moveable ring.

Cap: Convex to nearly round when young, at first smooth and brownish, but soon breaking up so that the center remains smooth (or cracked) and brown but the rest of the surface consists of shaggy scales with brownish tips over a whitish background.

Flesh: Whitish throughout, but typically turning pinkish orange, then slowly brownish when sliced (especially near the apex of the stem); thick.

i agree. spore print excludes the bad guy as a possibility. yay, the Good wins!

Pilot Lands Copter to Pick Mom Mushrooms

seems silly to get all worked up about......