2 Mushrooms
I was exploring a small patch of forest near my house and I came across two different mushrooms and I was hoping somebody with mushroom experience could help me identify them. I never aquired the...
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You don't have to have an appetite for mushrooms to be fascinated by them. When I began to study edible wild plants I had no interest nor any desire for them. Then an incredible growth pattern and...
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Hi Forager, My apologies. I forgot to be as descriptive as possible. I live in Castle Rock, Colorado (just south of Denver). Elevation is 6,200 ft. We're located a few miles east of the Rampart Range...
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Looks like Lepiota Proclera to me. Just make sure the spore print is light cream NOT green.
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I forgot to say that when I picked the 2nd mushroom, it did have some debris (grass and pine needles) that got lodged in it by accident. No biggie. As for the first mushroom I'm going to assume that...
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Just for clarity, when Enigma referred to a spore print the indication was not about the gill color but rather the color of the spore themselves as they accumulate on paper. Spores can have a...
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Steve. I've yet to take a spore print . Its definitely coming some time soon as we've just had a lot of rain and shrooms are going to be popping up all over the place . Thanks for posting those simple...
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Quills I don't know how it is done on a commercial scale but I thought about your idea and I'm not sure how it would work out. I know that the spores need to germinate and I don't know if they have...
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Thanks for your thoughts on the subject Forager . I've thought of digging out the mycelium of Morels ...I find... as I cut off the mushroom .and leave it in the ground where it stood . but so far I've...
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Forager, In your picture, is the white ring the ring around the stem or is it the gills of the cap? Also what is the dark material on the inside and outside of the spore? To get this straight... I get...
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I believe what you are looking at is only the spore print, It leaves a pattern just like the gills, or pores, that it came out of. The whole in the center is where the stem was therefore no spores...
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Steve,I now know what a spore print is. I had never heard of this before and after seeing the process via some pictures from milkwood.net "how to make spore prints" am I clearly able to understand how...
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The first mushroom sure looks like the parasol mushroom (Macrolepiota procera). It's very much edible and very tasty. HOWEVER you must be very careful with them as they can be mistakenly taken for...
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Forager is right, there was a Japanese mushroom company near by who used to buy the oak sawdust from the mill I used to saw at...they were running an ad in the paper for folks to grow them at home.....
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