Yes growing from the wood chips and molded around the vine. All kind of shrooms seem to be growing in the 3 rounds of chips I got this year. I appreciate everyone’s thoughts as I have no mind for IDing mushrooms
put in two bags of winecap spawn this spring, got fresh hardwood chips, kept watering…no mycelium anywhere in the mushroom beds!
i cannot afford to pay 40$ a bag and get a few pounds in a great year and one or two mushrooms or zero in a “bad” year. it’s annoying. they should do great here. even the Italian oyster spawn has disappeared, and those are hardy here for sure.
I’m very disappointed, i skimped hard this spring to afford the two bags from northspore. and nothing is left.
i literally got 2 mushrooms this year. like a handful. from 3 patches.
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I have found chicken of the woods and oysters here in HI. There are other eatable varieties too but I have not found any yet.
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That is really frustrating. I remember all your mushroom pictures last year! Should you try again, I found Mountain Mushroom had better prices and customer service than northspore.
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I’ve tried wine caps and oysters here and no luck several times. Strange since the native oysters do great.
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Found some shaggy manes behind the yurt today. I hadn’t eaten them in decades, but I would rate them right there with morels and oysters. Kids loved them too.
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Certainly looks like one of the species with the common name “parasol”, either under Macrolepiota or Chlorophyllum. You’d need a spore print to tell if it’s the barfy one (green-spored parasol), but it looks so old and bedraggled you might not be able to get one.
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What do you do with all yours @snarfing? Besides fresh do you freeze any or dry it?
What are those? I’ve been drying and then freezing the little bit my logs have provided. Might be wrong, but I don’t think they freeze straight up very well.
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I dry and use on soups what I can’t eat fresh. It freezes well too but im currently banned from putting it in the freezer because its all tomatoes.
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today I found a mushroom I always find on walks and I asked our expert in our mushroom club who was with us to id it for me cause I love the smell and then I looked up the mushroo. And its called the oak bug mushroom because it SMELLS LIKE BED BUGS and thats what bed bugs used to be called so I apparently love the smell of bed bugs.
I knew it was a lactarius species but its apparently lactarius quietus
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Hen of the Woods (Maitake).
This is so weird. Bed bugs don’t have a smell…At least I never noticed one back when I had a horrible drawn out experience with them in Nepal. And the big bed bug explosion that occurred here shortly after I returned (I swear it wasn’t my fault…) never heard anyone mention smell.
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I mean there are bed bugs detection dogs so there must be some sort of scent… whether humans can smell it im not sure ive never smelled them myself either.
Googling it comes up with them smelling “sweet, musty, coriander like odor sometimes likened to berries” which sounds accurate
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