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#31 Lighthawk

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Posted 18 September 2015 - 05:17 AM

Thanks Walt.  Good to hear from someone who has decades of experience foraging for fungi.   It's a fun hobby with culinary benefits, and hopefully not gastronomical events!  

 

Things are starting to happen in the foothills.  I found a tree last year with mostly old oyster mushrooms running up the trunk.  It sits in a damp creek bottom with brush and deadfall with a year round creek at it's feet.  The bottom mushrooms had already turned, but we knocked off some of the highest ones which were still good.   They were excellent eating and I've kept my eye on that tree ever since.

 

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Posted 21 December 2015 - 02:37 AM

Hey there... just into the mushroom thing a few years back and though I grow them on Oak logs here at the farm I have only this year felt 'safe' (knowledgeable) to pick natural shrooms this last year. I saw this article in the computer on Flip from the New Yorker and thought to post as well as a shot of some of the shiitake logs against the barn.

 

http://www.newyorker...r-in-fungi-2015

 

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#33 Lighthawk

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Posted 22 November 2017 - 01:45 AM

Wow, it's time to wake up this thread!

 

Here in the NorCal foothills it has rained 9" this month.

Last year we had even more rain and it was a bountiful year for boletes, aka porcini.

I found them all around town under oak leaves, madrone and ponderosa duff.

 

So, we've been checking our spots about once a week and haven't seen much.  

I found a furry chanterelle, but those are not good to eat, so not much excitement, until today.

 

I took a short walk on a hillside that produced well last year and found a couple of young coccora, or calyptroderma.

These are amanitas and not for beginners.  They are highly prized in Italy and immigrants who came over with the gold rush era have been harvesting them.  Friends who are fifth generation residents learned about coccoras from them.

 

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I continued my quick walkabout and also found a "butter bolete", likely a butyriboletus persolidus.  I plan to slice and dry this one.

I just used some of last years dried porcini to make a nice wild mushroom gravy which will come with us for our Thanksgiving trip to the East Side.   :D  :D  :D

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Posted 22 November 2017 - 03:25 AM

Very, very nice! :)


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Posted 23 April 2022 - 12:16 AM

Saw this and though some of you shroom hunters might want to see

 


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