Mushrooms from the garden

[CalG]

curious, there were seen today a pair of "different" fungi popping up in the garden beds. A shiny black pointy cap, with a perforated stem. Morel like. The stem, not the cap!

I can not find any direct image comparisons via internet search returns.

I'm not even going to touch them!

I have two small bags of wine caps in the fridge. I'm not much for mushrooms in the first place, so those should do for my cooking needs.
It is supposed to rain 2 inches overnight, so who knows what might pop up.

 

[ponytug]

curious, there were seen today a pair of "different" fungi popping up in the garden beds. A shiny black pointy cap, with a perforated stem. Morel like. The stem, not the cap!

I can not find any direct image comparisons via internet search returns.

I'm not even going to touch them!

I have two small bags of wine caps in the fridge. I'm not much for mushrooms in the first place, so those should do for my cooking needs.
It is supposed to rain 2 inches overnight, so who knows what might pop up.

Photos? Just curious.

All the best, Peter

 

[CalG]

Photos? Just curious.

All the best, Peter

The specimen appears to be returning to the earth from which it came. 3 inches of rain starting at ten o'clock last evening will do that I suppose.

The crown or cap, that was a shiny black color has detached and inverted to form that now white blotch at the end. The upper left aspect is where it emerged from the ground through some sort of sheath. Rather phallus looking it is still.

 

[2515R Dude]

After all the rein unexpectedly there were plenty of them.
While walking in my woods i saw something bright in the washout. Dug out a nice folder. It was in the ground at least 15 years. After fast wash and removal of the grass roots it is in great condition besides a little discoloration at the very tip. There were times when they could make things

 

[Jstpssng]

After all the rein unexpectedly there were plenty of them.
While walking in my woods i saw something bright in the washout. Dug out a nice folder. It was in the ground at least 15 years. After fast wash and removal of the grass roots it is in great condition besides a little discoloration at the very tip. There were times when they could make things

Nice find! I have a very similar Jaguar around someplace, which I also found last year. Too bad that somebody else has the several Buck knives I've lost over the years as well as my Ka-bar and the nice folding knife I got for Christmas one year.

 

[Dftodd]

As a kid, my grandparents got my brother and I a little mushroom farm that lived in our bedroom closet at their house.

We got some mushrooms off from it, and then the cat discovered the box

 

[CalG]

Well, The wine caps just keep popping up around the place. It's been an exceptionally wet spring!
We have found great ways to add them to our "usual" meals. Last night we had poutine. Grilled potato slices, cheese curd and gravy. The mushrooms were just right in the gravy.

I've been leaving many of the "older" individuals to stand and let go their spore. (There appears to be no correlation between size and age for these things) I wonder if that might up the odds of seeing more of them around in the future. I see that one can purchase spore mixed with sawdust. $30 for a five pound bag that serves to start a 5X5 foot bed seems like expensive novelty food.
But come to think, I have never purchased mushrooms at the grocery, so have no clue about their worth.

 

[ponytug]

Well, The wine caps just keep popping up around the place. It's been an exceptionally wet spring!
We have found great ways to add them to our "usual" meals. Last night we had poutine. Grilled potato slices, cheese curd and gravy. The mushrooms were just right in the gravy.

I've been leaving many of the "older" individuals to stand and let go their spore. (There appears to be no correlation between size and age for these things) I wonder if that might up the odds of seeing more of them around in the future. I see that one can purchase spore mixed with sawdust. $30 for a five pound bag that serves to start a 5X5 foot bed seems like expensive novelty food.
But come to think, I have never purchased mushrooms at the grocery, so have no clue about their worth.

When I lived in wine cap country, it seemed to me that weather was the primary driver of crops, and to a lesser extent, substrate to grow on.

Personally, if I were growing my own mushrooms, I'd grow shiitake or morels.

All the best,

Peter

 

[rontaki]

When it comes to picking the wild ones, there's not mushroom for error.
When I was younger, I had one of those "mushroom jobs".
The kind of job where they keep you in the dark, feed you a lot of sh#t, cut you off at the knees then can you.

 

[tracter]

Death cap mushrooms , there is a Court case right now in Australia where a women made Beef Wellington and included Death cap mushrooms , poisoned 3 rellies (they passed away)