Here's a #campfireconversation by @bambuka that involves a literal campsite
It seems I managed to setup camp right in the middle of a ramaria forest. You can see my red tent way in the back here.
We arrived at the campsite at night and had to setup in the dark so I had no idea what the place looked like until the morning.
After observing the sunrise in the morning I headed back to the tent.
That's when I found this beauty just 50 feet from the tent. This is Ramaria botrytis one of the safe edible coral mushrooms that is said to have one of the best tastes/textures out there for cooking.
Sadly at the time I did not know this was an edible mushroom... So I missed out on trying out a new edible mushroom :-(
In the area surrounding the campsite I also found Ramaria formosa. This one is not edible as it is very bitter and causes stomach aches.
Then just a few feet from that I found Ramaria aurea aka golden coral. This is another one that causes stomach aches but it has an amazing golden color to it.
I also found this little guy nearby. I have no idea what kind of ramaria this is or if it is even a rameria...
I also found some crown tipped coral nearby. Sorry for the dark blurry picture, this was a dead log right next to the lake and I had to crane the camera around the log without falling into the lake... This is a nice edible but at this age it is already starting to get bitter tasting, this one has to be harvested right when it is just starting out and is almost semi transparent.
I also found a dangerous deadly mushroom near the camp. This looks like a deathcap aka Amanita phalloides to me. Lets hope no inexperienced mushroom hunters ever camp here...
Here is what the forests looked like around the campground and mist from the lake fills them pretty much every day. I suspect this creates a nice environment for growing all the different coral mushrooms species. I hope to go back to this area again this year... Right now it is still buried under snow in the northwoods of Wisconsin. Most people go here to go on fishing trips because there are lakes everywhere. But I go here for mushroom hunting.
The only thing to watch out for while camping in Wisconsin is the Boletus Flying Objects... They like to abduct the dairy cows to create genetically modified Lactarius mushrooms. As a mushroom hunter you have to steer clear of these UFOs who knows what sort of fungi abomination would be created if they abduct a human...
I suspect this might be one of the alien hybrids that the Bolete Flying Object created with the cow abductee (aka a lobster mushroom infesting a white lactarius mushroom). Beware the creatures of the forest at night...
Wow! You were in the enchanted forest full of beautiful magical mushrooms! The fairies put them out for you on the night as you were so good to nature!
That flying cow was an alien in disguise!
By the way,only fake aliens abducted cows for experiment! These baddies just wanted to make real aliens look bad. The fake alien wants to stage a false flag of UFOs attacking earthlings! So they could use fear to control all population! I hope the real UFOs would turn up to help us in time of need! We have better learn how to communicate with the real aliens so they could come to stop the Third World War and prevent the false flag! 🙀🙀😻
Haha I have watched encounters of the fifth kind recently. I suspect the fungal aliens would like to implant their spores into the humans though...
Long ago and successfully implemented... :-))
I learned recently that splitgill can grow inside the human body, from the lungs to the nasal passage, brain and even toenails lol.
What a horror ... and how many mushrooms feed on our juices while living on the skin
It is believed that oncology also has a mushroom basis.
And how much yeast we eat with bread ...
Just some kind of nightmare... :D
Yeah molds are bad for cancers but then there's turkeytail, reishi, cordyceps etc to fight the cancer. My fiance has been making sourdough for the past year and you can really taste the fungi in that, we're bot getting fat off the fancy breads she's been making. Now we have to stop eating it so we don't get too fat, maybe the fungi is contributing to it lol.
Almost all mushrooms fight against oncology, but those that you named are very strong in this matter.
I try to eat yeast-free bread. As they say, bread separately, mushrooms separately
Beautiful pictures!
Thanks, I can't wait to go camping in the northwoods again. Right now it's all buried under snow still but in a couple months it will be nice again.
Hiking in the forest is very exciting!
I really want to too! :-)
The farther north the better for forests, just not in the winter though...
Some looks very much like underwater world...
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I'm still hoping I get to find a purple coral fungi someday. Supposedly they grow around here, red ones too.
Fantastic Campfire story..!!
@sketch.and.jam
You picked a great spot to pitch your tent. Exciting to discover there were interesting and wonderful mushrooms nearby and a beautiful lake..!
😯😮 "Boletus Flying Objects" abducting dairy cows...!!
Are you sure you didn't sample some trippy/ psychedelic mushrooms when you sitting around the campfire 🤔😅😉..!!
So far I've only found the weak yellow amanitas up there which aren't strong enough to make you see mushroom ufos lol.
Here's that pesky bolete flying object. I think you found a similar one last year. It was growing out of a dead log which is kind of unusual for a bolete.
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I did see a few Bolete that looked like this last year.
From now on I will always think of your post when I see them...😊!
I remember reading somewhere that boletes that grow out of wood tend to be poisonous (not deadly but stomach ache inducing). Sadly these are the more pristine conditioned ones I usually find that aren't full of worms.
A very soulful story around the fire.
You have chosen a gorgeous place for mushroom finds. They could grow right under the tent
I do not know what to say. According to the terms of our competition, the story must be attached to one photo and be short.
From your excellent post, you can make several separate small stories.
I think this should be done ... please :))
I'll follow the correct format next week. I have endless mushroom stories :-)
Hooray, we will be happy to discuss them :-))
This mushroom is very beautiful and amazing especially the unique Ramaria botrytis mushroom and this is my first time seeing it ...
Yeah I hope to find some this year so I can actually cook some and see what they taste like. According to this guy they taste really good. https://foragerchef.com/ramaria-botrytis/