Happy Mushroom Monday FungiLovers!
After a long hike through the woods yesterday, I came across plenty of beautiful mushrooms growing in the forest. Some of my favorite finds from the day included the Wrinkled Peach (Rhodotus palmatus), a striking pink fungus with a intricated reticulated cap, as well as the Leafy Brain (Phaeotremella foliacea), a gelatinous, lobed fungi that parasitizes fungi of the Stereum genus.
Along with these unique specimens, I came across a wealth of boletes growing along the trails that snaked their way deeper into the wood. Guiding my way was the Old-man-of-the-woods (Strobilomyces strobilaceus) as well as the dozens of Chestnut Boletes (Gyroporus castaneus) strewn along the side of the trail in such abundance that they reminded me of the trail of breadcrumbs left by Hansel and Gretel. Once I had reached the pond that sits at the heart of the wood, I was rewarded with a bounty of boletes growing along the banks of the water.
Below are a selection of the many bolete and non-bolete species that I encountered on my most recent walk.
As always, feel free to offer your suggestions if you believe I have misidentified any of the species listed below. Thank you!
Old-man-of-the-woods (Strobilomyces strobilaceus):
Chestnut Bolete (Gyroporus castaneus):
Frost's Bolete (Exsudoporus frostii):
Two-colored Bolete (Baorangia bicolor):
Reddish Brown Bitter Bolete (Tylopilus rubrobrunneus):
Violet Gray Bolete (Tylopilus plumbeoviolaceus):
Ruby Bolete (Hortiboletus rubellus):
Red-mouth Bolete (Boletus subvelutipes):
Red-cracking Bolete (Xerocomellus chrysenteron):
Golden Gilled Bolete (Phylloporus rhodoxanthus):
Wrinkled Peach (Rhodotus palmatus):
Leafy Brain (Phaeotremella foliacea):
Ochre Jelly Club (Leotia lubrica):
Bleeding Fairy Helmet (Mycena haematopus):
Jellied False Coral Fungus (Sebacina schweinitzii):
Hygrophorus Milkcap (Lactifluus hygrophoroides):
Viscid Violet Cort (Cortinarius iodes):
Turkey-tail Fungus (Trametes versicolor):
Violet-toothed Polypore (Trichaptum biforme):
Neofavolus americanus:
Brittlegills (Genus Russula):
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Epic finds. I am super jealous of that old man of the woods. The wrinkled peach is one I've never heard of, looks really unique.
This was my first time ever coming across one. The webbing on the cap is unlike anything else I've ever found.
Michigan and Wisconsin are the place for the most variety of mushrooms. Did you give the frostii bolete a taste test?
No I didn't. Are they a good edible species?
Yeah they are edible when fully cooked. They are described as tasting a bit like citrus. Next time I find one I'll give it a try, though I've only found them in the upper peninsula.
Just curious how you got into mushrooms and where you learned all this? I've been intrigued since I joined Hive and found your posts. I pay a lot more attention to the mushrooms I see now haha but I still don't know anything about them except that they look really cool. I'm interested in trying to find something edible myself
I started getting interested back college. I took a few biology courses and was confused why their was so little research and information available on fungi compared to animals or plants. From their, I started buying field guides (my favorite so far is the 2021 edition of the Peterson Field Guide to Mushrooms of North America) and using websites like iNaturalist.org, mushroomobserver.org, and mushroomexpert.com to try to start identifying the species I came across while walking through the woods.
If you happen to live in Eastern North America, another good resource is a man named Adam Haritan. He runs a website and a YouTube channel called Learn Your Land and has dozens of great videos on how to ID both edible and non-edible/toxic species in Eastern North America. He also has an online course that covers edible fungi species using a similar video style to what you can find on his YouTube channel but with much more detail. The course costs a few hundred dollars, but I can attest that it is very thorough and designed to be accessible to people with no prior info on fungi.
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Nice photo :)