This is my entry post for the Season Hunt Challenge by @barbara-orenya in the Feel Good Community! This is the third week and the theme is Mushrooms! You can learn more about the contest and how to enter HERE!
I took all of the photos, in my post, on two separate visits to the Little Gunpowder Trail to Bottom Road in Baltimore County, Maryland. I encountered some beautiful displays of Turkey Tail mushrooms while there and it is easy to see why they are named Turkey Tail mushrooms as they do resemble a Turkey's tail!
Turkey Tail mushrooms are common here and can have a lovely range of colors featuring tans, greens, yellows, blues (my favorite) and more!
An interesting point also is that many of the Turkey Tail mushroom photos that I took were taken from the same downed tree on both of my visits but approximately five months apart. I thought that downed tree looked familiar but on my second visit the mushrooms had a more blueish hue to them.
These were on a different tree by the water. I'm not certain if they are young Turkey Tails, False Turkey Tails or a different mushroom all together.
They were on the same tree as the following mushrooms. The white mushrooms are a type of Polypore Fungus but I don't know exactly what kind.
My last photos show another type of mushroom of which I don't know the name of. I spotted them on the roots of this old tree right by the water. I almost missed them because they blended in so well and I thought they were just leaves at first.
Here are a few close-ups of the mushrooms and that will also bring me to the end of my post! 💖
Thank you @barbara-orenya for #seasonhunt!!
All photos and text by me @deerjay. All rights reserved.
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These Turkey tails do look like real bird tails. What an intense blue colour. At the same time they remind me of seashells.
Thanks so much Neli!! Yes, I can see seashells also now that you say that! This was probably one of the prettiest blues that I've found and I found it on a couple of other group of mushrooms along this same trail. I thought it was interesting how they change color and wondered if it had to do with the temperatures changing. Hope you are having a great weekend! 💞
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I've never heard of Turkey Tail mushrooms! Are they edible?
I don't think the mushrooms on trees are edible, I mean they probably are not poisonous but from there, to eat them, that would surprise me a lot...I could be wrong of course, let's call a specialist 😁 @qwerrie ?
Turkey Tail definitely are non toxic but non edible (as they are hardened and highly woodified). one would need a stone teeth and belly, to eat and digest them! but I've heard the Turkey Tail tea may be useful (not tasty - but useful) for some of its medicinal qualities...
ps. there are hundreds of edible tree mushrooms!
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Thanks so much ❤️ Do you collect them from the wild?
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yes, I collect some wild mushrooms from the forests - I live in the city, in metropolis, where it would be not a wise move to forage even good edible mushrooms (due to the environmental and bad ecology issues). When I spend summer vacays out of the city I always go mushroom hunting, one of my fave hobbies. We dont make dried or pickled preserved supplies, we often cook them and eat momentarily. but the species that we pick up, are different to the ones mentioned above: we forage mostly Boletos, Russulas, Leccinus, Oysters, sometimes Ugly milk caps... I would gladly forage Armillaria mellea, but it is an autumn mushroom that do not occure in the summer, the only time when I am able to hunt mushrooms.
That sounds like something you would like to change? Hopefully one day you can live closer to the forest ❤️
not at all. if I would live there I could not earn money to run the family. I have priorities. walking in the forests a few times a year is far, far better then living around the nature all of the time (and with shitty, very lean and slender internet connection). I am not up to that! 😁
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Thanks, I never knew we would have a mushroom expert here ❤️
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Hi @wrestlingdesires and thank you!! They are considered a medicinal mushroom and can be used in powdered form in capsules, teas and tinctures. I would not think to try them in any form though unless I had more knowledge to do so. They do have lookalikes also that you would not want to mistake them for. There are only a very few mushrooms in the wild that I would be confident in consuming. I do love to photograph them though. 😊
They really are beautiful ❤️ I hope you will keep on hunting for them :)
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Thank you!! 💖
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Thank you so much!! 💖
Love the blue colored turkey tails, Dee. 💞 You captured great looking fungi on the trees
Thank you very much Jo!! Turkey Tails are the most abundant here I think. I do love when they turn bluish like that. 😊💕
True that they look like Turkey tails ! but at first I thought they look like oysters, or rather their shells 😁
Interesting to see the mushrooms on trees, and for the species we don't know (which represents about 98 % of mushrooms for my part 😄) we can always call @qwerrie for help that is an expert in the field 😉
Thanks @barbara-orenya!! @nelinoeva thought the same that they reminded her of seashells..lol. I definitely have to agree with you both as I see it too once pointed out. Sometimes I find out the name but I forget it. I joined a local group but they sure like to throw out the technical name and not the common which is even harder for my brain to remember..lol. I'm pretty confident in a few and will stick to foraging only the ones I know for sure and stick to photographing the others. Yes, @qwerrie and @sketch.and.jam are both very knowledgeable. I'm a bit jealous of them both but totally in a good and admiring way! 😊💖
ha! you always can call thats for sure, but not always you can have a clear biased opinion you can rely on!
for example, this... judging by the cap, I tought it could be Rússula foétens - but definitely its not, when you look at the gills. well, maybe still its some Russula sp. Europe and US ofc have same species the same, but a lot of different ones, as well... easily it can be smth we dont have here at all, and I cant even think of what it can be, then.... sorry! 🤪
this was amazing hunting with very enjoyable finds and visuals .those 'Turkeytail fields' are immaculate and very appealing. successful post, have a !PIZZA, my friend.
Thank you so much @qwerrie!! Turkey Tails are pretty and pretty plentiful here. It definitely was a pleasure to show some of them off! 💖
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Thanks so much!! 😊
Oh, they are beautiful ... I don't see these often but they are so beautiful and I enjoyed seeing these -- thank you!
You're very welcome and thank you @deeanndmathews!! 😊
Great hunt this week @deerjay. Those turkey tail mushrooms are really something to look at. Depending on the angle, they can look like turkey tails. But they can also look like oyster shells from another vantage point. And funny, when I did a quick gaze at them they seemed like blue butterflies. Fantastic. And so many different kinds too. @redheadpei posted one similar in form but differently colored and she called them conks.
Congratulations for a successful hunt and let me wish you the best on the draw 😊
Thanks @gems.and.cookies!! Yes, I see that resemblance to shells also since it was pointed out. I could see the butterfly too now that you mention it. Imagination is a wonderful thing! I think conks are a kind of polypore also and I'm pretty sure they all belong in the bracket fungi family. I wish I was more knowledgeable on mushrooms so I stick to mostly photographing them and will only forage the very few that I know of for sure. 💖
Wow, now I know why I have found so few mushrooms and where all the others are: they have a big family meeting in Baltimore County, Maryland 😁
I have found some similar looking mushrooms and have to admit that the name "turkeytail mushroom" suits perfectly :)
That was a very successful hunt, @deerjay, so many mushrooms, I have to say wow again and like the blue tone of some, like the ones in the first photo 😀
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Lol..I saw your post and it was most impressive Johann!! No lack of pretty mushrooms there as well and you photographed them beautifully! I love the name "Turkey Tails". Others have pointed out that they resemble seashells as well and I have to agree. It is funny that once it is pointed out that it fits just as well. I thought it was interesting that they started out one color but a few months later were a different color. Hope you have an awesome weekend! 💕
Thank you so much for your compliment, @deerjay 🤗
Yes, seashells would suit, but I have these turkey tail feathers in my mind and think it suits better 😁
It's more gray and rainy here, but I'm making the best of it ... wishing you also a great weekend 🌞
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You're very welcome! Gray and rainy is just in time for our next #seasonhunt! 😁
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Those certainly are some splendid looking turkey tails and other fungi you stumbled upon! 🍄🌿🍂
Incredible photographs, Dee!
How have you been doing? @deerjay
Thank you very much Nina!! It made the walk even more enjoyable to find them! 😊
Hanging in there! 💞