Fungi Friday - Red Mushrooms
It's been a while since I posted for #fungifriday mainly because its been a bad season for mushrooms this year. Now they are finally growing again.
Here is a fancy ufo I found growing out of the side of a really dead log.
The red caps drew me towards them. I thought they might be some sort of bicolor bolete at first. But this guy isn't growing out of the earth like most boletes do.
The pores suggest a bolete species but maybe these are just a different type of polypore mushroom. I'll have to do more research on what they are.
Here's a brittle gill mushroom. This is Russula emetica also nicknamed the sickener because it causes upset stomach if eaten.
This is what the gills look like. If you barely touch them they tend to break hence their common name of brittle gill.
Look at this fancy little red bolete. I suspect it might be Boletus bicolor, though there are also many other Latin names for red boletes.
This was growing right next to it and I suspect its just an older version of the tiny red bolete.
Bicolor boletes have the common name because they are two colors, red stem/cap and yellow pores.
Look at these nice symmetrical yellow pores. If you barely brush up against them they will stain blue immediately.
I pinched off a bit of the cap to see the staining. Many foraging guides recommend not to eat staining boletes but I've been doing more research into the staining boletes and many of them are edible, you just need to parboil them first then cook them thoroughly and do a tiny taste test at first to ensure they don't cause stomach aches. Most of the other boletes that are listed as inedible just taste bitter or sour so you wouldn't dare try eating one even though they aren't poisonous.
That's all for now, more #fungifriday posts soon. Thanks for looking :-)
Great post. The pictures are great but I love the info with them for newbies like me. So at least I start to learn to think like a forager haha. What to look at, how to classify, etc.
Keep an eye out for king boletes up there, one of my favorites, but a bit rare to find over here.
wow, that's pretty good I just saw that type of mushroom today in your post. every photo is so beautiful. thanks for sharing have a nice day.
Was it a red russula?
The first one looks like one I found a few (around 6) years ago in Michigan! That one stained blue as well. Can't remember the color of the spore print.
Wow, I was able to find some pictures after so long.
That one could be something in the range of bicolor bolete. But there are quite a few subtle species that look like them.
Right. At first I thought they were exactly the same but after pulling up the old photos yours have more of a frosted look to them.
Boletes are pretty tricky. Where I'm at there areat least 40 different species and they seem to grow in one off batches so I rarely can get a good id on them and many look exactly the same. I got tricked into cooking a bitter bolete that looked like an edible white king bolete lol, tasted like burnt rubber and fish lol.
That sounds unpleasant! Is it true you can taste test russulas and if they're spicy/bitter their inedible?
Yeah russulas are generally easy to identify by their color. There are a couple good edible ones here a green cracked one that you can eat raw and a purple one that requires a bit of cooking. The tan or brown ones taste bad and the red ones give you a stomach ache.
The herbs that I do are really very unique and very cool where I don't have mushrooms like that
You could try growing them indoors, oysters are easy to setup for indoor growing.
Wow this looks really beautiful. You have taken good focus.
I'm glad they are finally growing here this year.
yes hopefully they can grow all year round
Hah yeah the winter here kills everything, but there is one type of mushroom that still grow in the winter called flammulina veluptides or commonly known as enokitake mushrooms.
So the fungus can still survive in the cold.In my area a few days ago it was very hot and there was no rain,So many plants or other plants are all dry and withered, especially for mushrooms it was very difficult in the past few days for us to find them in the dry season.
Of course, as a friend said sometimes it has cold weather so a lot of mushrooms die, of course it's very different from in our area,Because in our area there is no cold weather there is only hot weather and normal weather.
I would probably swelter to death in a jungle environment too lol.
wow some of these mushrooms look so pretty and cool...
The red ones are easy to spot in the green weeds. I also found camouflage brown ones that were just big, otherwise I wouldn't have seen them.
Wow the mushrooms you share this time are amazing. Good job mate
Hopefully i'll find a bunch more over the weekend.