Fungi Friday - Mish Mash Mushrooms and Medicine
Here are a few random mushroom finds for this #fungifriday by @ewkaw
First we start out with some black hoof mushrooms on the side of a fallen tree.
The latin name is Phellinus linteus and they range in size and color but the most distict version is the black one. Sadly there aren't many uses for these other than fire tinder.
This trametes versicolor (turkeytail) has medicinal uses. It contains vitamin d and anti-tumor and anti-cancer properties. You can soak them in vodka and boil them then combine the vodka and water for a tincture. This is about a three day process but worth it.
Here is a strange unidentified polypore.
I thought it might be a sulphur shelf so I gave it a taste test. It tasted like raddish not a sulphur shelf. Also the texture was very spongy, so much so that it would not be edible if you even tried eating it. Who knows what it might be there are many polypores that look like this.
Here is a first time discovery for me
Amanita fulva aka Tawney Grisette. These are technically edible but they must be cooked well to remove the toxins. Better to boil them then pour out the water. I didn't give them a taste test.
Now for a choice edible bears tooth mushroom aka Hericium americanum.
These taste just like lion's mane mushrooms, firm, mild with a crab meat texture. They also have brain enhancing compounds for clarity of thought and rejuvenation of neurons.
I actually take a supplement with lion's mane in it combined with reishi and cordyceps to help feed my brain. Clinical trials have shown that all three of these mushrooms help keep the brain healthy. Maybe it will help me keep track of their latin names better lol.
Happy #fungifriday
IDK... the black ones looks like alien goo... 🙊
Haha the space ship had to take a pit stop in the forests of earth.
a good comment, I like it!
I didn't wanted to put it that way... but yeah ahahaha
Either that or there's a squatch in these woods lol.
I considered them to be ruines of some tires, stuck in a soil :)
Or mutant worms that eat dead corpses ahahah
Guau what beautiful photos man, I never seen this magnificent mushroom near here, specially the first black color, by the way were do you buy your supplement I want one.
I got them on amazon but they should have similar mushroom supplements in any vitamin store, you might need to ask the store owner where the mushroom supplements are, its impossible to find stuff in vitamin stores lol.
Ok friend i review the vitamin atore next time.
This guy sells the ultimate mushroom extracts and identification guides. Pretty much anything related to mushrooms. https://fungi.com/
Those turkeytail are gorgeous! I just wanna pet them.. they look so soft :p
The tops are fairly velvety, the bottom is coarse and rough. To harvest them you need some pruning scissors otherwise you end up pulling out a bunch of bark and dirt.
Those are some really weird looking mushrooms. I never saw anything like that... 😶
All sorts of shapes and sizes. I find new species each year that I've never seen before.
Excellent compilation, my favorites were: hoof and bear tooth mushrooms.
I wish I had found more of the bear tooth. There was just a little patch growing, not enough to harvest for a meal.
A fantastic collection of fungi..!!
@sketch.and.jam
I haven't seen solid black hoof fungi..! That's cool.
I'm thinking I might have found some Amanita fulva the other day🤔. I will eventually post my photo.
Do you think maybe the unidentified one could be an old Northern Tooth..? I'm seeing something similar on an old Maple tree.
But I'm thinking we should be able to see the teeth.
Maybe Tyromyces chioneus.
I'm definitely curious as what it is...🤗
I saw some Lion's mane yesterday.
:-D
I think you may have identified the northern tooth. It did have pretty deep teeth once I tore a bit off.
😊
I'm trying to find the pictures I took.
@sketch.and.jam
I know they were lousy photos and it was quite high up in an old Maple tree.
I know what I saw was not oysters.
The black hoof mushrooms are certainly interesting.
I have 2 mushroom tinctures that I take. One is pure Chaga mushroom, the other in a combination of Reishi,Turkey Tail, and Chaga.I take the pure Chaga most days, and sometimes add the combo as well.
These tinctures are made locally here. The Chaga is supposedly sustainably harvested in the northern part of the U.P. The Reishi and Turkey Tail are probably locally farm grown. I know of at least one grower in the area, that's his primary business.
It would be easy to be a mushroom farmer in the UP. A couple months ago I was up near the Porcupine mountains and saw where a chaga had been harvested. The birch forests are probably full of nice chaga specimens. I drink chaga tea and hot cocoa at least once a week as well, it's in powder form from Maine.
a great fruitful walk you had!
love all the specimen, especially the 1st one. look like tires :))) so funny. This summer I found a Tawney Grisette too, and was able to id it. will share my pics one day. and no Hericium for me... very rare, indeed!
it definitely would. but... do you need it, really? seems NO! everything is more then fine when it comes to your ID knowledge, and memory where to look for a certain specie name!
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Have you ever tried eating a Tawney Grisette? If I had known what it was at the time I might have harvested one to do a taste test but I thought it was just a random little brown mushroom.
no, when I found it I have no idea it is not a toadstool. understand iD much later. in Russian its name is 'Poplavok'. funny name.
haha Poplavok direct translation means float?
yeah! float - element of a rod
no idea why it is named so!
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