fungi friday - mushrom mix (10 foto)

Hola, setero! Today I share some fresh mushroom impressions I brought from my short trip to ...

Oysters I found on a gigantic old poplar trunk, all green and mossy. There were like 6-8 families growing at once. THis one was located at sufficient height above, and the capture was performed rather counter-light. Dont do that :P

Some nice solid Porcini - untouched by the worms yet. We found them first!

His a bit more matured neightbour.

Léccinum aurantíacum (Orange-cap boletus). Little baby, he was hiding beneath the leaf... I left him safe.

A newborn Amanita muscaria - with a little visitor.

An unidentified little redhead. Would love to know the iD, actually. I witnessed a huge colonies of this specie in July - it would be a good harvest, if it is something useful and edible. But I am not sure.

They built a colonies like this, scattered all over the grass.

Another UFO. I have a strong suspicion it is Tricholoma sp., but which one exactly? There are both edible and non-edible species there. And, after all, I might be wrong and its something totally different... Not 100% sur e- dont pick up!

This nice pair is Xerócomus subtomentósus.

When I was shooting it (and a few of his relatives) in the Summer, I was sure I've got a Saffron milk mushroom in my hands... but later some doubts appeared. It could be actually Lactárius torminósus! It's very easy to confuse both species (and your smartphone app will surely confuse them - 146% guarantee!). Both species have very similar outlook. Both belong to milk mushrooms, grow in the same spruce and birch forests.. but there are significant nuances that should be remembered by inexperienced mushroom hunters. L.torminósus are more common in the forest, and rather wide-spread. As for the saffron milk caps - you have to look hardly for them, and know well the places where they occure. Saffron milk caps are the most delicious of all milky mushrooms, they belong to the 1st grade mushrooms, and even can be eaten raw, without cooking (@bambuka showed us beautiful examples in his posts), they have an aroma reminiscent of bitter geranium... And L.torminósus have bitter taste, they should be soaked for 3 days before cooking.

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Woolly milkcap's cap is fluffy. They have a color of pink, light yellow and orange, similar to the color of camelina caps. Both mushrooms caps have a pattern of concentric rings - but L.torminósus has it less pronounced. (To me, this sounds like a obscure criterion...) Woolly milkcap has a smaller cap, its shape is more like a hemisphere, and the edges are more rounded down. The saffron milk's cap has almost no curves at its edges. Their stem being cut lookes different too: saffron milk's turns blue over time, and wolly milkcap's cut remains white, and slightly greenish.

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I am adding this video as a bonus - look at the real Saffron milk caps, feel the difference, and try to remember its outlook. Hope it helps! This mushroom really worth educating about it.

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Now, its time to part ways, I wish you good luck -- and Good Hunting! Oh, and Happy #FungiFriday to you.

#FungiFriday fun challenge is hold by @EwkaW

I hope many of you will join, as there are only 2 simple rules:

• when Friday comes, share your fungi with us! post your own, original photo/drawing/art/food/anything-at-all of any type of fungi (yes, stolen images will be checked and reported !)
• add #fungifriday (not necessarily must be your 1st tag). that's all!