[Twilightzero]

So I went hunting out on the farm for mushroom pics last night after a request for some spores and found a TON of other mushrooms. Apparently the cool, moist weather we've been having for the past few weeks is ideal for mushroom fruiting and I found a lot of 'em!










These seemed to be growing almost right out of the rock!







These pics don't show the scale well, each lobe of this guy was almost twice the size of my hand!





More to come...

 

[Twilightzero]

These are probably deadly as all hell, but really cool looking!







Whoopsy, I think that's the remains of the last EOC'er I invited out to the farm...must've dropped that piece during dinner...





Finally found what I'm looking for, and it's a good thing since it's getting dark at this point!





Of course I hike all this way and FORGET TO BRING A BAG! Never, EVER carry an unknown mushroom with your bare hands! Luckily ingenuity is on my side! A little searching, a little picking, and voila: Grass Bag!





On the way back down I had to turn on my big LED light bar to find my way around. I tried to take a few pics with it instead of flash, most of them didn't turn out too great but I got a few keepers.







And I got another nice pic of the same mushroom in its immature state:

 

[Twilightzero]

BTW anybody else have mushroom pictures? For some reason I find them quite fascinating!

 

[LunchBoxDriver]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm...

Hey Twi...!

Why do I keep thinking of some thin crust, tomato sauce and fresh whole-milk mozzarella...? Man, you got me so hungry so late at night...!!! Those things look so good...!!! Oh, good point about safe-handling them 'shrooms...!

They have pro-spore handlers out here that have classes/field trips and I'm guessing that at least half of those shots are poisonous/deadly fungi... <<shivers>> I've seen the autopsy results of some of the results of eating them... >>shivers<< Brrrrrr...!!! Sca-wee... Veh-wee sca-wee...

LBD

 

[desinia]

I've never seen anything like that hairy looking one. If you get a name for it, let us know, OK?

 

[LunchBoxDriver]

Desinia,

Twi's probably snoozing after his "power-hike"... So I've quoted from the Bonfire thread... This is where it all started...

http://www.elementownersclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=56826&page=10

Post #91... Explanation below...

Found it, it's a Lycoperdon echinatum. However on my hike this evening after work to find them again I found a ton of other interesting shrooms. STILL uploading the pics though, I might just pause it and do it tomorrow at work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycoperdon_echinatum

LBD

PS: LOVE your avatar... That wouldn't happen to be you free-diving with the manta...?

 

[Twilightzero]

Hey Twi...!

Why do I keep thinking of some thin crust, tomato sauce and fresh whole-milk mozzarella...? Man, you got me so hungry so late at night...!!! Those things look so good...!!! Oh, good point about safe-handling them 'shrooms...!

I've eaten wild mushrooms that I've found while hiking before, but only after extensive verification from several independent sources. Some are easy as pie to identify (morels for instance) but others like chicken-of-the-woods mushrooms have to be carefully cross-checked before eating. Still delicious though!

Dammit now I'm making myself hungry!

 

[gryhoundz]

Look at this one!

http://www.mushroomexpert.com/clathrus_columnatus.html

 

[Jet]

I too went hiking this past week-end in the Squamish Mountain area North of Vancouver and found lots of great Mushrooms. (most tasted like chicken)

 

[LunchBoxDriver]

Dang Jet...!

You ate all those...? Gryhoudz' example looks like a Dorito (Nacho Cheese) chip gone to hell... Yours look like a Yukon Gold baby potato with cottage cheese on it and the rest like regular mushrooms except that last one... Glad to have a "shroom expert" available on the forum...!!!

LBD

 

[Twilightzero]

AWESOME pics Jet, I wish I could find some as cool looking! Especially that last one, looks like a sponge someone dumped in a bucket of peroxide! :lol:

 

[desinia]

Desinia,
PS: LOVE your avatar... That wouldn't happen to be you free-diving with the manta...?

I named my E after one of the main characters in several of my books. Here's a blurb from one of the promos...

"Heroines are made – not born…

These are the chronicles of Desinia, a young woman who sneaks out to buy shoes for her wedding and instead, finds herself transformed into a mermaid and living in exile on a tiny island halfway around the world from home. Along with a handful of other women who share her fate, and along with their husbands and families, they find that their new lives are destined to not only make them the saviors of the human civilization, but eventually, the tiny nation of New Atlantis will lead the rest of Humanity to the stars."

BTW, the avatar was shamelessly stolen from the internet and I don't know who made it originally. Here's another image found that I'd dearly love to find the original author of is. It matches the book's themes so well.

 

[LunchBoxDriver]

Desinia,

Very nice...! Don't you love the internet...?

Pardon the side-bar Twi...!

LBD

 

[Twilightzero]

Desinia,

Very nice...! Don't you love the internet...?

Pardon the side-bar Twi...!

LBD

Far be it for me, the undisputed king of leading threads off-topic, to criticize off-topic junk in my own thread! :lol:

 

[BigAl205]

Twi has been known to hijack his own threads.

 

[desinia]

Far be it for me, the undisputed king of leading threads off-topic, to criticize off-topic junk in my own thread! :lol:

You've obviously eaten a mushroom with unusual properties and now you're hallucinating. Seeing mermaids, are you?

 

[Twilightzero]

You've obviously eaten a mushroom with unusual properties and now you're hallucinating. Seeing mermaids, are you?

Isn't that redundant? Don't all mushrooms have unusual properties?

 

[desinia]

Isn't that redundant? Don't all mushrooms have unusual properties?

The ones you showed certainly do. I especially loved the pic of that hairy looking one - but then again, most of my education involves which ones can go in the frying pan with butter and a little salt. Since I didn't recognize most of what you were showing, I went hungry that night. (sigh...)

 

[Twilightzero]

The ones you showed certainly do. I especially loved the pic of that hairy looking one - but then again, most of my education involves which ones can go in the frying pan with butter and a little salt. Since I didn't recognize most of what you were showing, I went hungry that night. (sigh...)

Turns out the hairy one is edible. Hungry?

 

[Twilightzero]

For those of you who loves you some shrooms, here's more pics! Ran into some really interesting ones a few weeks ago at the farm and managed to grab a few pics:







These were growing out of the bottom of the trunk of a dead black cherry tree:







I'll be heading back out to the farm this weekend, maybe there will be some more good pics!