Mushroom

[Alex_K]

Hi,

Anyone have idea what a kind of mushroom is it?





Thanks for any information...

[peppereater]

Hard to tell. Do NOT eat it unless you have it from a reliable source that it is edible AND that no similar species are poisonous.
When I hunt mushrooms, I check at least 2 fieldguides before deciding if a mushroom is safe.
I'd be happy to break out my guides and check but I won't be able to until this evening, and even then, without the shroom in front of me, there may be further things to key out for it, like color of spore print, smell, etc.
It is growing on wood? I would need some info. on your region, what conditions it's under, etc.

[ozarklady]

Hmmm, very good question. I don't see a bulb at the bottom, which warns of danger. But looks like it separated like a veil, now that does worry me.
I echo the post above, what was it growing on, wood, forest debris, or dirt?
Whatever you do, do not eat it, without an exact identification, do not get it on other mushrooms that may be safe to eat, please wash your hands well before eating or smoking after handling it. You must use caution, some mushrooms are great to eat, some make your tummy sick, and some can kill or cripple you! Don't take chances! It is great to be curious and find out... Just use lots of caution. You might look online, I remember saving alot of mushroom photos from some sites.

[freedomsailer]

Shrooms, now thats something i would be very interested in finding out how to grow and cultivate, some way other than buying the mushroom kits sold in lots of the seed sites. anyone here raise their own shrooms?

[wolfcub]

Fungi Perfecti have a great catalogue for anyone interested in growing mushrooms lots of different kinds Marj

[castanea]

Jan 12, 2010 10:29:01 GMT -5 freedomsailer said:

Shrooms, now thats something i would be very interested in finding out how to grow and cultivate, some way other than buying the mushroom kits sold in lots of the seed sites. anyone here raise their own shrooms?

This is something I have never seen before - mushroom spores packaged like seed:

m.italianseedandtool.com/category/italian_seed_and_tool.vegetable_seed.mushroom_spore/

[mnjrutherford]

That shroom would be related to a shiitake. Don't eat it without EXACT ID!

We grow shiitakes on logs. We ordered "seeded" plugs from someone in Oregon, I'll look it up for you if you need it. Then, in the late fall we dropped some gum and an oak. Cut about a dozen 4' straights (10" to 12" diameter). Drill lines of holes the same size and depth as the plug, about 5" apart. Stuff the plugs in the holes (the idea is to occlude air within the hole). We covered our plugs with melted beeswax, but some feel that is not necessary.

We acquired 2 varieties. One comes on in a big swoop around September. The other comes on in drips and drabs through fall and into winter. We dry the first ones and use them in the non-fruiting season. The others we use fresh. Excellent in sickie (chicken) soup with lots of ginger, garlic, thyme, carrots, and celery.

You want to order your spore, they grow it to order so it takes a couple weeks. When they tell you the order is being worked, you go out and cut your trees and and prep your logs. DON'T drill the holes, just prep the log pieces. Decide how you want them to "set". We made "tables" where they are stacked criss cross. More traditionally a rope is tied between a couple trees or stakes and the logs are "stacked" against the cord. It's slightly labor intensive at the start, but VERY easy there after.

[mnjrutherford]

That's an interesting site Castanea. From what I've read previously, I don't see how buttons could really be done from a kit. They are VERY labor intensive. On the other hand, I'm willing to shell out the price to give it a shot. Shiitake on the other hand are a very easy to do and work beautifully on a larger scale.

[ceara]

On the gilled types like that, cross cut the gill and wait and see if it leaks a milky liquid, or latex. That's one ID tip. If it leaks, then it's possibly a Lactarius.

Scent is another ID tip. What's it's scent? Does it burn your nose or smell sharp?

What was it growing on? Dead wood, dirt or poo?

The cap patterns remind me of Agaricus family, but the rest of it does not.

It COULD be Cortinarius, or Gymnopilus

Can't tell any more until we know what it was growing on, where it was found, if it has latex or what it smells like.

I checked my big book "Mushrooms of Northeastern North America" and could not find a match.

It could also be a Gilled Bolete or a Clitocybe, according to my Audobon Society Field Guide to Mushrooms.

I forgot to add other ID tips

Cut them open - as in the case with Puffballs. White, dense interior is good, black interior or anything other than white not good.

Get a spore print - lay cap onto a piece of clean paper and leave for a day. Look at the spore print color.

So to recap,

Cut gills
Smell it
Cut it open lengthwise
Get spore print
Describe where it was found and what it was growing on
Turn colors when bruised - like blue for instance.

There's a cool Bolete that turns bright blue in the spongy-under cap area when touched. Others that turn blue, stay away from. hehe

[canadamike]

I have stopped picking wild mushrooms actively 4 or 5 years ago, I do not have time anymore, even for morels in the springs, which kills me...kind of. But one thing sure, wherever you are, there are thousands of mushrooms species, and we know only a few of them. And guides for wild mushroom pickers are not very accurate, Get a botanical book on the subject and compare it to a ''regional guide to mushroom'' picking, and you will get very dizzy....very fast...

I have eaten many wild mushrooms in my life, but they were all sure bets.

[cornishwoman]

I also have picked and eaten wild mushrooms but always under supervision.I grew wine caps once,it was a kit,it came with wood chips which you mixed with garden soil and of course the spawn,it wasn't very successful for me,I think at the most I got about a dozen to harvest at the end of their growing season.

[mjc]

I've got loads of Chanterelles and some years, Morels and Boletes (a couple of different ones, including King (Boletus edulis)).

[mnjrutherford]

Any chance of getting some shrooming lessons in at the Swap and Meet in September?

[peppereater]

Fungi Perfecti is definitely the place to start an adventure into mushroom growing. Paul Stamets was the founder or co-founder, he's been at it forever. His book, The Mushroom Grower's Handbook, I believe it's called, is a great, great reference.
Another great reference is a book called Mushrooms Demystified, i'ts sort of a guidebook, but nothing like the standard handbooks. That said, Audubon has a good fieldguide, as does Peterson's. Try to get both, and key 'shrooms out as ceara suggests...with both references in hand, you'll rule out accidental poisoning with quite a few mushrooms you'll find, as for the rest, don't risk it.
You can get spawn in several forms depending on what media they prefer to grow on. I won't even go on here, because better information than I have in my head is readily available if you start with the Fungi Perfecti site and catalogue, which is free. Anything from a strawbale to a stump to select hardwood logs are various media for growing, so cheap or free once you have spawn.

[WesTex]

*sigh* i'm so jealous! I desperately want to grow my own mushrooms, but since i live in about the driest place ever, I've given up on it. Anyone ever grown mushrooms in-doors successfully? It seems like a lot of tricky work....