Mushrooms, plenty this year!

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This one was huge, i'd say at least 15-18" tall

#8 another thatched

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Nifty!

This is the time of year my Dad would go out picking...sometimes he'd bring home a bushel basket of them!

Bill has me looking for more of the colorful varieties now i've seen his bright orange ones. :)

Where's the Sprite's dancing underneath like all the fairy tales show?

Small but bright.

Something burrowed a hole in this one.

I like the texture on the edge of this one.

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Found some neat berries in my search for shrooms.

These could be seen from some distance.

This is the top of the large mushroom pictured above in Post #8813068. Something must of knocked it off during the night.

I like the edge on this one too.

Last one, put this one on blooms thread by accident!

Wow! Nice, .. Very good shots too!

Thanks WC

Love that one with the black edging...how cute is that???

You're a great mushroom hunter, Pixie!

NH seeing high amount of Mushroom poisoning....

CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire public health officials say they are concerned about a surge in the number of wild mushroom poisonings in the state.



The state Department of Health and Human Services says the number of emergency room visits attributed to eating wild mushrooms has jumped from eight in 2009, to 11 in 2010 to 31 this year. Eighteen of those have come this month.

Director Dr. Jose Montero says wild mushroom poisonings are usually limited to children and young adults, but he says officials are now seeing people of all ages showing up in hospitals.

He says people should be careful because many toxic mushrooms look like the safe ones, and there is an abundance of mushrooms because of the recent wet weather.

Symptoms including abdominal pain, vomiting, fever and diarrhea.

My advice is not to eat any, just shoot them with your camera. ^_^

i used to eat some backpacking - only stayed with what i knew were same.

Oh, I found what I think is hen of the woods....this was yesterday while in the dam picnic area.....but....I was too chicken to pick them....it's really like a huge, cluster of fungus, not a mushroom.....I need someone with experience to tell me...my Dad used to pick them, my Mom would cut them in strips, saute them & add them to rigatoni & sausage, & bake the dish....very yummy.

So far, the only ones that I have picked and eaten are the giant puffballs and the morels as it's almost impossible to confuse those with anything else. We did have another type growing near my veggie garden one year that was probably edible, but since I couldn't be absolutely sure, I gave those a pass.

Yeah unless your 100% positive DON"T EAT IT

i always had my mushroom book with me to be sure

Found a new one

Nice one Jen! I see yours has little crusty's on top too. I found one with those too.

Jen's is poisonous....fly agaric. Not sure about yours, Pixie. Bill, even with my mushroom book, I'm not 100% sure....I need someone who has eaten it before me!

smart move!!

Met my bird watching friend at the dam today...he was amazed I ate the chestnuts there....he thought they were horse chestnuts.....one of the rangers told me they were Italian chestnuts, & edible....I've seen other folks picking them....now I'm not sure I should eat them!

Found a few more....I didn't expect too after the heat wave, it dried things up quite a bit.
This one looks like something munched on it.

Another, no bites taken out of this one. :)

Most of these pop up in between the Oak tree and the Apple tree's.

Love the ridges.

Last one.....

Odds are nothing ate the second one because it looks like a Death angel from here.

I've been looking, but no new ones here.....they closed the trails behind the dam, & that's where I usually found mine.....

Haven't spotted any fungi in the yard of late. We used to get some enormous, rather nasty looking ones where my veggie garden is, but they seem to have died out. Now I just get patches of slime mold.