magpie
@magpie@mander.xyz
Amateur mycologist and lichenologist (emphasis on the amateur)
- Comment on Pioppino wearing a baby mushroom as a hat 1 day ago:
I’m not even totally sure its a mutation and there doesn’t seem to be a lot of consensus on what it is or what causes it. It happens in cultivation and the wild, I believe its common to see chanterelles with this type of growth. I’ve tried to look it up and the reason that is stated most often is that it’s due to pollutants, specifically petroleum contamination. I’ve never had anyone give any evidence for this, though. I do recall reading https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0953756208606723?via=ihub, it states that rosecomb is the result of endogenous genetic instability but didn’t want to pay to read the whole thing.
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Where I live the driveways are normally cement and the roads are asphalt. Two different materials each with different curing times.
- Comment on Amanita muscaria subsp. flavivolvata 4 days ago:
Nope, everything seems to be early this year. I was shocked to find Hedgehogs and Hericium in July, we don’t see those until at least September here.
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- Comment on The golden oyster mushroom craze unleashed an invasive species – and a worrying new study shows it’s harming native fungi 5 days ago:
Many years ago I tried adding this to my grow schedule and thankfully it never got to spread spores, never even fruited. Its not that it wasn’t a fast grower, it was pretty vigorous (which is likely a big part of the problem) - the mycelium smelled like a rotting carcass and I binned that shit so fast as soon as I figured out what the stench was. I tell everyone this so people are possibly swayed even if lot of people don’t have this issue when growing them.
- Comment on Yesterday's haul: 2kg of chantarelles 5 days ago:
Chanterelles have been exceptionally early this year from what I’ve seen from other folks in the PNW. I like to watch Mushroom Trail on yt and he was pulling them mid-June, I think he is in Washington. All of the forums are full of people picking chants, lobsters and hedgehogs for a few weeks now. I myself have noticed a lot of things we don’t see until at least the beginning of September (in my area), Gomphidius, Hericium, Helvella, Hedgehogs, etc.
- Comment on Chanterelle update 6 days ago:
Thankfully, I am not, I can barely take the heat here.
- Comment on Coming up by the pepper plants. 6 days ago:
If you are on iNat there is a neat project called Molluscan Mycophagy where you upload observations of slugs and snails eating mushrooms. You upload an observation for each organism and use fields to indicate the “eating/eaten by” interaction.
I lucked out with my sandstone pods, I have plants and moss and they don’t touch them.
- Comment on Coming up by the pepper plants. 6 days ago:
I think its a Mica Cap but I am peeping a very cute isopod as well.
- Comment on Chanterelle update 6 days ago:
That’s the plan this year, get into some areas I don’t usually go and do it as frequently as possible. I am always checking iNat and MO to see if anyone posts Cantharellus in the region, even if people tend to be secretive about that sort of information.
Southern and coastal BC can get a lot of precipitation but a lot of the central/southern interior can be very arid, and I believe the Okanagan is a desert. Most of our rain typically falls in October/November.
- Comment on Chanterelle update 6 days ago:
I am in central interior BC and my area is pretty dry most of the time but wet when chanterelles should be coming up. I have asked around and even the more experienced foragers have had no luck but to be fair the population is small and other mushroom hunters are hard to find. I have heard of them being found about 100-200km north of me so they probably do grow here but maybe aren’t as abundant as other places. I am still on the hunt for them, I am mostly whinging.
- Comment on Chanterelle update 6 days ago:
Nice, wish these came up in my area.
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- Comment on Depressed Hedgehog :( 6 days ago:
I was so excited to see these, really early for my area. Just picked some more for dinner.
- Comment on Guepinia helvelloides - Apricot Jelly 1 week ago:
Edible, but not really worth it. I imagine if you had enough you could candy them.
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- Comment on Depressed Hedgehog :( 1 week ago:
Usually teeth or spines
- Comment on My yard finds from today 1 week ago:
Are the yellow ones chanterelles? They don’t grow in my area or are very rare so I don’t have a good eye for them. Pic of underside would be cool.
- Comment on Depressed Hedgehog :( 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Spathularia flavida + photos of spores inside asci 1 week ago:
Here are the spores, I just couldn’t manage a decent photo of them with my cheap microscope. Image
- Comment on A little flush of wood ear 1 week ago:
I’ve never eaten any I’ve found fresh because I’m not usually very confident in my IDs but I do love cooking with the dried ones. They seem to rehydrate pretty close to fresh compared to other mushrooms.
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- Comment on The season is finally starting to pick up in my area 1 week ago:
- Comment on The season is finally starting to pick up in my area 1 week ago:
Gills were more beige than cinnamon and spores were transparent under the scope. I wish I’d done a spore print but they shriveled up before I got home.
- Comment on The season is finally starting to pick up in my area 1 week ago:
No plans to eat
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- Comment on Alpine Jelly Cone 4 weeks ago:
9ft would usually be accumulative over the course of a winter, it snows for 5 or 6 months in northern BC, but we did get 6ft in 2 days once and that was a shit show. I would give the Letharia dye another try, the last time I did it I don’t think I used a mordant but you could use alum or something. I would skip the pressure cooker and just do a hot water bath, then you don’t felt your wool socks down into little baby boots.
