Here are some from yesterday's hunt:

Lobster mushrooms.

Golden chanterelles.

Zeller's boletes.

Cauliflower mushroom - 3lbs!

The haul, ready for cleaning. We cooked up some of the chanterelles, lobsters and cauliflower with a bit of garlic and cream, and ate them with pasta. Delicious. Half of the remainder we dried, and half we sauteed and froze. :-)

Here are some from last weekend:

Coral mushroom.







Violet cortinareus. We picked a couple and tried them at home. They were pretty inoffensive, but nothing special.

Angel wings. We picked a pound or so. Delicious and very nice texture.

Sorry to see people are getting smart about mushrooms , i left a nice edulus by the trail to pick up on the way out, somebody got it, on a weekday too.

Chicken of the Woods. Reading up on them, it sounds as if I should have brought them home. : )

^ Yes you should have !!!

You only eat the outside edge of them that is very soft.
The rest is to tough and does not taste very good.

How to tell which to eat.
Drop a pointed knife from 6 inches above into it going from outside to inside.
Where the point goes right threw is eatable and the rest is to tough.

This is a great thread!

I have found a couple of polypore mushrooms up on Burke Mountain which I believe to be either Ganoderma Tsugae or Ganoderma Oregonense. Have any of you found true varnish conks / ganoderma specimens (not including artists conk) in the area?

One thing I should note is that the mushroom was somewhat old so had lost most of it's sheen and texture, as well as the ability to take a spore print.

Here is a picture of the mushroom.

Thanks
mountaincarlos

Great thread! I'm a big fan of mushrooms, especially on my dinner plate

These two are from some 2012 trips:

Pine mushrooms I believe (Kettle Crest, eastern WA)


I have no idea what this is; looks like it's bleeding (Shulaps Range, south Chilcotins)

Doesn't look like a pine mushroom to me!

Perfect description for the second picture. Googling 'bleeding mushroom' produces this wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydnellum_peckii

Found on the Kennedy Falls trail today. : )

Mushroom in Lower Seymour area. Anyone know the name of this one?

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So many, that we were practically tripping over them. : )