Mushrooms

[MRP2003]

Found these today in the wooded lot next to my house. What kind of mushrooms are these? Figured they are edible since the squirrels or raccoons haven’t eaten them

 

[Jaybird1980]

Not a great angle, but it looks like Oyster Mushrooms.

Vertical gills that that run down the stem. Looks like it on the top mushroom

 

[spencer rifle]

Figured they are edible since the squirrels or raccoons haven’t eaten them

What does that mean?

 

[Mij]

Nope, not gonna say it. Just set here n

 

[d.kaufman]

 

[JimH]

They are all edible once.......

 

[hotcupofbro]

I would suggest downloading the app "Seek" it is funded by Nat Geo and Cali academy of Science. Free to use and it works like a little Pokedex. You just take a couple pictures of the plant, fungus, or animal in question and it more often then not gives you a positive ID. Very handy for foraging, shrooming, or to entertain your kids while you are in the woods with them!

 

[spencer rifle]

Apps - the fastest, most convenient way to get the wrong answer.

 

[hotcupofbro]

Maybe five years ago, but the future is now. Apps require the same amount of base level intelligence as looking something up in a book. The information you retrieve is only as good as the information you put in. A little hard for some of the outlying generations, i know.

 

[Lpherr]

Maybe five years ago, but the future is now. Apps require the same amount of base level intelligence as looking something up in a book. The information you retrieve is only as good as the information you put in. A little hard for some of the outlying generations, i know.

Because everything on the internet is true.

 

[spencer rifle]

Umm, no. I work in natural and cultural history for a living, and spend too much time online correcting the misidentification that apps provide. In most things, not that big of a problem. If you get the wrong warbler or oak tree or liverwort, no one dies usually. But getting the wrong Amanita could be deadly. It tells me something useful that my youngest daughter (a professional mycologist, and certainly not old) doesn't trust apps for ID.

But you do you.

 

[duanewade]

Not a great angle, but it looks like Oyster Mushrooms.

Vertical gills that that run down the stem. Looks like it on the top mushroom

I agree. We have them growing on a tree stump out our back door. The wife watches that tree stump and just harvested and canned 15 half pints of them. This stump produces mushrooms at the oddest of times, any time it stays above 45° for a few days we see growth.

 

[Creedmoor]

I'm not a mushroom eater, and gennerly not a picker, but.
I was riding in the way way back, and found these. I can most likely fill up a bushel basket and send them to my brothers.


Ok mushroom guys what are these, please.

And if edible do I dry them? And whats the easiest lol way to do that.

 

[Creedmoor]

Bueller....Bueller...

 

[manifest destiny]

I'm not a mushroom eater, and gennerly not a picker, but.
I was riding in the way way back, and found these. I can most likely fill up a bushel basket and send them to my brothers.
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Ok mushroom guys what are these, please.

And if edible do I dry them? And whats the easiest lol way to do that.

I can't say. I have a suspicion, but... I will point out that Indiana has a mushroom that is known as 'Death Caps'. Your pic isn't a Death Cap, but... Please don't ask me what a volva is.

"Amanitas can be generally identified by the presence of pale gills, dry caps, and a universal veil that creates a volva."