Since I ’ve started branching out into fungi identification , I think it ’s a good idea to take up cataloging some of my experience with wild foraging for eatable mushroom .
Hopefully what I write will be helpful . And hopefully no one dies .
Perhaps in the future , once I ’ve become importantly more experient at hunting down tasty fungal bounty , I ’ll be able to do a series of “ Survival Mushroom Profiles ” similar to mySurvival Plant Profiles .
For now , I ’ll just tell you where I found comestible mushroom , how I discover them , and how they tasted .
( FYI : If for some reason this web log ceases accidentally , it means I sleep with up on an ID . )
A twosome of week ago I was foraging in the same empty lot whereIdiscovered chanterelles andLactarius indigomushrooms . While there I come across an comestible mushroom cloud I only knew from photos – the “ Old Man of the Woods : ”
The “old man of the woods”
The “ old humanity of the woods ”
It ’s a passably sluttish mushroom to spot for beginners . It ’s flaky and flossy and has pores beneath the cap – NOT gills . If it has gills , you have something else and it may be vicious .
Slice or damage the flesh of an Old Man of the Woods and it will grow pink and eventually melt to blacken .
The “old man of the woods”
As for smack , it ’s enough . It tastes pretty much like a distinctive storage - bought button mushroom to my graceless palate . Sauteed in butter it ’s by all odds good .
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The “old man of the woods”
The “old man of the woods”
