Tag: edible wild mushrooms

Pleurotus Dryinus, the Veiled Oyster Mushroom

July 20, 2015 annamary.mchughblogger@gmail.com1 Commenteating mushrooms, Mushroom Hunting, Mushroom Identification, Taxonomy, Weird Mushroomsedible wild mushrooms, mushroom hunting, North Carolina mushrooms, oyster mushroom, Pleurotus dryinus, Pleurotus levis, veiled oyster mushroom

Editor’s Note: In my effort to catalog some of our more common North Carolina and eastern U.S. mushrooms, I have done little to touch on the varied species in the genus Pleurotus, which are generally called “oyster mushrooms.” Oyster mushrooms are one Read More

A Birdseye Overview of Chicken of the Woods Mushrooms (Pun Intended)

May 15, 2015 annamary.mchughblogger@gmail.com9 Commentseating mushrooms, foraging mushrooms, Mushroom Hunting, Mushroom Identification, Mushroom Stories, TaxonomyBerkeley's polypore, black staining polypore, chicken of the woods, edible wild mushrooms, hen of the woods, Laetiporus, Laetiporus cincinnatus, Laetiporus sulfureus, mushroom hunting, saprophyte

Editor’s Note: This is the first post in a series of articles I will dedicate to members of the Laetiporus genus, commonly called chicken of the woods mushrooms. I am not 100% sure why they have this common name, but I strongly Read More