Tag: mushroom identification

Taking Wild Mushroom Photographs

March 21, 2015 annamary.mchughblogger@gmail.com5 CommentsJust for Fun, Mushroom Hunting, Mushroom Identification, Mushroom Photograhy, Taxonomymushroom forums, mushroom hunting, mushroom identification, Mushroom Observer, wild mushrooms

Editorial Note: I will go ahead and say it: I am not a terribly good mushroom photographer! This post is intended to help novice wild mushroom hunters understand which features they might wish to photograph if the intent is to get Read More

Lumpin' and Splittin' Wild Mushrooms

March 17, 2015 annamary.mchughblogger@gmail.com1 CommentMushroom Hunting, Mushroom Identification, TaxonomyAmanita vernicocorra, boletes, chanterelles, chicken of the woods, hen of the woods, LBMs, morels, mushroom hunting, mushroom identification, mycology, phylogenetics, polypores, taxonomy, wild mushrooms

There are lots of different species of wild mushrooms in this world: 10,000 or so by conservative estimates, and probably many more, and millions species of fungi overall (1.5+ million if you’re an optimist…because you know, we’ll eventually get to all Read More

Mushroom Identification Tips and Fungal Taxonomy

March 15, 2015 annamary.mchughblogger@gmail.com4 CommentsJust for Fun, Mushroom Identification, Taxonomy, Weird Mushroomsamanita, dichotomous key, lactarius, lepiota, Mushroom Expert, mushroom hunting, mushroom identification, Mushroom Observer, russula, wild mushrooms

There are two kinds of folks in this world: people who think dualistically, and people who don’t. My Taoist-Catholic dad shared that goofy little bit of wisdom with me when I had all my mushroom identification books spread out on the Read More

The Spring King Bolete, Boletus rex-veris

February 16, 2015 annamary.mchughblogger@gmail.com6 CommentsCooking Mushrooms, Mushroom Hunting, Mushroom Identification, Mushroom Stories, Mycophagy - Eating Gourmet Mushroomsboletus, Boletus Rex veris, mushroom hunting, mushroom identification, porcini, Sierra Nevada, Spring King bolete, wild gourmet mushrooms

Quick Editorial Note Before I dive into this article about spring king boletes (Boletus rex-veris), I wanted to quickly note that the comments on this blog are working again. I had a few technical issues over the past couple weeks, Read More

Old Man of the Woods Mushroom, Strobilomyces Floccopus

September 7, 2014 annamary.mchughblogger@gmail.com2 CommentsMushroom Hunting, Mushroom Identification, Mycophagy - Eating Gourmet Mushrooms, Weird Mushroomsboletus, edible mushrooms, exotic fungi, gourmet wild mushrooms, hairy mushroom, mushroom identification, Old Man of the Woods mushroom, weird mushrooms, wild mushroom hunting

One of North America’s most unusual edible wild mushrooms is called Strobilomyces floccopus, which is a dark, scurfy fungus that is gray-white with tufts of black hair on the cap and a fine layer of dark fur on the mushroom’s Read More

Paul Stamets: Never Trust a Mycologist!

July 15, 2014 annamary.mchughblogger@gmail.com4 CommentsMushroom Hunting, Mushroom Identification, Mushroom StoriesAlexander Smith, hippies, mushroom hunting, mushroom identification, mycology, Paul Stamets, poisonous mushrooms, Russula emetica

One of the people who taught me about mushrooms was Paul Stamets. Although he is now one of the most well-known and highly regarded experts in mycology, when he started out in the 1970s he struggled to find acceptance Read More