Tag: North Carolina 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

North Carolina Yellow Morel Mushrooms and Other Morels

February 24, 2015 annamary.mchughblogger@gmail.com12 CommentsMushroom Hunting, Mushroom Identification, Mushroom Stories, Mycophagy - Eating Gourmet Mushrooms, TaxonomyAmerican elm, black morel, morchella, morel cultivation, morel mushroom, mushroom hunting, North Carolina mushrooms, tulip poplar, wild mushrooms, yellow morel

Yellow morels (sometimes called blond morels) are among the most coveted wild mushrooms in the world, and their appearance each spring is a sight for sore eyes. Unlike most fungi that fruit in the summer and fall, yellow morels and other mushrooms Read More