Tag: wild mushroom hunting

A Quick Tour of the Amanita Genus

May 11, 2015 annamary.mchughblogger@gmail.com6 Commentseating mushrooms, ethnomycology, foraging mushrooms, mushroom forays, Mushroom Hunting, Mushroom Identification, Taxonomy, Trippy MushroomsAmanita bisporigera, Amanita jacksonii, amanita mushrooms, amanita phalloides, edible mushrooms, mushroom identification, poisonous mushrooms, wild mushroom hunting

Editor’s Note: This post was inspired by a reader who suggested that I take a bit of time on this blog to explain how to determine the genus of different sorts of mushrooms. One of the best approaches to learning wild mushroom Read More

Mushroom Hunting Diversion Tactics for Beginners

February 26, 2015 annamary.mchughblogger@gmail.com8 CommentsJust for Fun, Mushroom Hunting, Mushroom StoriesBLM, forest service, mushroom hunting, mushroom poaching, mushroom spores, mycelium, NC Wildlife Resources Commission, wild mushroom hunting

A Quick Editorial Note From Your Fungally Obsessed Author I decided to take a brief break from my ongoing series on morel mushrooms. Earlier this week and last week, I posted three entries about the unparalleled morel mushroom: one about morels 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