Tag: LBMs

Your First 4 Mushrooms – A Novice Mushroom Hunter's Hitlist

October 7, 2015 annamary.mchughblogger@gmail.com5 Commentsforaging mushrooms, mushroom forays, Mushroom Hunting, Mushroom Identification, Taxonomyamanita, chanterelle, chicken of the woods, Galerina, hedgehog mushroom, LBMs, lion's mane, maitake, mushroom hunting, mushroom identification, oyster mushroom

Editor’s Note: Last weekend, I had the privilege of leading a mushroom walk at Pickards Mountain Eco-Institute. As I have come to expect, the class was filled with curious, enthusiastic students, a good number of whom self-identified as novice mushroom hunters, and 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