Just wanted to share some of the 'surprises' I've already found this summer located in Atchsion, Kansas. Feel free to help ID any I've gotten wrong ENJOY! 1.Bolete (originally thought was the King Bolete) 2.UNSURE? Polypore and Turkey Tail? 3.White-egg Bird's Nest-Crucibulum laeve 4.Chicken Mushroom-Laetiporus sulphureus 5.Many-headed Slime Mould-Physarum polycephalum 6.Netted Rhodotus-Rhodotus palmatus 7.Dead Man's Fingers- 8.Orange-Mat Caprinus-Coprinus radians 9.? a coprinus or marasmius? C.Wick
I can see that 1. and 2. seem to have come up missing here.......thanx for pointing that out to me Frog! :o) Below are the other two...1.being the bolete (taken today for update) and 2.turkey tail and unknown polypore (taken in Tennessee/not Kansas)
The chicken of the woods looks to me like Laetiporus cincinnatus, which has a whitish (not yellow) pore surface, oranger colors, and grows at the bases of oak trees (L. sulphureus grows higher up, off the ground). The unknown Tennessee polypore looks like a Ganoderma lucidum-like species that grows in my area (Illinois) on stumps of honey locust; it might be "G. curtisii." . . . and the bolete looks to me like a species of Tylopilus. http://www.mushroomexpert.com/laetiporus_cincinnatus.html http://www.mushroomexpert.com/ganoderma_lucidum.html (see bottom photo) Best wishes, Michael
Thank you very much for those two! I hadn't realized there were two different kinds of the Laetiporus until you pointed that out. I almost panicked as I've been eating that actual find in several dishes and have given some to a friend to cook/eat as well. The polypore one also is an awesome name find! I've honestly NO idea what kind of stump they were all growing on? It was a mixed forest and unfortunately at the time I photographed them I wasn't paying much attention to what type of trees were around as I and the people with me had the wonderful luck to witness a pileated woodpecker and his 2 girlfriends. I'm putting more info on the bolete looking mushroom? maybe will help..... I found several of them in a wooded area with light sunlight shining on them at mid-day....an older specimin...it was 10inches across on the cap with the pores darkening to a green hue. Indistinct mushroomy smell. The younger specimins have very fat bulbous bases...the cap short bell shaped with the pores curved inward. The older ones had the swelled pores. (side note? they seemed to like to hang out with chanterelles and the unknown orange mushrooms in the first photo) Hope the photos help here a bit?
I would call it Tylopilus rubrobrunneus, subject to matching the taste and the bruising of the pore surface. http://www.mushroomexpert.com/tylopilus_rubrobrunneus.html Best wishes, Michael
Unfortunately did the 'taste-test' with the peppery milky yesterday? Don't think I'll subject myself to that idea for awhile.......but I do know as this one aged...the pore surface turned green. Bruising turned it a dark almost red-pink color.
Looks like Boletus aestivalis (italian) but your one is probably a Xerocomus/Tylopilus that i dont know. It's important to take photos of very part of fungus.. Thanks and best regards to everyone ;) Nico
I'm putting some of the cross sections as well as underside views of the same mushrooms....I noticed the stem on these also have an almost 'webbed' appearance...You'll notice also that the cap and stem will turn a green with bruising almost immediately. The pores maintained their pinkish tone without darkening with bruising.
