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Post by onebentarrow on Sept 28, 2014 11:37:32 GMT -5
  Found these this morning. 6 inall. They are in the side yard. Gona let them grow couple more days then FRIED MUSHROOMS oh boy! No I am not gona tell you where I live |
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Post by throbak on Sept 28, 2014 13:28:37 GMT -5
what are they
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Post by onebentarrow on Sept 28, 2014 14:36:57 GMT -5
I have always known them as cauliflower mushrooms but I think the tech name is hen of the woods
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Post by onebentarrow on Sept 28, 2014 14:46:38 GMT -5
I have found whitish ones that look like cauliflower and the brown ones both are good. I usually find them around the base of LARGE black barked oak trees usually from mid sept into early oct. Last year I did not find any. I think it was too dry in this area. I have found them so large they would not fit in a 5 gal pail but when that size usually pethey
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Post by featherduster on Sept 28, 2014 18:31:54 GMT -5
Two young and healthy looking Hen of the woods.
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Post by drs on Sept 29, 2014 4:13:43 GMT -5
There's a lot of those fall mushrooms growing on my property, despite the dry weather this fall.
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Post by onebentarrow on Oct 2, 2014 4:58:24 GMT -5
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Post by drs on Oct 2, 2014 6:46:40 GMT -5
Please make certain those Mushrooms aren't poisonous!! If so you may end-up needing a liver transplant, if they don't kill you first. I never eat mushrooms, mainly because I don't like eating anything belonging to a "Sub-Kingdom".
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Post by esshup on Oct 2, 2014 11:19:25 GMT -5
I found some really young hens yesterday along with about 5# that I brought home. Starting to see some fall buttom mushrooms too. This rain today and this following week should really get them popping up.
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Post by featherduster on Oct 6, 2014 12:12:54 GMT -5
Please make certain those Mushrooms aren't poisonous!! If so you may end-up needing a liver transplant, if they don't kill you first. I never eat mushrooms, mainly because I don't like eating anything belonging to a "Sub-Kingdom". One mushroom hunter talking to another says "MY FIRST WIFE DIED FROM EATING POISONOUS MUSHROOMS" the other hunter says that's a shame sorry to hear that. The first hunter then says "MY SECOND WIFE DIED FROM A BROKEN NECK" wow says the other hunter was she involved in some kind of car accident, no says the first hunter she wouldn't eat the poisonous mushrooms. |
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Post by esshup on Oct 6, 2014 18:29:32 GMT -5
I have to download some pictures from my phone to post 'em here. Deer season isn't going so well, but I don't need to worry about running out of mushrooms all year long after what I found today. I'll be up late tonight getting them all cleaned/cut up and in bags to freeze. All I'll say is that I've never seen so many hen-of-the-woods in a small area (maybe 50' x 100'). To give you some idea of scale, the bucket on the tractor is 72" wide, and the flat part on the bottom of the tractor is slightly larger than 24" front to back. When I got them home, they completely covered the top of the washing machine, the dryer, and the sink that is next to the washer. I'll get a weight of them all and add it here.  |
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Post by esshup on Oct 7, 2014 11:27:17 GMT -5
I don't know my mushrooms very well. I know morels, hen-of-the-woods and the fall brown button mushrooms. Does anybody know what these are? They are growing out of a Maple stump that was cut last winter. There are more growing in the ground, about 50' away.  |
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Post by featherduster on Oct 7, 2014 12:37:47 GMT -5
esshup: after reading your post about the hens I went to a woods that I had visited earlier with no luck but this time there were more hens there then I have ever seen, I picked and few left the rest to mature.
The one thing to look for on a honey mushroom is the fact that they have what is referred to as a five o'clock shadow or whiskers on the head kind of like a Shaggy Mane also the gills run onto the stem.
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Post by esshup on Oct 7, 2014 13:16:12 GMT -5
Thanks!
I looked for the hens a few weeks ago and nothing. Even a week ago, nothing. But when I checked on Sunday I found a few, and went back yesterday prepared to carry some out of the woods. I wasn't expecting to find all that I did! I did leave about 20% of what I found, not picking them, so hopefully if conditions are right next year they will be there again. I just checked the stump that I found them last year, and then looked in that general area for more. I was blown away by the amount that I found.
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Post by featherduster on Oct 7, 2014 13:52:15 GMT -5
Thanks! I looked for the hens a few weeks ago and nothing. Even a week ago, nothing. But when I checked on Sunday I found a few, and went back yesterday prepared to carry some out of the woods. I wasn't expecting to find all that I did! I did leave about 20% of what I found, not picking them, so hopefully if conditions are right next year they will be there again. I just checked the stump that I found them last year, and then looked in that general area for more. I was blown away by the amount that I found. You have added new meaning to the expression "BY THE BUCKET FULL". |
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Post by esshup on Oct 8, 2014 20:12:29 GMT -5
featherduster, I think I found some like you described. I sent the pics to your e-mail. Do these look like honey mushrooms to you? Here's the pics I sent you. They are growing on a sugar maple stump. I cut the tree down in January.   |
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Post by bullseye69 on Sept 28, 2015 20:50:26 GMT -5
I found a lion's mane the other day squirrel hunting and forgot to grab it.   |
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Post by dadfsr on Sept 29, 2015 5:18:19 GMT -5
Keep these pics coming!!! Just last year I harvested my first hen of the woods after seeing it growing on the same stump for a few years. I'm afraid it's been too dry up here so far for much fall mushroom action though...
I have a guy here at work (he's actually an old high school classmate) that knows his "sub kingdom" pretty well-I really need to get him to walk the woods with me. I should have taken pics of some I found growing on the side of a log at a clients place last week-looked like huge oyster shell type fungus but a lot whiter.
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Post by esshup on Sept 29, 2015 13:36:41 GMT -5
Rain today/tonight might give things a jump start. It's been really dry here with the exception of a deluge about 10 days ago.
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Post by duff on Oct 2, 2015 8:09:09 GMT -5
There is a Facebook site that is very good at id of mushrooms. I have learned a lot from that site. If you are a facebooker let me know and I will get thr name of the group.
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