Mushroom I.D. ?

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Anyone here able to positively identify these mushrooms? I found them in the edge of the woods out back earlier today. The first ones (and the smaller ones) look a lot like the mushrooms I buy at the store and cook with a lot only more flared out. I have done a lot of cooking with them out back over fires and stuff over the last several years and several times this past summer. I am wondering if some spores might have gotten sown out there.

The larger one has different colored gills and is more white on top than the others. Looks like something took a bite but didn't want any more. I wonder if that was the side that made them smaller.....

The knife in the pics for reference is 8.75" over all with a 4.25" blade.

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They look like those white button mushrooms from the store.
I would take some to
a botanic garden or something to have them
identified.
Reading on how to grow those button shrooms,says
they like dark humid conditions.

what conditions were they growing in,
what location,under oak trees,wet area,mud,?
I think all that info would
be needed to help someone identify them.


(guess I should have looked closer at the pics! I can see the growing conditions)
 
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Pine Mushroom, or the Matsutake. Thats the best I can do. It looks like it from my edibles guide, and from what I have found on the net. I need stalk length and have you noticed if there are any around that have not opened?

If they are Pineys, then they are a delicious fungi that the Japanese consider a "finer point in life".

The other options are poisonous, and if you've been eatin' em, then they are more than likely pineys.

Moose
 
fugawee said:
They look like those white button mushrooms from the store.
I would take some to
a botanic garden or something to have them
identified.
Reading on how to grow those button shrooms,says
they like dark humid conditions.

what conditions were they growing in,
what location,under oak trees,wet area,mud,?
I think all that info would
be needed to help someone identify them.


(guess I should have looked closer at the pics! I can see the growing conditions)
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They came up under leaves under a Sweet-gum tree about 5 meters from the areas I have cooked in. Not exactly dark once they broke through the leaves.



moosez45 said:
Pine Mushroom, or the Matsutake. Thats the best I can do. It looks like it from my edibles guide, and from what I have found on the net. I need stalk length and have you noticed if there are any around that have not opened?

If they are Pineys, then they are a delicious fungi that the Japanese consider a "finer point in life".

The other options are poisonous, and if you've been eatin' em, then they are more than likely pineys.

Moose
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I haven't eaten any yet. Maybe I should look up some old acquaintances from high school....one used to eat every mushroom he ran across. Then again he may not be around anymore....
 
It's an agaricus, most likely agaricus campestris(field mushroom or the meadow mushroom). From the pictures you posted the discoloration on the stalk would indicated that it had some sort of ring.

http://www.mushroomexpert.com/agaricus_campestris.html

Taking spore prints can help to ID mushrooms, but it shouldnt be your only means. Take a spore print by placing the cap (gills down) on a piece of paper (half black half white, you can use a black marker or some blue painters tape). Cover it with a bowl and leave it over night.

It also helps to pick a large variety of the mushroom (big and small, young and old). Will make it easier to ID later.
 
I pretend all mushrooms and snakes are poisonous in the field. Motto has been good to me for 34 yrs now... just saying.... i dont mess around w/ stuff
 
if they arent edible... pray they are the psychedelic kind and not the painful death variety
 
MrMushSHROOM said:
It's an agaricus, most likely agaricus campestris(field mushroom or the meadow mushroom). From the pictures you posted the discoloration on the stalk would indicated that it had some sort of ring.

http://www.mushroomexpert.com/agaricus_campestris.html

Taking spore prints can help to ID mushrooms, but it shouldnt be your only means. Take a spore print by placing the cap (gills down) on a piece of paper (half black half white, you can use a black marker or some blue painters tape). Cover it with a bowl and leave it over night.

It also helps to pick a large variety of the mushroom (big and small, young and old). Will make it easier to ID later.
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Thanks for the clarification. I'm still learning about wild edibles, and I'll take all the help I can get. With shrooms, it seems that there are so many things one must know to identify them correctly. Thanks again.

Moose
 
moosez45 said:
Thanks for the clarification. I'm still learning about wild edibles, and I'll take all the help I can get. With shrooms, it seems that there are so many things one must know to identify them correctly. Thanks again.

Moose
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That largely depends what kind of mushroom. Some are very easy to identify, or at least verify as nontoxic (no poisonous lookalikes). Agaricus species do not fall in either of those classes though common button mushrooms and portabello/cremini mushrooms are all agaricus bisporus.

I would, for example, trust myself to identify maitake mushrooms, but not an agaricus species
 
Oh just eat them! If we here back from yu, then we know they were safe. If we here about you walking naked through the forest talking to the smaurfs, then we'll ask for you to share. If we don't here back, nice knowing you, and we all will know it was poisonous.

THere, someone had to say what we were all thinking!
 
I agree they look like agaricus campestris, meadow mushroom. the ones in the stores are basically a hybrid of this mushroom, agaricus bisporus.
if it is mitsutacki, which I don't think it is, the smell would let ya know. they smell a lot like orange spice tea...
some times campestris grow in large circles know as fairy rings. excellent edible and will come back at the same location year after year if not too disturbed.
be safe... Ted
 
Thanks for all the input guys. I'll go look for that book.

If they have me skipping nude through the forest there isn't enough to share :p
 
Hard to say. Could be a tork or other edible mushroom from the agaricus family. the tork and others are edible and delicious, but have poisonous lookalikes. They don't kill you, just make you sick. But definitely could be edible -- worth it to send pics to a local mycological society!
 
jimh0220 said:
Oh just eat them! If we here back from yu, then we know they were safe. If we here about you walking naked through the forest talking to the smaurfs, then we'll ask for you to share. If we don't here back, nice knowing you, and we all will know it was poisonous.

THere, someone had to say what we were all thinking!
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DITTO what he^^^^^ said. lol:D
 
Even if you do end up identifying them, I WOULD NOT EAT THEM. Only about 5% of mushrooms are poisonous, but only 5% are edible. The rest you just shouldn't eat. Besides mushrooms contain little to no nutrients, so it just is never a good idea to eat wild mushrooms.
 
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