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Spongiform
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Results of my Morel Hunts
#14339637 - 04/23/11 05:24 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Been out and about a few times in the last week exploring and hoping for some morels. I'm extremely new at identifying wild mushrooms so I'm mostly guessing here.
My best guess is one of the false morels, Gyromitra infula.
Urnula craterium (Devil's Urn) I think.
Some more of the same thing I think.
Closest thing I could find is Plectania melastoma
No Clue
Some sort of wood ear / jelly fungus. I see these all the time but not usually that many one on limb. Are those edible?
Another little brown mushroom.
Tiny little orange cups.
The one and only morel I've managed to find. Not sure what species.
I thought this log looked neat.
Some sort of old large shelf mushroom on a stump.
Trametes versicolor - Turkey Tail
These mushrooms were pretty tough and somewhat hard to disloge but not quite as tough as those wood-like shelf mushrooms. That last picture didn't come out well but included for reference.
Some more little browns.
3 that I have no idea about.
Some cool looking bright orange mushrooms on some fallen limbs.
Yet some more little browns
Little brown mushroom on a log.
Some white mushrooms on a log.
Tremella mesenterica or similar
Some critters and plants I ran across.
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Re: Results of my Morel Hunts [Re: Spongiform]
#14339713 - 04/23/11 05:37 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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great pics! I love newts
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I love wild ginger flowers. They're so pretty!
What kind of snake is that?
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Spongiform
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Re: Results of my Morel Hunts [Re: Chaos_ultt]
#14339799 - 04/23/11 05:55 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Black rat snake. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_rat_snake
Very common and non-aggressive. Hold a wild one for 30 seconds and it'll feel like you've had it as a pet for years.
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The Thinker
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damn. nice hunt.
1st pic under critters/plants is squawroot
IDs for the rest will be posted in a second
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1. Gyromitra species - where are you located? 2. Urnula craterium 3. Urnula craterium 4. probably Entoloma cf. vernum 5. Exidia recisa 6. Coprinellus micaceus 7. Arachnopeziza species 8. Morchella species 9. Stereum species and dont know 10. 11. Trametes versicolor 12. Polyporus squamosus 13. maybe Entoloma cf. vernum 14. 15. Polyporus alveolaris 16. Entoloma species 17. Galerina marginata 18. Oysters 19. Not Tramella - cup fungi
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Re: Results of my Morel Hunts [Re: Spongiform]
#14339862 - 04/23/11 06:12 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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1) Gyromitra 2) Urnula craterium 3) Plectania melastoma 4) Entoloma 5) Exidia recisa 6) maybe Coprinellus micaceus 7) Arachnopeziza aurelia (awesome find, I hope you don't mind that I uploaded your picture to mushroomobserver http://mushroomobserver.org/66117 ) 8) Morchella sp. (good work erasing your fingerprints) 9 - 10) Trametes gibbosa and some other Polyporaceae of which I forget the name, some other TI will be able to name it for you. 11) Trametes versicolor 12) Polyporus squamosus 13) Entoloma / Nolanea 14) Polyporaceae and Stereum 15) Polyporus alveolaris 16) Entoloma / Nolanea 17) Galerina marginata 18) Pleurotus 19) Something cool from the Ascomycota 20) A mycoheterotrophic plant
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Re: Results of my Morel Hunts [Re: vjp]
#14339910 - 04/23/11 06:22 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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1. Gyromitra species - where are you located?
South-Central Ohio.
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Re: Results of my Morel Hunts [Re: Spongiform]
#14339935 - 04/23/11 06:26 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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3 is Urnula craterium
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Re: Results of my Morel Hunts [Re: The Thinker]
#14339944 - 04/23/11 06:28 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Are you combining 2 and 3 into the same number? I am.
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The Thinker
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the ones labeled
Urnula craterium (Devil's Urn) I think. Some more of the same thing I think. Closest thing I could find is Plectania melastoma
are Urnula craterium
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Re: Results of my Morel Hunts [Re: Spongiform]
#14339968 - 04/23/11 06:37 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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7) Arachnopeziza aurelia (awesome find, I hope you don't mind that I uploaded your picture to mushroomobserver http://mushroomobserver.org/66117 )
Cool with me. If I can run across them again I'll grab a better picture. I found them under a log while looking for salamanders.
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the ones labeled
Urnula craterium (Devil's Urn) I think. Some more of the same thing I think. Closest thing I could find is Plectania melastoma
are Urnula craterium
Are they just different stages in the growth? They looked different enough that they might be different species to me.
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Re: Results of my Morel Hunts [Re: Spongiform]
#14339984 - 04/23/11 06:41 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Here's a better picture from a different angle.
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Re: Results of my Morel Hunts [Re: Spongiform]
#14340023 - 04/23/11 06:52 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Spongiform said: Are they just different stages in the growth? They looked different enough that they might be different species to me.
Yea the first ones are older
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Re: Results of my Morel Hunts [Re: The Thinker]
#14340099 - 04/23/11 07:10 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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The Thinker said:
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Spongiform said: Are they just different stages in the growth? They looked different enough that they might be different species to me.
Yea the first ones are older
I'm going to go out tomorrow and grab those oysters. As far as I know I've never found any in the wild before. I thought oysters were more of a fall species so I wasn't really looking for them.
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Re: Results of my Morel Hunts [Re: Spongiform]
#14340134 - 04/23/11 07:17 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Spongiform said:
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1. Gyromitra species - where are you located?
South-Central Ohio.
Its probably Gyromitra korfii
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Re: Results of my Morel Hunts [Re: Spongiform]
#14341291 - 04/23/11 11:23 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Neat stuff!!! Great pics; thanks for sharing!!
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Went out again today for about 5 hours.
#1
#2 (Exidia recisa)
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7 This was pretty interesting to see. I'm not sure if the mushrooms at the base were related to the mycelium on the trunk so this may be 2 different species on the same tree.
#8 This was particularly cool. Noticed some funky mycelium with funky metabolites. After a close inspection for fruiting bodies I saw some TINY little things.
#9 Noticed some BRIGHT yellow mycelium under this log. I looked for fruiting bodies and saw some small pinkish red fruits forming but they were difficult to photograph. I marked the location and will check back later to see what they grow into. The fruits had the same color as some Laetiporus I found last fall.
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#11 - Cool tree covered in mushrooms. Was difficult to get a good picture showing all/most of it.
#12: This two little things were weird. I'm not even sure they're mushrooms.
13: Arachnopeziza aurelia - Found another patch. Ridiculously easy to miss.
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#16: I'd been out "off-trail" morel hunting and then I find these right in the middle of my trail. Any idea what species of morel these are?
The morel patch was guarded on either side by two venomous reptilians guards.
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#18 The oysters from yesterday. How confident are you guys that these are oysters? If you're positive I'm having Morel & Oyster Soup tonight for dinner.
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Some various flowers / critters I found on the way.
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Re: Results of my Morel Hunts [Re: Spongiform]
#14344292 - 04/24/11 04:42 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Great post, Spongiform! Love all the herps and flowers you include.
Those are half-free morels.
Nice Jack-in-the Pulpit. I wouldn't have touched that millipede on a dare!
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Re: Results of my Morel Hunts [Re: Spongiform]
#14344409 - 04/24/11 05:05 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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1 Tricholoma 3 Trichaptum biforme 4 Flammulina velutipes 5 Marasmius 6 Stereum ostrea 10 Entoloma 11 Trichaptum biforme 12 Geastrum 14 Aleuria? 16 Mitrophora semibilera 17 Gymnopus/Rhodocollybia 18 100% 19 Daedelea quercina 20 Schizophyllum commune
nice Jack in the Pulpit. red flower is Fire Pink and pretty cool (worth reading a little about)
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Re: Results of my Morel Hunts [Re: Bobzimmer]
#14344566 - 04/24/11 05:34 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Bobzimmer said: Great post, Spongiform! Love all the herps and flowers you include.
Those are half-free morels.
Nice Jack-in-the Pulpit. I wouldn't have touched that millipede on a dare!
Millipedes are fine, worst thing they can do to you is tickle you with those feet. Now centipedes, I know better then to touch.
Technically, those garter snakes are venomous too but rear fanged and mild.
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Re: Results of my Morel Hunts [Re: Spongiform]
#14349821 - 04/25/11 03:53 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Went out again today.
#1:
#2: Found these at the base of trees, always down slope and the same kind of tree. I suck at identifying trees so I don't know what those are but the bark is pretty distinctive.
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Misc stuff: Deer skull, box turtle, newt, & red back salamander and a purple flower.
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Re: Results of my Morel Hunts [Re: Spongiform]
#14349859 - 04/25/11 04:00 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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1 Polyporus squamosus 2 Green Ash I think. 3 Polyporus arcularius 4 Peziza sp.
Good job!
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Re: Results of my Morel Hunts [Re: Bobzimmer]
#14350252 - 04/25/11 05:12 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Bobzimmer said: 1 Polyporus squamosus 2 Green Ash I think. 3 Polyporus arcularius 4 Peziza sp.
Good job!
Thanks. I cut up that squamosus to check the consistency. It was firm but not tough, definitely edible. It's in the dehydrator with the morels. I'm thinking I'll make a jar of dried mushrooms for convenient use in cooking soup, spaghetti etc.
Especially since I haven't seem to be finding a lot of any one species so far.
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Re: Results of my Morel Hunts [Re: Spongiform]
#14355304 - 04/26/11 01:38 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Now that I have a better idea of what look for and where to look for it at it.
Nom nom nom :-D
American toad, box turtle and that last flower is a showy orchid about to bloom.
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Re: Results of my Morel Hunts [Re: Spongiform]
#14356000 - 04/26/11 04:02 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Wow spongiform, what a great thread! Where are you located, if you don't mind me asking? You are really good with handling wild things! Sounds as though you know your Snakes though.. really cool. I love how on your first hunt all you found was one tiny, minuscule morel, moved on to the half-free morels on your next hunt and finally continued with more success with each hunt! Congrats! Must feel good finding the natural Morels.. all I can find is landscape Morels right now.
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Spongiform said: #7 This was pretty interesting to see. I'm not sure if the mushrooms at the base were related to the mycelium on the trunk so this may be 2 different species on the same tree.
I'm curious what this is? Nobody really chimed in... it almost looks like the start of a huge Hericium fruiting? Probably not, as I'm not very familiar with Hericium sp...
Thanks again for sharing your awesome finds spongiform!
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Re: Results of my Morel Hunts [Re: Oreganic]
#14356087 - 04/26/11 04:20 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Wow spongiform, what a great thread! Where are you located, if you don't mind me asking? You are really good with handling wild things! Sounds as though you know your Snakes though.. really cool. I love how on your first hunt all you found was one tiny, minuscule morel, moved on to the half-free morels on your next hunt and finally continued with more success with each hunt! Congrats! Must feel good finding the natural Morels.. all I can find is landscape Morels right now.
I've been "herping" since I was old enough to walk so I'm pretty familiar and comfortable with snakes, lizards, frogs, salamanders, turtles and the like. Last year I accidentally found lions mane, maitake and Laetiporus and it's really encouraged me to start looking for stuff like that. Plus I just moved out to the country in central ohio and have tons of places to look. The vast majority of the pictures I've posted were essentially in my back yard.
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I'm curious what this is? Nobody really chimed in... it almost looks like the start of a huge Hericium fruiting? Probably not, as I'm not very familiar with Hericium sp...
I don't have a clue what that is but I'll keep an eye on it and see what kind of fruits emerge.
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