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 Beege
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 Pilze suchen mit GK 
#10810391 - 08/06/09 11:50 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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I picked about the worst time to travel across germany for some mushroom picking, no rain for a while. But we did find some, here are some pics...
Amanitas
 
dried up 
Puffballs 
Lots of Pluteus
we're thinkin Armillaria
Suillus pin
Fuligo septica
Russula
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lots more pics to come
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 German Kahuna
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Re: Pilze suchen mit GK [Re: Beege]
#10810445 - 08/06/09 12:01 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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It was a pretty awesome hike, actually. I have some nice pics to post as well.
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wowitch17
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German Kahuna
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Re: Pilze suchen mit GK [Re: wowitch17]
#10810717 - 08/06/09 01:11 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Patience, young lad.
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shroomgatherer
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Nice Beege and GK!
Taking your mushroom habitat photography skills to Germany! Great pics.
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Re: Pilze suchen mit GK [Re: Beege]
#10810772 - 08/06/09 01:23 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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To the Germans: I wonder how Germany would compare to Russia in mycophilia. Russians are said to be completely at peace with both mushrooms and mushroom hunting. I know there's at least a few of us in Germany as well, including Christian Ratsch.
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I know a few Russians here and I love to go hunting with the Russian wife of a friend. All the Russians I know are mycophiles.
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Beege
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Amanita
Amanita pin 
Pluteus
and maybe a few more later
Edited by Beege (08/06/09 04:14 PM)
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Re: Pilze suchen mit GK [Re: Beege]
#10811464 - 08/06/09 03:34 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Something goes wrong with the second set of pics. It says they were deleted by the poster
THe first set is gorgeous! The second pic looks like those could be some aged and dried honey mushrooms. It's hard to tell though. As World_Spirit is interested in a comparison with Russia, I'd also be willing to learn how the German habitat compares with those in the US.
Regarding the Russians and mushroom gathering: we have one ethnic Russian woman in our family (actually, my gf's) and I've learned one or two things from her already. One of them is that many species that we frown upon in the West, e.g. due to bitter taste (lactarius, boletus), the Russians will simply pickle and eat. Not my favorite, btw.
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Re: Pilze suchen mit GK [Re: koraks]
#10811910 - 08/06/09 04:55 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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I'm not sure why the pics are doing that, maybe alan can help.
Thanks koraks! yeah I managed to get a few good ones.. German forests are amazing, there are some pictures there and some more I will upload of habitats and such.
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Re: Pilze suchen mit GK [Re: koraks]
#10812299 - 08/06/09 05:55 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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I've never heard of picklin a mushroom before but that sounds interesting.
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koraks
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It's gross.
Beege, be sure to write up one or two observations comparing your usual hunting habitats to Germany. I'd be interested to read them 
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Re: Pilze suchen mit GK [Re: koraks]
#10813543 - 08/06/09 09:14 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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its a lot more fucking humid here
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Beege
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Re: Pilze suchen mit GK [Re: wowitch17]
#10815893 - 08/07/09 04:42 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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I think I enjoy hunting in Germany more than Florida. Of course there is the excitement of jumping a fence, trespassing, being chased by bulls... and farmers... with guns... but here there are so many wild foods and pleasant finds just for the picking. Here there are plums, wild strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, cherries, apples, and all sorts of things that are imminently available on a hike.
Also the ticks are smaller (they're still a pain in the ass though).
Ok on to habitats. German forests seem a bit (mystical?) to me. In the mornings there's great clouds of fog everywhere and I've seen areas of forest with just this blanket of green moss that just goes on and on, you don't really see that in Florida, we have a little bit of actual moss and then a shitload of spanish "moss". This moss is a good place to look because it's a good indicator of moisture.
Even though it hadn't rained for a week or two before I arrived on this side of Germany there was still standing water in some places and right under the leaves the ground was fairly moist. The tree canopy and mulch layer of the forest are really good at retaining moisture. I think this keeps the mycelium alive and healthy without it actually fruiting. In Florida there are basically two or three forest types. The slightly higher elevations; the slightly lower elevations; and the super low elevations (swamp). The higher elevations have lots of Pine and dry scrub and almost never seems to be wet enough for anything other than Amanitas. The lower elevations are where you find the most fruits, intermixed in the Oaks and dense brush. And then I think it's too wet in swamp land to find any terrestrial species.. maybe wood-lovers. I've never hunted in swamp, mushrooms are nice but arms and legs are better 
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Amanita
und ein anderas
Amanita pin
Pluteus
Stinkhorn
this is an interesting one taken at 95 km/hr through a bus window...
and maybe a few more later
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Re: Pilze suchen mit GK [Re: Beege]
#10815931 - 08/07/09 04:57 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Ahh, great, thanks for writing that down, Beege! Most of what you wrote on Germany goes for The Netherlands as well, although our country, of course, is as flat as a pancake, which makes for often slightly less interesting habitats.
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Re: Pilze suchen mit GK [Re: koraks]
#10815942 - 08/07/09 04:59 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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oh yea I forgot to mention the hills!
It's so new and refreshing to me to actually see hills (Wir haben das nicht in Florida)! they provided little moisture pockets and stuff too.
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Re: Pilze suchen mit GK [Re: Beege]
#10815970 - 08/07/09 05:18 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Yeah, hills do help. They also help in keeping the land from being cultivated, which destroyed about 99% of the mushroom habitat in The Netherlands over the past few centuries. With a few hills, we probably would have had some more forests still.
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Re: Pilze suchen mit GK [Re: koraks]
#10816167 - 08/07/09 07:15 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Beege inspecting a group of Amanitas
Amanita with baby
The hunting grounds
      
Single Amanita
These Amanitas were sitting right in the blazing sun
   
Ischnoderma species (?)
Puffball
Different puffball
  
We found boatloads of Pluteus species
          
A couple of unknowns
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2) (I was wondering whether it might be a Volvariella species)
 
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5)
This is an interesting one. I have found it on several occasions in the past years when I was hunting boletes. They fooled me when I first found them, because the cap looks like a bolete and the velvety texture also fits, but it's got gills.
 
Digitalis purpurea, an anthill, a tree stump and a toad
   
An Agaricus in my mom's garden
 
Several Amanita
 
 
 
Tapinella atrotomentosa (this guy's got a fur!)
   
Some Cortinarius species
 
Lactarius
 
Tylopilus (Beege and I both tasted it and it was extremely bitter)
 
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hmmm cool you get foxglove out there too eh?
That ain't no toad bud, it's a wood frog.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_frog
nice pics, interesting variety of amanitas.
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Re: Pilze suchen mit GK [Re: xtofury]
#10816226 - 08/07/09 07:55 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
xtofury said:
That ain't no toad bud, it's a wood frog.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_frog
Unlikely. Rana sylvatica is a North American species. But you are right, it's a frog, not a toad. Most likely something quite closely related to R. sylvatica.
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