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Hippocampus
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Oregon Mushrooms ID, please EDIT: Spore prints added!
#23053242 - 03/27/16 09:22 PM (8 years, 22 days ago) |
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These were all found in the Willamette valley area of Oregon from Portland to Salem. Species #1
Habitat: These were found growing in a residential neighborhood in the strip between the street and the sidewalk. They were growing in grass with some moss around and some type of deciduous tree nearby, but I didn't notice any wood chips.
Gills: They are fairly uniform in color, creamy white with just a tinge of yellow/brown. They are not attached, and are not all the same size. Seem fairly widely spaced to me, but idk much about mushroom species.
Stem: Lengths were between 1-4cm., diameter were between about 0.2-0.7cm., color was exactly the same as the gills, texture was smooth with very fine lines, and the stem was solid and very fibrous.
Cap: Ranged in Diameter from less than 1cm-4cm, color was creamy very very light tan with some areas of darker tan. The texture was smooth to the touch but slightly irregular in topography. Most of the examples were umbinate and most of those had a slightly darker tan color on the umbinate.
Spore print color: The color was cream. Didn't show up too great on white paper, as you can see from the pic
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Species #2
Habitat: These were found growing in a residential neighborhood in the strip between the road and the sidewalk. In grass and some moss. Also was not a particularly woody area. Seemed to be growing out of the dirt.
Gills: The gills were attached and very light tan colored. They were fairly uniform in size, except a few gills started at the edge and ended before they got to the stem.
Stem: The stems on these were uniform in diameter except in the ground became slightly larger. diameter was 0.2cm-0.6cm.
Cap: The caps had a diameter from about 1cm-3cm. The mature ones had upturned edges. There were noticeable umbinates. Spores: Very very light tan. Hard to tell on the white paper.
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Species #3
Habitat: These were found right next to a house in an area of landscaped flowers, and some wood and pine needles. There are very many of these little guys. There were pine and deciduous trees nearby, but growing out of the dirt.
Gills: The gills of these were similar to species #2 in shape, although the mushrooms were smaller in general. Sorry I didn't upload a pic. I can if it's requested. The color was the same as the cap, tannish orange. They appeared to be attached. If they are not attached then they get very very close to the cap.\
Stem: The stems on these were thin 0.1cm-0.2cm and uniform in diameter. They were not straight. Had some bending.
Cap: The caps of these appeared to be slightly umbinate and were more conical than round. The edges of many were a darker color in 0.1cm thickness around the outside of the cap. They were all pretty small. About 0.3cm-2.0cm.
Spore print: Rust colored.
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The rest of these I'm not asking for IDs, although you can if you want, I'd be interested. They seemed fairly distinctive looking to me. So I included less pics and descriptions.
Species #4 idk what these were, but there were a couple dozen growing in my yard near Species #3. Growing in dirt among pine needles and grass, moss, and weeds.
Species #5 This was growing on a tree stump in my yard.
Species #6 And finally, This was some sort of non mushroom fruiting fungus growing at the base of the tree right underneath the last one. Maybe it's just decomposing matter from the last example. But it looked to me to be separate. It was soft to the touch, and I pried a little of it to see what it looked like on the inside
Edited by Hippocampus (03/28/16 10:23 AM)
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houba
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Re: Oregon Mushrooms ID, please [Re: Hippocampus]
#23053300 - 03/27/16 09:49 PM (8 years, 22 days ago) |
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1. Marasmius oreades 2. No idea 3. Conocybe filaris 4. Looks like Verpa spp. 5. is very difficult to tell. Might be a Meripilus
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Hippocampus
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Re: Oregon Mushrooms ID, please [Re: houba]
#23053404 - 03/27/16 10:30 PM (8 years, 22 days ago) |
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Wow, so #3 is highly poisonous, eh?
Are you sure #4 isn't a half-free morel?
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houba
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Re: Oregon Mushrooms ID, please [Re: Hippocampus]
#23053428 - 03/27/16 10:41 PM (8 years, 22 days ago) |
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Yeah, really not sure about the potency but they do contain amatoxins.
4 Could be M. punctipes. Tissue connection appears pretty deep in the photograph. Did you bisect it?
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Hippocampus
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Re: Oregon Mushrooms ID, please [Re: houba]
#23053444 - 03/27/16 10:49 PM (8 years, 22 days ago) |
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Went out to my yard and picked one just now
I googled M. punctipes and the wiki page says there's a related species, Morchella populiphila that's more common in the western US. I would totally eat these mushrooms if they are edible. I have at least a couple dozen in my yard.
sorry for the crappy info and pics. I didn't think it would be possibly an edible. I've never had morels.
Edited by Hippocampus (03/27/16 10:51 PM)
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Re: Oregon Mushrooms ID, please [Re: Hippocampus]
#23053511 - 03/27/16 11:23 PM (8 years, 22 days ago) |
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You're right, that probably is a half-free. The stem texture is almost telling enough, the connection point isn't perfectly clear but it's definitely not pinched like a Verpa.
I would wait for TI to confirm
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Ganjaburger
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Re: Oregon Mushrooms ID, please [Re: houba]
#23054406 - 03/28/16 10:23 AM (8 years, 22 days ago) |
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Def a morel....just the Stipe alone gives it away. I actually like the stem more than the cap...So id prefer the "pecker-heads" as people in my neck of the woods so affectionately call em..
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Re: Oregon Mushrooms ID, please [Re: Ganjaburger]
#23054423 - 03/28/16 10:27 AM (8 years, 22 days ago) |
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If u have never eaten morels, u r in for a serious treat!!!
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Hippocampus
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Re: Oregon Mushrooms ID, please [Re: Ganjaburger]
#23054567 - 03/28/16 11:08 AM (8 years, 22 days ago) |
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But my wife insists I don't eat any of them. So I compromised, and will only eat them if I get a positive ID from a TI.
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relic
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Re: Oregon Mushrooms ID, please [Re: Hippocampus]
#23054683 - 03/28/16 11:50 AM (8 years, 22 days ago) |
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the lack of cottony fibers in the stem with the addition of the vertical perforations/slits near the bottom of the stipe point to this being a half free morel, not verpa.
if you harvest ten more and they're all hollow stemmed containing no cottony fibers and have those distinctive 'folds' or vertical slits near the base, you're good to go IMHO.
Edited by relic (03/28/16 11:59 AM)
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Re: Oregon Mushrooms ID, please [Re: relic]
#23054716 - 03/28/16 11:58 AM (8 years, 22 days ago) |
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and 6 looks much like the base of some species that has been consumed by bugs and slugs.
i find old, small specimens (or previously harvested specimens where the base is left but the rest taken) of Laetiporus and Grifola and others that looks like that. my chicken and hen spots also have aborts that look like this sometimes after the bug and slug armies have bombed them.
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Hippocampus
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Re: Oregon Mushrooms ID, please [Re: relic]
#23055723 - 03/28/16 04:57 PM (8 years, 21 days ago) |
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Here's the harvest from my yard! Freshly picked and rinsed. I left the ones that the bugs really went to town on.
Does anyone have a good recipe for morels?
How long are these good to keep?
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relic said: the lack of cottony fibers in the stem with the addition of the vertical perforations/slits near the bottom of the stipe point to this being a half free morel, not verpa.
if you harvest ten more and they're all hollow stemmed containing no cottony fibers and have those distinctive 'folds' or vertical slits near the base, you're good to go IMHO.
None of these have cottony fibers in the stem. And they do all have those slits at the base.
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Re: Oregon Mushrooms ID, please [Re: Hippocampus]
#23055951 - 03/28/16 06:03 PM (8 years, 21 days ago) |
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looks like you're good to go then.
we usually just saute with butter and eat as a side with steak or med rare ahi tuna or something like that...sometimes sauteed separately and then mixed with a wild rice as a side. often i just saute in salted butter, plate a huge pile, and just dig in like a glutton.
morels usually disappear too quickly in my house to make anything extravagant so i also can't tell you how long they last either; we don't have that 'problem' at my house lol.
i hear a lot of people like them in omelets.
frankly, they're not my favorite mushroom and i can't see paying some of the prices one hears about people paying for fresh morels. they're good, no doubt, but not that good.
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