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CureCat
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Re: Lobster Mushroom? [Re: DaveOdd]
#12896237 - 07/14/10 02:16 AM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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DaveOdd said: From what I have read, the orange variety of lobster mushrooms are only paratisitizing edible species whereas the white variety can be toxic species. Anyone have more info?
Nonono, there is only one species of "Lobster Mushroom", there are not multiple varieties of the species H. lactifluorum.
However, there are a lot of different species of Hypomyces, which are often white, and maybe poisonous, but I would not know as they are so unappealing that no one would think to eat them.
For instance, there is H. hyalinus which parasitizes Amanita species and is white, and there is H. chrysospermus which parasitizes species of Boletus and is yellow, but both of those would be awful to eat, if not poisonous.
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reps
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Re: Lobster Mushroom? [Re: Shins]
#12896486 - 07/14/10 06:15 AM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Shins said: I've never seen such a "normal" looking lobster shroom if that is one. Usually the ones i find are all misshapen and mutant like.
Like I said I never collected lobsters before, but I thought the same thing with all that I have seen in the books and such. Most I see are deformed looking. That's why I wanted to really make sure of it.
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masspan
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Re: Lobster Mushroom? [Re: reps]
#12896490 - 07/14/10 06:17 AM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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did you eat it? looked pretty substantial
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Re: Lobster Mushroom? [Re: masspan]
#12896857 - 07/14/10 08:34 AM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Awesome find! I love finding parasitic sp like Hypomyces. But i feel sorry for the host.
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reps
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Re: Lobster Mushroom? [Re: masspan]
#12899764 - 07/14/10 07:18 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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masspan said: did you eat it? looked pretty substantial 
Just made some up. That's some really good eats:) Thanks once again to everyone for not only the ID but for the praise of a nice specimen
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DaveOdd
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Re: Lobster Mushroom? [Re: reps]
#12903915 - 07/15/10 06:25 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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I just found my first Lobsters today, got 3+ lbs of them. Good times!
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elprawn
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Re: Lobster Mushroom? [Re: Parkseerf]
#12909123 - 07/16/10 08:22 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Parks229 said: Awesome find! I love finding parasitic sp like Hypomyces. But i feel sorry for the host.
Entoloma abortivum, too. It feeds on Armillaria gallica. In the following picture, the white ones are the ones that have been ravaged by the Entoloma.
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CureCat
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Re: Lobster Mushroom? [Re: elprawn]
#12909599 - 07/16/10 10:20 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Armillaria are parasites too.
Ask Mr. Mushrooms, he'll tell you.
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elprawn
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Re: Lobster Mushroom? [Re: CureCat]
#12909629 - 07/16/10 10:32 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yeah but they are tree pathogens, right? As opposed to fungus pathogens?
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