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beginnermushroomer
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Are those Honey Mushrooms (Armillaria mellea)? 1
#15065388 - 09/11/11 10:15 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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Habitat: NY, Westchester, woods, grow on dead woods
Gills: white gills
Stem: up to 3 inches, light with brown, hollow, rather thick.
Cap: about 1.5 inch at most. I have collected mostly young mushrooms. light brown, some yellowish;
Spore print color: Very important! (trying to get). Should be white?
Other information: pictures attached here:
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Alan Rockefeller
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If no clamp connections are visible at base of basidium or anywhere in the basidiomata, you have Armillaria mellea.
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NeoSporen
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You have a mixed collection of Russula (the red ones) and something else. Pretty sure it's an Armillaria species, but I don't think they are honey mushrooms.
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Re: Are those Honey Mushrooms (Armillaria mellea)? [Re: NeoSporen] 1
#15065469 - 09/11/11 10:29 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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what do you do with the red russulas?
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Alan Rockefeller
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Re: Are those Honey Mushrooms (Armillaria mellea)? [Re: Fungi01]
#15065654 - 09/11/11 11:14 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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bfogg8706 said: Pretty sure it's an Armillaria species, but I don't think they are honey mushrooms.
How could it be an Armillaria species but not be honey mushrooms?
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Fungi01 said: what do you do with the red russulas?
I heard the pigment is soluble in alcohol, maybe he is making paint.
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NeoSporen
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Re: Are those Honey Mushrooms (Armillaria mellea)? [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
#15065889 - 09/12/11 12:30 AM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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Alan Rockefeller said:
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bfogg8706 said: Pretty sure it's an Armillaria species, but I don't think they are honey mushrooms.
How could it be an Armillaria species but not be honey mushrooms?
I personally don't like to consider all the species of Armillaria as "honey Mushrooms", but rather just Armillaria mellea as "The Honey Mushroom". Guess it's a personal thing, and should not be taken so seriously.
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beginnermushroomer
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Re: Are those Honey Mushrooms (Armillaria mellea)? [Re: NeoSporen]
#15066710 - 09/12/11 08:41 AM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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Russulas are edible and unmistakable. So, we eat them. They are not so good as I category mushrooms, but still all right cooked with onions. Red cover to be removed from the cap. I am not collecting non-red varieties. They could add bitter taste.
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beginnermushroomer
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Thank you all for answers. I hope my Armillaria is an edible variety. At least I was not able to see similar features with Armillaria which are not edible.
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koraks
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beginnermushroomer said: Russulas are edible and unmistakable.
Not all of them are edible.
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Red cover to be removed from the cap.
Why remove the red?
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I am not collecting non-red varieties.
Good idea, because r. emetica, which is poisonous, is red. But sadly, so are some of the species that are not red...
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They could add bitter taste.
Well, sharp or peppery, more likely.
Have you collected and eaten a lot of russulas? I'm not sure if I'd like to dig into your mushroom dishes. Then again, I probably wouldn't be invited over for dinner
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beginnermushroomer
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Thank you, I will pay attention to r. emetica. Russula happened to be the only mushroom we have collected and eaten since moving to US from Europe, because this is the only mushroom we were absolutely sure about.
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koraks
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How's the amanita thing going, btw?
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moving to US from Europe
You're from Poland?
Edited by koraks (09/12/11 09:44 AM)
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beginnermushroomer
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No.
Is it true that only caps of Armillaria are used for cooking? I read it somewhere.
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beginnermushroomer
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MY CONCLUSION: I finally was sure and ate them. They were good edible mushrooms. I discarded russulas, but they are not poisonous. Sometimes bitter. I just noticed my old post and wanted to let people know the outcome.
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