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fry day


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Re: Boletus!! [Re: FoxDie]
#18999478 - 10/19/13 12:07 PM (10 years, 8 months ago) |
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FoxQuote:
FoxDie said: Now... this Chanterelle came in with the fresh batch at the natural market I work at. It's a MONSTER! It looks to have started as a clump of 2 or 3 stalks but then was stunted and spazzed out, haha. There are dozens of little off-shoots with false-gills. Very odd... ]
The mutated stuff kinda creeps me out, I tend to leave it lay. What's the shelf price on those chants?
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Re: Boletus!! [Re: fry day]
#19000432 - 10/19/13 04:22 PM (10 years, 8 months ago) |
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Where I work, Chanterelles are $6 or 6.99 a pound. Very reasonably priced... but probably due to the great season, haha.
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Ganzig
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Re: Boletus!! [Re: FoxDie]
#19000596 - 10/19/13 05:07 PM (10 years, 8 months ago) |
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I was just told by a friend who works a farmers market near Sacramento that they are going for around $30 per pound.
They don't have many chants down there I guess.
Small haul for this season. 

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canid
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Re: Boletus!! [Re: Ganzig]
#19000634 - 10/19/13 05:18 PM (10 years, 8 months ago) |
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That's worth a drive down here then. Lol.
We have chants down here, but not this time of year.
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Great Scott
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Re: Boletus!! [Re: canid]
#19001927 - 10/19/13 10:40 PM (10 years, 8 months ago) |
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canid
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Good f@#%ing lord! Stop finding all the Hericium in the world, you guys. Leave one or two for me...
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Re: Boletus!! [Re: canid]
#19002054 - 10/19/13 11:10 PM (10 years, 8 months ago) |
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canid said: Good f@#%ing lord! Stop finding all the Hericium in the world, you guys. Leave one or two for me...
I did leave one or two. Feel free to go up there and get em. 

Actually, I did end up getting the lower one down with a few throwing stick tosses. The upper one is like 30+ feet up though and I wasn't successful in getting it down.
And here's one for the Cool Fungi side. Russulas growing upside-down off a lip on a nurse log.
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canid
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Challenge accepted.
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fry day


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Re: Boletus!! [Re: canid]
#19002466 - 10/20/13 02:01 AM (10 years, 8 months ago) |
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I carry an aluminum collapsible paint pole with a 4" empty roller screwed on the end, makes a dandy hook, and extends to close to 12'. Sturdy enough to knock smaller conks down, handy to bring prime berries close enough to nab, etc. Good for poking at odd things you might not want to put your hands on, and makes a half decent walking stick.
-------------------- "Shrub, 30-90 cm. Leaves 2.5-) 4-9 cm, sessile or amplexicaul, broadly ovate to ovate-oblong, obtuse or rounded to subapiculate or subacute, when crushed not smelling of goats." "The initial quake was a 6.6 but fairly shallow. I felt it as a prolonged up and down vibration followed by a jolt forward and then to the left, like square dancing."
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canid
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Re: Boletus!! [Re: fry day]
#19002469 - 10/20/13 02:02 AM (10 years, 8 months ago) |
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I just climb everything I can.
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fry day


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Re: Boletus!! [Re: canid]
#19002490 - 10/20/13 02:14 AM (10 years, 8 months ago) |
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Parkour foraging? Jes' bounce yerself off of the landscape and nab 'em on the fly.
I like the pictures that puts in my head. ;-)
-------------------- "Shrub, 30-90 cm. Leaves 2.5-) 4-9 cm, sessile or amplexicaul, broadly ovate to ovate-oblong, obtuse or rounded to subapiculate or subacute, when crushed not smelling of goats." "The initial quake was a 6.6 but fairly shallow. I felt it as a prolonged up and down vibration followed by a jolt forward and then to the left, like square dancing."
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Great Scott
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Re: Boletus!! [Re: fry day]
#19003754 - 10/20/13 12:38 PM (10 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yep, I thought about it pretty hard while standing under that massive tree snag looking up at those clusters. 1) Ladder. A good painter's ladder can get you up there 30 feet. 2) Telescoping pole. This would be great except I don't know if they make 'em past 12'. I need at least 20'. This would also be real handy for oyster mushrooms. 3) Grapple hook. If you can get something up there to split the wedge between the cluster and the tree they come down easy. A precise hit with a throwing stick can get it done too but it might knock a few chunks loose in the process.
There was a another cluster somewhere maybe 10'-12' up there. It was unclimable without equipment so I had to climb this little Fir sapling growing next to the snag. Do you know how hard it is to climb that high up on a sapling with feathery, little limbs that point downward? I made love to that tree.
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thedirtymac


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Quote:
PeyoteZen said:
And here's one for the Cool Fungi side. Russulas growing upside-down off a lip on a nurse log.

I haven't seen Russulas do this until this year, and I'm seeing a bunch of them like this. Growing out of the base of a tree. Were you in Estacada? I haven't seen it happening anywhere else. Does anyone know about this habit?
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liamtheloser
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Went out to the cascades, hiked from 2900-3400 elevation, found absolutely nothing. Went back down to 1500 elevation, nothing, then I stumbled upon 10 pounds of this:

I forgot to take pictures in situ, and then I forgot to take a picture of the giant 6 lb monster, but here it is partially cut up. It's now in the dehydrator. I saved the smaller hunk to try cloning and printing, it's in the fridge in a paper bag right now.

My first non-rotting cauliflower find!
Also, does anyone know if there are cauliflowers in Washington other than s. radicada?
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MycoMen
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liamtheloser said:
Also, does anyone know if there are cauliflowers in Washington other than s. radicada?
I found S. crispa last week on the Western slope of Mt. Rainier (pics a bit further up in this thread). My books don't make a difference between crispa and radicata though.
Great find, congrats!
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liamtheloser
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Re: Boletus!! [Re: MycoMen]
#19010220 - 10/21/13 07:20 PM (10 years, 8 months ago) |
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Supposedly crispa is just the east coast version of radica. They are genetically different, but appear to be the same.
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MycoMen
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As promised last Wednesday, here are some images of PNW chanterelles including what I would think is C. cascadensis.

3 PNW chanterelle species: Left to right are C. formosus, C. subalbidus and C. cascadensis (hymenium on C. cascadensis specimen is atypical)

Another (presumed) C. cascadensis
 
Two monsters, just in time for Halloween.
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RiparianZoneJunky
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Re: Boletus!! [Re: MycoMen]
#19022510 - 10/23/13 10:39 PM (10 years, 8 months ago) |
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Today was interesting, I tried a new place and found hundreds of Lactarius deliciosus, unfortunately they were all about a week past prime and full of bugs. I did however, find a whole bunch of helvella lacunosa, my first find of this species. I've heard some people eat and like these, anybody who is a fan of them want to share how they prep them and make them safe, I know they can be toxic if improperly prepared.
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canid
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Nice score.
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RiparianZoneJunky said: unfortunately they were all about a week past prime and full of bugs.
They always are. I find a handfull of good, firm, worm-free ones for every, let's say several tens of pounds I pass. Almost as bad as Lobsters.
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Re: Boletus!! [Re: canid]
#19022612 - 10/23/13 10:55 PM (10 years, 8 months ago) |
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Crazy. I have been finding a lot of bug free L. rubrilacteus this season.
About the H. lacunosa. A friend of mine dries them and grinds them to a powder and uses them as a flavoring. I have not tasted them so I cannot attest to their flavor.
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