Home | Community | Message Board

NorthSpore.com BOOMR Bag!
This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.


Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop: North Spore North Spore Mushroom Grow Kits & Cultivation Supplies   PhytoExtractum Kratom Powder for Sale   Original Sensible Seeds Bulk Cannabis Seeds   Left Coast Kratom Buy Kratom Extract   Mushroom-Hut Substrate Bags

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
Some of these posts are very old and might contain outdated information. You may wish to search for newer posts instead.
Offlinejbiddy
Stranger
Registered: 11/13/11
Posts: 29
Last seen: 10 years, 2 months
ID Request: Trigger warning, I hope this isn't what I think it is...
    #18991869 - 10/17/13 05:00 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Backstory: My father is a logger. Even days when he's not working, he spends a lot of the time in the forest--looking for game and what have you. Since he found out I'm really into fungi about two years ago he has taken to bringing finds home from work. I never thought it could be harmful until he brought this home about a year ago and my stomach turned over with the thought this could be an endangered polypore. Can anyone help me ID this, even though it's a year old, and if it is what I think it is, is there any way to get this to a pro who can clone it still? It's pretty dry and crackled at this point.

Habitat:
Found in the woods, growing form an old growth Doug Fir stump

Gills:
No gills

Stem:
Polypore of some kind

Cap: Uhhh...


Spore print color:
No print to go off of






Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleRafiikii
 User Gallery

Registered: 11/17/10
Posts: 2,891
Re: ID Request: Trigger warning, I hope this isn't what I think it is... [Re: jbiddy]
    #18991902 - 10/17/13 05:08 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

definitely reminds me of an Agarikon, Laricifomes officinalis?

not only medicinal, extremely rare, but is also thought to be among the oldest fungi on earth

http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_can_save_the_world.html

more detail can be found here, if it is in fact that


--------------------
"You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are no stranger here."



Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleRiverDweller1
 User Gallery


Registered: 03/05/12
Posts: 4,347
Trusted Identifier
Re: ID Request: Trigger warning, I hope this isn't what I think it is... [Re: Rafiikii]
    #18991914 - 10/17/13 05:12 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Fomitopsis officinalis as Rafiikii said.  I know a guy who attempted to grow some from a sample I sent him.  I don't know that anyone has ever gotten one to fruit.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlineart2312
wanderer
Male User Gallery


Registered: 07/08/13
Posts: 3,352
Loc: The land, Ohio
Last seen: 1 year, 9 months
Re: ID Request: Trigger warning, I hope this isn't what I think it is... [Re: RiverDweller1]
    #18991939 - 10/17/13 05:22 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Wow....that's so prehistoric looking!!! Super awesome find!!!


--------------------
I don't mind being ogled, ridiculed, made to feel minuscule.
If you consider the source, it's kinda pitiful
The only thing you really know about me is.....That's all you'll ever know!!!!


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinejbiddy
Stranger
Registered: 11/13/11
Posts: 29
Last seen: 10 years, 2 months
Re: ID Request: Trigger warning, I hope this isn't what I think it is... [Re: RiverDweller1]
    #18991975 - 10/17/13 05:31 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Sigh. This is confirming my worst fear, that it is an Agarikon.

The first time I saw it that well-known pic of Stamets popped into my mind.

That's unfortunate, hopefully I can find a professional to clone it, if it's still cloneable as it was picked more than a year ago.

I guess at the very least I can make very powerful medicine with it. Anyone know the best way to make Agarikon extract?


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleRiverDweller1
 User Gallery


Registered: 03/05/12
Posts: 4,347
Trusted Identifier
Re: ID Request: Trigger warning, I hope this isn't what I think it is... [Re: jbiddy]
    #18992037 - 10/17/13 05:43 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

jbiddy said:
....... if it's still cloneable as it was picked more than a year ago.



That sounds highly improbable as it would be the new growth that would be worth culturing.

You could probably research on the internet to learn about tinctures and extraction methods with medicinal mushrooms.  I've only done Reishi and Turkey Tails but I can't imagine it would be that different for this.

One last thought, if this was picked over a year ago it's probably not good medicine anymore.  I would want fresh material for making tinctures.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinejbiddy
Stranger
Registered: 11/13/11
Posts: 29
Last seen: 10 years, 2 months
Re: ID Request: Trigger warning, I hope this isn't what I think it is... [Re: RiverDweller1]
    #18992093 - 10/17/13 05:56 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Thanks for the info, River. Good to know moving forward.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinepseudoanonyrnous
Stranger
Registered: 09/30/13
Posts: 36
Last seen: 10 years, 3 months
Re: ID Request: Trigger warning, I hope this isn't what I think it is... [Re: jbiddy]
    #18992202 - 10/17/13 06:19 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

i'd wager its not as uncommon as its made out to be. 
i see it all over the place, just take a days walking on the PCT and you'll see a lot of them and its in the coast range and olympics too.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinerev0kadavur
Forager
Female User Gallery


Registered: 03/18/10
Posts: 1,199
Loc: Richmond & Beyond - California Flag
Last seen: 4 years, 2 months
Re: ID Request: Trigger warning, I hope this isn't what I think it is... [Re: jbiddy]
    #18992203 - 10/17/13 06:19 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

I think I have come across these before... ima have to dig up those pictures.


--------------------
- Question # Everything -



Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinejbiddy
Stranger
Registered: 11/13/11
Posts: 29
Last seen: 10 years, 2 months
Re: ID Request: Trigger warning, I hope this isn't what I think it is... [Re: pseudoanonyrnous]
    #18992266 - 10/17/13 06:34 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

pseudoanonyrnous said:
i'd wager its not as uncommon as its made out to be.




I hope you're right. The guides and Wikipedia have it as "extremely rare" which is why it hurts me so, but perhaps that's a precautionary measure so people don't over harvest it. My understanding is that it needs old growth to fruit in the wild which is why it's "extremely rare" as there is not much left in the PNW at this point.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

Shop: North Spore North Spore Mushroom Grow Kits & Cultivation Supplies   PhytoExtractum Kratom Powder for Sale   Original Sensible Seeds Bulk Cannabis Seeds   Left Coast Kratom Buy Kratom Extract   Mushroom-Hut Substrate Bags


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* Wild Mushroom ID Request Moon_Tea_Brewer 9,383 3 12/16/02 06:39 PM
by Anonymous
* ID Request: 27 photos in SE suburbs, Melbourne, Victoria, AU veritas_VIC_AU 19,960 10 04/25/03 09:05 AM
by Zen Peddler
* ID Request - GA Mushrooms Legolas 5,591 11 09/23/02 12:29 PM
by Legolas
* Aussie ID request pete_gasparino 5,286 18 04/12/03 04:09 AM
by Zen Peddler
* My first hunting trip.. Northeast Ohio (ID Requests) EffedS 3,055 6 05/19/03 04:17 PM
by Effed
* Mushroom ID Request!
( 1 2 all )
Moon_Tea_Brewer 14,362 22 03/19/11 11:05 AM
by German Kahuna
* id request blaze2 4,271 14 02/15/03 01:09 AM
by Anonymous
* Not exaclty hunting but an id request :?) G a n j a 1,992 4 02/26/03 11:29 AM
by G a n j a

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: ToxicMan, inski, Alan Rockefeller, Duggstar, TimmiT, Anglerfish, Tmethyl, Lucis, Doc9151, Land Trout
676 topic views. 1 members, 15 guests and 1 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2024 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.023 seconds spending 0.007 seconds on 14 queries.