Home | Community | Message Board


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 Maeng Da Thai Kratom Leaf Powder   Mushroom-Hut Liquid Cultures   Left Coast Kratom Buy Kratom Extract   Bridgetown Botanicals Bridgetown Botanicals

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Some of these posts are very old and might contain outdated information.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.
OfflineRyukyuRed
Stranger
Male
Registered: 09/17/16
Posts: 3
Loc: Okinawa, Japan
Last seen: 7 years, 2 months
Okinawa Fungi * 1
    #23652086 - 09/17/16 03:39 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

Last spring I became interested in seeing what kinds of fungi I could find out here in Okinawa. I haven't yet had a chance to hunt in the U.S. so this is my starting point. Although there are some pictures to be found online I have come across very little information regarding what types of fungi can be found here and during what season. Okinawa is a subtropical island with a unique ecosystem, and on top of that most of the useful information about fungi here is probably mostly in Japanese.

So far what I have found here seems to fruit from either rotten logs/stumps or from dead leaves. I have yet to come across anything growing out of the ground, except for a couple LBMs and probably some chlorophyllum molybdites on urban grass lawn areas. Also this island is infested with snails, some of which are not indigenous, and I wonder if they like to munch on fruiting bodies before they have a chance to mature.

So basically I'm wandering around the jungle seeing what I can find, and hopefully something I post here will be of interest or usefulness to someone. I would welcome any guesses about IDs but I don't have the relevant descriptive information at least for my initial posts; I don't plan on ingesting anything here unless I come across something worthwhile that I could get 100% verification on.

I have run into a few challenges out here so far:

-The jungle: It can be difficult to take a walk in the woods here. The jungle is much thicker than temperate woodland forests such as the ones that exist in mainland Japan and the American PNW. The underbrush is thick and really not worth the time to hack your way through. So unless you're willing to put in a huge amount of effort just to get through the trees and brush the best places to look seem to be on or near existing trails, roads, creeks or tree lines.

-Lack of information: Most information about fungi here is probably in Japanese, although since I don't read Japanese I don't know how much actually exists. I have found no information online about wild edibles here or historical use of actives. Maybe there are locals out there who know the secrets of the forests but finding and communicating with such people would be difficult. I only found one instance of an active species found near here: p. capitulata discovered recently by Japanese mycologist Haruki Takahashi. However Takahashi found this species on Ishigaki, an island a couple hundred miles south of Okinawa famous for beef cattle raised there, which brings me to my next point...

-No cow pastures? Although I haven't given up hope quite yet I have spent a lot of time searching this island both physically and with google earth for grazing land. And for whatever reason it doesn't seem to exist here, at least in the way it does in other places. Farms here tend to be small and condensed, sometimes with animals inside structures or in small grass areas near houses. Basically the way livestock seem to be raised here makes it hard to find a place to search cow pies for whatever they might fruit. A white dude found poking around some Okinawan's private property may not go over well here and it is not worth taking a big risk. Ishigaki and its nearby islands appear to be much better places to search for dung-lovers and I hope to have a chance to find out this fall.

-Spiders: Fuck the spiders here! During late spring and summer you can't go off any beaten path without being assaulted by enormous banana spiders the size of your face. Perhaps a braver soul than me would just shrug them off but for me it's a big nope and I'm going back inside. Hopefully we get a typhoon in here soon to blow them all away!

Here are my pictures so far, any information or general guesswork is welcome as I am not trying to eat any of these. Hopefully someday I'll get a better camera...

May 2016: Some polypores and possibly bio-luminescent mycena?


June 2016: Polypores and other weird stuff on logs


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineRyukyuRed
Stranger
Male
Registered: 09/17/16
Posts: 3
Loc: Okinawa, Japan
Last seen: 7 years, 2 months
Re: Okinawa Fungi [Re: RyukyuRed] * 1
    #23652130 - 09/17/16 04:08 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

Here are some pictures I took while visiting Iwakuni, near Hiroshima. After some searching in Okinawa I thought I just sucked at mushroom hunting but I was amazed at the amount of stuff I found in Iwakuni without even looking! I wish I had more time to spend in mainland Japan mushroom hunting but the matsutakes will have to wait.

From July 2016: No guesses on these but some quite beautiful species


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineRyukyuRed
Stranger
Male
Registered: 09/17/16
Posts: 3
Loc: Okinawa, Japan
Last seen: 7 years, 2 months
Re: Okinawa Fungi [Re: RyukyuRed]
    #23652139 - 09/17/16 04:18 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

An end to the humid summer season draws nearer and I hope to see what the cooler fall weather will yield. That is still a couple weeks away but here are my most recent finds.

September 2016: The third picture seems similar to reishi to me but I don't have the experience to know how close of a match it is.


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

Shop: North Spore North Spore Mushroom Grow Kits & Cultivation Supplies   PhytoExtractum Maeng Da Thai Kratom Leaf Powder   Mushroom-Hut Liquid Cultures   Left Coast Kratom Buy Kratom Extract   Bridgetown Botanicals Bridgetown Botanicals


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* okinawa japan jtop11 9,007 13 02/24/12 11:19 PM
by swampyAppleseed
* okinawa mushrooms ststephen65 2,518 5 06/14/05 02:00 PM
by Lysergic_Milkman
* ID request please -- Japan H.A.F.BREED 1,773 17 04/29/10 12:43 AM
by 2859558484
* Mushroom finds in Nara, Japan Tez 949 10 06/17/20 07:53 AM
by Anglerfish
* Back from Block Island, id and confirmation requests Mycomancer 956 4 06/22/09 10:27 PM
by Mycomancer
* Big Island, Hawaii
( 1 2 all )
landsnorkler 11,872 29 04/10/10 09:25 AM
by Saviorself
* Magic Mushrooms of Japan eleutheromania 24,872 18 04/17/07 07:17 AM
by mjshroomer
* Mushrooms of JAPAN~ (cross post) Seril 3,176 9 08/01/02 04:44 PM
by Remy

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
1,409 topic views. 1 members, 20 guests and 10 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 0.024 seconds spending 0.006 seconds on 12 queries.