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Dandurn777



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Lepista Nuda
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Late fall, leaf litter. Just want confirmation of Lepista nuda.
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Pluviophile
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Looks right to me.
A buff pinkish spore print would confirm.
In my experience, they are very fragrant and sweet smelling when fresh as well
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Magic Badger
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What do you think of these?
Right down the street from me, I think, a whole bunch decided to pop up this year - they are enormous (not super fragrant, I'll have to give one of the smaller ones a sniff)... but I've never eaten one and haven't heard people singing their praises as fervently as say morels.. are they worth it? Not like they'd be much trouble to go get.
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Land Trout
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Oh my, they are some of the best. I love the smell, I only know one patch and I’ve picked off it a couple times this fall. Just looked at it yesterday and there were some nice looking buttons. Trying to get it established at home.
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Magic Badger
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hmm maybe I'll have to go down and see how they look tomorrow... I'm guessing the dinner plate sized ones might be a little big to be good, but there were some smaller ones too.
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KissMycelium
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I just had several sauteed and put on open face tortilla melt with cheddar and ground pepper. Really good mushroom and overlooked for the most part.
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I’ve never had morels, so I can’t speak on that, but these ones are super tasty and they’re incredibly easy to get going in a cultivated bed style. I brought these onto my place from a find last year. I was confident they were Lepista, but wanted to confirm since I want to give some to my kids. The younger/mid sized ones definitely have a real citrusy terp profile that’s nice. I think Alan said it smells like frozen orange juice concentrate or something like that.
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Dandurn777



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Quote:
Pluviophile said: Looks right to me.
A buff pinkish spore print would confirm.
In my experience, they are very fragrant and sweet smelling when fresh as well
I’d say this is them for sure. I see a light dusting of spores in cap on the second picture very bottom mushroom. Looks to be a salmon color. 👍
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How did you get them established? I made a lot of blocks of it a couple years back, put them in chips, leaves, compost, and dirt and I never saw anything grow out of them. But man that smell, I really love it, the spawn has it too. This fall I took about a gallon of material from the wild patch and stuck it in a spot that looked as close to where it came from🤞🏼, and jammed stem butts in some of the older psilocybe beds.
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Dandurn777



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The Lepista was a low-tech operation. Stem butts and a few manky ones were thrown under some shrubs where there’s constant leaf liter, woodchips and soil. This is the first flush I’ve seen, and there was about 15 mid sized mushrooms. I put them in another spot that gets a little more sun too, so I’m hoping they’ll pop up too as the weather is getting better now for mushrooms. I also had a couple pop up on my grass a few weeks ago, but they were on the smaller side. They must’ve started from spores I dropped. 🤷♂️ They seem to be pretty decent at growing themselves though.
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Magic Badger
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My local mushroom guide describes them as smelling like Tang.. which is nominally citrus.. It's been quite a long time since I had any though.. (likely to wash down a freeze dried Neapolitan ice cream...) and that I even know what it is, probably dates me a little...
I popped down the street and picked a few.. I cannot say that they smell like orange juice to me.. they smell like slightly spicy mushroom.. I'm not entirely convinced they are blewits, maybe a different Lepista species - but I've little experience with them. The are older, so I'm not sure they are worth saving. I plucked a few of the smallest that were there. We've been getting a lot of rain, so they are pretty soaked still.




-------------------- Disclaimer - I'm just a hobbyist and cannot absolutely guarantee any ID offered. I'm most familiar with the species found in the Pacific Northwest - those found in other parts of the world may vary considerably, so always do your own research to find out what grows in your area and what lookalikes you need to be aware of. Understand that many mushroom species cannot be 100% reliably identified by photographs alone, even by an expert, so it may not be possible to go beyond suggesting a probable genus.
Edited by Magic Badger (12/11/23 08:12 PM)
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