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RogerRabbit
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Seattle area Pink Oysters
#5742816 - 06/12/06 06:00 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Anybody not taking advantage of the PNW weather right now is missing a bonanza. Mrs rabbit came home from hiking yesterday with a bag of pink oysters. They're still dirty in the pictures because I didn't want to clean them until I was ready to clone. These came from the old growth forest only 20 miles east of Seattle. They're darker red than the pink oysters in circulation. I cloned them, so we'll see how they do on straw. They tasted excellent in my omlette this morning. Much better tasting than the pinks from fungi perfecti, which are tough and mostly tasteless.
The last two pictures are a red polypore that I have not yet identified. It's soft textured like ganoderma oregonese, but definitely not that. It was growing on a badly decomposed tree that had already been broken down by several other polypores. This one must have waited its turn for many years. Anybody know what this is? I cloned it in case it's a rare medicinal, because in all my years in the woods, I've never seen one like it. RR

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Re: Seattle area Pink Oysters [Re: RogerRabbit]
#5742836 - 06/12/06 06:04 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Schwingggg!
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Re: Seattle area Pink Oysters [Re: YESSUP]
#5743084 - 06/12/06 06:58 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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RogerRabbit
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Re: Seattle area Pink Oysters [Re: CureCat]
#5743282 - 06/12/06 07:37 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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It's not the birch polypore for sure. The flesh is tough but flexible, and it looks like an oyster mushroom at first glance. In fact, it looks almost exactly like an oyster, except for having a polypore underside rather than gills. It was on douglas fir. I find it strange because in 35 years of picking, I've never seen one like it. I hope the clone takes. RR
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Re: Seattle area Pink Oysters [Re: RogerRabbit]
#5743366 - 06/12/06 07:52 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Nice find bro!~

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Re: Seattle area Pink Oysters [Re: Roadkill]
#5744762 - 06/13/06 01:46 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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okay okay- I think I found it! This page does not describe it as living off of fir trees, but as I am sure you are aware, mushrooms can be highly adaptive and found growing on unexpected substrates... especially since you said this douglas fir is very much decomposed perhaps from past polypores, leaving it susceptible to foreign invasion so to speak. 
http://www.mushroomexpert.com/polyporus_badius.html
what's the verdict?
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Re: Seattle area Pink Oysters [Re: RogerRabbit]
#5745078 - 06/13/06 08:21 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Today I had Pink Oysters with scrambled eggs. They were the ones from Fungi Perfecti. And they were pretty tasty!
The ones in your picture aren't really very pink looking.. nice find tho.
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Re: Seattle area Pink Oysters [Re: RogerRabbit]
#5745802 - 06/13/06 01:44 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Your pink oysters look like Panus conchatus which I am currently finding all over in the warm wet weather. I was curious as to the flavor and texture as it isn't given high praise. Maybe you found an especially good isolate.
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Edited by Workman (06/13/06 01:48 PM)
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Re: Seattle area Pink Oysters [Re: RogerRabbit]
#5745827 - 06/13/06 01:49 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Hi, Looked through 9 mushroom id books for this one and could not find it. I have never seen a pink looking poly[pore before.
Here is a pink shroom I too cannot identify. I found it on the dirt trail near the East Gate leading into Angkor Thom.
The gateway to Angkor Thom

The pinkish mushroom with a tinge of lavender in its color

Here are two polypores along the outer wall of the old Cambodian prison at Bantrey Kdei near Angkor Wat.


mj
I can show more non-magic shrooms from se asia if anyone wants to see some.
Got some great Lepiota and C. molybdites images and other wild shrooms.
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Re: Seattle area Pink Oysters [Re: mjshroomer]
#5745847 - 06/13/06 01:53 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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That bottom one is a species of Ganoderma and is likely medicinal.
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Re: Seattle area Pink Oysters [Re: Workman]
#5745875 - 06/13/06 02:00 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Hi, thanks workman for the id. I was pretty sure it was as you say but when I am in doubt I keep my mouth shut. I found quite a few wild ones which I left at the herbarium at Chula.
Have a shroomy day
mj
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Re: Seattle area Pink Oysters [Re: Workman]
#5745929 - 06/13/06 02:15 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Thanks for the replies mj and wm. I don't think it's Panus conchatus because it was growing in clusters and not hairy. It also doesn't have the stem attachment in the center of the cap, but all the way to one side like an oyster. It also is quite tender, and not tough as described, at least the fleshy part. The base/stem was tough, but any oyster that grows large has a tough stem. The taste was just like an oyster, and better than the pinks I've tried in the past. Oysters are everywhere now, and we've been having a blast picking our years supply. Hopefully, this nice mushroom weather will keep up all summer.
I'm mostly concerned with ID of the polypore. I've never seen anything like it. It almost looks like a cross between an oyster and a reishi..lol. Thanks for your time. RR
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Re: Seattle area Pink Oysters [Re: RogerRabbit]
#5745937 - 06/13/06 02:17 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Mj, if you find another ganoderma like that one, please pick it for me if you don't mind. Just go ahead and dry it. I'll clone the dry tissue. RR
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Re: Seattle area Pink Oysters [Re: RogerRabbit]
#5745950 - 06/13/06 02:20 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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If I come across any this summer in Cambodia or thailand I will gladly dry it and send it to you from Bangkok.
Will let you know when I am there in a pm,
mj
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Re: Seattle area Pink Oysters [Re: mjshroomer]
#5746378 - 06/13/06 04:36 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Re: Seattle area Pink Oysters [Re: CureCat]
#5746393 - 06/13/06 04:42 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Cant argue with that.....quite a case made !
unlesssssss mmmmmmmmmaybe Coprinus maybe ???????? 
maybe not 
that other is also probably Stereum also quite the medicinal but because of prevelance and drying abilities no need for cultivation for personal......Stereums are BIG buisness now.
definately got one of the Ling Chi type Ganodermas there.
didnt know it got that cold in Cambodia that white ones got ice hanging off it.......got kind of a bulbous stem base thing goin on there.
ever since I saw pics of the faces in the stone as a kid in old Readers Digest coffee table book of Ankor(Wat)always thought the Ankors to ba magical places.....believe Wat was covered by jungle at one time and possibly the largest religious 'Temple' in the world ?.........and was quite a hub for that part of of southern Asia back in the day.......what better place to 'TRIP' around that and the Central American pyramids where Sacred Psilocybe(Panaeolus ?......kidding) can be found at your feet...
Hey now...... everythings legal in Mexico NOW!!!
The New Amsterdam.......whole new industry for em.....Cinco De Mayo travel packages. And shrimms at the local street markets already abound there in spots......think how much the Policia can make to not put you in jail.
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Re: Seattle area Pink Oysters [Re: shroominDole]
#5746407 - 06/13/06 04:48 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Re: Seattle area Pink Oysters [Re: RogerRabbit]
#5746648 - 06/13/06 06:08 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I am still intrigued with the pink oyster. It seems to match well with this species in appearance but if its not tough and tastes good then something is different.
http://www.mushroomexpert.com/panus_conchatus.html
I'd be interested in a sample to compare with samples of panus conchatus I've collected.
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Re: Seattle area Pink Oysters [Re: Workman]
#5747134 - 06/13/06 08:06 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Now you have me thinking wm. It really looks a lot like some of those pictures, but very different from others. The stems were tough, but a large oyster will also have a tough stem. The cap is fleshy, but not tough at all. You can tear the cap as easily as you can tear an oyster. Mrs Rabbit cooked some up in an omlette and it was great. She's cooking another one right now by itself in some butter and onions so we'll see how it tastes by itself.
The sporeprint is white.
The article says they're of the polypore family. I'm sure the unknown polypore I posted above is actually a polypore, and its flesh was extremely tough and hard to tear even though it was much thinner than the pink 'oyster'. I'll let ya know how it tasted by itself tomorrow. Thanks for your time. RR
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Re: Seattle area Pink Oysters [Re: RogerRabbit]
#5747708 - 06/13/06 10:34 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I think you were right as usual Workman. When the mrs cooked up a skillet of them by themselves, they were quite tough, but still tasty. The taste itself was very similar to oysters, but I needed to chew longer than usual. For the omlette she ran them through the food processor, so I didn't notice. Now to find out if they have medicinal properties. It looks like my clone is going to take, so that's one more polypore in the collection. RR
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