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Spring Mushrooms
Getting reports of a great oyster crop this year!
Get out there and find some of these underrated mushrooms! This a great time to find new patches and create new ones. This fall this mushroom will flush from the same spots and usually flushes better in the fall.
Thanks for the pictures Dan!
Happy Hunting!
Oyster Mushroom Pictures
Fisk sent us these pictures of his mushroom tree!
Here ya go…pretty sure they are Oysters.?.
Looks like you have found a friend for life!
The first picture is tough to tell, but they look like oysters.
The second picture is definitely clusters of baby oysters.
The third picture is classic prime oyster clusters!
This tree will produce delicious oyster mushrooms spring and fall for years or possibly decades! Thank you for the pictures and valuable information,
Dean
Mushroom Puzzle
I was taking advantage of a green cottonwood in town that had fallen. Several blocks about a foot long and 2 to 3 foot around were free for the taking. I stacked them on top of each other and was planning to split and store them to cure.
I noticed mycelium growing on the face where they were stacked together, and did not recognize the mycelium smell or look, but decided to let them grow enough to identify them.
Mushrooms are more valuable than fireplace fodder!
My guess at that time was Pholiota or honey (shoestring rot) or possibly (hopefully) oysters. The mycelium didn’t smell like oyster, but I had seen oysters growing on this tree before. The tree had rotted so honeys were possible, and pholiota grows everywhere.
They were Pholiota after all. I had suspected this all along, but had to verify. Their bumps, brown spores and smell of garlic gave them away!
Spring Mushroom Season
Hello fellow mushroom fanatics!
Feels kind of spring-like outside the last couple of days. This always makes it hard to wait for the true spring to arrive. This is the time of year that I like to get ready for the upcoming spring mushrooms.
Even though spring is not the season that we get our largest flush of mushrooms, the ones that do flush are important. The morels come in the spring, and are the most recognized mushroom to amateurs and part timers.
Oysters come in the spring and fall, but are especially nice in the spring because we have waited all winter for them. Just to start seeing mushrooms flushing, lets us know that winter is mostly over and the ground is warming.
An old farmer told me that when the mushroom pickers start showing up, that he knows the weather is going to settle down. He did not eat or pick wild mushrooms, but he knew it had to do with more than how the weather acted that day or week.