What are these mushrooms? There’s like hundreds of them under my blackberries.
Are they deadly?

>>2824327 (OP)
I'm not a mushroom expert, I only forage for very easy stuff, but it's going to be hard to Id from that pick alone. Get a picture of the mushrooms growing together naturally. Or at least try to find some that are less chewed up.

>>2824328
How’s this?

>>2824330
They all look really chewed up and they're deep in the foliage. I can't say for sure what they are but clearly something loves them.

In my experience assume every mushroom is poisonous unless you can get a proper id

>>2824327 (OP)
Luxury Cap maybe. Edible but not very tasty.
https://www.mushroomexpert.com/gymnopus_luxurians.html

>>2824341
Not 100% though, /an/ might know better.

>>2824327 (OP)
Lots of mushrooms look similar, very very few are deadly, a handful will make you sick, and the rest are edible if not palatable. Better pictures of fresher specimens will help us ID them. Try getting a picture of the whole mushroom from the top and bottom. Check to see if the stipe(stem) is brittle or fibrous. Make a cut in the gills to see if they exude any liquids, take note of the color of they do. Also look for color changes from bruising on the mushroom and make note of it if it does.

No mushroom is dangerous to touch or handle. They must be consumed to kill you or make you sick. It is a common practice in mushroom foraging to nibble and spit a piece of mushroom to see if it's sweet, bitter or spicy. So don't be afraid to pick and handle them. Just don't eat them unless you're 100% sure of what they are

>>2824328
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>>2824351
I really appreciate your time and efforts to help. I had a buddy come out who works in my states agriculture department. He was able to identify them as wine cap mushrooms.

What are these senpai?

>>2824363
Trechispora

with every mushroom there is one that looks identical to it and will poison you. they're cool to look at but i don't trust anything i find

>>2824379
Except morels and puffballs.

>>2824368
So no eata the shoomsa?

>>2824379
Mostly incorrect. The deadly "look alikes" only look like the edible variety to someone that has little to no experience foraging mushrooms. For example...
>>2824403
Morels and puffballs both have deadly "look alikes" But only if you don't know what is and what isn't those mushrooms. The false morel, gyromitra only looks like a morel of you've never seen either in real life and think..."maybe that's it?" A puffball is pretty easy to recognize, especially the very large ones. But, an amanita egg can look just like a smaller puffball. If you think you have a puffball, cut it in half. It should be solid white all the way through. If you see a mushroom shape in the middle, it's an amanita. not a puffball.

It all comes back to knowing what the mushrooms your looking for look like and what the "look alikes" look like. There's almost always easy to distinguish with a little experience. The easiest way to start is to just go looking for mushrooms, not to eat, but just to see what's in your area. Take pictures, bring the pictures home and try and ID them. Eventually you'll become familiar with the mushrooms that grow in your area and can look for the ones that are edible.

shrump

>>2824327 (OP)
What do they taste like?

Who else is listening from the Barbara Elaine Marshall memorial bench on the Coastal Trail near Elderberry Park, in Anchorage Alaska, while watching seagulls diving for fish in the Knik Arm of the Cook Inlet as the sun is going down behind Mt. Susitna around 11:30 PM?

What is the best way to eat this?

>>2828772
I know you're trolling, but I'll answer anyway.

Laccaria ochropurpurea, you cook it just like you'd cook any other mushroom. Avoid the stipe as it tends to be woody.

Yo guys, I am looking into getting educated about european trees/plants and mushroom foraging.


Do you guys know any good field guides? Preferably something with pictures and compact, the kind of thing you could bring with you while camping

>>2830177
Is this some kind of automated bump or are you really this dumb?

>>2830181
Fuck you nigger

don't fuck with Amanitas
they'll kill you dead

This big boy sprouted in my backyard. I live in western Manitoba, Canada. It's the size of my hand. I'm not going to eat it but I am curious as to what it is. I have more pics too.

>>2830638
Some sort of agaricus maybe. Are the gills dark brown? A picture of the gills and stipe(stem) would be helpful. About 1/3 of agaricus are edible, the rest fall into the "lose your lunch bunch". Try and get the whole stipe out with the mushroom. Dig a little if you have to. The mushroom is just the fruit of the mycelial body that lived underground. So you're not going to hurt it. Split the stipe and look for it to turn from white to yellow. Smell it, is it mushroomy or chemicaly like a peroxide smell. If either of those are true, it's part of the LYLB.

There are a lot of white mushrooms, so more info is definitely needed. Post more pictures, especially of what I mentioned above(gills and stipe).

>>2830641
Heres a picture of the gills. I can go try to pull it out later.

>>2824327 (OP)
little brown mushrooms, avoid

>>2824340
>In my experience assume every mushroom is poisonous unless you can get a proper id
yes

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>>2824403
people sleep on hericium (lion's mane et al) but it's a rarity in that you can rest assured that it's a choice edible with no lookalikes.

>>2824464
inaturalist seek can prolly confirm a genus but i would not depend on that app for fungi. you definitely need a real field guide and observations at all stages of life for most species, however, some of the heavy hitters like chicken/hen, oysters, etc., are reasonably retard-proof to identify.

also, i've always thought it was very cool how fungi are more similar to animals than plants. they have flesh and often taste like seafood or chicken, and are generally umami. they're basically proto-animals that provide amino acids not whole proteins, and i will probably use dry mushrooms in most homemade backpacking meals, sous vide and dehydrated.

>>2830332
Amanita multisquamosa
Same psychoactive chemicals/effects as Amanita muscaria, but stronger

>>2830644
>people sleep on hericium
True for all toothed mushrooms. They're some of the easiest to identify and there aren't any that will kill you. Worst case scenario with a toothed mushroom is it tastes like wood.

Oysters are fairly fool proof, but there are a couple mushrooms that are confused for them. A major key there is growing directly from wood and decurant gills(gills run down the stipe).Unless you've cultivated them yourself, I generally suggest avoiding anything oyster looking growing from wood chips. There is a mushroom that meets those criteria but are not oysters that I've seen frequently on woodchip beds, Hohenbuehelia. They typically have thicker gills. They wont make you sick, but they don't taste good(like rotting wood).

>>2830642
Yeah, that's agaricus. Check the stipe for the indicators I mentioned above(yellowing and chemically smell)

>>2830646
Closer to animals than plants, closer to invertebrates than vertebrates. Their primary building structure is chitin, like insects and crustations. This is one of the reasons they can hijack insects.

>>2830647
I'm not 100%, but the one on the left looks like it may be a. ocreata. That picture may show how easy it is to confuse one amanita from another.

>>2830652
Amanita bisporigera - I'm in the Midwest. I took a spore print and then tossed it in the trash.