How to find out if edible mushrooms are invading my property

Kat2 · 09-25-2016, 07:41 PM

I'm accustomed to seeing toadstools take over compost and mulch. But suddenly I have some unlike any I've seen before popping up. For instance, I have both white and yellow large "stools" and a brown "frilly". I do have pictures but why waste bandwidth just to show off my highly unique (to me) specimens? Can someone in FL point me to where I can find learn about native shrooms?

Because I can't resist, here's the brown frilly one which looks kinda yummy to this "never hunted morels or any other goody" novice.

I swear I haven't intentionally inoculated my yard with any "magic" spores. Honest.

Juicy Bananas · 09-26-2016, 11:21 PM

Personally wouldn't eat them. But you appear to have a healthy yard. Fungi gives off nitrogen 1:1000. So having lots of different fungi is great.

Worm_Farmer · 09-27-2016, 07:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Kat2

I'm accustomed to seeing toadstools take over compost and mulch. But suddenly I have some unlike any I've seen before popping up. For instance, I have both white and yellow large "stools" and a brown "frilly". I do have pictures but why waste bandwidth just to show off my highly unique (to me) specimens? Can someone in FL point me to where I can find learn about native shrooms?

Because I can't resist, here's the brown frilly one which looks kinda yummy to this "never hunted morels or any other goody" novice.

In my beds, I sometimes wonder if the Mushrooms that pop up from from the mycorrhizae I have used over the years.

I swear I haven't intentionally inoculated my yard with any "magic" spores. Honest.

Always remember to flick them before you pick them.

They are not the magic type. I have only found them on fresh Cow Poo.

I get these same type often. With several thousand types of mushrooms that we can encounter. I choose not to eat them. From what I understand is that many are editable but will not taste great. There is a collage that will ID the mushroom if you send pics and a spore print to.

cincinnana · 09-28-2016, 09:40 PM

You have a gold mine of fungi..... imported with your mulch.

I have some weird stuff that pops up too.

Some of the stuff looks like yellow vomit......yep vomit.

Go ahead and try some

The worst that can happen is paralysis or cardiac arrest.

What Is Growing in My Landscape Mulch? Mushrooms, Slime Molds, Bird's Nest Fungus, Artillery Fungus — Penn State Extension

Snarkie · 12-08-2016, 10:49 AM

Actually, I think the yellow vomit is edible. I'll have to double check my mushroom book though, to be sure. Found it at Barnes and Noble. Very useful book, along with the snake book!

Kat2 · 12-08-2016, 03:47 PM

Dog vomit fungus was always fun to explain to clients in the HOAs where I landscaped when when I lived in OH. I was never was nearly hungry enough to consider harvesting it for meal time; if I had, I'd have had many, many, many servings since it was quite prevalent. (Not yellow but brownish and looked precisely like its name--blech.)

Snarkie · 12-08-2016, 03:54 PM

Yeah, I'm sure it's a different fungus.

I'll look it up, I promise.

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