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Mushroom guys #8233969
10/11/24 03:49 PM
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Are these safe and edible? [Linked Image]
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Re: Mushroom guys [Re: west river rogue] #8233983
10/11/24 04:30 PM
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There are a lot of mushrooms that look like that. Some are edible some are not. No one can definitively tell you just by looking at a picture.
Get a good book such as Mushrooms Demystified. You need to do a spore print on some mushrooms like that.


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Re: Mushroom guys [Re: west river rogue] #8233991
10/11/24 04:43 PM
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Picked a bunch of hens and chickens.
They are done here.

Any such thing as a mushroom calendar?





Re: Mushroom guys [Re: west river rogue] #8233996
10/11/24 04:47 PM
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I feed the ones I’m unsure of to my brother in law we don’t get along and so far he is still around!!

Re: Mushroom guys [Re: Ak72] #8234000
10/11/24 04:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Ak72
I feed the ones I’m unsure of to my brother in law we don’t get along and so far he is still around!!

Lol

Re: Mushroom guys [Re: west river rogue] #8234002
10/11/24 04:54 PM
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Thought I was on the other topic.
Shrooms must be working.





Re: Mushroom guys [Re: west river rogue] #8234044
10/11/24 07:01 PM
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They appear to be slightly past prime buttons/meadow mushrooms, at least the underside does. But can’t say for sure from those pics. Fresh ones should have pinkish gills, but they brown with age.

Re: Mushroom guys [Re: west river rogue] #8234047
10/11/24 07:15 PM
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It's dinner time, those are a go. Here we refer to them locally as pinkies, field mushrooms, horse mushrooms.
Frying pan and little butter yum-yum


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Re: Mushroom guys [Re: west river rogue] #8234206
10/11/24 11:03 PM
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It depends on what region you are in,, as different types live in different areas.
To me,, they appear to be “ pink bottoms “ or meadow mushrooms.. because they look similar to a mushroom that grows here in south central Illinois..
scientific name is Agaricus campestris

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Re: Mushroom guys [Re: west river rogue] #8234222
10/11/24 11:58 PM
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That does appear to be an older Agaricus campestris, AKA Field Mushroom, AKA Meadow Mushroom. I looked for some earlier today. I've got two more spots to look on my farm, where I've harvested them in the past. Scalping the grass with the mower seems to make them pop up better, but it might just make them easier to see.

They are closely related to and taste like the button mushrooms from the store. They don't store as well in the refrigerator. At Caesers Creek and Spring Valley, one year, there was probably more than 20 acres full of field mushrooms. Conditions must have been near perfect. There were enough to fill many semis.

I ended up picking 2 puffballs.

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