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Jen Fulkerson wrote:I'm so jealous, All the pictures are beautiful and interesting. My wood chip have very few small whitish mushrooms and stuff that looks like yellow barf.

haha...we have the 'yellow barf' stuff also.....

I see you are in northern California...it's likely there are exciting fungi in your neighborhood?

It's so special how the lichens and mosses stand out over the winter and now are fading into the background with all of the spring greenery.

I'm glad we have the opportunities to hike these mountains. Now, the state and national park trails here are closed because of the virus...it is about the time we stop hiking for the season anyway because ticks and snakes are out. Now we take a three mile walk on a gravel road out of town...not a fungus in sight yet

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Hey Everyone,

Absolutely love the thread - the photos are stunning! I run an Australian-based health website and we have a lot of great articles - one being a guide on the health benefits of Turkey Tail mushroom. A lot of the imagery we've had to use are pretty generic 'stock images' and some of the shots in this thread are just beautiful! Would there be any objections to me using a few of the images in our article and attributing back to the photographer? You can have a look at our article below

Thanks so much!

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Darcy Ogdon wrote:Hey Everyone,

Absolutely love the thread - the photos are stunning! I run an Australian-based health website and we have a lot of great articles - one being a guide on the health benefits of Turkey Tail mushroom. A lot of the imagery we've had to use are pretty generic 'stock images' and some of the shots in this thread are just beautiful! Would there be any objections to me using a few of the images in our article and attributing back to the photographer? You can have a look at our article below Thanks so much!

Turkey Tail Mushroom

Hi Darcy, thank you and welcome to permies!

I did the photos and am fine with you using what ones you like, just keep the accurate label/ID with them....and maybe link to this site if possible? I don't care about being credited.
I really appreciate that you asked though.

It's a great turkey tail article

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I didn't lie in my earlier post, I just didn't know. I have 3 whiskey barrels I got a few years ago on clearance at Walmart for 10 dollars. I didn't need them, but couldn't pass them up. One ended up by the driveway and I put flowers in it. The flowers always die. In the hot months, which seems like half the year it required watering everyday. I don't have enough time, motivation, or determination to water everyday. In the fall of 2019 I decided to treat it like a hugel beet. I soaked old chunks of fire wood, and sticks and wood chips for a few days in water. I then placed the firewood, soil, sticks, leaves soil, wood chips, soil with compost mixed in. I planted mum's I got on clearance and some pansy's. I watered everything when I planted, and once a couple of weeks ago. They were beautiful all fall and winter long. Not bad considering it was a very dry winter. It was getting to hot for the pansy's so I popped in some alyssum and, petunia's about a week ago. I noticed they needed some water and found the bonus of mushrooms. Not a normal thing to find around here, so I'm happy to share my little surprise with you.

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Still hiking and taking photos of fungi although I'm behind posting in this thread.
Last week found nice tree ears and a new, to us, one that we haven't got a positive ID on yet....might be 'velvet foot' or 'wild enoki' and if so a great edible. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flammulina_velutipes
Spore print was white.

And the week before didn't get photos of the big red oak stump with five! huge clumps of chicken of the woods...too excited

The reddish shelf mushrooms and the last photo are ones with no ID yet if anyone wants to give them a guess?

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Hi Judith, so many beautiful mushrooms and lichens you found in your area!

What are the mushrooms with the chrysanthemum and petunia?
Are they honey mushrooms?

Most of the mushrooms in my yard are not edible and with funky names: witch's butter, dead man's finger, devil's lipstick, dog's vomit etc.

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May Lotito wrote:Hi Judith, so many beautiful mushrooms and lichens you found in your area!

What are the mushrooms with the chrysanthemum and petunia?
Are they honey mushrooms?

May, that's something Jen posted...not my photo nor in the Ozarks

I don't think they are honey mushrooms though?

This looks like a good winter for fungi in the woods!

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We get back in the woods yearly to hike after the first cold spell here, usually mid october and continuing through April.

Our favorite trails are in the Buffalo River National Park where there are lots of trails of differing difficulty so we can gradually get our legs back in shape for steeper terrain after a summer of flat walks.

Today was just 5 miles after our gulleywasher of a rain a few days ago so the river was still at flood stage.

Wet enough for a few tree ears and some nice turkey tails. I'm not sure what the white polypore is? I have a feeling we've ID'd it before.

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banks and beach of the Buffalo after a 36'rise....

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Today's 5 mile hike at Sylamore Creek, Blanchard Springs...another wonderful area full of trails.

Found a nice log full of 'wolf farts'...also known as stump puff balls

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apioperdon
Edible and these were nice young ones although we didn't harvest any.

Wonderful fall weather!

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Sweeden Island hike on the Arkansas river...nothing edible although quite colorful.

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Warm balmy days here lately!
So we took a hike at the Buffalo National River yesterday.
Five miles and sunny and seventies...the warmest I've been all winter

We didn't find any oysters and the turkey tails were too far gone but had an excellent hike with signs of spring in the air.

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Buffalo River hike to Calf Creek...
We are just not seeing the fungi this winter, edible or not.

Seems like the age of fallen trees must be the difference as many of the places we've found them before, both turkey tails and oysters ar least have rotted too much and more recent fells are not at the right stage of decay...and then, of course there is the tree variety.

Seeing just a few shelf fungi...these are thick polypores of unknown variety.

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found a few oysters on our forest hike that looked ok but when I checked one it smelled like it was rotting.
There has been so much rain they were sopping wet.

We've gathered them on the mature side, a little ragged and buggy even but this was just really off smelling.

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Today on our weekly 4-5 mile hike in the Ozarks found more oyster mushrooms but too late for harvest....beautiful though!
It looks like a good year for them but enough rain that it's hard to catch them in their prime ...a favorite lovely hike along the old railroad bed to where the rails used to cross the river...then lunch on the beach.

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and one I forgot to post from a couple weeks ago...

This article reminded me of it https://lite.cnn.com/2025/12/06/health/california-wild-mushrooms-foraging-poisoning-outbreak

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That last one is definitely some kind of Amanita, probably in the Lepidella subgroup that includes several deadly species. Almost very year inexperienced people mistake Amanita mushrooms for edibles like the White Matsutake with fatal results. Like my mycology teacher used to say- "When in doubt, throw it out."

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Wonderful photographs and looks like a beautiful area! Arkansas, from the maps, looks as if it’s a wilder area than most, based on sattelite at least. I was surprised to see so many floodplain forests. Here they are mostly converted to farmland, though there is a protected ancient pine grove some distance away.

Is that river cane in the background?

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M.K. Dorje Sr. wrote:That last one is definitely some kind of Amanita, probably in the Lepidella subgroup that includes several deadly species. Almost very year inexperienced people mistake Amanita mushrooms for edibles like the White Matsutake with fatal results. Like my mycology teacher used to say- "When in doubt, throw it out."

that's what I thought....I need to label the photo.
Without a definite ID what would you suggest?
Usually I try to take a gill photo but for this one I didn:t want my phone anywhere close to it!
If I'm at all in doubt I don't touch them.

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M Ljin wrote:Wonderful photographs and looks like a beautiful area! Arkansas, from the maps, looks as if it’s a wilder area than most, based on sattelite at least. I was surprised to see so many floodplain forests. Here they are mostly converted to farmland, though there is a protected ancient pine grove some distance away.

Is that river cane in the background?

thank you💜

Arkansas has a lot of deep woods in the Ozarks and even farther south in the state....many hiking trails. There are a lot of cattle ranchers and hay fields but not so many farm crops.
Many gardeners though!

The wildness is what attracted so many of us in the early seventies.

Yes, rivercane...lots of it here along creeks and rivers.

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Judith Browning wrote:

M.K. Dorje Sr. wrote:That last one is definitely some kind of Amanita, probably in the Lepidella subgroup that includes several deadly species. Almost very year inexperienced people mistake Amanita mushrooms for edibles like the White Matsutake with fatal results. Like my mycology teacher used to say- "When in doubt, throw it out."

that's what I thought....I need to label the photo.
Without a definite ID what would you suggest?
Usually I try to take a gill photo but for this one I didn:t want my phone anywhere close to it!
If I'm at all in doubt I don't touch them.

Me too! There are several species of Amanita in the Lepidella subgroup in the southeastern US that are difficult to ID down to species without a microscope. In Oregon, there's one called Smith's Amanita that can look similar to the White Matsutake and sometimes grows right next to them- maybe that confusion is causing the poisonings in California. Anyway, I always avoid any mushroom with a cup or bulb at the base, white gills and a white spore print.

Judith, I also enjoy all these photos from your field trips. In the 1990s I wanted to travel to the swamps in Arkansas and see an Ivory-Billed Woodpecker- the holy grail of American bird watching.

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