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Can edhatters tell me about these two types of mushrooms found at Tucker’s Grove? The orange ones are at the base of an oak tree, if that helps.
Mushroom ID
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January 14, 2019, 9:20 am
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GINGER1. Cool info and good to know. Yes, I think always that people are silly with their need to destroy mushrooms in parks/grassy areas. Apparently a lot of people worry about their kids or eating the ‘shrooms. Just keep a better eye on your charges, I say.
meant to write “kids or dogs”
Two things: 1. For identification, it’s a good idea to see the underside of the cap (the gills or pores) and the stem, the top near the cap and the bottom. The location where they are growing is likewise important. 2. Considering that there are about a dozen easily identifiable “common” mushrooms, only a few edible and three or four poisonous (two potentially deadly, the rest just make you remember not to eat them ever again 😉 (in SB), there are also a few hundred other common and less easily keyed. Take a class at City College and/or at least pick up a mushroom ID book at Chaucer’s Bookstore. And please don’t kick them over and mangle them in the wild. If you feel the need to pick one up, plant it back right where you found it. Seeing the smooshed field of Lactarious sp. at Steven’s Park yesterday was disturbing. And unnecessary. There was also a HUGE Boletus edulus (porcini!) sliced in half displayed on a large rock. It was “past it’s prime” but otherwise an awesome specimen.