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alexpgpI made the ham breakfast this morning and had a nice time. I brought Shiloh along (she waited in the van while I ate), and after breakfast, we took off for site Lima - still no mushrooms - and then off down a Forest Service road not far from Treasure Falls.
The road was rougher than I remember it, and there were a couple of places I could not avoid scraping the bottom of the car against rocks jutting up from the road bed, but we eventually got to the trail head, where we got out and looked around.
I heard running water, so we headed in that direction. Shiloh had fun splashing in the water while I scanned the trees along the river's edge. To my great surprise, I saw a clutch of mushrooms, growing out of a live conifer about 15 yards from the water's edge.
I'm still waiting to get a spore print, but a preliminary pass through a couple of my handbooks suggests (a) it's not edible, and (b) that it may be a member of the Pholiota family, despite the fact that the cap isn't slimy to the touch (it hasn't been very wet around here for several days).
In other places where, in years past, I have spied mushrooms growing, there was nothing. It's still too early.
Cheers...
P.S. Cross-posted, mostly, to the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
mycology community (where comments are more likely to be found).
Update: The spore print is brown, and the gills are free or adnex, which supports the Pholiota hypothesis
The road was rougher than I remember it, and there were a couple of places I could not avoid scraping the bottom of the car against rocks jutting up from the road bed, but we eventually got to the trail head, where we got out and looked around.
I heard running water, so we headed in that direction. Shiloh had fun splashing in the water while I scanned the trees along the river's edge. To my great surprise, I saw a clutch of mushrooms, growing out of a live conifer about 15 yards from the water's edge.
I'm still waiting to get a spore print, but a preliminary pass through a couple of my handbooks suggests (a) it's not edible, and (b) that it may be a member of the Pholiota family, despite the fact that the cap isn't slimy to the touch (it hasn't been very wet around here for several days).
In other places where, in years past, I have spied mushrooms growing, there was nothing. It's still too early.
Cheers...
P.S. Cross-posted, mostly, to the
mycology community (where comments are more likely to be found).Update: The spore print is brown, and the gills are free or adnex, which supports the Pholiota hypothesis
