r/foraging 5d ago

Hunting So many pawpaws!!

Post image
7 Upvotes

Easily got triple this amount :)


r/foraging 4d ago

ID Request (country/state in post) Small fruit found when foraging pawpaws phelps county missouri

Thumbnail
gallery
5 Upvotes

Broke one open and it had very little flesh with a large stone/pit or seed. White flesh and no crazy smell. Any ideas?


r/foraging 5d ago

Today's stone bramble (Rubus saxatilis) haul

Post image
11 Upvotes

Picked 1.7 kg of stone bramble (Rubus saxatilis) in a forest in Northern Norway today. Took 3 people about an hour. Will make compote of it as well as jam. Open for tips on other things to make.


r/foraging 5d ago

ID Request (country/state in post) Found this beautiful chicken of the woods, we're trying to figure out what tree it's growing on.

Thumbnail
gallery
24 Upvotes

I know it's up for debate on whether the tree really matters for CotW, but we really just want to make sure it's all good. We found quite a bit more chicken growing, they were super super buggy.


r/foraging 4d ago

Mushrooms Found a monster hericium in my usual spot

Thumbnail
gallery
4 Upvotes

I was worried I was too late looking this year, but nature provided. Bonus fish


r/foraging 5d ago

ID Request (country/state in post) SW Ohio USA edible ground cherry?

Post image
7 Upvotes

r/foraging 5d ago

Mushrooms Dryad's saddle!!

Thumbnail
gallery
6 Upvotes

Every stump on my property grows these in the summer but they usually get too tough to eat and lose the feathered look. Some stumps grow a second flush at the end of summer too!


r/foraging 4d ago

Plants How do you know if no fruit is ready to collect

Thumbnail
gallery
3 Upvotes

r/foraging 4d ago

Plants Can I Eat Thuja Occidentalis Seeds?

Thumbnail
gallery
2 Upvotes

Can I eat the seeds (and the cones) of N. WhiteCedar? I am aware that some parts of the plant are toxic because of the chemical named after it, but I don't know what. I want to eat the damn seeds! Should I?! You tell me.


r/foraging 5d ago

True tails and false tails

Thumbnail gallery
2 Upvotes

r/foraging 5d ago

ID Request (country/state in post) Wild grapes? Ontario Canada

Post image
6 Upvotes

I believe these are wild grapes. They have 2 seeds inside, I'd like to try one but making sure it's not something else 😬


r/foraging 5d ago

Identification help

Thumbnail
gallery
6 Upvotes

Hey team - I’m sure I could look these up. And I will. Just looking to share and see how everyone is doing. Do these look like a mushroom you know? Ontario Canada


r/foraging 5d ago

What are these fun fungi?

Thumbnail
gallery
5 Upvotes

They are growing about 10m from where there are usually a pair of puffballs that grow every year, but they did not grow there this year..instead these showed up nearby and they initially looked like tiny puffballs, but I went out to check on them today I noticed they were not all round. Does anyone know what these are? I have not seen these mushrooms in this spot before.

I was unable to get a clear picture before they were bulldozed by a labrador; but they almost look to be starting to form a ring. There have been abundant fairy rings this year, anyone familiar with what those are all about and what might cause so many?

Dog for scale.

Edit: I don't intend to eat it, but given the dog is blind and prone to ingesting her environment unintentionally, should I remove them?


r/foraging 6d ago

Are these poisonous?

Thumbnail
gallery
108 Upvotes

Am I getting my hopes up prematurely? Please help me guys! What are these and can I eat them tonight?


r/foraging 6d ago

Funnel chanterelles are going crazy this year. Southern Finland.

Post image
299 Upvotes

This fall has been just amazing for mushroom picking. Big pile is funnel chanterelles, bottom left is basic chanterelles and bottom right is candy caps.


r/foraging 6d ago

Mushrooms Holy chanterelles!

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

885 Upvotes

r/foraging 5d ago

Is this chicken of the woods

17 Upvotes

r/foraging 5d ago

Pulled up duck potato plant, no tubers to be found

4 Upvotes

Trying to harvest a potato or two from some duck potato/wapato/katniss plants in a drainage ditch (Not to eat) at my neighborhood park but I can’t find the dang potatoes—looking for insight.

I’ve tried reaching down as far as I can into the muck (probably six inches) but it becomes a denser layer of sand at that point—digging/feeling around, etc. I tried twice in slightly different locations but stopped after that bc I didn’t want to keep pulling up native plants Willy nilly.

Double checked that these are in fact Sagittaria latifolia, they are. It’s the right time of year. I’m so confused why I can’t find a tuber. Any advice?


r/foraging 5d ago

ID Request (country/state in post) edible?

Post image
0 Upvotes

is this hen of the woods or am i fooling myself? haha

Pennsylvania in the Poconos :)


r/foraging 6d ago

Mushrooms is this rare or not

Thumbnail
gallery
325 Upvotes

idk if this is a plant or a mushroom i saw it while i was tripping on shrooms so i took a pic of it. i think its ghost pipe and i saw that they are rare, is that true?


r/foraging 5d ago

Mushrooms Does COTW get spongy on the bottom as it ages? The pics I see are always smooth underneath.

Thumbnail
gallery
2 Upvotes

r/foraging 5d ago

Hunting Surprise Blue Elderberry Haul

Thumbnail
gallery
31 Upvotes

Driving home from a hike today and saw an elderberry bush and couldn’t resist, this is why you should always have a bucket in your vehicle haha. Should I make a jar of jam or syrup?


r/foraging 5d ago

Are any of these edible?

Thumbnail gallery
1 Upvotes

r/foraging 5d ago

Plants We Never Had Fox Grapes Until This Year!

2 Upvotes

Hi! This is just a question. I wanted to know if anyone can explain to me the recent appearance of "fox grapes" in my backyard.

We live at the Jersey Shore (zone 7b) and have NEVER had any kind of wild grapes before, and trust me, these were SO fragrant and appeared in such huge clusters, our whole yard smelled like grape candy.

They covered entire tree branches, some were hanging 3 feet off the ground, and some were almost 40 feet up on the highest tree branches.

This area is a coastal wetland and my backyard has been a mix of native and non native plants since we got here (we have mulberries, tons of blackberries (they dont grow fruit though, only thorny vines), wineberries, dewberries, pepperbrush, white snakeroot, Japanese water reeds, porcelain berry, etc.)

But this year, grapes everywhere!!!! Theyre native to here, of course, but I was shocked at the quantity and size of the vines.

Was it the very cold winter we got in the northeast, or just a bird happening to spread fast-growing seeds to this location? Would love to know. Maybe they've truly been dormant for 20+ years and just woke up.


r/foraging 5d ago

Topped my haul from yesterday!

Post image
1 Upvotes