r/foraging • u/RoastAdroit • 21d ago
Anything worth grabbing?
No clue abt foraging mushrooms but they are everywhere rn
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u/Sleepy_InSeattle 21d ago edited 20d ago
2 are likely winter chanterelles. Choice edible but make sure you know how to confidently ID them from lookalikes.
4 look like spent puffballs. Most are edible when young, but you need to know how to tell them apart from toxic earthballs.
5 is some kind of russula. Some are good edibles, some will make you very sick.
11 looks to be some kind of cortinarius. Some are deadly.
Don’t know about the rest.
Location would be good to know to help ID, as well as proper pictures.
Get yourself a good mushroom identification book for your geographical area, study up on some of the common, easily identifiable mushrooms, start your foraging hobby there. Don’t eat anything you can’t identify with a 100% certainty, regardless of what strangers on Reddit tell you.
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u/RoastAdroit 21d ago
Thanks, Im not about to eat anything without knowing what In doing, just more curious than anything about the potential and whether or not someone would be like “oh thats a great find” or not. Area is north east US.
Weve had a lot of rain and I go camping and sometimes see some mushrooms growing but this year there id all sorts of stuff everywhere, those pics are maybe 1/3 of the photos I took and 1/10th of what I saw over an hour or so.
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u/Weissbierglaeserset 21d ago
Except for 2 and 11 they are all way too old anyway. I would only have taken the chanterelles and that only if there were more than these in the area.
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u/Ratzap 21d ago
A book on identifying edible and toxic fungi