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I want to say that almost looks like chicken of the woods. Do you know of any of the three photos are of good edibles?

 

I don't know, the only mushrooms I am eating, are mushrooms I picked up in supermarket. But few times a year I am hiking the Appalachin Trail and I see plenty of different mushrooms. Once I was hiking in Maine I saw someone picking up mushrooms, he explained those were very expensive mushrooms which taste like a lobster. Still, I would not touch it.

 

A true gem. Morgan Park. Roughly 260 acres donated to the county by private landowner years ago. Hoping to find some edible fungus but I did not find any decent amount of anything good for the pan.

Right on the edge of the city limits and near the end of the City limits sign.

Living in a small town does have it's advantages... I guess it all depends on what a person's priorities might be.

This is what a lot of the real Florida looks like before they come and tear it down. People act surprised when they live somewhere for 20 years and it suddenly floods..... Well that's because you tore down all of the cow pasture and all of the swamp right next door. Of course it's going to flood because the new subdivision is a foot or two higher than yours was.



My trusty bicycle. A relatively inexpensive and simple and very dependable bicycle.

Steel frame with no suspension. 29 inch mountain bike tires and disc brakes front and rear. Also a single speed, simplicity and a bicycle.

I really need to ride a little bit more and I used to ride a bicycle everywhere all of the time and I can definitely tell I'm out of shape on a bike.

Complete with my redneck camouflage paint job. The bike was already olive drab green but I sponge brushed it with black and brown.

 

Definitely not a bad idea but it's also not a bad idea to identify several common edible species in your area.

I believe what you described as commonly known as a lobster mushroom. Sadly none of those in Florida but if I found a mess of lobster mushrooms, I would definitely harvest them pending later identification before consumption.

Of course if you're out hiking the Appalachian trail that's not very feasible

 

More of out in the county. Sat here and ate lunch. You can see a car coming either direction for at least a good mile.

Evidently even though it's public they're trying to scare people away from it. I have ridden my bicycle out here for years and no one is going to try to Buffalo me away from coming out to see the beautiful county. I pay taxes just like you and I will drive where I want. Probably has something to do with the rich people that own the ranch out there. Who also happened to be the prominent realtor family in the county

 

I was going to say the same but I've only seen them growing on old trees.

 

I myself have never found them yet but I do understand that while they are more common on Deadwood, they can occur on live trees.

Still hoping to find a good mess of prime specimens for the pot myself

 

They are delicious.
I cut them into strips and breadcrumb them.

 

I understand that lion's mane also grows here as well as oyster mushrooms. Chanterels are also delicious and evidently cannot be commercially cultivated so the only way to find those is to forage them.

I have found lion's mane and oyster mushrooms in our local grocer.

 

I've seen oyster mushrooms in the wild, along with puffballs, ink caps, cauliflower mushrooms, beefsteak mushrooms, blewits and common field mushrooms.
Nothing is as good as chicken of the woods though.

 

Should also be some liberty caps in your neck of the woods. Roughly 200 species of mushrooms contain psilocybin with most of those being in the genus of psilocybe but there are also others.

I believe there are many more species than has been documented by science.

 

Oh yes, liberty caps and fly agaric.
I've tried both but didn't get much off the fly agarics which I did twice without effect. Too over cautious about the dose I think.
Liberty caps are fairly common and I've even seen them on the farm.

 

Never done the amanita muscaria myself, would like to try it once but like you.... I would definitely use caution.

Those are actually legal here in the USA.
There is a version that grows in Florida known as the panther cap. Looks just like fly agaric and is genetically essentially the same thing chemically speaking but the Caps are orange instead of red.

As you probably know the amanita genus contains some deadly species which should be enough to make anyone proceed with due caution.

Sadly liberty caps do not grow in my neck of the woods but I hear that they are quite potent on a gram for gram basis versus other species

 

Quite variable. Sometimes 10 will do other times it's a handful.
Usually dried and then boiled up in tea. Fresh are better but still need boiling as they are often full of worms.

 

Vesuvius from the hills above Sorrento

 

I took this picture while walking my dog. That's Mt Hood 67 miles away.

 

Photo taken from a boat on the Columbia River at dusk. Again, that's Mt Hood.

 

My dog, a Great Pyrenees, knows exactly what "Come!" means. This is him after being told to come 3 times.

 

Marina in Sorrento

 

…. Time for diner….

 

Positano on the Amalfi Coast…..

 

Looking down on Amalfi…..

 

View of Capri taken from the Via Colli di Acquara, Massa Lubrense

 

…..morning stroll in London next to Parliament buildings