dpack
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pleurotus corneocopiaforgive my possible miss spelling but judging by the basket full mick and myself got today ,on a fallen tree near you
tasty and dryable for later
a whiter and nuttier tasting relative of p oysterus
again my spelling may need correction
yummy
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cab
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Yummy indeed  I think it dries better than P. ostreatus (the more familiar oyster mushroom).
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dpack
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i came upon a new log ,i have about a kilo dry weight ,i left most sporing
must have a longish season
and grows on several types of big fallen hardwood
yummy dried ,ground and added to stews etc
and unmistakeable once identified
neat shroom
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PeteS
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I found loads earlier in the season but not keen on it dried. In my view it's far better to make it into a duxcel and freeze it - excellent for beef Wellington, pasta filling or just added to soups and stews.
Back in the Uk on Sunday and can't wait for a forage. I have heard there has been lots of rain. Where are all the Ceps?
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Truffle
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Oysters (and relatives) seem to be a year-round find these days. We can find these on most forages at different times of the year around here, why is that? they don't seem to be strongly seasonal- has it always been like this or have I only just noticed it in the past few years? Could be the cool summers and mild winters I guess...
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cab
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They've always done this, the older books on shrooms tend to remark on it. I've found them on midwinter day and midsummers day, same year.
I believe that the commercial strains tend to be similar to the winter ones; you grow up the mycelium, cold shock it, and then it'll form shrooms. And thats more or less what some of them do in the wild, you get patches appear almost out of nowhere three to five days after a frost, sometimes there'll be another frost afterwards and you can gather them frozen solid. In summer I've found other patches that seem to appear a week after a hot snap of weather, presumably simular stress responses in different individuals cause fruiting in response to different stresses. I wouldn't be surprised if someone has elucidated some of the genetics of this, but I haven't looked.
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Truffle
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have you tried king oysters? I have a friend who grows them, big chunky things...
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