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 Topic: Best day ever ( I think?) |
slippery Jack
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 Forum: Foraging Posted: Sun Sep 05, 10 9:28 am Subject: Best day ever ( I think?) |
| Thanks for replies: After 3 years looking I was beginning to think proper Ceps did not grow in South Wales ! Have previously only found Birch boletes, chrysenteron, and what look to me like luridus, a ... |
| Topic: Best day ever ( I think?) |
slippery Jack
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Forum: Foraging Posted: Sat Sep 04, 10 5:26 pm Subject: Best day ever ( I think?) |
Had what I think was a bonanza today.
Mainly ceps (I'm pretty certain) but also some large boletes like Ceps but with yellow rather than white pores growing with what look like definite Ceps (last pi ... |
| Topic: Mushroom ID please |
slippery Jack
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Forum: Foraging Posted: Tue Feb 16, 10 2:52 pm Subject: Mushroom ID please |
| When I saw them I thought sulphur tufts. I'm sure I have seen those about recently. |
| Topic: Oyster Mushroom |
slippery Jack
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Forum: Foraging Posted: Tue Feb 16, 10 2:47 pm Subject: Oyster Mushroom |
Pleurotus Ostreatus
Rogers Mushrooms says white, cream or yellowish in headnote but lilac in text.
see http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/gallery/DisplayBlock~bid~6651~source~gallerychooserresult.asp
A ... |
| Topic: Oyster Mushroom |
slippery Jack
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Forum: Foraging Posted: Mon Feb 08, 10 6:17 pm Subject: Oyster Mushroom |
Thanks, folks.
Spore print very pale pink/lilac. No "inhabitants" but thanks for warning. Will try frying a few. |
| Topic: Oyster Mushroom |
slippery Jack
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Forum: Foraging Posted: Mon Feb 08, 10 3:30 pm Subject: Oyster Mushrooms |
Should have added :-
Found large quantity today growing on large broken (but alive) beech. Found similar last week on dead Horse chestnut. Smell mushroomy/mealy. Rubbery texture. Awaiting spore print ... |
| Topic: Oyster Mushroom |
slippery Jack
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Forum: Foraging Posted: Mon Feb 08, 10 3:18 pm Subject: Oyster Mushroom |
Are these they ?
How do you cook?
http://www.downsizer.net/gallery/15105/Oyster1.JPG |
| Topic: Edible Mushrooms Gallery |
slippery Jack
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Forum: Foraging Posted: Tue Dec 22, 09 1:24 pm Subject: Edible Mushrooms Gallery |
| See second entry page one of this thread |
| Topic: ceps at last |
slippery Jack
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Forum: Foraging Posted: Wed Nov 18, 09 10:13 am Subject: ceps at last |
Thanks for advice re Clouded Agarics, cab. Don't think I'll try them though they do look beautiful.
Re lack of Ceps, as mentioned by PeteS, July and August were indeed very wet (though it did not bri ... |
| Topic: ceps at last |
slippery Jack
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Forum: Foraging Posted: Tue Nov 17, 09 1:48 pm Subject: ceps at last |
| I have been tramping the woods of South Wales, deciduous and conifer, for the last month without a signe of a Cep, or indeed bolete of any description: Perhaps it's down to former industrial air pollu ... |
| Topic: Chanties or falsies?? |
slippery Jack
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Forum: Foraging Posted: Thu Oct 29, 09 1:28 pm Subject: Chanties or falsies?? |
| So has anyone any idea what they might be ? |
| Topic: Don't Give Up |
slippery Jack
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Forum: Foraging Posted: Tue Nov 18, 08 12:26 pm Subject: Don't Give Up |
| All this talk of plenty is getting me down ! I can't find anything at the moment edible, inedible or even deadly ! Beechwoods, birch woods, larch, spruce, oak, ash meadowland and bog all seem barren o ... |
| Topic: Hazards of foraging |
slippery Jack
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Forum: Foraging Posted: Thu Nov 13, 08 2:21 pm Subject: Hazards of foraging |
| Spiked myself in back of hand on blackthorn whilst picking sloes over three weeks ago and swelling just about going down now but hand still stiff. Heard of Devon gamekeeper who did same, hand turned g ... |
| Topic: Abundance of fungi? |
slippery Jack
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Forum: Foraging Posted: Tue Oct 21, 08 11:59 am Subject: Abundance of fungi? |
| Fungi in South Wales virtually non-existent, edible or inedible. Just about managed to get enough sloes last weekend for two litres of gin. As I normally make eight it's going to be a slow (no pun) jo ... |
| Topic: Parasols |
slippery Jack
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Forum: Foraging Posted: Tue Oct 07, 08 3:28 pm Subject: Parasols |
| I remember 76 well. Lousy fishing, water temperatures so high fish were dieing, then some rain end of September, lots of fish and mushrooms (agaricus) everywhere in meadows by the river. This year lo ... |
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