Bill Russell Book Signing

Belladonna Herbs
921 Pike Street
Lemont, PA 16851
1-3 pm Saturday Dec. 7, 2013

The shiitake logs that we inoculated as a group in March are now fruiting! That's pretty quick! We just left them under the deck and haven't done anything with them. (Too big to soak!) The wet weather with temperature variations have forced them to put up 3 beautiful mushrooms. My older logs are now fruiting as well.

Baby was playing on a playground with wood chips. There were some mushrooms growing in the chips. He picked some up and almost put one in his mouth until we said no. He didn't eat it, but his mouth may have had slight contact with it. Then he proceeded to smash it into his hands and tear it apart. And of course, babies tend to put their hands into their mouth a lot. We picked up similar mushrooms around it for photography. I don't think it's particularly dangerous but I wanted to see what everyone thought these were.

Bill Hain got us fifty 8-12 inch diameter 4 foot long chestnut (white) oak log for the shiitake inoculation event March 25th. Bring your drill and a 5/16" drill bit if you have one. We have extra drill bits if you don't. We look forward to seeing you!

 

Sun-Gazette Article (.pdf)

I have been trying to find out what type of mushrooms these are... I have a patch of grass beside my house that I get this long string of these mushrooms that grow “under the ground” as bumps and continue to get larger until the majority of the ball is above ground...   Please help... the suspense is killing us not knowing what they are and why we have them just in that one spot...   Thanks

Jarad Garlesky, York, PA

 

 

 

 

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This questions arrived in our emails. Without clear picture of the gills, size references, and description of what it was growing on, it's very difficult to make an ID.

I found this mushroom in backyard of my Atlanta home. Who can tell me the mushroom name and it is edible. Thank you very much.

This questions arrived in our emails.

I was wondering if you could help me positively identify these mushroom.  I'm pretty sure they are black chanterelles (horn of plenty or black trumpet) mushrooms.  Just wanted to make sure there aren't any other similar mushrooms out there that I could be mistaking them for.  I live in northern Clearfield Co.  I found these on an old logging road underneath mature oak trees.  Some were is clusters others by themselves.
 
Thanks,
Molly

Posing next to a big Hen that Karen Croyle found at the Whipple Dam walk. She shared half of it with me.

Washed and cleaned hen of the woods (maitake) mushroom