Wet weather in Vermont means lots of mushrooms. Many are beautiful like this russula. But more importantly many are tasty 😋
One of my favorite to forage is chanterelles.
Black trumpets are also very tasty. Gotta keep a sharp eye for these as they blend into the leafy forest floor.
Chicken of the woods is another edible favorite. The texture of these mushrooms is very similar to chicken making them a good protein replacement, popular with vegetarians. I would never be described as a vegetarian but I love them too.
Here is a small coral mushroom. We found some lions mane yesterday but this is not lions mane. My foraging guide says he only eats coral that grows from trees. Lions mane is another of my favorite edible mushrooms.
Thats it for the edible mushrooms we foraged. But I have lots more pictures 😁
These brightly colored golden spindles are quite common right now.
I think they are Clavulinopsis fusiformis but my ID skills pretty much stop with the mushrooms I collect to eat 😊
This is a horrible picture but the ghost pipe (ghost plant, indian pipe) is a very pretty mushroom and we saw several on our foraging hike.
No idea on these little guys but they are almost translucent.
Another poor photo but these bright scarlet waxy caps stand out on the forest floor.
A nice photo of a less interesting russula 🙂
Puffballs were plentiful. These were even still white inside but we didn't collect them.
Disturbing little shiny purple headed mushroom.
Another nice picture of a mushroom I'm not interested in ID'ing because its not one I'm looking for to eat 😁
Some fresh turkeytail growth. Always lots of turkeytail around and its pretty photogenic.
A white amanita probably toxic. Keep moving lol
Probably a bad pic of a Boletus auripes. The mosquitos were really bad so that really affects the quality of photography 🤦♂️ Even though I was covered from head to toe including a hood, none of the photos got reviewed in the field. Snap, snap, swat, swat, not what we are foraging, keep moving. All kidding aside it was a nice hike. Close to home. Brought home lots of black trumpets, chanterelles, and chicken of the woods.
