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A Mushroom Hunt in January On a Cold Rainy Day

Ganoderma applamatum group? Grows on a maple. OR Fomitopsis pinicola? Red-belted conk, but it does not grow on a conifer. Must be Ganoderma applamatum group


Mike, Genny, and Reta on the Payette Greenbelt beside the Snake River and Payette Fishing pond

Talk about wanting to get out of the house in the middle of thne winter. Who would go on a mushroom hunt on a cold January day--a rainy, cold January day. Could there possibly be mushrooms to be found? We were hoping to find some oyster mushrooms, but none were to be found. Amazingly, we did find a few mushrooms. And, we found a beaver's paw. That's right, a beaver's paw. We also found a dead white goat and a white chicken someone had dumbed out along a parking area set aside for sportsman to access the Payette River. I am thinking that the chicken and goat were not dumped by sportsman.

We found three types of mushrooms, but I did not get good pictures of the other two.

Mushrooms in Wilsonville, OR

Found these mushrooms at our motel in Wilsonville, Oregon. There might have been rotten wood or stump below the surface, but I did not dig down thinking that the motel manager might frown upon such activity. The spore print is a dark brown.

I thought I had found a Boletus--ooops!

This grows all over an old cottonwood stump. I just have not had the time to try to identify.


This is the mushroom that my three-year old granddaughter handed me while we were visiting her house for her sister's first birthday. She says her daddy mows these when he mows the lawn. I thought this was of the Boletus genus until I attended the monthly SIMA meeting. I learned that it is of the genus Suillus luteus. Because my granddaughter's yard has something like forty Scotch pine trees (I think these are Scotch pines because it makes a difference in identifying the mushroom), the mushroom is probably the Slippery Jack. Slippery jack is commonly found in the Northeast USA, but because of the use of Scotch pines in landscaping popular in the sixties and seventies these mushrooms are now found in the Northwest. Arora says that it is said that this is the best of the Suilluses for eating, but he says that is faint praise.

Cabin Creek on the MF of the Weiser River

I will be back to finish this later. I wanted to get some of the pictures up because I have been away to Montana for awhile since making this foray to Cabin Cr. CG. I have more pix to put up and will make an attempt at IDing some of these.















These are very small. Maybe about the size of the lead in a pencil.




We found this small polypore on a stump. I am unsure what type of tree this is. Maybe someone can help us here because knowing the tree would help to identify this small polypore. There were a lot of Douglas Fir in the CG and this stump might be a Doug Fir. I think Reta has this mushroom identified.






Before driving to Cabin Cr CG, Reta and I met for breakfast in Payette and then walked the Payette fishing pond located alongside the Snake River. That was mushroom barren. Then we stopped in at the Second Chance and talked to Todd and Darin. We got permission to walk their yard and found these Coprinus Altrementarius Darin and Todd were impressed with these mushrooms ability to poison one who imbibes alcohol while eating them. They were really impressed when Reta told them she fed this mushroom to her husband and that he got a little light headed. She really had fed him a small bite of Inky Caps.

Halloween fungi in Boise

I found these mushrooms in my son's yard located in SE Boise off of Law Street. I don't think I have these identified correctly, but I think I am in the ballpark. Can some one help? I would appreciate any and all assistance. I have not eaten them. haha Click on the picture to see an enlargement to better identify the mushroom and to read the text. Thanks.