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rkropp
09-05-2009, 12:51 PM
Can anyone identfy these and tell me if they are edible? I'll find the white one growing in the grass evry now and then and the yellowish ones are growing under some pines after I put wood chips down.
I apprecite the info.
cab n woods
09-05-2009, 02:20 PM
first 2 look like shaggy parosal , others look like chicken fat suillus. If i'm correct both would be edible.
Michigan Mike
09-05-2009, 05:09 PM
Hi RK
What is the closest tree if any to each type of shroom?
On the first one it does look similar to a young shaggy parasol
but it it also looks like it's poisonus lookalike the green gilled.
Maybe you can take a couple of more pictures of it once it is
fully opened of it's cap and gills.
http://www.mushroomexpert.com/chlorophyllum_rhacodes.html (http://www.mushroomexpert.com/chlorophyllum_rhacodes.html)
http://www.mushroomexpert.com/chlorophyllum_molybdites.html (http://www.mushroomexpert.com/chlorophyllum_molybdites.html)
The second ones do look a little like chicken fats to me but
I don't remember them growing in clusters like that.
Closeups pics of bottoms and tops of some younger ones would
be interesting and someone else might know.
Should be close to a white pine.
Chicken fats are these
http://www.mushroomexpert.com/suillus_americanus.html (http://www.mushroomexpert.com/suillus_americanus.html)
mike
rkropp
09-06-2009, 08:18 AM
Thanks for the info. The white one is a couple of feet from an aspaurgus patch and several feet from apple trees. The others are in growing in a row of white pines. I'll watch them closer and see if new ones sprout up. Thnaks again.
Roosevelt
09-06-2009, 10:57 AM
another good key for the Shaggy parasols is if you cut the stem it will stain orange, although not 100% foolproof. Like Mike said the spore print is the best test though if you've ruled out amanita.
those look like chicken fats to me, although it is weird they are growing in such tight clusters. I usually find massive fruitings under white pine exclusively. They will stain your hands like walnuts do.
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