Fungi Friday - Comb Tooth and Others

Here's some comb tooth I found while camping in Wisconsin for this #fungifriday by @ewkaw

The latin name of this mushroom is Hericium coralloides and it's a nice gourmet edible.

They basically are in the same family as lions mane and are pretty easy to cultivate at home. I found these ones in the wild growing on the side of dead logs.

Here's a closeup of the spore producing comb teeth. The spores are white. They kind of remind me of a Dr. Seus drawing.

Given their funky shape i had to break them apart and wash all the wood bits out of them before cooking.

I was camping at the time so the recipe was very simple they were cooked with some canadian bacon. These mushrooms have a very mild taste so they need something to flavor them. They have lots of health benefits for brain development and are one of the highest protein content mushrooms you can eat.

Later I found plenty of orange mycena, here's a batch just starting out.

Later they bloom out into clumps like this.

I also found some scarlet elf cups. This is edible as well but it has no taste and is mostly used as garnish for fancy meals.

Here's a first for me. I finally found a lobster mushroom. This is a milkcap that has an orange fungus growing on top of it. These are edible as well with a pretty decent taste.

Here's the top. Many lobsters look mangled like this as it's one fungus being attacked by another.

These pear shaped puffball mushrooms were just starting to show up. These are edible as well and have a smokey wood grilled taste to them. They go really well with potatoes and meat.

I also found this unidentified bright orange mushroom. I definitely have to find out what this beauty is.

Here's the top of the unidentified orange beauty.

Here's a liitle toad next to a white russula. Toads live hanging around mushrooms to pick off the bugs that are attracted to them. I bet this tiny guy was eating little gnats on the gills underneath.

Here's a polypore that is smiling and winking at me. This one appears to have broken off and then started growing again. They grow into disc like shapes and have a smooth white underside. They are nicknamed artist conchs as you can woodburn or draw designs on the underside of them.

Here's a bit of a trajedy. I was hoping to find chicken of the woods all weekend. This is my favorite edible as it tastes just like chicken. But some other mushroom hunter got to it before me :-(

Finally we have these poisonous mushrooms that have rough scales all over them. They are called Pholiota squarrosoides (Cortinariaceae) Sharp-scaly Pholiota they kind of look like hamburger buns from a distance with lots of sesame seeds on them. Just don't try eating them. Happy #fungifriday

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