Southern/Central MN Summer Mushroom Thread

Thought Id start a thread to discuss this years summer shrooming activities. Found my first ever Oysters and a decent, small Chicken yesterday after work. Doing spore prints to be 100% before I dig into them.

I also saw a crazy amount of other fungus out there compared to when I was last in the woods just a week ago. This heat and moisture has really made things come to life.

 

More oysters today, anyone else having any luck?

 

That's awesome news! This will be my first year seriously chasing Chants. What part of the state are you from? Any tips?

Ive found a couple more chickens, one was small but in really bad shape. Found a few boletes but they all stained when cut so no good there. Tons of yellow and crown tipped coral out atm as well.

 

Im about 75 miles southwest of the cities so no white oak around here, Im going to focus my attention around burr oaks in this area since theyre so closely related to the white. Travelling east as well where theres more white oak.

I was unable to ID the boletes, the big ones stained brown. The only edible ones Id read about don't stain at all. Also found a smaller bolete with purple bumps on a long thin stem.

 

managed to stumble across a white pored CoW, and yesterday found my first patch of chants. There were around a dozen, brought home 3 for ID. Looked like C. phasmatis, unable to get a spore print out of them though.

 

beautiful pics!

Have been having quite a bit of luck with the chants, heavy rains last night should really spur things along. Found another cincinattus and some black trumpets so far this year. Wont be hitting it again til Thursday at the earliest. May wait until these next rains and high temps cycle through if the forecast holds.