Central Pennsylvania Mushroom Club

Bill Hain got us fifty 8-12 inch diameter 4 foot long chestnut (white) oak log for the shiitake inoculation event March 25th. Bring your drill and a 5/16" drill bit if you have one. We have extra drill bits if you don't. We look forward to seeing you!

I have been trying to find out what type of mushrooms these are... I have a patch of grass beside my house that I get this long string of these mushrooms that grow “under the ground” as bumps and continue to get larger until the majority of the ball is above ground...   Please help... the suspense is killing us not knowing what they are and why we have them just in that one spot...   Thanks

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This questions arrived in our emails. Without clear picture of the gills, size references, and description of what it was growing on, it's very difficult to make an ID.

I found this mushroom in backyard of my Atlanta home. Who can tell me the mushroom name and it is edible. Thank you very much.

This questions arrived in our emails.

I was wondering if you could help me positively identify these mushroom.  I'm pretty sure they are black chanterelles (horn of plenty or black trumpet) mushrooms.  Just wanted to make sure there aren't any other similar mushrooms out there that I could be mistaking them for.  I live in northern Clearfield Co.  I found these on an old logging road underneath mature oak trees.  Some were is clusters others by themselves.
 
Thanks,
Molly

Posing next to a big Hen that Karen Croyle found at the Whipple Dam walk. She shared half of it with me.

Washed and cleaned hen of the woods (maitake) mushroom

From the emails... I can't tell what this is. Any thoughts?

We NEVER EVER recommend eating a wild mushroom based on a couple of pictures. We generally don't give advice on edibility of mushrooms without seeing it in person and in the context of where it was found and how it was growing. As a club, we disavow any opinions on mushroom identification for legal reasons. Please keep that in mind before you take anyone's advice.

Guess what these are!



I'm feeling pretty good - I'm pretty confident about my identification of this mushroom and the previous puffball! I'm really still a novice though. These are stinkhorn mushrooms. Some may say that stinkhorns are edible. Edible perhaps by someone else? One sniff and you'll see why!

The Central PA Mushroom Club received an email today with some pictures from David Cochrane from Penn State. He asked Kimberly Paley (also at Penn State) and she referred him to us! He would like some help to identify the mushroom in these pictures.

First of all, I'd like to say that he did a good job of photographing them.

1. He's showing where the mushroom grows.