Posted: Fri Apr 15, 05 1:15 pm Post subject: Saint Georges Mushrooms... Anyone found any yet?
This is the weekend... This is when I hope to find my first ones. I've had a couple of reports of them appearing elsewhere in the country, and this weekend I'm going to check out all my regular spots for them.
Anyone found any yet?
My own report of this weeks forage will appear here after the weekend... Wish me luck...
Haven't looked much yet, we do know some pasture (according to your Wild Foods in April article being the place to look) but might not get a chance to try this weekend. That's a patch of common, grazed some of the time by rare breed sheep, where last year we found lawn puffballs (I think..or meadow?) and field mushrooms aplenty. But it's chalk again. Does that sound likely or not?
Course not that it matters because you know me, I'll have to get out the cross and holy water, and have a sleepless night if TD tries them. But I would take pics
But it's chalk again. Does that sound likely or not?
It's worth a shot. If there are agaricus there and puffballs then why not? Try looking around trees on your pasture, by fences and around the edges. They form rings, and you can often spot the rings from a distance.
Well, we went out for a couple of hours last night to our most likely - in our mind - place - looking for these on the grass and the edges, and morels in the sandier bits, among the conifers and the woodchipped paths...but nuffink! We did find a type of wood sorrel (oxalis?) that I've yet to look up...and some woodruff, and wild onions of some sort, but haven't hit the books yet so that's all I can say.
A few ex-ink-cap-alikes and something narsty in the woodchips was all the fungi going on
mochyn
Joined: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 24585 Location: mid-Wales
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 05 1:01 pm Post subject:
We looked yesterday on an exposed pasture with woodland edges, but no luck so far. We'll try again next weekend, when, hopefully, there won't have been a -5C frost the night before!
Richy Rich
Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 31 Location: Coventry - Warwickshire....
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 05 1:17 pm Post subject:
Surely everyone is aware of me munching St Georges in Coventry... the ring where I picked them from is now BIGGER with about 15 of the blighters...
Its still Morels that I am after though.
Rich
boff
Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 354 Location: Still alive and kicking
Madman, as far as I can tell (it's always dodgy picking these things out without getting them in your hand) the white ones are St. Georges mushrooms. The big brown one looks like a dryads saddle (Polyporus squamosus), which I presume was growing on the side of a tree or a dead bit of wood?
If it is, it's edible, but by the time it's as big as that one it's somewhat tough, and not really all that pleasant any more.
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