Popular Edible Mushrooms in the Pacific Northwest The most commonly foraged edible mushrooms in the Pacific Northwest are popular because of their relative ease of identification, low likelihood of eating a toxic lookalike, quality of flavor and texture, and abundance. There are well over 1000 species in just our region but only a small number…
Recently Julia and I completed our first version of this PNW Morel Guide. This was made possible my your support and I think we have made a really useful contribution to the PNW mushroom community. I would love to hear your feedback as we will certainly be making revisions to this in the future. Download…
Morel Season Morels are a spring mushroom but spring can be loosely defined and it depends largely on where you’re looking. This post is written from a PNW perspective. Here are some of the ways one might estimate the right timing for morels Seasonality in your area Searching for “Morchella” or “morels” on iNaturalist then…
I will be sharing 2020 morel burn maps soon but wanted to start with this index overview map. Members can check the Watch & Read section for map updates. Burn Map 2020 – Index
The best morel content can be found in the morels lesson module Pro Intermediate Enrolled Morels A brief primer on morels and a selection of other related mushrooms that share morel-like characteristics. 9 Topics 1 hour Continue Lesson
Some mushrooms are deadly poisonous. Others can cause serious liver or kidney damage. Some of these can look similar to edible mushrooms. The most seriously poisonous mushrooms are pretty easy to identify. Learn these and don’t eat anything that you can’t tell apart from them. Don’t eat any mushroom without knowing the common lookalikes and…
This is a treemap that summarizes all of my mushroom finds weighted by frequency. The more times I find and photograph a mushroom, the bigger the box. Notice the big blue box in the top left. These are mushrooms that I haven’t identified yet. Zoom in to view taxonomic details.
In past years my mushroom season ended by early November. I simply didn’t realize how far into the fall mushrooms continued to fruit. November is the time to stick to low elevation areas like river valleys and coastal areas. I wanted to make a run for coastal Olympic Peninsula but the drive was a little…
Many mushroom hunters are quite secretive about their spots. This is because once you find an area that produces a large number of mushrooms, it may continue producing for years. I don’t have secret spots. You can see everywhere I go right here. I do enjoy exploring though. Here I share some of the tools…
Forest and fungal ecosystems are so connected with one another that it can be nearly impossible to have one without the other. Learning to recognize different tree species can be helpful for determining the identity of a mushroom and also help you to find areas most likely to contain mushroom species you are hunting. For…
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