I put these here in this gallery since there is no mushroom or wild foods gallery, i hope that is okay. I'll start off with what i know is bad and dangerously poisonous. The first one is what the Vikings used to help go berserk. By the way, its a myth. Its actually used by medicine men, but has to be prepared a very special way, which i am not telling how. The Sami use this at times in ritual. This one is a blue/green color and well to me that just can't be good,,,lol. This one i do know is good. Puffball. Now this is where i have no clue. Same mushrooms just one week apart. Golden Mushroom maybe? Not a puffball but white like one. Just plain frozen,,,lol. This one was taken down by the sea, so my camera started to fog,,,sorry about that. And thats about it, that i have no clue on, that i have seen growing here. The chanterelles are few and far between this year, so maybe its just early yet. So there you go, frozen Arctic Fungii,,,anybody know what the last ones are? And if ediable.
Oh, Biita, the brown-hatted ones are the worst to identify. So many look similar and some are lethal if eaten. I would have liked to see the underside of # 3 and # 6 counted from the bottom. If they are spronge-like they may be Leccinum scabrum. Edible but not particularly good.
Thanks Droopy,, but maybe until i can get these identified i better stick to Rema Tusen and Coop,,,lol. I'm going to try to get more pics tomorrow, if the weather is nice. Theres more but the camera started to fog on me.
We have puffballs in our woods some years, and they're tasty! They're the only ones that I'm sure are O.K., except for the morels which are few and far between. The rest of your arctic 'shrooms look great, but I wouldn't be brave enough to taste test them. Great pics!
This is a very interesting gallery of mushroom mugshots. The only one that I recognize it the first one , but I enjoyed looking at them anyhow. You live in a very good area for these it would appear. I can imagine that it is possible to find mushrooms there everywhere. Is that true? Identifying them is very difficult though, I reckon. Thanks very much for showing these varities. I enjoyed it very much.
Kasey,,,lol, i don't dare try them. I'm to scared to, so i'm with you on that.! Sjoerd there are a few more varieties here. I have never seen a morel here, ever. Those red ones are everywhere, and we kick them just to make sure kids don't eat them because of the all the false info handed down on them. The one in the pic where i have my gloves on is one that i am afraid to eat also. I do know there is one that can be, but there is a look-alike here that will kill you in a few days with no cure. So i never know which one is which.
