I’ve been seeing so many people finding tons of porcini, chanterelles, and all kinds of amazing mushrooms in Oregon, and I’m so jealous! 😂
The best I’ve managed to find so far are some Russulas and honey mushrooms. I also found a few Suillus, but still no porcini or chanterelles. 😭
I’ve tried Hendricks Park, Ridgeline Trail, and two different trails in Willamette National Forest, but haven’t had much luck.
Where is everyone finding all these amazing mushrooms? Am I just looking in the wrong places, or is it because we haven’t had much rain lately?
Here are some photos of what I’ve found so far! 🍄

I have been buying mastic gum, which is a gum made in Greece, but it is quite expensive nowadays for tiny dried out chunks.

This morning: “why don’t I do it myself from the Pacific Northwest?”

Went to the forest. Collected a bag worth of sap. Put it into a tin can on an electric stove outback and heated it until it bubbled for about 20 minutes. Burned myself while putting a cotton T-shirt around the can and filtered it through dripping into a glass of cold water. Took those clean chunks and put them in warm water so they would heat up and I could mush them together and stretch it into a tube. And then broke it into pieces.

I’ve been chewing that piece in my hand for about three hours now. it is tough gum, but doesn’t stick to your teeth, and holds its flavor.

Ungodly amount of porcini flags out there 😭 but I made up for it.

Lots of variety in Minnesota to finish out the season. Orange milk caps, porcini, lobster, Suillus granulatus and S. americanus.

Amanita chrysoblema is toxic, but can be made edible through processing and I really enjoy the texture.

The orange milk caps got pickled

A great morning foraging with some mates, plenty of Penny Buns, Scarletina boletes, a pine bolete and some saffron milkcaps

We found these mushrooms yesterday.

Harvested 800g from my in-laws' property. Tried a few in my omelette and they tasted great! Firm texture and a nice full fresh mushroom flavour. No bitterness or woodiness.

Excited to try them marinated.

Found these unburst (mostly) pomegranates around Albuquerque. Absolutely massive! Sorry, no banana for scale, but tiles are 4".

Hi can you help identify these mushrooms please?

I believe I found coral tooth fungus, can anyone confirm or correct?

I’ve harvested oyster mushrooms in this area but this is my first time seeing these. Any idea what they are?

Scored over 20 pounds in the last two say. I marinated about 5 pounds of the smaller hens I found. Going to make duxelle to portion and freeze the rest but just wondering what other people’s favorite ways to preserve these beauties are?? Mushroom jerky never sounded appealing to me.

Found these growing in a local park in queens NYC in dried up pods. Are these edibles? I’d like to try to plant some and eventually eat them. They’re so pretty

I'm not going to eat it, so I left it for someone else. I'm just trying to improve my identification skills. Is this a puffball?

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Chanterelle

Cantharellus cinnabarinus

Gyroporus subalbellus

Lactifluus volemus

Lactifluus hygrophoroides

Lycoperdon perlatum

Strobilomyces floccopus

Found in lower Vancouver, Island on rotting wood mushroomy smell, but it’s kind of light

Super slimey.

I need recipes

I've never had puffballs before, but I know they are bad to eat once they turn brown.