A more successful foraged mushroom from today’s walk - this one beefsteak mushroom or also called ox tongue mushroom which is best served raw (one of the few mushrooms you’d do that with). Sliced thinly as part of a tomato mozzarella caprese with truffle balsamic, olive oil and fresh basil. . . . #beefsteakmushroom #oxtonguemushroom #capresesalad #tomatomozzarellasalad #foodie #foragedfood #mushroomhunter #rawmushrooms #foragingisfun (at Harrowby, Lincolnshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci5ivAtrNVp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

We saw this #mushroom while at @celticharmonycamp yesterday - my #fungi Identification app thought it might be a #beefsteakmushroom or #fistulinahepatica though this was as close as we could get due to a fence and the fact it was halfway up the tree trunk! Definitely think it could be - in which case this was my first spot of this species. So a potentially tasty dinner there for someone (a prehistoric Celt perhaps?) #celticharmonycamp #fungi #mycology #mushrooms #natureID #foraging (at Celtic Harmony Camp) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTJo7hco6Bo/?utm_medium=tumblr

Got some more of our #mushroomlogs innoculated today & burned in the names of these beauties! Cannot wait til next year's harvest! #mushrooms #exoticmushrooms #gardening #greenthumb #niagara #vegetables #fungi #aspenoystermushrooms #oystermushrooms #umbrellapolypore #beefsteakmushroom #tieredtoothfungus #crowncoralmushroom https://www.instagram.com/p/CHbaPklDSre/?igshid=o92vqd57jss5

Beefsteak Mushrooms (Fistulina hepatica). #SciArt by William Gilson Farlow for his work authored with Edward Angus Burt, Icones Farlowianae (1929). Contributed for digitization by the Peter H. Raven Library at Missouri Botanical Garden (@mobotgarden) to #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36263192 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #Britain #Mushrooms #Fungi #Fungus #Mycology #BeefsteakMushroom #BeefsteakFungus #BHLib #Biodiversity #NaturalHistory #NatHist #ScientificIllustration #ScientificArt #OpenAccess #Libraries #Archives #SpecialCollections

What is difference a week makes in the world of fungi. There was barely anything to look at in the woods last Saturday and this week, there’s lots of activity including my first forage of Giant Blackening Polypore. It’s easy to mistake it for Chicken of the Woods and also needs cooking before eating. It can be chewy but we have some excellent young specimens popping up all over the place so my first experience was yummy yummy yummy. And not chewy at all. Also in this mix of pix is tiny lonely mushy ready to be stepped on in the path, young beefsteak mushroom (will come back for this in a day or two), orange wax cap in a super log hole and a poisonous roll rim growing in my neighbours front yard. . . . #mushroomseason #littlebrownmushroom #beefsteakmushroom #yellowwaxcap #waxcapmushroom #giantblackeningpolypore #giantpolypore #blackeningpolypore #polypore #brownrollrimmushroom #rollrimmushroom #ediblemushrooms #poisonousmushrooms #lincolnshire (at Harrowby, Lincolnshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiVejhMrAI5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=