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Mushroom Identification

Identifying Lemon Honeycap (Armillaria limonea)

Here's a post on how to identify Lemon Honeycap! 🍋🍄 At this time of year you can generally find massive clusters of this wonderful mushroom growing in native bush here in Aotearoa. Their caps have a distinct lemon yellow centre, fading out to a cream colour at the margins, and are dotted with dark brown scales. They are parasitic mushrooms and love to grow on Northofagus trees, slowly killing their host. These mushrooms have participated in some incredible decolonial action in the 70's and 80's when settlers clear cut native woodlands for pine plantations. These mushrooms infected the pines, destroying up to 50% of the trees and causing a massive loss of profit and a huge change in how forests are managed today 🌲 The Armillaria species we have in Aotearoa are bioluminescent and the hyp

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Identifying Meadow Puffball (Lycoperdon pratense)

Here's a post on how to identify Meadow Puffball! ⚪️🍄 After the recent autumn showers have a look in in nearby lawns, fields, and meadows for the delicious meadow puffball mushroom. Ensure that the flesh on the inside is entirely white on the inside before eating. Enjoy these mushrooms as a substitute for tofu or regular button mushrooms in stirfries, casseroles and stews, and even crumbed and battered as schnitzel! Enjoy my fellow foragers! 🐌

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Identifying Southern Bracket (Ganoderma australe)

Here's a post on how to identify Southern Bracket! 🪵🍄 In honour of the beginning of autumn I thought I would start this foraging season off with a fungi identification, specifically Ganoderma australe. You can find Southern bracket growing like large shelves on the lower trunks of many of our beech trees here in Aotearoa. Every year they grow a new layer and so, like trees, you can generally use the layers to tell how old they are! This mushroom is not generally considered edible as they are too woody and hard but the mycelium of this fungi has been shown to boost the immune system, help with metabolism, and also inhibit tumour growth. It is also good to learn to differentiate mushrooms in specific genera so you can identify the truly powerful edible and medicinal species (such as Reishi

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Identifying Turkey Tails (Trametes versicolor)

Here's an informative post about how to identify, harvest, and store this powerfully medicinal mushroom so you can boost your immune system and physical resilience organically and for free🦃🍁 Enjoy my fellow foragers!🐌

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Identifying NZ Oyster Mushrooms (Pleurotus purpureo-olivaceus)

Here's an informative post about how to identify, harvest, and store these New Zealand native oyster mushrooms so you can make delicious mushroom recipes all year round for free! 🍄🥀 Enjoy my fellow foragers!🐌

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Identifying Wood Blewits (Lepista nuda)

Here's an informative post about how to identify, harvest, and store these winter fruiting lilac wood blewits so you can make delicious mushroom recipes all year round for free! 🍄💜 Enjoy my fellow foragers!🐌

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Identifying White Puffballs (Calvatia candida)

This post is all about how to identify, harvest, and eat white puffballs! I have come across many puffballs over the years but this species is a new and exciting find, fortunately all puffballs are edible when young and pure white on the inside and so a lot of the information in this post should apply to most puffball finds. Enjoy these mushrooms as a substitute for tofu or regular button mushrooms in Asian dishes and cosy casseroles and stews ⚪🍄 Enjoy my fellow foragers! 🐌