Saturday, September 19, 2009

Fall mushrooms in New England



Pictures taken on beautiful day at the MA Audubon Sanctuary in South Natick. Perhaps Doctor Halamka will identify them for us.
Posted by Paul Levy at

3 comments:

John Halamka said...

Happy to identify these.

They are

1. Sulfur Shelf/Chicken of the Woods. It's edible, but I do not serve it because 25% of people are allergic to it and develop hives or more serious reactions.

2. Lactarius. It's edible but not incredible. Russians often pickle or salt them.


3. Coral mushroom. It's edible but gives many people GI upset, so I do not serve it.

All three are better photographed than stroganoffed.

September 19, 2009 4:02 PM
Eric said...

Here's my mushroom crop from a wet spring last year, with identifying comments from our friend Dr. Halamka:

http://gallery.me.com/ebuehrens#100008/P1010241&bgcolor=black

September 19, 2009 5:18 PM
e-Patient Dave said...

You two are just ab-normal, you know that? :–)

September 20, 2009 9:37 AM

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