Chanterelles growing in the moss
Giant Bitter Hedgehog
It looks like Marilyn Manson Likes these White Chanterelles
Each year this chanterelle spot gets a little smaller. Now there is a cat track and a line of survey stakes going through the middle of it. Still we had a good time hunting here.
The Olympic Penninsula is heaven for mushrooms and mushroom lovers. If the ADAGE biomass gets permitted and installed Paul Staments will move his labs and 34 jobs out of Mason County. His expensive air filters (needed to keep mushroom cultures pure) would get clogged up with PM and have to be replaced too often. Visit http://sheltonprogressive.blogspot.com to learn more.
Though your "bitter hedge hog" has teeth it is not a hydnum repandum (hedgehog) but rather a sarcodon imbricatus (or hydnum imbricatus). From mykoweb.com (http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Sarcodon_imbricatus.html)regarding edibility: "Edible when young and not bitter. Montane collections are better than coastal collections."
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Treasurer
Puget Sound Mycological Society
None of that matters now... this spot just got logged.. :(
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