We spent some time this weekend at our place in NE Pennsylvania.
The weather was crisp and sunny - perfect for checking out the Spiranthes cernua patches and taking pictures of beautiful mushrooms, which due to the wet weather last month were popping up everywhere in the woods. Remembering my mother preparing very delicious wild Mushroom dishes as we were growing up in East Germany, I really am sorry I lack the education to identify these delicacies for certain, as one little mistake might cost one dearly.
Looking across the pond, Spiranthes cernua grows along the edge of the pond.
And now on into the woods looking at the many different Mushrooms-
And these were large enough for Frogs to use as Poker table lots of them too!
And - this is how "Escargot" came about?
And there are always lots of Asters this time of year.
Name: Carol Santa Ana, ca Sunset zone 22, USDA zone 10 A.
What a beautiful spot! Great assortment of colorful mushrooims!
My neighbors are going to Jersey next week, and she was hoping for fall color. I told her it is too early. Was I right?
Carol, thanks.
It is definitely too early. You see the color at our place here in Pennsy, it would be about 10 days earlier than in NJ. Not much color there yet, except for Goldenrod and Asters etc. But is certainly late Summer.
Thanks for the tour. My spiranthes cernua are budded and I hope there is enough warm weather ahead. So many different 'shrooms!! Great ones. I bet that's one happy slug!
Some of those brown Mushrooms ( perhaps different kinds of Boletus) really looked good, some were probably safe to eat, but I just wouldn't chance it. I know for certain that the yellow ones with white spots ( surely Fly agaric) are poisonous. I am just happy to look at them!
About the Spiranthes - we stopped again on the rt xyz slope, the Spiranthes were in full bloom and the whole hill smelled of Anise. I took so many pictures previously and it was breezy anyway, so I left the camera in the car.
The Spiranthes odorata are budding here in Fair Lawn too, but there don't seem to be as many this year.
Wow Ursula,
I would never have imagined such an assortment of mushrooms in Penn.
When I lived in British Columbia Canada..the parks department had monthly classes
to educate the citizens on the many varieties available that were edible...or not! A
good use of tax dollars , in my opinion!!
Name: tarev San Joaquin County, CA (Zone 9b) Give PEACE a chance!
I did not have to look far to find mushrooms sprouting around my containers...at first I thought is this a new plant? Later on realized, owww, cutesy yellow mushrooms...!
This shrooms growing inside my golden yarrow container
Found these guys underneath those fallen leaves
These ones are sprouting under a false rock
These ones growing at the base of my Calamondin tree
Those shrooms under the Calamondin tree has really grown quite bigger!
wow I wish i new something about wild srooms i love them and that is an assortment to dream about. I would bet more then half are ok to eat BUT i would not try a single one for sure you don't want that kind of problem. there are hundreds of mushrooms in penn. it is the leading state in the us for production but most of those are ground in old coal mines or caves.
Spiranthes cernuaare beautiful i would love to have some of those!
are they one of those plants that dont like pots i used to dig up different kinds of plants that you just cant grow in pots
About the Spiranthes cernua - I don't think those would grow well in a pot, they need a very specific environment. You have to dig around a bit on the internet, some nurseries do sell some for planting into a garden. They do need the Winter chill though.