October 11, 2016
The weather in South West Ontario turned into the Fall pattern. Cold nights and fresh, sunny days. This will be a signal for Tricholomas to start and fruit in great numbers. Other cold weather mushrooms ( Late Fall Oyster , Blewit , Brick Cap ) already started shyly. The Honey Mushroom had some spectacular growth this year. It was (and still is) present everywhere. [caption id="attachment_3083" align="alignnone" width="663"] Honey Mushroom prime for picking[/caption] Consequently, Aborted Entoloma was also strongly present. Personally, I am not a big fan of Honey Mushroom. Some people compress the whole mushrooming season in several days of harvesting great quantities of Honey Mushroom. I presume they are dried or pickled. At some spots traces of heavy harvesting are quite obvious. My search for Maitakes this season was almost completely futile. I was only finding sad traces of harvested mushrooms at the base of oak trees. It is unusual to see big f...