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Post by ec rob on Aug 21, 2011 21:25:24 GMT -6
I found one! this weekend i was up at the inlaws' place near frederic, and only found a handful of chants, but was amazed to stumble upon a very fresh hen of the woods. (i also found some Clavariadelphus pistillaris, but i didn't know what they were, and i dropped the one i had in my hand when i saw the hen, and forgot about it till i was thumbing through Kuo's book and saw them in there, apparently they are good too.) Attachments:
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Earthmom
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Post by Earthmom on Aug 22, 2011 8:25:48 GMT -6
Well that just kinda seals the summer doesn't it? I suppose I'll start looking for those now. Keep your eyes peeled for cauliflowers as well. Someone I know found a monster sized one in the Eagle River area.
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Post by aaron on Aug 23, 2011 21:43:10 GMT -6
Do Hens need a lot of rain to get started or no? I thought I read somewhere that they don't. If they do need a good rain, then I fear their season may be just as disappointing as the Trumpet season down here.
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Post by Earthmom on Sept 2, 2011 7:19:41 GMT -6
AARON - don't think rain hurts but it doesn't matter much either since this mushrooms grows on the tree. It gets it's water from the oak. I'm going out looking for these this weekend and I'm sure I'll find some small ones. Luckily now that it's rained really good already today, I should be able to clean up on some chickens too!
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Post by mushroommike on Sept 13, 2011 12:56:16 GMT -6
Put in a solid 4 hours today and found nothing on my go to oaks in SE wisco. It's just too dang dry.
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Post by aaron on Sept 13, 2011 13:05:12 GMT -6
Same here with my hike yesterday. No Hens and no aborted entolomas where I found bags full this time last year. The only shrooms out were a couple dozen small honeys and a giant puffball no larger than a tennis ball. With this persistent lack of rain I have a feeling the next bag of mushrooms I pick will be morels.
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Post by avngal on Sept 14, 2011 22:16:10 GMT -6
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Post by Earthmom on Sept 15, 2011 8:25:48 GMT -6
I've found three hens this year but my usual spots are empty for the most part. Soon I'll hit a location that is fairly hidden so hopefully I'll find a bunch of hens there. That spot is great because it also has an umbrella mushrooms that grows there. Can't wait to try that one! I wasn't sure it was one last year so I didn't pick it. This year it'll be in my tummy!
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Post by Earthmom on Sept 15, 2011 8:31:53 GMT -6
Oh I should mention to those of us who are new finding hens that there are also other polypores that grow on oak called Berkeley polypore. Those are supposedly edible but I haven't tried them and probably won't. I've read that they are almost too fiberous to digest. Another one that you might find on oak that also look similar to hens are the black-staining poloypores. That one is pretty easy to distinguish from the hens because like the names says, they blacken when bruised. The Berkeley's look quite a bit like hens but with many fewer, and much larger, "fronds". Here's a good link: www.wildmanstevebrill.com/Mushrooms.Folder/Berkeley%27s.html |
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Post by patrick on Sept 15, 2011 12:10:34 GMT -6
Found some hens JUST getting started today. THere was one tree that had an old one on it. In my experience they generally peak around the same time the leaves on the trees really start changing colors. I start looking as soon as leaves start changing.
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Post by blitzfish on Sept 15, 2011 17:30:42 GMT -6
I haven't found any yet this year, but hopefully i will soon!!!
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Post by mushroommike on Sept 15, 2011 18:47:16 GMT -6
I've never heard of anyone eating a Berkley Polypore...They look too fibrous to me. Also, finally found my first SE Wisco hen after close to 1000 oaks, dead and alive searched. Just a brutal start to fall shrooms. Attachments:
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Post by blitzfish on Sept 18, 2011 13:15:47 GMT -6
Was out looking around some oaks and hoping to find some hens, but no luck again. But I did find the motherlode of all aborted entoloma spots. 1000's of them covered this hill but I only picked a few. Never had them before though, anybody got any good recipes? Here's a few pictures of them:    |
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Post by patrick on Sept 22, 2011 6:49:20 GMT -6
Hens are coming in full-force in Central WI right now.
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Post by omth on Sept 22, 2011 6:54:10 GMT -6
no signs of hens up here yet... though I may be in the wrong spots... need to discover where to look for them before i can figure out if I am looking for them where I should be looking for them where I have been looking for them. heh. yeah.
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