Here is part 3 of mushrooms in the hand for #mushroommonday
First up is a deadly mushrooms called Amanita ocreata. Stay away from mushrooms that look like this, white, long stem, veil on stem and bulb at the base. There are a few different species of death caps that all have these types of features.
Next up is a Lactarius piperatus commonly called peppery milk cap.
If you flip them over and slice the gills milk will come out. These are technically edible but they are very spicy. The only way you can use them is to dry and powder them then sprinkle the powder as a pepper spice onto meals.
Here is a bitter bolete. I picked it thinking it might be a white boletus edulis but after taking a tiny nibble, it was super bitter. I believe this is Tylopilus rhoadsiae. They tend to grow in summer after heavy rains.
Here is a mangled Russula emetica. These are a nice bright red and in theory you can eat them after parboiling them, but they have a gnarly taste so don't even bother trying to forage them.
Here is an edible bolete in my area called bicolor bolete. The problem with foraging these is that they are small and only grow in small batches so it is hard to get enough for a meal.
I suspect this strange twisting mushroom is Laccaria longipes. These aren't edible because they are so bitter, tough and small.
Here is Russula rosea aka rosy brittlegill. I'm not sure about edibility but they are described as being bitter with a turpentine wood taste to them so I doubt they are worth eating.
Now for a random caterpillar...
Here is a gnarly Russula praetervisa commonly called the bypassed russula. You bypass it because it smells like burnt rubber and has a bitter fishy taste lol.
The bugs seem to like this gnarly mushroom. They are probably a means of spreading spores.
Finally a good edible mushroom. This is Ramaria botrytis aka pink tipped coral. My phone seemed to capture the color more brown, but in real life it was much more pink. They have an amazing taste to them very deep mushroom taste with a good texture, perfect in pasta.
That's all for now happy #mushroommonday :-)