Nailthesnail Posted March 17, 2014 picked this off a tree stump today as I was quite sure it was Nameko. Would love to have this id'd as I want to make some gluten free noodles with it. Photo's should be good enough to id, It is very slimey and I am in high belief it is Nameko Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 Nailthesnail Posted March 17, 2014 Im cooking with it, Hope I have an Id later on. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 Electro Gypsy Posted March 17, 2014 sure looks like it.. but I am more cultivator than identifier. taste them at all yet? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 Nailthesnail Posted March 17, 2014 Yeah I had one it wasn't bad aye tasted sort of like very weak field mushrooms , Decided not to cook. The photo's of nameko on the internet have a much fatter and whiter stem. Looked more like a galerina specie but the coating of them is very gelatinous. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 Electro Gypsy Posted March 17, 2014 (edited) better safe than sorry. they should have a touch of a nutty flavor to them though.. and very gelatinous. we have a lot of galerina look a likes here. so I tend to avoid it in the wild. that is one hell of a nice cluster though. maybe clone it or collect gill fragments and send it out for research. Edited March 17, 2014 by Electro Gypsy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 Nailthesnail Posted March 18, 2014 Cheers yea, I may do that. Was so excited when I saw it but after research I just feel silly Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 karode13 Posted March 18, 2014 Pictures are too small to make out features properly. Do a spore print. Pholiota have Brown spores. Galerina have Rust coloured spores. From what I can tell these aren't Galerina. Might even be an Armillaria sp. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 Electro Gypsy Posted March 18, 2014 nothing to feel silly about. finding a mushroom cluster like that is a rush, even if it is galerina lol. it's just a fruit from a much larger organism also. so it's bound to come back again. if you have a scope you can do your own research or post pics of the spores. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 Berengar Posted March 20, 2014 (edited) The pictures are tiny, but it's almost certainly Flammulina species, enoki. Pholiota nameko doesn't grow in NZ, as far as I'm aware. Edited March 20, 2014 by Tangich 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 Nailthesnail Posted March 23, 2014 thanks for the id Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 mutant Posted April 2, 2014 (edited) "nothing to feel silly about. finding a mushroom cluster like that is a rush, even if it is galerina " ?? wtf are you saying mate? " Im cooking with it, Hope I have an Id later on." the dude "ate some" raw and then noticed the stems are wrong! I suggest you SHOULD be feeling a bit silly and change your mushrooms ways to the more careful. The pics are a joke for IDing, even though I indeed believe they are probably not galerinas. Could be Pholiotas, Gymnopilus, Kuhneromyces, Armillaria, you name it and yeah, Flammulina are probably the right ID. Edited April 2, 2014 by mutant 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 Electro Gypsy Posted April 2, 2014 "nothing to feel silly about. finding a mushroom cluster like that is a rush, even if it is galerina " ?? wtf are you saying mate? " Im cooking with it, Hope I have an Id later on." the dude "ate some" raw and then noticed the stems are wrong! I suggest you SHOULD be feeling a bit silly and change your mushrooms ways to the more careful. The pics are a joke for IDing, even though I indeed believe they are probably not galerinas. Could be Pholiotas, Gymnopilus, Kuhneromyces, Armillaria, you name it and yeah, Flammulina are probably the right ID. hmmm. said I was not an identifier. also asked if he tasted.. a valid part of identifying, but I did not instruct to eat. he said he did that after I asked. a little late at that point. then he said he chose not to cook with it. AND anyone into mushrooms gets excited finding a cluster, edible or not doesn't have anything to do with it. post five even suggests having it properly identified. someone else mentioned the pics... you wake up on the wrong side of the bed today mutant? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 Nailthesnail Posted April 3, 2014 I understand the point, It was very silly haha, I ate probably less then a 1/4 of one just to see, But I understand how piss poor that was of me, Flammulina velutipes I reckon Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 Electro Gypsy Posted April 3, 2014 I understand the point, It was very silly haha, I ate probably less then a 1/4 of one just to see, But I understand how piss poor that was of me, Flammulina velutipes I reckon and i was in a bad mood yesterday lol. probably should have sent you to the hospital with those mushrooms the minute you said you ate them. trouble is last time i saw this scenario that's exactly what we all said.. they guy did it. wasn't poisoned, but suffered an anxiety heart attack at the hospital. i have been checking to see you were still posting though. honestly i don't like these ID threads. imo, the only proper way to identify a gilled mushroom species is to have microscopy pics to go along with the general features. even then you really should have a confirmed match to compare to. but the masses have chosen otherwise so i won't argue. i do enjoy the excitement though. pretty much the main reason i posted. i guess i should have been more clear on that. once the brakes had been put on the rest just seemed kind of retrospect to me. i still say that was a badass cluster, whatever it was. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 Berengar Posted April 3, 2014 the only proper way to identify a gilled mushroom species is to have microscopy pics to go along with the general features. I disagree. In some cases, sure, but in a huge majority it's not necessary at all. Clear, detailed, large pictures, details of the location, season and habitat are enough to identify most species. For some mushrooms with such distinctive characteristics like this Flammulina, even the tiny picture is enough to separate it from any other genera. Microscopy is good for differentiating some very similar species within the same genus. And far more people are skilled at online identifying from macroscopic features than microscopy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 mutant Posted April 3, 2014 (edited) hey electro gypsy, I did not want to diss anyone and was mainly referring to the OP. I was just trying to keep it as safe as it has to be, or else it is unreliable, and because I know mushrooms long before I knew plants, I can be confident in what it said I have never picked Flammulina velutipes , and its a real neat find! no need for more to be said, cheers and peace we dont eat mushrooms we are not definately confident what they are!! Edited April 3, 2014 by mutant 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
picked this off a tree stump today as I was quite sure it was Nameko.
Would love to have this id'd as I want to make some gluten free noodles with it.
Photo's should be good enough to id, It is very slimey and I am in high belief it is Nameko
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