Honey Mushroom

Armillaria solidipes

Opens Sep 121d out

Open

Sep 1 – Nov 15

Best

Sep–Oct

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Early-autumn rain and cooling trigger a brief near-synchronous flush from Armillaria root-rot mycelium; among the first big fall fruiters.

signal · Antecedent rainfall and soil temperature. (modeled)

Plate No. 018 · Finley & Bohlman

Tread lightly

The mushroom is only the fruit, but raking the duff to find them tears the mycelial mat that fruits year after year. Cut what's up, leave the ground undisturbed, and never strip a patch.

The read

Forms the largest living organisms in eastern Oregon; sweet, firm caps.

What we watch: live feeds

Rainfall Open-Meteo ↗

The Kit

what a forager carries

Gear: Opinel No.08 mushroom knifeREI ↗Nisaku hori-hori trowel-knifeAmazon ↗PNWBUSHCRAFT waxed-canvas pouchmade in WAmakerExcalibur 9-tray dehydratorAmazon ↗
Wear: Xtratuf Legacy bootsREI ↗Grundéns Neptune jacketBackcountry ↗
Reading: All That the Rain Promises and MoreAroraBookshop.org ↗Mushrooms of the Pacific NorthwestTrudell & AmmiratiBookshop.org ↗Fruits of the ForestWinklerBookshop.org ↗

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Sources

What informs Honey Mushroom in particular. The shared feeds it reads (tides, weather, water temp) are the live feeds above.

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