King Stropharia / Spring Agrocybe

Stropharia rugoso-annulata / Agrocybe praecox

Opens Apr 1233d out

Open

Apr 1 – Jun 30

Best

Apr–May

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Spring warming of moist woodchip and mulch beds; Agrocybe praecox flushes sharply early while Stropharia continues on fresh chips.

signal · Soil temperature and antecedent rainfall on mulch beds. (assumed)

Plate No. 020 · 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

Big, earthy woodchip colonizers prized by suburban foragers.

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 King Stropharia / Spring Agrocybe in particular. The shared feeds it reads (tides, weather, water temp) are the live feeds above.

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