I recently had to go back to Missouri and found some more #mushroommonday finds.
It is still warm and rainy enough down in Missouri for the red russulas to be out.
The Latin name is Russula emetica and it is often nicknamed the sickener because it causes upset stomachs and bad gas as well as vomiting.
There is a way to cook these by parboiling them then throwing away the water. After that you can pickle them. With all this work to detoxify them there is no great reward in taste as they are pretty bland. Mushroom hunters are better off looking for the green cracked russula (Russula virescens) which is not toxic and can be eaten raw.
I found quite a bit of lemon disco fungi aka Bisporella citrina.
At first glance this fungi looks like it might have a jelly texture but these are hard as plastic and break similarly to a plastic texture. Definitely not edible unless you were one of those strange kids who ate their legos instead of putting them together.
I suspect these might be really old turkey tail.
They have the same look as turkey tail fungi aka trametes versicolor but they have no color and are solid white. I suspect they might be something different...
Here is a UFO polypore. I suspect it might be giant polypore as it was growing off the roots of a tree. If it is Meripilus giganteus this thing will start growing some large leaves.
Out in the forest I found a strange sight. A pile of rocks randomly placed with different drawings and writing on them.
Who knows what sort of occult rituals go on in this forest at night lol. Each of these stones had some kind of drawing or writing on them. I'll be sure to only hunt for mushrooms in Missouri during the daytime to avoid the black mass.
that's all for now, thanks for looking :-)