Edible & Medicinal Mushrooms, Forest Foods

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I am Elvis Boletus,
Quantum Mountaineer.

I am not a mushroom expert,
but I am getting better all the time.

I run cross country mountain trails in search of edible shrooms.
often I come back with bags of Boletes, shaggy lepiotas,
or brown Matsutake, etc.


I grow ****ake here in a variety of logs,
predominantly alder,
and have developed a major production trick... trade secret.

Ha!

But, slowly over the next weeks hopefully,
I will post edible and medicinal mushrooms,
with some descriptions.

To be included for this thread,
is an invitation for anyone to post ANY Forest Food
or forest or plant medicinal / edible source material /nutrient.
so that I can learn from you!

Maqui berries have more antioxidants than acai berries!.. or blueberries... or maybe even dark choco -cacao



The Birch tree is revered for medicinal qualities.
Birch bark is used in teas,
and two highly medicinal fungi grow on Birches:

Birch Polypore and Chaga.
Chaga cured Solzhenitsyn of his cancer by his own admission.

Native shamanic practice in Kamchatka
will only use an Amanita from under a Birch tree.

Also growing from Birch roots is the Birch Bolete,
which is a culinary masterpiece if harvested in dryer conditions after the rains.

I pick a lot of these when I can.

here is a beauty found in west seattle







This is a Butter Bolete,
notice the fine webbing on the upper stalk with the arrow,
one of the hallmarks of a Butter Bolete.

I used butter, olive oil and pinchy winchy of white wine
cooked slow until a bit browned.
Tasted like rosated nuts.







this is a Pacific Northwest hericium.
The famous hericium is called Lion's Mane,
this one below is a cousin,
and is called Goat's Beard.---> Hericium Erinacious,
used a medicinal in Asia for digestive disorders etc,

good in eggs and taters for breakfast

better images coming of hericium erinaceous