Last weekend was nice over here on Vancouver Island too. Still some Yellow chats out and found a good number of C.tubaeformis too...but still no Hedgehog's

We find Dentinum umbilicatum this time of year under mostly hemlock and this year they seem to be rampant. I do find Dentinum repandum, but here it's a summer species. We find them in Dec. till end of the month. I found a few Lactarius indigo today. I know it was on this forum, but can't remember who was wanting some. E-mail me and I will be glad to send them to whoever it was.
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HEY Tnshroomin what sort of Cantharellus do you find down there, do you get any sort of oysters? Just curious, I spent a little time in North Carolina before I moved to the Great White North way before I had any interest in shroomin. What all grows in those forests of dinky little trees that you all have down there. Do You get lots of boletes?

Whistle

Last weekend I had the pleasure of introducing a somewhat hung-over young man from Quebec into our B.C. Forest. My neighbor is the fellow with all the technology, digital camera, digital video. He got some very good shots of C tubaeformis and Oysters and the forest that they are found in. As well as shots of us both in that beautiful mossy old woodland. I am new to this computer business, but as soon as I can get my friend to show me how I will have some good gallery shots to share.

But, you know, more than the mushrooms that we picked I enjoyed his awestruck reaction to the open beauty of the forest that we have here. He had never experienced anything like it, never even thought that our coastal jungle could be so open and soft, and green.

Lets hope that we west coasters can continue to amaze our east coast friends with old growth for some time to come, but the speed with which it is coming down, don't hold your breath.

Whistle

Hey Whistle,
We find about all the Cantharellus with the exception of C. subalbidus which I believe is only known from the P.W. But we have C. purpurascens and C. odoratus, which doesn't grow there to my knowledge. I have photographed over 200 separate speceis of Boletes ( This includes Suillus, Leccinum and Tylopilus). Our season never really ends, but we do get down to the scrappy species during winter like Oysters, Blewits, Velvet Shanks and Brickcaps. It gets just cold enough for the Morels to start fruiting the middle of March usually, which is fine with me.

All right Tennesee! PICKING YEAR ROUND, I would think I died and gone to heaven.

200 shotsof different Boletes? When the book comes out I really want a copy, I can only identify about six. You are writing a book, aren't you, seriously, I would buy a copy.
Whistle