Discover Top Posts Tagged with #agaricus augustus

Don't mind how the prince floats and ignore his feet

#artists on tumblr #traditional media #traditional drawing #artists of tumblr #physical art #traditional medium #art #drawing #traditional art #hand drawn #mushrooms #mushroom #agaricus Augustus

‘The Prince’ spores {{ Agaricus augustus }}

#fungi #mushrooms #mycology #nature photography #photography #mushroom #the Prince mushroom #Agaricus augustus #agaricus #spores #spore print #microscope #nature #mycotography

What's the mushroom in your PFP? It looks neat :3

It is an old Prince (Agaricus augustus) mushroom! Here are some more photos of this mushroom (all taken by me) in different stages of it’s life cycle!

The Prince mushroom is edible and widely sought after, and I personally can confirm that it tastes good! I’ve foraged and eaten them before, and I don’t regret it! (Just make sure to only eat them when they’re young, the photo in the middle was taken right before I ate those mushrooms, but I definitely wouldn’t eat the ones in the last photo!)

Prince mushrooms can be really big, with caps up to 30cm in diameter! They are found fruiting at the base of conifer trees (but never off the trees themselves) typically in clumps of around three or five. They tend to fruit during early or late summer, and surprisingly enough, have adapted to thrive in areas of human activity. The ones I found were actually in my backyard, which was pretty insane for such a highly prized mushroom! This is the third year in a row they’ve fruited at the base of one particular tree in my yard, so I suspect the mycelium system is in a mycorrhizal relationship with that tree! Works well for me, I get free mushrooms to eat! I’ve spore printed them, and they have dark brown spores and gills. They taste good sautéed with a bit of garlic butter, but I’ve also thrown them into pasta sauce which was pretty tasty!

#The prince mushroom #Agaricus augustus #Does it still count as foraging if they were in my backyard?#Not quite as much work as foraging for other mushrooms lol #Ask!

Agaricus Augustus • The Prince

#smelled soooo good #like sweet almond oil #agaricus #agaricus augustus #mushrooms #Mycology #foraging #edible mushroom

A bit late in the year for this post! These are August Prince mushrooms, Agaricus augutus. They’re some of my favorite edible mushooms! I’ve found them in the woods, but my favorite patch is just in a little stand of trees right by my old university. They’re pretty easy to id, what with the scurfy stipes, and they also stain orange and smell like almonds! These ones are young, so you can’t see the ring/annulus on the stipe yet.

#agaricus augustus #august prince #mushroom #mycology #mushroom foraging #foraging #ethnomycology