How reckless to collect and eat wild mushrooms...
Horny Fungus
2. White Brittlegill
3. Strobilurus
4. Destroying Angel
5. Weeping Bolete
6. Slippery Jack
7. Fried Chicken Mushroom
8. Angel Wings
9. Luminescent Mushroom
10. Crown-Tipped Coral Fungus
11. Jelly Ear Fungus
12. Velvet Foot
13. Oyster Mushroom
14. Magic Blue Gym
15. Shield Pinkgill
16. Panther Mushroom
17. Terrestrial Pholiota
18. Puffball (White)
19. Crumble Cap
20. Polypore Fungus
21. Oligoporus tephroleucus?
22. Polypore Fungus (Footless)
23. Weeping Widow Fungus
24. Cup Fungus
25. Osteina Fungus
26. Yellow Brain Fungus
27. Semmel Porling?
28. Milk Cap
29. Yellowmilk Cap
30. Puffball
31. Brown Witch's Butter
32. Shiitake
33. Pheasant's Back Mushroom
34. Straw Mushroom
35. Earthstar
36. Charcoal Burner
37. Pholiota Cap
38. Wine-Colored Agaricus
39. Lubricant Pholiota
40. Common Funnel
41. Toothed Jelly Fungus
42. Olive Oysterling
43. Olive Oysterling
44. Morel
45. Veiled Lady
46. Chinese Gray Amanita
Oct 10 Yamagata
Oct 10 Matsushima, Miyagi
Very good taste as the reputation. Thick in miso soup. The bunch on photo grows on a timber, but it mostly grows on stumps. The top of young caps have flakey splits. Grows in early autumn.
White Brittlegill
Aug 3 Rifu, Miyagi
Oct 10 Yamagata
Baaad! Stiff, crumbly and rusted.
Faint bluish hue on the foot near the cap is a distinguishing character from a toxic relative.
Strobilurus
Oct 30, Nov 25, Dec 12 Taiwa, Miyagi
Oct 31 Kurihara, Miyagi
Nov 3 Ishinomaki, Miyagi
Nov 25 Aoba, Sendai, Miyagi
Dec 3 Ikeda, Fukui
Dec 21 Rifu, Miyagi
Not bad taste. Too wet for tempura. A little crunchy in miso soup. Grown among cedar litter. Cap is white like a ghost or with a grayish hue. Foot, upper white to gradually reddish brown and hairy below. Common under cedar forest in late autumn to early winter.
Destroying Angel
Sept 6 Hasama, Tome, Miyagi
Oct 10 Yamagata
Oct 10 Matsushima, Miyagi
Described as fatal. Big and conspicuous white. It is said some panther mushrooms are very delicious, and I tried a bit, but I could not detect any particular strong taste.
Weeping Bolete
Sept 5, Sept 14 Shiogama, Miyagi
A bit tasteful. Abundant on the premises of our institute. There is few toxic species in the bolate family, and they are safe. I expected to be good for soup from its sticky cap, but nothing thick in miso soup. Fairly for tempura.
Slippery Jack
Oct 18 Sanda, Hyogo
Fairly. Just looks like the former Weeping Bolate, but has a weak annulus. Comes out under short pine trees by a footpath. Fairly for tempura.
Fried Chicken Mushroom
Sept 23 Matsushima, Miyagi
Good! Crunchy texture. Boiling in a soup, it makes very thick. Some old one I collected in Hachimantai, Iwate was not very good because of senescence.
Angel Wings
Sep 23 Matsushima, Miyagi
Oct 4 Zao, Miyagi
Oct 21 Aoba, Sendai
Tasteful. Easily identified. The only white wing mushroom on cedar timbers. It turned out recently that it is deadly toxic for some people mostly with kidney disorders.
Growing on cedar timbers cut down and placed in Aoba Forest Greenery.
Luminescent Mushroom
Oct 28 Narugo, Miyagi
A representative toxic mushroom. Big and looks tasty, though. Inside the cap root has a dark blotch. Tear the cap to see this blotch. Every year TV news reports poisoning of this mushroom misidentifying as shiitake, but I think it does not look like shiitake as it is said.
Crown-Tipped Coral Fungus
Sept 23 Matsushima, Miyagi
Taste unknown. A distinctive form. Grown on a pine timber, whereas most coral mushrooms grow on a ground.
Jelly Ear Fungus
Jan 8, Jan 10, Apr 15 Yokosuka
Feb 2 Rifu, Miyagi
Mar 17 Hayama, Kanagawa
Apr 29, May 9, May 24, May 27, Nov 21 Kanazawa, Yokohama
Jun 23, Jun 30 Osato, Miyagi
Sept 23 Matsushima, Miyagi
Dec 21 Rifu, Miyagi
Dec 30 Miura, Kanagawa
Gooood. Velvet-like surface. Timbers stacked at roadside hold this mushroom. These man-made environments are frequently good mushroom hunting spots rather than deep forests. Growing one after another, I visited a week later and collected much again. A tight fungus and keeps its shape for a few days in a refrigerator. Inflated like a ping-pong ball when cooked for tempura. Crunchy in miso soup, different from dried fungus in the market.
A big bunch on a log by a footpath in a city park. Many people take a walk here. Nobody notices.
Another type of jelly ear fungus found in Yokohama. Soft and gelatinous. Good for Chinese soup with egg.
Both gelatinous and velvet types of jelly ear fungus grow on a stump.
Velvet Foot
Jan 11 Kamakura, Kanagawa
Feb 2 Rifu, Miyagi
Mar 14 Wakayanagi, Kurihara, Miyagi
Nov 23 Shiomaga, Miyagi; Zushi, Kanagawa
Nov 29 Wakayanagi, Kurihara, Miyagi
Dec 3 Ikeda, Fukui
Dec 5 Nukada, Aichi
Dec 17, Dec 21 Rifu, Miyagi
Dec 26 Kimitsu, Chiba
Dec 30 Miura, Kanagawa
Deliiciooous as an excellent reputation. Quite different from pallid bunch in markets. Light brown cap little bigger than coins with dark short foot. It is written that foot has velvet-like dense short hairs, but these hairs are so tiny that almost invisible. Sticky cap looks tasty and indeed thick in soup. Foot looks dried and rough but good crunchy taste when boiled. This photo shows mushrooms grown on fallen timber, but usually grow on stumps.
Velvet foot harvest. A big bunch.
Sometimes foot is light at young.
Oyster Mushroom
Jan 11 Kamakura, Kanagawa
Jan 13 Shiogama, Miyagi
Apr 29 Kanazawa, Yokohama
Sep 29 Kamakura, Kanagawa
Oct 10 Matsushima, Miyagi
Dec 30 Miura, Kanagawa
Maybe good but... A big bunch. Looked like rum's head mushroom from distance, but turned out to be this species when approaching. Old stab and not very much tasty.
A young and good bunch on a willow or alder stump in a marsh.
A timber filled with young bunches.
Magic Blue Gym
Jun 30 Osato, Miyagi
Bitter. Looks like very good edible, though. Young cap has a membranous veil. Top of the cap is rough and has small processes. Grown on cut down young cedars. A reddish one at upper right is one found on a day before in Shiogama, also grows on cedar timber, similar to this species, but magenta gray inside the cap and not bitter.
Shield Pinkgill
May 21, May 23 Rifu, Miyagi
Goood but... Emerged after rainfall under a plum tree in my garden. When opens well, the cap flattened or bent upward with sharply convex at the center. Usually a couple of mushrooms come out together with their feet connected. Heavy. Foot thick below like a pot, smooth at first, rough when getting old. Good crunchy texture as tempura, but wet body makes the oil burst and splash. Also good for miso soup. But, smells like sweat, when stewed with soy. Bad.
Big yield of shield pinkgill.
Panther Mushroom
Spt 23 Matsushima, Miyagi
Oct 22 Shiogama
Tasty and toxic. Grown near the Matsushimakaigan Station.
Young guis look like just a mushroom in a fairy tale. Grown under pine trees near the institute. Looking at closely, the panther-like pattern on the cap can be recognized that it is made of broken membranous cover of the cap as it grown bigger. Well-known as a typical toxic mushroom, but it has a good strong taste. I tried a bit and understood it is really tasty. A small mushroom on the near side is unknown.
Terrestrial Pholiota
Oct 20 Taiwa, Miyagi
Weakly toxic. Grown here and there on the ground under cedar trees. I colleted them as I thought it was an edible pholiota, but it turned out toxic consulting with a pictorial book on mushrooms. The book says well opened cap has gill with brownish stain and this color is characteristic to the toxic species. It is just as seen in the photo. Disappointed.
? I have not yet tasted. Very whitish.
Crumble Cap
Jun 21 Rifu, Miyagi
Not bad. Grown on an old wisterian stump. Strong smell of a typical mushroom in miso soup.
Polypore Fungus
May 2 Kanazawa, Yokohama
Taste unknown. Grown on an old log.
Oligoporus tephroleucus?
May 2 Kanazawa, Yokohama
Taste unknown. Grown on an old log. Eye-irritating strong formalin-like smell.
Polypore Fungus (Footless)
May 3 Hayama, Kanagawa
Taste unknown. Grown on an old log.
Weeping Widow Fungus
May 3 Zushi, Kanagawa
Taste not good. Grown on mossed ground by an old log. Edible but nothing to say about its taste. Not bad, though.
Cup Fungus
May 9 Kanazawa, Yokohama
Good? Thick and gelatinous inside. Grown on an old log after heavy rain. Bizarre looking but edible. Peel and just taste like nata de coco in Chinese soup with egg.
Osteina Fungus
May 24 Kanazawa, Yokohama
Looks tasty, but stiff.
Yellow Brain Fungus
May 30 Kanazawa, Yokohama
Soft and delicious. Looks like a yellowish jelly ear fungus. Very soft and lose its shape when washing to cook.
Semmel Porling?
May 30 Kanazawa, Yokohama
Big! Reported to grow on a ground, but it grows on an old timber.
Bitter. Hot. Looks like very much the popular Hatsudake, but has a fragile foot and milk under the cap. A little bitter and hot just like mushed raddish (Daikon). I think it's tasty.
Yellowilk Cap
Nov 3 Kamakura, Kanagawa
Bitter. Not tasty. Looks like the former species, but it has shorter foot and the milk is yellow.
Puffball
Oct 2 Kanazawa, Yokohama
Baaaadd!! Looks like a marshmallow, but rotten taste.
Brown Witch's Butter
Oct 30 Miyagino, Sendai
Oct 31 Kanazawa, Yokohama
Nov 30 Yamagata
Gooood!. Looks like a jelly ear fungus, but soft with centered stem.
Shiitake
Jan 11 Kamakura, Kanagawa
Feb 6 Yokosuka, Kanagawa
Dec 17 Kashimadai, Miyagi
Good, but not delighted very much because it is so common in market. This one is half dried under several fine days straight.
Pheasant's Back Mushroom
Apr 16 Zushi, Kanagawa
Good? It was young and soft enough to eat.
Straw Mushroom?
Nov 3 Kamakura, Kanagawa
Taste unknown, because I didn't eat it. I thought its looks like some toxic Amanita.
Earthstar
Nov 26 Kamakura, Kanagawa
Taste unknown. Looks like nuts dropped onto the ground. It is said edible, though.
Charcoal Burner
Jun 20, Jun 23 Kanazawa, Yokohama
Jul 3 Shichigahama, Miyagi
Oct 12 Yamagata
Taste unclear. Beautiful and conspicuous on the ground.
Field Cap
Jun 20 Kanazawa, Yokohama
Oct 1 Yokosuka, Kanagawa
Tastes good. Big bunch on a timber. Foot is stiff but good crunching texture. Cap is watery.
Long veil-like ring covers gills of the cap at young (left). It later peels off from the cap (right).
Wine-Colored Agaricus
Sept 29 Kamakura, Kanagawa
Oct 12 Yamagata
Tastes unknown. Sometimes toxic. Grows on ground under trees. Fragile.
Lubricant Pholiota
Oct 18 Nikko, Tochigi
Tasty. Sticky in a miso soup. Grows on a timber.
Common Funnel
Oct 18 Nikko, Tochigi
Good! Big. Grows on a forest ground.
Toothed Jelly Fungus
Oct 18 Nikko, Tochigi
Tastes not sure. Grows on the same timber with lubricant pholiota. Too small amount to taste at that time.
Olive Oysterling
Oct 30 Ichinoseki, Iwate
Oct 31 Kurihara, Miyagi
Tastes good. Grows on a log.
Grows in my garden.
Veiled Lady
Sept 23 Matsushima, Miyagi
Tastes good. Grows on a ground under bamboo grass. A priceless material of Chinese cuisine.
Chinese Gray Amanita
Aug 3 Rifu, Miyagi
Tastes unknown. Grows on a ground under trees.
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