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Coral Fungus Clavicorona pyxidata

Edibility: Good when fresh

Growing season: Late spring-summer

Relationship to substrate: Saprophytic


Golden Chanterelle Cantharellus cibarius

Edibility: Choice
Growing season: Summer-fall

Relationship to substrate: Mycorrhizal with pine and upland hardwoods


Hedgehog Mushroom Hydnum repandum (Dentinum repandum)

Edibility: Edible

Growing season: Summer-fall

Relationship to substrate: Mycorrhizal


Hollow Stem Larch Suillus Suillus cavipes

Edibility: Choice

Growing season: Fall

Relationship to substrate: Mycorrhizal with tamarack in bogs


Honey Mushroom Armillaria solidipes (A. ostoyae)

Edibility: Edible

Growing season: Fall

Relationship to substrate: Saprotrophic or parasitic


Larch Suillus Suillus grevillei

Edibility: Edible

Growing season: Summer-fall

Relationship to substrate: Mycorrhizal with upland tamarack


Maitake or Hen of the Woods Grifola frondosa

Edibility: Choice when young

Growing season: Summer-fall

Relationship to substrate: Saprotrophic


Matsutake Tricholoma matsutake

Edibility: Choice

Growing season: Fall

Relationship to substrate: Mycorrhizal


Porcini or Pennybun or Cep Boletus edulis

Edibility: Choice, enhanced when dried

Growing season: Late summer-fall

Relationship to substrate: Mycorrhizal


Saffron Milk Cap Lactarius deliciosus

Edibility: Edible, acquired taste

Growing season: Late summer-fall

Relationship to substrate: Mycorrhizal


Short-Stemmed Russula Russula brevipes

Edibility: Edible, said to be choice if colonized by the orange fungus Hypomyces lactifluorum
Growing season: Summer-fall

Relationship to substrate: Mycorrhizal with hardwoods, pine, and black spruce


Slippery Jack Bolete Suillus luteus

Edibility: Edible after removing skin of cap

Growing season: Late summer-fall

Relationship to substrate: Mycorrhizal with red pine of all ages


Sulfur Shelf Laetiporus sulphureus (Polyporus sulphureus)

Edibility: Edible when young

Growing season: Summer-fall

Relationship to substrate: Saprophytic and parasitic


Tent Stakes Gomphidius glutinosus

Edibility: Edible

Growing season: Summer-fall

Relationship to substrate: Mycorrhizal with white spruce and other conifers


The King Bolete Boletus edulis

Edibility: Choice

Growing season: Late summer-fall

Relationship to substrate: Mycorrhizal with pine, spruce, oak, and birch


White Pine Bolete Suillus americanus

Edibility: Edible

Growing season: Late summer-fall

Relationship to substrate: Mycorrhizal only with white pine


Technically edible, but not recommended either due to potential ill effects or not being worth the trouble:


False Chanterelle Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca

Witches Hat Hygrocybe conica (Hygrophorous conicus)

Milky Caps Lactarius volemus



References:



Field guide to common macrofungi in eastern forests and their ecosystem functions, United States Department of Agriculture

https://www.fs.fed.us/nrs/pubs/gtr/gtr_nrs79.pdf


Grifola frondosa (Dicks.) Gray - Hen of the Woods

https://www.first-nature.com/fungi/grifola-frondosa.php


Penny Bun

https://www.wildfooduk.com/mushroom-guide/cep/


Lactarius deliciosus (L.) Gray - Saffron Milkcap

https://www.first-nature.com/fungi/lactarius-deliciosus.php


Tricholoma Matsutake: The Pine Mushroom Benefits & Identification

https://healing-mushrooms.net/archives/tricholoma-matsutake.html


Types of mushrooms

https://www.mushroom-appreciation.com/types-of-mushrooms.html#sthash.rcNXgsaR.dpbs





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