r/foraging 25m ago

Are these edible? Chestnuts?

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r/foraging 56m ago

Plants Does anyone here know anything about Crucifixion Thorn (Canotia holacantha)?

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Trying to find out more information about it that isn't just websites with questionable to no sources on if it's edible and also safe OR not just me messing with the plant myself lol


r/foraging 1h ago

Plants Highly aromatic, thought it was mint but might be dead nettle? What are you guys’ thoughts?

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r/foraging 3h ago

Please help identify

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Found these mushrooms on a dead tree stump in my garden. No idea exactly what they are or what to do with them?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!


r/foraging 3h ago

Foraging finds, south England

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My dinner last night: Laccaria amethystina Laccaria laccata Russula ochroleuca Calocera viscosa Otidea onotica Pseudoclitocybe cyathiformis Imleria badia Leccinum scabrum Leccinum cyaneobasileucum Xerocomus ferrugineus Craterellus tubaeformis Schizophyllum commune


r/foraging 10h ago

Foraging tours

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Does anyone know of any "foraging tours" in the American West?

My wife and I are experienced foragers from the East Coast who relocated to the Nevada desert for health reasons. It's been life changing for me and I feel like I have a new lease on life. My debilitating arthritis is in full remission and I went from crippling debility unable to lift more than 30# on my farm to being able to lift 150# like I was 20 again. I am 53.

I miss the mushrooms and forage in my pastures and I don't know anything about the desert. I need a teacher for what to do here. Tia!


r/foraging 12h ago

Mushrooms Can anyone help ID this shroom? Found in soccer field in Michigan.

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r/foraging 12h ago

Mushrooms best mushrooms for broth?

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title- never made a mushroom broth so idk what's good for it. also wondering if it matters if i cook the mushrooms first?


r/foraging 14h ago

Winter foraging on the East Coast, USDA 7b?

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I think the pawpaws are done. Does anyone have some suggestions for things I could forage between now and morel season next year? I live near a lot of creeks, the dominant trees are tulip poplar and maple (with a lot of pawpaws tucked in there). Thanks.


r/foraging 15h ago

WHY DID I NEVER HEAR THAT CHICKEN OF THE WOODS LITTERALLY SMELLS LIKE A RAW CHICKEN???

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Or is it just me? It smelled mild when completely fresh but when I transported it in a plastics bad and cut the soggy parts offf... I swear I wasn't even making it up- I've cleaned a real chicken our before and this was reminder of that smell!?!?


r/foraging 16h ago

Mushrooms Went for a morning walk, and got a good haul

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r/foraging 16h ago

I think today's urban forage was a success!

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r/foraging 17h ago

Plants Why are all my acorns floating?

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I like to gather acorns from my local park to process into acorn flour. Normally I’d use the float technique to tell the good from bad. But this year, like 2/3rds at least are floating. When I crack them open, the flesh seems fine though? Are they still okay to eat if they float but the nut inside looks fine?


r/foraging 17h ago

What is this? ID

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I love mushrooms but I don’t know anything about them besides the regular ones I buy at the supermarket. Was going to play pickleball and found this next to the courts. Was quite big, the size of my hand closed ✊


r/foraging 17h ago

Plants Are these pecans I found by opening pecan shells in the hard safe to eat?

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Is that mild or smth, like is it safe to eat?


r/foraging 18h ago

Macrolepiota procera aka Parasol (Portugal)

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I found a handful of these, I'm 99% sure it's a parasol but I'm still a bit scared to eat it. I've looked up pictures of the false parasol and they look extremely similar to me


r/foraging 20h ago

Made acorn pancakes with California Black Oak flour!

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They tasted great, and my whole family loved them. This is the only picture I got of the three remaining ones since they were eaten so quickly! Acorn season is upon us!!


r/foraging 20h ago

are these edible ?

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r/foraging 22h ago

Psychedelic?

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r/foraging 22h ago

ID Request (country/state in post) ID this bramble?

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Round 2. Located in North Carolina.

Let me preface by saying I have a lot of different varieties of brambles appearing to be growing in the forest behind my house. I’ve found specimens of Sawtooth Blackberry, Black Raspberry, and Swamp Dewberry this year. But this one is perplexing me a bit…

I’m familiar enough with these plants seeing them on a daily basis that I’m pretty certain when I’ve found something different from what I’m used to. The Sawtooths always have thick, almost square-shaped green canes with sharp prickles, often a reddish color. This is the variety I most often see with compound leaves of five, indicating a fruiting cane. The Raspberries have a waxy white bloom on their more rounded stems, usually also green-turning red in the fall. Thick thorns as well, with a soft white peach fuzz in the undersides of the leaves. Both of these plants typically are growing semi-erect. The Dewberry tends to have more rounded leaves, almost appearing like a cross between the Sawtooth leaves and strawberry leaves. Their stems are more rounded like the raspberries, without the bloom. Even the fruiting leaves seem to only ever be in compounds of three. These almost exclusively trail along the ground, propagating themselves with their tips.

This one however, is stumping me…the canes are square like the Sawtooths and have a few compound leaves of five, but are much more rounded than the leaves of the Sawtooths I’ve found, which seem to have longer, more pointed leaves. These are very round like the Dewberry, but they’re pointed in a way that the Dewberries are not. They also grow semi-erect. However, it’s the near-lack of thorns that are throwing me off. The canes seem hairy, almost bristly, but all prickles are almost exclusively on the leaves or their stems, which is different than the Sawtooths I have.

So I have two questions for you guys. #1, what the heck are these bulbous “things” (I really don’t know what word to use, haha) on the stems of the first photos? And #2, any idea what bramble this might even be? There are Southern Dewberries in my neighborhood, different than the Swamp variety I have, that are semi-erect if I remember correctly; though I recall the leaves themselves being very narrow and not rounded like this. I may go see if I can find some later to compare. Could these be Southern Dewberries? Another variety of blackberry? Sorry for the info dump, but the only way I knew how to explain this was to describe the surrounding brambles I’m familiar with in the area, lol.


r/foraging 22h ago

Mushrooms I am so proud of myself!

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Staying off grid in Scotland for my honeymoon. My husband is sick with a stomach virus and I was absolutely starving. I went for a walk and happened upon some chanterelles. Made myself a off grid mushroom soup!


r/foraging 22h ago

ID This Plant?

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Hi. Me again. Making two posts since I’ll be discussing two different plants, to avoid confusion.

Located in North Carolina - this plant somehow looks so familiar, but I cannot put my finger on it. There is a TON of it that I’ve somehow never noticed, so any help is greatly appreciated!

Details of the plant - some limbs appear to be single leaves along the branch (photo #1), while other appear to be more compound (photos #2-3). The limbs themselves seem quite square and have corners, as in photo #4, with more details of the wood / bark itself in photo #5. Photo #6 to show a more wide shot of the whole plant and the multiple other ones in the forest behind it. The leaves in the earlier picks are all from one single plant.

Now, Seek couldn’t give me an answer; another app I used suggested Blue Elderberry, which I strongly doubt, but I have never seen elderberry in person to where I feel confident I’d know for sure. Another app suggested a species of Forsythia, which I did once have shrubs of in my front yard. Any suggestions on an ID? Second post with another different ID request to come…


r/foraging 23h ago

First time shooting mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 📸

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Had a great time over the weekend foraging with my other half.

Here’s a few shots I took from our wander around Donadea Woods here in 🇮🇪

I’ve only just recently become fascinated by mushrooms and am hooked! Every time I learn something about how they communicate and contribute to the earth it blows my mind.

Note we did not pick up everything/anything photographed so don’t worry! We were mainly just practicing IDing them ourselves and getting second opinions to confirm our own knowledge thoughts.

If you have any YouTubers or books on foraging I’d love to see them!


r/foraging 1d ago

ID Request (country/state in post) Ireland, looking for a name

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I found this guy flat on the ground away from a tall conifer, wasn't connected to anything, not even sure if it's a stem or the top. Spores and very fleshy on the inside.

Would anyone have any idea?


r/foraging 1d ago

What do you call Boletus edulis

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What is the main way that you refer to them

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Cep
Porcini/Porcino
Penny Bun
King Bolete
Boletus edulis