Savvy Shrooms

25/07/2025

Meripilus sumstinei also called the Black Staining Polypore or Rooster of the Woods is an edible mushroom that I personally think makes some of the best mushroom broth there is.

For more scientific information check the link in the comments

23/07/2025

It's super dry in Catawba County. Show me your mushrooms and what city/state you found them? Today I found a pretty black snake along the Catawba river but no mushrooms.

12/07/2025

07/07/2025

There are lots of gorgeous mushrooms along Rainbow Road in Montreat, North Carolina! Be very sure when hiking trails in the area that you are aware of the rules. Some places allow mushroom foraging and other places do not. Most places in Montreat do not allow you to forage for plants, minerals, animals OR mushrooms. So along these gorgeous trails all we take home are pictures and litter! 🥰

Technically, fungi are not plants and are not listed on these rules. I think it is best to follow the "spirit of the rules" if you can help yourself. The person who created this list may not have realized they excluded mushrooms... Or maybe it is okay to harvest the mushrooms... But overall I think it's nice in places that do not allow foraging in general (especially private property!!) to leave the mushrooms for everyone to see. If you really must pick them be sure to call ahead. The number is on the sign.

06/07/2025

Russula mushrooms come in every color and these are some of the greenest ones I have ever seen! 😀 No filter or weird lighting on this at all.

Found them off the Blue Ridge Parkway near Brevard North Carolina. It's a beautiful day for a drive or a hike.

04/07/2025

My boyfriend Alex is one of the absolute best Mushroom cultivators in North Carolina. Learn more about Catawba Mushroom Partners in this new video from the Hickory farmers market.

01/07/2025

Chanterelles are easy to identify once you know what to look for! This delicious gourmet mushroom is growing right now throughout Western North Carolina! Look for beautiful trails of mushrooms or individual specimens that look a lot like flowers. Some have an aromatic apricot scent that is divine! This video has tips to cook them as well as find and identify them. It also tells you when you should be throwing them back into the woods! I'll put a great group for you in the comments to learn even more about this beautiful mushroom. I found all of these just yesterday! 🥰

30/06/2025

Had a lovely time picking Chanterelles and I'll upload a video about it tomorrow! Just wanted to share some mushroomy beauty with you from today ❤️
One of my favorite groups to look at beautiful mushrooms is linked in the comments

Check out my new video about Chanterelles here https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1F332xEQMW/

30/06/2025

I made a shadow box with Trametes versicolor (a turkey tail) and some vibrant orange Pycnoporus cinnabarinus (synonym Trametes cinnabarina). I also used some Usnea lichen (old mans beard), bark, foliose lichen, and a leaf. All things found in my back yard except the box itself and the glue! When using mushrooms for crafts you should make sure they are very dry and preferable seal them with resin or clear shellac to prevent insects eating (or emerging from) them and to prevent potential mold issues. Do you craft with nature? I want to see!

26/06/2025

After a huge heat wave we are finally seeing rain cooling things off again. Keep a lookout because mushrooms are popping up everywhere! These are some beautiful Clavulinopsis sp I saw recently in Marion, North Carolina USA.

20/06/2025

Today is world psychedelics day! There are many different kinds of psychedelics but of course, being a mushroom forager, I would prefer to talk about mushrooms. Today is the day to ask me questions because I normally avoid this topic in favor of gourmet mushrooms.

Psychedelic mushrooms have been banned in the United States since president Richard Nixon ousted them in 1970 with the controlled substances act. Many countries still celebrate and allow the usage of magic mushrooms for both recreational and religious purposes. Recently studies have been done utilizing psilocybin mushrooms to help people in the United States who struggle with major depression and PTSD as well as other disorders. Oregon specifically is the place in the United States that has changed the legality of these mushrooms for mental health purposes which passed by vote in 2020. Legislation is still pending in other places such as California and I believe Colorado is on its way as well. Even in Oregon though you cannot buy recreational magic mushrooms, you must be supervised in a therapeutic setting to utilize these chemicals for your mental health. I personally am pro legalization of medical magic mushrooms and I think that the science behind their ability to help those with PTSD and depression is amazing. However, I do not help people figure out where to find magic mushrooms. That is one of the first questions many people ask me when they learn that I am passionate about mycology. I can't help you find your shrooms but whatever you're doing today I hope you have a very happy world psychedelics day. Be safe no matter how you spend it wherever you are!

A bit of lovely science recently in the realm of hallucinogens and mushrooms is the scientific discovery of a specific fungi on morning glory flowers that precipitates the hallucinogenic effects of L*D by creating compounds that aid in the conversion of LSA to L*D. So L*D was powered by a magic mushroom all along apparently! Thank you to Corinne Hazel from West Virginia University for her discovery of Periglandula clandestina fungi June 2025!

Elusive L*D Fungus Finally Discovered on Flower : ScienceAlert https://share.google/GNq3ACaNDBpwqbP5G

What a fascinating science to have something that provides food, poison, medicine, and magic...all in one beautiful topic. I love Mushrooms!

You won't see this topic on my page very often so I hope you enjoy my random art and this bit of info.

20/06/2025

It's a lovely day for picking Chanterelles! If you want some help identifying your chanterelles visit my friend's amazing group Yes! That there is a Chanterelle

You'll want to look for *false gills* which could be no gills at all on smooth Chanterelles, or these veiny looking ridges that fork towards the cap margin.

Some are yellow, some are red, some are peach, some are orange, and you may find some that even look kind of white... Some are huge and some are tiny... Some smell like apricots and some don't smell at all... All Chanterelles will grow from soil...They are delicious and they all should be cooked before consumption.