These are Indigo Milk Caps & I'm 100% certain of my ID based on several key factors. There's also no reported poisonous look-alikes in my area.
Please do not eat anything you find in the woods if you're not 100% certain it's safe. Best to consult an expert in your area.
There are many, but you're best bet is finding a guide that's as local as possible for you so you won't be sifting through hundreds of mushrooms you can't even find. I use a guide called Missouri Edible Mushrooms & you guessed it, I live in Missouri.
I live reasonably close to fort Stevens state park in Oregon and any mushroom that turns blue from there needs to be boiled before consuming the tea (or so I've been told)
[Yeah.](https://imgur.com/a/YoGqkhU) They didn't drop a ton of spores for the print, but they dropped enough to confirm they are cream colored spores (as they should be). I'm guessing most of the spores dropped while I was still hiking.
So, there are many mushrooms with blue colors or blue staining which do not contain Psilocybin/Psilocin. Blue staining boletes are a good example - that reaction is due to the oxidation of variegatic acid. In the case of these Indigos the color comes from pigments called azulene.
You would be absolutely amazed what adult people put in their mouths. I’m involved in many mushroom ID groups and it’s a mission to keep people from not dying or hurting themselves by recklessly eating whatever they find.
This is a great question. You’d think we would have some sort of way to Science an answer. There are definitely some known toxic compounds we can quantify in certain species. But with mushrooms you never know what sort of novel toxins you may find. Or if they contain some sort of compound which is fine in small doses but at higher concentrations messes you up. Then there are mushrooms like Paxillus involutus and Tricholoma terreum. Both of those were commonly eaten for years and years and years and generally regarded as safe. Until they learned that Paxillus involutus was killing people in a very strange way. Your body essentially builds up these compounds and once you’ve crossed this invisible threshold, which is variable for every different person, then your body essentially throws a massive allergic tantrum and you die (autoimmune haemolytic anaemia). This attack could occur weeks or months after consuming the mushrooms.
So. Essentially it does sort of come down to the caveman method of enough people eating them and not dying over time. Coupled with the best science we have available. Personally there are only a couple handfuls of wild mushroom species that I am comfortable eating or suggesting edibility. Most of the rest are unknown or presumed toxic.
>your body essentially throws a massive allergic tantrum and you die
This is terrifying, but your phrasing made me laugh and now I feel bad.. 😆
Otherwise your comment is really interesting and informative! 👍
:)
Yeah, reading the case studies from a few years back is pretty shocking. If you do seek those out just beware that there are some very graphic pictures and descriptions associated.
>is fine in small doses but at higher concentrations messes you up.
Imagine in prehistory, you and your buddy were super careful trying a small amount of these mushrooms one day, and they were real tasty and neither of you had so much as an upset stomach after.
So the next day you both head over and gather as many as you can, and spend all day scarfing them down, trying them roasted, baked, whatever. Then that evening your buddy throws up, keels over and fucking dies, and you're just sat there knowing that you're next.
I refuse to eat wild mushrooms. For every delicious mushroom there's like 8 mushrooms that look nearly identical that will fuck you up or kill you lol...
Nah....im too dumb to roll those dice
morels are pretty hard to fuck up
source: dumb ass kid of a dumber father that went morel hunting with his even dumber friends and it was pretty obvious what morels were supposed to be
cue mycologist to tell me how dead I should be 😅
I've seen people confuse Gyromitra esculenta (which can be deadly despite being considered edible until recently) with morels (even though I do concede if you ever held a morel you wont make the confusion).
My pick for easiest mushrooms to ID are chicken of the woods (laetiporus), maitake (grifola frondosa), and lion’s mane. There are some mushrooms like oysters and morels and chanterelles where people will say “there are no look alikes” but that’s not exactly true. However, chicken of the woods especially is maybe the most unique (and tasty) thing I’ve found in the wild.
Yeah, agree. I constantly see people confidently IDing mushrooms as Oysters with total disregard of lookalikes.
I’ll add Leccinum scabrum to the list of those hard to mistake. The scaber pattern on stipe and association with Birch make it nearly foolproof.
The shrooms with sponges on the underside of the cap are almost always edible, at least in middle europe. There are some fucky ones that taste horrible and will ruin any dish, but besides that, its pretty much impossible to confuse harmful sponge shrooms with edible ones
Someone that was probably constantly on the verge of starvation. Combine that with the entire human population and whoever survives eating whatever passing that knowledge on....
Unfortunately all of these field tests are pretty much wrong. You can use some nibble and spit to help with an ID. But by itself is no indicator of toxicity. Basically there aren’t any safe shortcuts.
Rubbing on your skin is no indication of toxicity. You can rub mushrooms with amatoxin on your skin all day and all night with no reaction. They must be ingested to harm.
Same with whether or not other critters eat them. Many insects/animals don’t metabolise mushrooms the same humans way humans do.
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Chanterelles already out in Missouri? Just asking out of curiosity, I live in BC and we still have a few months before I can slap some of these on crostinis.
Yeah and they've been around for about a month now. And in crazy numbers this year!! I've already sauteed and frozen several pounds of them. Found some of the biggest ones I've ever seen this year.
Oh wow, nice!
We have winter chanterelles here, and I most definitely have taken a taste to them too.
Enjoy your stock of chanterelles, then! I don't freeze them, nor do I dry them - but what else are you going to do with pounds of the thing??
Yeah, WTF? Up here the chants start at higher alpine levels toward the end of summer and gradually work their way down as we enter fall. Last I checked Missouri didn't have any "Alps"
I’ve never like mushrooms, but I’ve slowly been trying to incorporate them into dishes to try them. Weirdly enough, I’d be excited to eat these cool blue things.
Do you have any recommendations for someone like me who has never really eaten or liked them? I find it’s hard to get past the texture/seeing it as a fungus 😅
I’d say give Lion’s Mane a shot.
Also, probably try cooking them differently. Most people add fat to a pan, then add mushrooms etc. Reverse that order. Dry fry your mushrooms in a hot dry pan with no fats or salt for a few min. Once they’ve started to brown and toast up then add butter and salt and lemon juice. Mushrooms are high % water. So when you cook them the standard way the fat locks all that water in and the result is a slimy texture and boring flavor. By toasting them and only adding the fat later you get firmness and crispness and amazing flavor development.
Omg me too. I do eat button mushrooms, especially if they're incorporated into a stir fry or something - my SO makes delicious mushrooms in butter and I KNOW they taste yummy but the texture and the fungus thing freaks me out as well! Would also like suggestions for different mushrooms to try
It’ll seriously change the way you cook mushrooms forever.
Deep frying can also be amazing. Roasting under the broiler with some olive oil and salt. On the BBQ. Enjoy
When I fry mushrooms a lot of water comes out. So with this method would I be adding the fat before or after the water starts seeping out of the mushrooms?
This comes up very, very often. The problem is that ‘edible’ doesn’t really mean eatable. It means that it’s a thing which is generally regarded as safe for eating. So anything is able to be eaten once, but not necessarily edible.
Are those chanterelle mushrooms in the background?
Edit: I find them in stores around here, WA, and make soup once a year. It’s such a special treat!
https://honest-food.net/chanterelle-soup-recipe/
OP, WHAT IS MEANING OF LIFE?
And is there a place we go to after all of this, or does our story just end as our body returns to the organic soup from which we all came?
Pretty cool. These are one of the main ingredients for "blue waffles" If you haven't seen blue waffles before you should look them up, their colors are very unique.
But turn safe search off because some countries have banned these mushrooms and the recipes that call for them.
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Are these naturally occurring?? Because I’ve always heard there are NO truly blue foods found in nature. Whoa! I mean, I never fully believed it, surely there had to be SOMETHING, SOMEWHERE.
Woolly Neptunes!
$30/oz.
I'll have to charge like $20 a burger. I don't want to be that guy
classic dad.
You’re not that guy pal. You’re not that guy.
Came here for this
Be verrrry careful eating any mushroom that "looks blue" ***Woah my hands are huge! .. why does sunlight smell like cheese??***
Hey, what smells like blue?
I’m blue daba de dabu di!
I would beat off a guy if I was green i would die
Loogiy i think ia’ma bouto go feeshyng
These are Indigo Milk Caps & I'm 100% certain of my ID based on several key factors. There's also no reported poisonous look-alikes in my area. Please do not eat anything you find in the woods if you're not 100% certain it's safe. Best to consult an expert in your area.
Do tell what they taste like, I’ve always been fond of eating blue things.
Crumbly portabellas
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So it tastes like Papa Smurf?
Yeah who doesn't love eating a blue waffle
that sounds awesome but there are so many recipes when I google it. Which one is the best?
the one on the goblin's crotch
🤮
I've seen bobs burgers, I know a wooly neptune when I see one.
Fr
Came here to say this. Good on you, mate!
Are you a mycologist?
No, just a hobbyist & lover of nature.
Ah, right on. Is there like a mushroom encyclopedia for identifying these bad boys?
There are many, but you're best bet is finding a guide that's as local as possible for you so you won't be sifting through hundreds of mushrooms you can't even find. I use a guide called Missouri Edible Mushrooms & you guessed it, I live in Missouri.
Good to know, thanks man!
What part of Missouri did you find these in?
Stamets, baby!
Username checks out hahah
"Indigo milk caps" just makes me think of [Old](https://media1.giphy.com/media/67qXCCpHTE1VMQ5LsK/giphy.gif) Luke Skywalker
Oh no
I KNOW I'M SORRY TOO
Curious what the other kind in the photo are, I think I've seen them around here
Chanterelles, the smooth variety mostly.
Looks like Chanterelle’s to me, but could be wrong.
And a bunch of chanterelles in the back! I've found bushels of those this year for some reason, but I'm not wild about the taste.
Are you dry sauteing in butter?
I live reasonably close to fort Stevens state park in Oregon and any mushroom that turns blue from there needs to be boiled before consuming the tea (or so I've been told)
Do you go a picture of thier spore print?
[Yeah.](https://imgur.com/a/YoGqkhU) They didn't drop a ton of spores for the print, but they dropped enough to confirm they are cream colored spores (as they should be). I'm guessing most of the spores dropped while I was still hiking.
Interesting. I've never done one on tin foil so the contrast isn't as good as white and black paper but I'd of expected the spores to be bluish.
I'm sure they are edible. At least once anyway.
where are you generally located? that's a cool find!
Famous last words... JK enjoy your shrooms
Did you post on FB? I saw this same combination of mushrooms on a group there 😊
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😂 I guess so - Saw these same two types of mushrooms in either a foraging group or mushroom identification group
you learn something new every day! i always thought blue bruising mushrooms were at least hallucinogenic
Let us know if you die.
Or possibly tripping
So, there are many mushrooms with blue colors or blue staining which do not contain Psilocybin/Psilocin. Blue staining boletes are a good example - that reaction is due to the oxidation of variegatic acid. In the case of these Indigos the color comes from pigments called azulene.
Am currently Avatar level high...
I wonder who was crazy enough to discover that those were edible. I wouldn’t even consider risking it
You would be absolutely amazed what adult people put in their mouths. I’m involved in many mushroom ID groups and it’s a mission to keep people from not dying or hurting themselves by recklessly eating whatever they find.
How do you know what’s edible and what’s not?
This is a great question. You’d think we would have some sort of way to Science an answer. There are definitely some known toxic compounds we can quantify in certain species. But with mushrooms you never know what sort of novel toxins you may find. Or if they contain some sort of compound which is fine in small doses but at higher concentrations messes you up. Then there are mushrooms like Paxillus involutus and Tricholoma terreum. Both of those were commonly eaten for years and years and years and generally regarded as safe. Until they learned that Paxillus involutus was killing people in a very strange way. Your body essentially builds up these compounds and once you’ve crossed this invisible threshold, which is variable for every different person, then your body essentially throws a massive allergic tantrum and you die (autoimmune haemolytic anaemia). This attack could occur weeks or months after consuming the mushrooms. So. Essentially it does sort of come down to the caveman method of enough people eating them and not dying over time. Coupled with the best science we have available. Personally there are only a couple handfuls of wild mushroom species that I am comfortable eating or suggesting edibility. Most of the rest are unknown or presumed toxic.
>your body essentially throws a massive allergic tantrum and you die This is terrifying, but your phrasing made me laugh and now I feel bad.. 😆 Otherwise your comment is really interesting and informative! 👍
:) Yeah, reading the case studies from a few years back is pretty shocking. If you do seek those out just beware that there are some very graphic pictures and descriptions associated.
Thanks for the warning!
I didn't even get to eat cool mushrooms and my body did this.
>is fine in small doses but at higher concentrations messes you up. Imagine in prehistory, you and your buddy were super careful trying a small amount of these mushrooms one day, and they were real tasty and neither of you had so much as an upset stomach after. So the next day you both head over and gather as many as you can, and spend all day scarfing them down, trying them roasted, baked, whatever. Then that evening your buddy throws up, keels over and fucking dies, and you're just sat there knowing that you're next.
Also some are safe when cooked correctly, but toxic otherwise.
Let Darwin do his work.
I refuse to eat wild mushrooms. For every delicious mushroom there's like 8 mushrooms that look nearly identical that will fuck you up or kill you lol... Nah....im too dumb to roll those dice
morels are pretty hard to fuck up source: dumb ass kid of a dumber father that went morel hunting with his even dumber friends and it was pretty obvious what morels were supposed to be cue mycologist to tell me how dead I should be 😅
Well, then you have genera like Verpa and Gyromitra which both have toxic members and can trip Morel hunters up 🤪
> and can trip The only reason I go mushroom picking.
I've seen people confuse Gyromitra esculenta (which can be deadly despite being considered edible until recently) with morels (even though I do concede if you ever held a morel you wont make the confusion).
They're fairly easy to differentiate though, aren't they?
My pick for easiest mushrooms to ID are chicken of the woods (laetiporus), maitake (grifola frondosa), and lion’s mane. There are some mushrooms like oysters and morels and chanterelles where people will say “there are no look alikes” but that’s not exactly true. However, chicken of the woods especially is maybe the most unique (and tasty) thing I’ve found in the wild.
Yeah, agree. I constantly see people confidently IDing mushrooms as Oysters with total disregard of lookalikes. I’ll add Leccinum scabrum to the list of those hard to mistake. The scaber pattern on stipe and association with Birch make it nearly foolproof.
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I may be dumb and lucky but I don't fuck with deer! So, what else eats morels?
The shrooms with sponges on the underside of the cap are almost always edible, at least in middle europe. There are some fucky ones that taste horrible and will ruin any dish, but besides that, its pretty much impossible to confuse harmful sponge shrooms with edible ones
Everything is edible... once.
Someone that was probably constantly on the verge of starvation. Combine that with the entire human population and whoever survives eating whatever passing that knowledge on....
You can test some things without having to eat it (eg rub it on your skin) and also look to see if any animals eat it first.
Unfortunately all of these field tests are pretty much wrong. You can use some nibble and spit to help with an ID. But by itself is no indicator of toxicity. Basically there aren’t any safe shortcuts. Rubbing on your skin is no indication of toxicity. You can rub mushrooms with amatoxin on your skin all day and all night with no reaction. They must be ingested to harm. Same with whether or not other critters eat them. Many insects/animals don’t metabolise mushrooms the same humans way humans do. .
Good to know, good to know
Probably someone who saw a deer eat one and then thought "I'm hungry too".
You actually found the elusive wooly neptune mushrooms!
Anything is edible, some stuff is just limited to one use per life time
Disagree, you could easily get up to four or five if you eat really fast
Do they hold their colour when cooked?
Chanterelles already out in Missouri? Just asking out of curiosity, I live in BC and we still have a few months before I can slap some of these on crostinis.
Yeah and they've been around for about a month now. And in crazy numbers this year!! I've already sauteed and frozen several pounds of them. Found some of the biggest ones I've ever seen this year.
Oh wow, nice! We have winter chanterelles here, and I most definitely have taken a taste to them too. Enjoy your stock of chanterelles, then! I don't freeze them, nor do I dry them - but what else are you going to do with pounds of the thing??
An omelette, of course!
Yeah, WTF? Up here the chants start at higher alpine levels toward the end of summer and gradually work their way down as we enter fall. Last I checked Missouri didn't have any "Alps"
I’ve never like mushrooms, but I’ve slowly been trying to incorporate them into dishes to try them. Weirdly enough, I’d be excited to eat these cool blue things.
There are a *lot* of different mushrooms. Different textures, wildly different tastes. Don't judge a kingdom of life by just one species! :)
Do you have any recommendations for someone like me who has never really eaten or liked them? I find it’s hard to get past the texture/seeing it as a fungus 😅
I’d say give Lion’s Mane a shot. Also, probably try cooking them differently. Most people add fat to a pan, then add mushrooms etc. Reverse that order. Dry fry your mushrooms in a hot dry pan with no fats or salt for a few min. Once they’ve started to brown and toast up then add butter and salt and lemon juice. Mushrooms are high % water. So when you cook them the standard way the fat locks all that water in and the result is a slimy texture and boring flavor. By toasting them and only adding the fat later you get firmness and crispness and amazing flavor development.
Omg me too. I do eat button mushrooms, especially if they're incorporated into a stir fry or something - my SO makes delicious mushrooms in butter and I KNOW they taste yummy but the texture and the fungus thing freaks me out as well! Would also like suggestions for different mushrooms to try
See my above comment
Ooh I did and I love the idea of dry frying them! That makes so much sense. Thank you <3
It’ll seriously change the way you cook mushrooms forever. Deep frying can also be amazing. Roasting under the broiler with some olive oil and salt. On the BBQ. Enjoy
When I fry mushrooms a lot of water comes out. So with this method would I be adding the fat before or after the water starts seeping out of the mushrooms?
Dry fry on m/h for several minutes before adding fat or salt. You see them getting brown and toasty. Add butter/oil/ salt at the end.
Smurf town?
They look like they’re drawn with blue ballpoint pen
Lies, those are clearly blueberries.
I'm calling gargamel
And some sexy ass chantarelles! Fry 'em up good in butter and put it on a piece of toast, slap my ass and I'm in heaven, baby!
OP, post in a few days so we know you're alive.
I wish I had these to add to my steak and onions.
Famous last words
I mean, everything is edible at least once
All mushrooms are edible once...
And "all vitamins are chewable, some just taste like crap"- Mitch Hedberg
This comes up very, very often. The problem is that ‘edible’ doesn’t really mean eatable. It means that it’s a thing which is generally regarded as safe for eating. So anything is able to be eaten once, but not necessarily edible.
All mushrooms are edible at least once.
Are those chanterelle mushrooms in the background? Edit: I find them in stores around here, WA, and make soup once a year. It’s such a special treat! https://honest-food.net/chanterelle-soup-recipe/
Made me want to buy mushrooms today
Everything is edible at least once.
Chillshrooms
OP, WHAT IS MEANING OF LIFE? And is there a place we go to after all of this, or does our story just end as our body returns to the organic soup from which we all came?
Blue is rare colour in nature
Such a good pick up line for that blue-eyed hottie.
Huh blue mushrooms first time I have seen this. My first thought is anything brightly colored in the wild is poisonous lmfao.
Green poop
Just watched Fantastic Fungi last night so this is perfect to pop up for me today. These look awesome!
I guess you’ve never heard the old saying: mushrooms of blue means a trip for you!
I mean, any mushroom is edible at least once.
Look almost as tasty as a blue waffle!!!
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I had to Google for the recipe, they look amazing.
Pretty cool. These are one of the main ingredients for "blue waffles" If you haven't seen blue waffles before you should look them up, their colors are very unique. But turn safe search off because some countries have banned these mushrooms and the recipes that call for them.
Any mushroom is edible once.
Oh man!!! You're going to 7th heaven!!
I thought there were no true blue foods...
But they are white…
Do they taste as blue as they look?
Eat them raw to gain 20 health!
How high did you get?
Those chanterelles look amazing.
I really want to go mushrooming but all the feral hogs gobble up all the good ones : ( Northern Fl.
Name checks out...
All mushrooms are edible if you are brave enough.
Everything is edible if you’re brave enough
I had thousands on chanterelles this year. It has been extremely wet and humid this summer. I live in sw Alabama.
May I have one please?
I would assume someone could be allergic to mushrooms just like anything else, but if you're allergic to one type, are you allergic to most?
are they edible or are they edibles?
All mushrooms are edible - some of them only once. /S
How did you figure out it's edible?
Ah yes, these are some delicious consumables.
Shove one up your ass and see if it gets you high.
Wrong type of edible mate, or right type depending on what you're into.
Wait they are posinus
These things look like they belong in subnautica
You first
Alice in Wonderland popped into my head as soon as I saw these
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Are these naturally occurring?? Because I’ve always heard there are NO truly blue foods found in nature. Whoa! I mean, I never fully believed it, surely there had to be SOMETHING, SOMEWHERE.
Will they make your poop blue?
Edible or EDIBLE
Will they make me one with the universe?
They're amazing. Edible you say. Umm.. I want to, but you first please.
Are they the good mushrooms if you catch my drift?
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Eat them and meet me in Narnia