#flammulina velutipes

[lindagoesmushrooming]

Flammulina velutipes

[mushroomgay]

Cambridge, UK, October 2023

Velvet shanks (Flammulina velutipes)

These velvet shanks were unseasonably early. They like cold weather, and will start to fruit after the first proper frosts, usually in December and January in the UK.

They are a highly sought mushroom, valued for their slightly sweet flavour - they are the wild form of the cultivated enoki mushroom. I cooked them up with some portobellos, red wine, rosemary and thyme and had the resulting gravy over broccoli and a mountain of sweet potato mash.

[lena-rosey]

a better glance at those enokis and a garden snail shell

[fungusqueen]

We spotted Flammulina velutipes in this area for the first time. We almost missed it, but while maneuvering away from some trail flooding, we ended up with our faces right next to these eye-level mushrooms. This species is actually the same white enoki species found at the grocery store, which looks different from the same species grown in the wild because it’s been deprived of sunlight

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

Flammulina velutipes--Velvet Foot/Winter Mushroom/Wild Enoki

Ever wondered what those tiny, densely-clustered white mushrooms in the grocery store look like in the wild? No? Yes? Well, now you will. All photos mine, unedited.

They're orange, the caps are flatter and bigger, and the stipes are dark and velvety. They show up in the fall and continue to the spring. They won't pop up when it's below freezing but it literally only needs to be 1 degree above freezing and then they will! Be careful of lookalikes, but bright orange cap + dark velvet stipe + white spores is a pretty good tell. This only goes for eastern North America, though. I have no idea what lookalikes might be around in other areas. You can have them with pizza, in pasta sauce. Or you can fry them up in butter and serve with salmon in a red wine sauce (I did that one winter). :)

Word of caution: ALL edible wild mushrooms must be cooked before you eat them. Even if you don't get sick immediately there can be longterm effects. It's very difficult to overcook a mushroom, so do it well.

Word of ethics: always leave at a third of the young mushrooms you find, and only in a large flush. If there's only one, leave it be.

[rainbowxbunny]

January 1, 2023

Enokitake - Flammulina Velutipes

[ayanos-pl]

豆腐トマトピーマンエノキダケ豆苗ボローニャソーセージ炒め。材料をオリーブ油とごま油で炒めて、コンソメ、ポン酢醤油、めんつゆで適当に味付け。水分は豆腐と野菜から出たもののみ。何を入れても結構うまい。

[lindagoesmushrooming]

Armillaria mellea

Marasmiellus ramealis

Xeromphalina campanella

Hypholoma fasciculare

Coprinus disseminatus

Mycena sp.

Flammulina Velutipes

[tom-at-the-farm]

Flammulina velutipes

[lena-rosey]

my heart jumped when I saw this lovely oyster (Pleurotus ostreatus) cluster along a path at the Pere Lachaise cemetery. spot the little velvet foot enoki (Flammulina velutipes) friends peeking out the bark too.

[balthazarslostlibrary]

Velvet foot, Flammulina velutipes, Aotearoa. Photo credit me.

Also some Coprinellus

[owormy]

flammulina velutipes spotted out hiking

[rainbowxbunny]

Galerina Marginata mushroom which is deadly (top) Vs look alike edible mushroom Flammulina Velutipes (bottom)

[kaiedwardsartblog]

Velvet Shank, Flammulina velutipes spore prints.

[fungitopia]

Velvet Shank, Flammulina velutipes