![]() ![]() It is best for color at mid-age when the fruiting body goes from yellow orange to deep burnt orange, it cuts like a hard cheese or beef tongue and the maggots inside the flesh are pink and 1/8 to ¼ inch long. Inonotus hispidus is a large annual polypore found on several species of oak in eastern North America and is almost always found growing high up on the trunk of a living tree. In Scandinavia it is more commonly found, sometimes having many pieces on one branch of either birch or Mountain ash. ![]() It grows widely in northeastern North America all summer, but is often overlooked except by dyers. This mushroom is like gold to mushroom dyers and sold recently in Scandinavia at the IFFS for an average of $15.00–$20.00 (US) for 20 grams or roughly ¾ ounce dried. sanguineus will possibly dye a dusty pink. nidulans, but even if the bath looks at all cloudy combining it with a later bath of Cortinarius semisanguineus or C. If enough is collected for a 1:1 ratio, the purple will be darker or more a plum color. It is possible to get a good purple from only a few small pieces of dried mushroom or less than a 1:2 ratio of dry mushroom to wool using alum-mordanted wool. nidulans will dye a consistent shade of purple but must have the pH raised to 8-9 when the mushroom is first cooking or the color may not develop at all. Hapalopilus nidulans ( rutilans in Europe and Canada) is a small annual wood rotting polypore on deciduous twigs and branches of birch, beech and oak. The observant hunter should come back to the same tree in early to mid-summer. The old fruiting bodies, which are weak for dyeing, do not break down quickly in the woods so they may be found in fall or late spring. Phaeolus schweinitzii is a great mushroom for beginning dyers because it can be overcooked, undercooked, too little an amount or old pieces used, or rinsed out too soon, and still dye amazing colors. A combination of an alum-mordanted skein with an iron-mordanted skein together will sometimes dye interesting yellow-greens on both skeins. Mushroom growing on other mushrooms or the decayed remains of other mushrooms.Using a 2:1 ratio of dried mushroom to weight of wool with young fruiting bodies or just the outer yellow edge it is easy to get 4 baths. For this reason the identification keys at this site are based on features that amateur mushroomers can observe. However, if you are trying to identify a mushroom, such a taxonomical arrangement is not likely to help much, unless you have access to a microscope and, in many cases, a DNA laboratory. To see how mycologists currently separate the various families and genera, see the Mushroom Taxonomy page. My keys are "artificial," which means that the groups represented in the keys do not necessarily reflect the groups (orders, families, and genera) used by mycologists to portray natural relationships between the fungi. However, if you find early on that you are missing information that appears to be crucial, you may want to read Studying Mushrooms before trying to use the keys. If you are new to using identification keys, I won't patronize you by explaining the process in elaborate detail I am sure you will figure it out quickly. The key below is the starting point for all the identification keys at this site. Key to Major Groups of Mushrooms (MushroomExpert.Com) ![]()
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