Foraging For Another Batch Of The Scaly Lentinus Mushrooms!

TGIF! It's another Friday to talk about everything fungi. So let's dive into it. 😅

Some weeks ago, I shared a video where I was foraging for mushrooms - the Scaly Lentinus, at my sister's yard. I believe most of you watched it. But if you didn't, you can still watch it here. Thanks for watching. 😍

So today, I'd be sharing photos of a different batch of the Scaly Lentinus mushrooms I foraged from the same source. As I mentioned earlier, the Scaly Lentinus grows naturally on dead wood or decaying deciduous trees, including avocado.

There's a big avocado tree at the front of my sister's yard, which had to be removed during renovations to make space for landscaping. The tree had grown quite tall and was a threat to the property and human lives, so it was cut down and packed away. Interestingly, the stump has become a breeding ground for the Scaly Lentinus and other types of mushrooms.

On one of my visits, I found some of these mushrooms that had grown quite big, and I ended up foraging for them. They were growing in clusters, and each cluster was quite large.

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Give these an extra day, and they'll almost double in size.

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Doing what I know how best to do. 😂

Done and dusted. Let's count 👌

Single.

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Double

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Triple

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And here's the largest of them all.

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Captured in monomad

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A look at the back view.

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Unlike the other types of mushrooms, like the Ero Onye Ntekam that grow seasonally, the Scaly Lentinus grows all year round, provided there are dead woods around.

Oh, lest I forget, they're one of my favorites too.

Prepped and ready to be cooked. 😋

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Have you foraged for mushrooms before? Which mushrooms grow more in your region, and where do you find them?

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