Overgrown shiitake pictures - sources?

[Shelley Stuart]

Does anyone have a good source for images of overgrown shiitakes?  I went into my laying yard this weekend and found these 5-6" sized mushrooms growing on my shiitake logs.  I haven't visited in a while -- I didn't expect any fruiting until next spring, since I inoculated them last October.

They are far larger than I have experience with from store-bought samples, so I want to research whether I've got big shrooms suitable only for the stewpot or a contamination problem. 

Thanks!

Shelley

[Thomas Wilson]

Hi Shelly,

I could send a pic of some of my stacks, but they look very much like the one you posted.  I had a number of stacks that I didn't flush this summer.  The recent rains this fall are triggering a very large flush.  Other logs I did harvest (earlier in the year), and now the shrooms are coming out at least twice the size.  The Cornell mushroom discussion board discussed this very phenomena.

[Shelley Stuart]

Thanks, I will look that discussion up!

[Thomas Wilson]

Here's a link

http://agroforestrymushrooms.websitetoolbox.com

[Shelley Stuart]

Thanks -- very quiet little forum!

[Shelley Stuart]

For anyone interested, these two mushrooms cooked up into a very tasty cream of mushroom soup.