Found near City of Saint John · September
What people actually find here
400 species have been recorded within about 40 km of here in September, from verified public observations. These are the ones we have written up, ordered by how often they turn up.
Rose hips22 records within 40 km this month
Wild cranberry6 records within 40 km this month
Staghorn sumac5 records within 40 km this month
Dangerous look-alikeYarrow4 records within 40 km this month
Chokecherry4 records within 40 km this month
Dandelion2 records within 40 km this month
Acorns2 records within 40 km this month
Wood sorrel2 records within 40 km this month
Also out there, that we haven't written up yet
Recorded near you this month. We have no identification guidance for these, so treat them as a list of things to go and learn — from a regional key or someone who knows them — not as a list of things to pick.
Fungi
birch polypore
Fomitopsis betulina
26 records nearby
Chicken Lips
Leotia viscosa
14 records nearby
Your woods
What's growing around City of Saint John
The commonest trees recorded nearby, most often seen first. Most of the good mushrooms are tied to a particular tree, so this is the first thing to know about a wood.
- maple
- cedar
- spruce
- alder
- mountain ash
- cherry
- poplar and aspen
- pine
Know these first
What can hurt you around City of Saint John in September
9 species on our hazard list have been recorded near here this month, 3 of which can kill a healthy adult. Learn these before you learn anything you intend to eat.
- Can kill4 records nearby
Brown roll-rim
Paxillus involutus
- Mistaken for
- Assorted brown gilled mushrooms; it was eaten as an edible in Europe for generations.
- How to tell
- Inrolled felty cap margin, gills that bruise dark brown and can be rubbed off the cap, growing under birch.
- What it does
- Sensitises the immune system over repeated meals, then one day triggers it to destroy the eater's own red blood cells. People have died after eating it safely for years.
- Can kill4 records nearby
Eastern destroying angel
Amanita bisporigera
- Mistaken for
- Button mushrooms, meadow mushrooms, and young puffballs picked before they open.
- How to tell
- Pure white gills that never turn pink or brown, and a sac-like cup at the very base of the stem — it sits below the soil, so you have to dig the whole mushroom up to see it. A puffball cut in half is solid white throughout; a young destroying angel shows the outline of a mushroom inside.
- What it does
- Amatoxins destroy the liver. You feel fine for six to twelve hours, then violently ill, then apparently better — that false recovery is the liver failing. One cap is a lethal dose for an adult.
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What to start watching for
Coming into season in the next month or two near City of Saint John, New Brunswick. Seasons shift a week or two with the weather, so treat these as things to keep an eye on rather than dates.
