Found near Sherbrooke · 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.
Acorns30 records within 40 km this month
Dangerous look-alikeYarrow17 records within 40 km this month
Rose hips13 records within 40 km this month
Staghorn sumac13 records within 40 km this month
Wintergreen (teaberry)9 records within 40 km this month
Dangerous look-alikeWild grapes9 records within 40 km this month
Broadleaf plantain6 records within 40 km this month
Dangerous look-alikeGiant puffball3 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
Shaggy Mane
Coprinus comatus
36 records nearby
birch polypore
Fomitopsis betulina
24 records nearby
Your woods
What's growing around Sherbrooke
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
- birch
- beech
- pine
- oak
- cedar
- poplar and aspen
- willow
Know these first
What can hurt you around Sherbrooke in September
11 species on our hazard list have been recorded near here this month, 4 of which can kill a healthy adult. Learn these before you learn anything you intend to eat.
- Can kill30 records nearby
White baneberry
Actaea pachypoda
- Mistaken for
- Nothing edible, but the berries are conspicuous and children pick them.
- How to tell
- Porcelain-white berries each with a single black dot, on thick red stalks — the common name is doll's eyes.
- What it does
- Cardiac sedative: a few berries cause severe symptoms in a child.
- 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 kill1 record nearby
Small parasols (Lepiota)
Lepiota (the whole genus)
Next
What to start watching for
Coming into season in the next month or two near Sherbrooke, Quebec. Seasons shift a week or two with the weather, so treat these as things to keep an eye on rather than dates.
