I think the slight amount of rain we received up here recently in Greenville may have done some good. This morning I went back up to my local Spring King spot...
A friend and I went up Highway 32 towards Chester this weekend, except that we turned off toward Butte Meadows. I got to see alot of new territory today and...
Here's the URL: http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/capital_van_isl/story.html?id=9fd96a59-35d9-495c-a9fa-8b7c2bae26eb&k=72140 Here's the story: ...
The article on injectable milk thistle has a reference to a mushroom poisoning last year in Victoria, BC, Canada, where a young woman at "magic" mushrooms...
A glowing report of a lovely camping trip and foray: My friend Jon and I got a great walk-in tent site right on the lake at the Ice House Campground. A brisk...
I went back up to our last productive King Boletus spot near Lake Almanor, and searched a bit harder. I only found a few Kings this time, but found a lot more...
Hi All, Well the family did very well over the last weekend. We only hunted for a few hours on Friday and picked 40 (~20 lbs) of beautiful boletes. Thanks to...
Speaking of mushroom poisonings, I had an unpleasant experience last week that I would appreciate getting your feedback on. I live on 9 acres in the Willamette...
http://tinyurl.com/2g4lzl Oldest known mushroom found Discovery - Two parasites are also embedded in a 100-million-year-old piece of amber found in Burma ...
Robin, Although it's hard to find documentation about reactions such as you experienced, they're probably more common than we realize. Oyster mushrooms are...
Jason and David, thank you so much for your responses and information. Since I and my family members had eaten the mushrooms on other occasions with no...
The phrase "cut off the stems" in your email caught my attention. Are you confident that you had all oyster mushrooms - which normally have no stem or at most...
To add to Mike's observations, I too see possible evidence of having a mixed collection, particularly in light of your self-proclaimed neophyte status when it...
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Hi Michael, The stems, on the ones that had stems, were very short, but I appreciate your picking up on that. Believe me, I've been second guessing myself...
Wow, thanks Steve! I can't recall my source now, but red maple is supposed to be a common host for oyster mushrooms in these parts. I also read that oysters...
Dear Robin, There are different types of mushroom poisoning, just as there are different types of mushrooms. The kind you refer to as "taking hours to...
Hey Tigerlily, Did you say you're NOT a scientist? That was a great explanation of how the poisoning occurs; I had no clue. Kind of reminds me of botulism or...
Early in our mushroom tenure, about a month in, we already knew enough not to be too concerned with the lethality of (large) lignicolous fungi and we kinda of...
Interesting.. The lobulated one to the left in the picture does remind me of the blob I pulled down from the standing tree, but I don't think any of mine...
I am resending that -- for some reason it didn't go through... ... From: Dimitar Bojantchev To: BayAreaMushrooms@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007...
"I must seem like a total idiot, but I'm usually not so careless. I honestly thought I knew what I was doing. I had a microbiology professor years ago in...
I need to correct some comments about what causes mushroom poisoning and want to suggest that anyone who can get a copy of McIlvainea, Volume 16 Number 2 from...
Thanks, I needed that laugh! ... From: Mike Thomas<mailto:nvthis769@...> To: BayAreaMushrooms@yahoogroups.com<mailto:BayAreaMushrooms@yahoogroups.com> ...
Thank you for the elucidation. I was not aware that amanita poisoning was an immediate toxic reaction. I have heard for years that amanita poisoning was a...
Interesting article, JoAnn, thanks for posting it. Sounds like it was an ancient relative of one of the tiny tree-bark mycenas or their ilk; kind of a stretch ...
A good mushroom poisoning reference for the layperson is Dennis Benjamin's book: "Mushrooms: Poisons and Panaceas". The book discusses the various types of ...
Mushroom diversity was low, but edibles were up and plentiful at Dennis Desjardin's weeklong class at the Sierra Field Campus. Representative samples of many ...
Hi all, I found some of what looks like a dense bunch of Rhizopogon rubescens growing in our garden this morning, while moving some cedar wood chips around the...
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