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...
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phalluscybe
Jun 4, 2007 4:30 am
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...
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David Rust
incredulis
Jun 4, 2007 5:05 pm
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: ...
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David Rust
incredulis
Jun 4, 2007 5:24 pm
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...
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Cynthia Skovlin
cskovlin
Jun 4, 2007 5:49 pm
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...
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phalluscybe
Jun 5, 2007 2:27 am
It rained in Fort Bragg today, not drizzle either. Since it was not a great year for Agaricus augutus last year, maybe it's time. Phalluscybe...
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Herman Brown
brownthird
Jun 5, 2007 5:19 am
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...
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nate@...
nlsegraves
Jun 5, 2007 4:54 pm
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...
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Robin Henson
tofumommy
Jun 5, 2007 10:54 pm
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...
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JoAnn
JoAnnRulez
Jun 6, 2007 6:31 am
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 ...
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David Rust
incredulis
Jun 6, 2007 4:11 pm
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...
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J H
greysrdbest
Jun 6, 2007 5:08 pm
there are several documented cases in the midwest of oysters grown on big tooth aspen causing stomach upset. Jason R Hauser aka greys ... ...
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Robin Searcy Henson
tofumommy
Jun 6, 2007 9:12 pm
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...
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Beug,Michael
beug44
Jun 7, 2007 5:24 am
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...
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S. Trudell
mycecol@...
Jun 7, 2007 5:35 pm
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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Robin Searcy Henson
tofumommy
Jun 8, 2007 7:16 am
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...
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Robin Searcy Henson
tofumommy
Jun 8, 2007 8:04 am
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...
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Tigerlily Jones
tigerlilyjones
Jun 8, 2007 5:12 pm
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...
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Robin Searcy Henson
tofumommy
Jun 8, 2007 6:57 pm
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...
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Dimitar Bojantchev
fast_jybe
Jun 8, 2007 8:12 pm
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...
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Robin Searcy Henson
tofumommy
Jun 8, 2007 8:36 pm
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...
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Dimitar Bojantchev
fast_jybe
Jun 8, 2007 9:41 pm
I am resending that -- for some reason it didn't go through... ... From: Dimitar Bojantchev To: BayAreaMushrooms@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007...
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Mike Thomas
nvthis769
Jun 9, 2007 2:19 am
"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...
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Beug,Michael
beug44
Jun 9, 2007 3:25 am
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...
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Robin Searcy Henson
tofumommy
Jun 9, 2007 3:26 am
Thanks, I needed that laugh! ... From: Mike Thomas<mailto:nvthis769@...> To: BayAreaMushrooms@yahoogroups.com<mailto:BayAreaMushrooms@yahoogroups.com> ...
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Tigerlily Jones
tigerlilyjones
Jun 9, 2007 4:32 am
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...
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debbie viess
debbieviess
Jun 9, 2007 4:15 pm
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 ...
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debbie viess
debbieviess
Jun 9, 2007 4:21 pm
A good mushroom poisoning reference for the layperson is Dennis Benjamin's book: "Mushrooms: Poisons and Panaceas". The book discusses the various types of ...
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debbie viess
debbieviess
Jun 9, 2007 6:59 pm
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 ...
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Herman Brown
brownthird
Jun 9, 2007 8:43 pm
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...
