Hello All! I was hiking up at Mt.Whitney this past weekend and came across a mushroom that was quite interesting. I found the first ones near Mirror Lake...
...scales on pileus, found at base of conifer, now called Neolentinus ponderosus. That's what it looks like to me. http://www.svims.ca/council/Lentin.htm ...
Sure looks like a ponderosus to me, except it should be growing out of a dead tree and have serrated gills. I could not tell from the photo. Herman ... From:...
Hi Herman! All of the specimens that I saw were growing in close proximity, if not touching, pine roots that were actually exposed and above ground. These were...
Neolentinus ponderosus still sounds like your closest match (MDM description on pg.143). Dead wood can often be buried underground,and not readily observable....
Thanks to David, Dimitar, Nathan, Rod, and all of those who have been talking about saving and documenting collections! Nothing is more important for mycology...
Michael, Thanks to the Point Reyes Mycoblitz and BAMS hard work keeping this effort going and organizing the herbarium preparation at UC Berkeley a few weeks...
This high sierra fungus is edible when very young, but uncooked is unpleasantly toxic, and even when well cooked remains indigestible. The efforts of the ...
I'd like to strongly back the need for collecting and preserving well-documented fungi that Michael reiterated. It's not so much which words are used, but...
Dr. Rodham E. Tulloss
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I have used your amanita description pages, Rod, and they are excellant. Other than Dr.Buyck's russula page, what other genera specialist has these documents ...
Im glad to hear some herbariums are recieving specimens. There is so little known about many of the fungi right here in North America, that needs to be ...
The San Diego Mycological Society has started collecting specimens for a herbarium at the S.D. Natural History Museum. I have two questions for the group: 1....
Hi Dave, By all means, quote this list in your newsletter. I think that we all agree that sharing information, and encouraging cooperation is the way to go. If...
I attempted to get specialist checklists for inclusion in the original guidebook for the Butterflies of the Soil year at GSMNP (the original year). Very few...
Dr. Rodham E. Tulloss
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Hi Dave! It would also be great to published records of the specimens in http://MushroomObserver.org. Right now the site has the ability to mark an...
If one is living with a partner who doesn't like the smell of moth balls and hearing one complain that the damn' mold has eaten all the heads off the basidia...
Dr. Rodham E. Tulloss
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I think the main thing is for folks to begin saving mushroom collections. If a mushroom club were to start its own herbarium, keeping the mushrooms in plastic...
It's fun to preserve and write descriptions, but it's time consuming... I'm collecting some intreresting European material near Frankfurt and Munster, as we...
It's fun to preserve and write descriptions, but it's time consuming... I'm collecting some intreresting European material near Frankfurt and Munster, as we...
Michael Kuo has just released his new book, titled 100 Edible Mushrooms (with tested recipes). Since I have pictures on 10 pages in the book, I have already...
I have also been reading it for the past couple of days. He is a joy to read and writes with style. I think almost EVERYONE on this list has "The Sickness". ...
This past weekend, a group of real, wild mushrooms showed up amongst the real, wild mushroomers of Santa Cruz Co. Growing in a raised garden bed, close by a ...
I saw on Mushroom Observer that Darv found a beautiful B. edulis recently at Point Reyes. Is there much going on up that way to warrant a day trip soon for...
Well, I've been using Weather Underground to look up records for various weather stations. There looks to be a station for Echo Lake, in South Lake Tahoe: ...
Sure mushroomers can be obsessive, but we don't hunt our prey 35 stories above the ground! I just finished one of the most amazing books that I have ever read:...
In an "amen" to this story, I have been in the rainforest canopy, in the Amazon, in the tops of the trees there. Another world lives there too, with its own...
Well, looks like my sister had me all lined up to receive a copy of Michael Kuo's new book, as soon as it came out. So now I have two, one to play with and one...
Ah, the magic of mushrooms. Just add water and Poof! they appear. Under our well-watered, big blue spruce, former potted Xmas tree turned towering conifer,...
Hey Gang, Hope you are planning on coming to the first annual BAMS summer picnic this Saturday in the beautiful Oakland hills. Although local shrooms are...
Hi All, I regularly visit the mushroomexpert.com discussion board. Recently, there was a thread started about an Amanita collection that might be of interest....
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