Correction. I gave them to Roger to show Larry Evans, but it turns out he did not actually see them. One of them had some faint whitish thing on the cap, but...
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Hugh Livingston
oaklandonian
Aug 20, 2008 7:17 am
I went to a dinner in Telluride and Larry Evans came with the famous truffles. One with a chocolatey-caramel-vannillin aspect; another the musky rotting...
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Jill Beckett (damedea...
beckettjill
Aug 20, 2008 2:04 am
Kitty, I could not find the pictures o which you are referring. I would like to see if they were what I saw last year up there this time. Where might these...
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kitty chiu
kskchiu
Aug 20, 2008 2:00 am
I went hiking in Pt. Reyes this past weekend and spotted mushrooms all along the trail. Not sure about the elevation, but I'd guess that I was above 1000 ft....
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debbie viess
debbieviess
Aug 19, 2008 7:32 pm
and how was "hypomyces" determined? and by whom? why would a hypomyces reproduce INSIDE of a highly persistant fruit body, when all other known specimens occur...
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JMV
jmarcv666
Aug 19, 2008 7:07 pm
Steven, Just talked to Larry about it last night. Indeed you are right. It was a perfectly good fresh truffle after all. He said that by nature this one was...
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debbie viess
debbieviess
Aug 19, 2008 4:35 pm
With ecological changes related to changing weather patterns negatively affecting plants and animals everywhere, why would we think that mushrooms would get a...
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Dave Grubb
coasterdave2
Aug 19, 2008 3:43 pm
I can't shed any light on the cause, but I saw the same thing in Utah in August 2005. I stopped near Navajo Lake along Highway 14 on my way back to San Diego...
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Steven A Trudell
mycecol@...
Aug 19, 2008 7:03 am
If Larry took the "truffle" then perhaps it wasn't rotten. Many truffles and false truffles have terrible (to most human noses) penetrating odors, and even the...
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Brent Tindall
btindall365
Aug 19, 2008 4:12 am
Yeah and it's supposed to get more thunder claps next couple of months till the beginning of winter! Bolletes everywhere up there even though it is pretty...
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Dorothy Beebee
dbeebee_mush...
Aug 19, 2008 3:12 am
Wonderful, Dimitar! We can hardly wait to see the whole presentation at SOMA in October!!!! Dorothy ... From: Dimitar Bojantchev To: SOMA@yahoogroups.com ;...
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debbie viess
debbieviess
Aug 19, 2008 12:15 am
Beautiful, Dimi! Talk about vicarious thrills... Debbie...
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Dimitar Bojantchev
fast_jybe
Aug 18, 2008 11:56 pm
Since you guys liked the previous pages and were so nice to me, let's do one more -- back in the West -- impressions from this weekend's hunting in the High...
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JMV
jmarcv666
Aug 18, 2008 10:20 pm
Appetizing? No. And I am wondering as well, someone here got sick from last years crop (or so they say) so I am wondering if that could be it. I am...
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debbie viess
debbieviess
Aug 18, 2008 6:23 pm
That is bad news. We have been seeing a "reddening disease" in our giant, aok dwelling golden chanterelles for a while now, where the edges turn red-brown and...
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JMV
jmarcv666
Aug 18, 2008 5:46 pm
For the past few years in Crested Butte Colorado, I am noticing fields of chanterelles that begin to get a grey watery interior and ferment? The beautiful...
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JMV
jmarcv666
Aug 18, 2008 5:42 pm
Well, sad story for edibles this year in Crested Butte. 3 truffles, however which Larry Evans (fungaljungal.org) made off with, and other interesting stuff I...
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Dimitar Bojantchev
fast_jybe
Aug 18, 2008 4:13 am
I understand and appreciate Peter's assertion, but I could swear that my first girlfriend had green eyes, but when I met her last year they were hazel. Even...
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Dr. Rodham E. Tulloss
ret@...
Aug 18, 2008 3:11 am
If we could accept that Peck was describing a faintly greenish example of what Atkinson and Ballen called A. calyptroderma, then the latter is the correct name...
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debbie viess
debbieviess
Aug 18, 2008 2:37 am
Please don't take offense, Peter. This green coccora is the Amanita fanciers' Yeti, and supposed sightings, without hard evidence, are greeted with about the...
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Dr. Rodham E. Tulloss
ret@...
Aug 18, 2008 12:43 am
How green was Dr. Lane's material that was sent to C. Peck and formed the basis of the description of "Amanita calyptrata Peck" (non Lamarck). From the ...
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Peter G Werner
germpore
Aug 17, 2008 10:59 pm
Yes, it was part of the Spring Sierra population. I beg to differ on the "almost green" part, though – this had a deep green pileus, and not green like A....
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Herman Brown
brownthird
Aug 17, 2008 4:52 pm
I found this doing a Google search. http://www.mssf.org/mnews/0202mn.pdf which has two articles about the same subject. ... From: Dimitar Bojantchev To:...
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Dimitar Bojantchev
fast_jybe
Aug 17, 2008 4:13 pm
This story of the green Coccora is like chasing Bigfoot. I don't believe it until I'm shown a quality photograph of it. The Fall species can have a deep olive...
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debbie viess
debbieviess
Aug 17, 2008 3:44 pm
I suspect that this was again forms of the pale spring cocccora, which doesn't always fruit strictly in the spring. I will write David, and see what he has to ...
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debbie viess
debbieviess
Aug 17, 2008 3:39 pm
Peck didn't see the material, he only saw the description by a turn-of-the-last-century Dr. Lane (hence the current moniker Amanita lanei) from Oregon, who...
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debbie viess
debbieviess
Aug 17, 2008 3:11 pm
A couple of weeks ago I posted on Mushroom Observer an unusual, petite orange, omphaloid mushroom that I collected in a swamp at Pink Beds, NC (in Smokey ...
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Dr. Rodham E. Tulloss
ret@...
Aug 16, 2008 7:48 pm
HMMM. I can't recall the date on the material seen by Peck (which is where the "green" reference comes from)....wait a minute....I'm looking for Jenkins' type...
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William
willmcguire34
Aug 16, 2008 6:04 pm
I was on several forays with David A. in the middle eighties and several Green Cocorras were found in the Santa Cruz mountain area around the Felton/Ben Lomond...
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William
willmcguire34
Aug 16, 2008 5:54 pm
Makes sense to me, I vaguely remember some frolicking in the woods by the light of the moon that a good rainstorm would definently put a damper on, but not...
