Hey Gang, It's lookin' good for those of us who are headed to the NAMA foray this week. Just read an article in the paper yesterday that mentioned that Idaho...
Larry Stickney is very pleased to report that his Internet connection has been re-established through some unexplained happenstance after several weeks hiatus....
Hi All, The family is taking a road trip next week to oregon, namely near crater lake and the rogue river nation forest (RRNF), and then making our way home...
I have a similar question to Nate's. We (really my husband - but it's a community property state) just acquired a small single engine plane. It's been really...
Last week almost no chanterelles were being found on the Oregon Coast. One of two buyers had left the area. The other one was just waiting and hoping. Rogue...
Dr. Ed Mena would like some Amanita franchetii from CA and he needs "as much as possible". If you would like to contribute to his cancer research, you can ...
Hi there. I've enjoyed following the lively conversations in this group for the past few months in lurk mode. Now I find I have a question that perhaps you can...
Hi Deb, Not to mention...there is no evidence that spores from phalloides even contain toxins. A simple Meixner test that I performed on phalloides spores...
David and I, and a bunch of other fungally inclined folks, just returned from the NAMA 2008 McCall foray, and what a fine time we had. The rather dry mountain...
Hey Deb, The article about the killer spores seemed kind of crazy, but I'd been thinking about this for a while. There's lots of information out there for...
Hi Phil, While this could be your field of expertise for all I know, could you kindly offer a source or two go support proposition that handling Amanita...
Kirk, That is a question I've spent many a night pondering, do you recall who the instructors were or what their fields of expertise was, maybe we could...
What I can say is that there are no reports in the NAMA database from poisoning from handling mushrooms or from inhaling spores of toxic species. Inhaling...
Sorry Kirk, I have no references, books or other sources, just logic. Do the math, spores have nearly no mass. Even if they were pure toxins, not true, there...
Actually Phil, teachers of quasi-info are pretty legion out there. A snippet of fact, a nugget of nonsense and voila! an urban mushroom myth is born. I have...
Well, I can just offer my experience, I've handled quite a few A. phalloides over the years, carried them with me, taken photos, carried them in the car for...
Debbie, in one of the previous posts you mentioned something about A. ameri-muscaria? Have you seen a picture or made a picture of that thing? Any distribution...
Though it wasn't "scientific", like the original poster, I also recall reading in Aurora's Mushrooms Demystified (or maybe it was his pocket guide) that casual...
Dimitar, Debbie and Debbie, Are people asking this spore/toxicity question because of the ear of "mold" spore in the home and how pervasive and how sick people...
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