Tell it, Sister! Mushrooms are not always benign. Armillaria (aka Honey mushrooms) in our neighborhood has killed a number of mature street trees, starting...
Hi Ruth, Thanks for the info. Can you share how you cultivated blewitts? Where did you get the spawns/kits? We (at WA) have been looking around in the Web for...
Stamets has some of the growth parameters for pure culture in /The Mushroom Cultivator/, and some tips on naturalized cultivation in /Mycelium Running/, which...
Good information, David. Be careful selecting your cardboard - "waterproof" boxes have a plastic layer buried in the corrugation that keeps mycelia from...
As Ruth said, I was unlucky, the chips came from a neighbors trees, I was aware that they had a couple fruit trees die from Honey Mushroom (Oak Root Rot)...
I hope this isn't a double posting; I sent this 24 hours ago but it doesn't seem to have posted. Ruth I didn't really cultivate the blewits, they sorta...
I didn't really cultivate the blewits, they sorta cultivated themselves, and now I'm encouraging them to continue. When I'm preparing my mushrooms, I heave the...
Looks like lots of folks have responded to your question Evelyn...my question to you is what is your desired cultivation context? Make up kits? (more...
Thank you all for your replies. Really appreciate the valuable information. Wild Blewits are not in season. Last fall, we didn't even see a peep of it at all. ...
Check out the "experiments" page http://www.mushroomadventures.com/experiments.html for all of the rarities he's tried. I talked to one of his daughters at the...
Took a long walk on this beautiful spring-clad mountain yesterday. The ground was still moist in many places, but drying up quickly. At the edge of a lovely...
http://www.livescience.com/researchinaction/ria-090402.html  The Pholiota squarrosa mushroom, commonly known as the Shaggy Pholiota, is but one of many...
http://www.mountainx.com/outdoors/2009/040109a_morel_to_this_foray  A morel to this foray Hunting for the flavors of spring by Aiyanna Sezak-Blatt in Vol. 15...
This post is mushroom-related if you are patient. For $9.99, you can get an app. for the iPod Touch (or iPhone) called iBird Western ($20 for whole U.S.)....
For the Pacific Northwest a program exists that will allow you to do what you describe for gilled mushrooms, though the keys for nongilled species are not yet...
Yes they are no longer classified as such, so think of it as having fungal historical value. ;) Also, gorgeous images from a Russian naturalist, worth a visual...
The Russian (I assume) photo's of slime molds are superb! I use http://naturalhistory.uga.edu/~GMNH/Mycoherb_Site/myxogal.htm for identification! Highly...
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They could be beautiful and are fun to find. Right now is still good time to find them around here. Last Thursday I went after work to the park in Union City,...
Bolek! What a marvelous discovery! Those mycological motherlogs are my current favorite habitat...at least for the minute marvels... Thanks so much for...
Hi all - first time I've posted photos to this group. I think I've added a file entitled Weaverville morels to the site. Sorry for the poor quality of photos....
All look like Verpa bohemica....still very tasty. To: BayAreaMushrooms@yahoogroups.com From: lorriegallagher@... Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 00:00:58 +0000 ...
Cal Hiking and Outdoor Society presents the 4th sort-of-annual slideshow and hike (or foray, as we foragers call it) on *Hunting the Wild Mushroom* (tips for...
badly focused photos, some appear to be morels but others leave you guessing, all it takes is one bad one to make you sick, better tossed if you can't make a...
Yeah, a lot of them look like /Gyromitras /to me - cut them in half lengthwise to check - true and half-free morels have a single hollow stem, /Gyromitras/ are...
I looked at every mushroom in Lorrie's bag. They fit most closely with Morchella semilibera: http://mushroomobserver.org/3802?search_seq=410348 David...
Lorrie has picked many morels for a lot of years. Not sure why she "double-guessed" herself. What do you think some of them might be (from these bad...
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