Good instincts Erich. I knew Larry Stickney ate Helvella lacunosa and apparently Dave does too. More power to 'em. There are too many choice edibles around...
I really liked the taste of the Black Elfin Saddle. I mostly enjoyed them fried up with some eggs. They were usually hard to get all the sand out of the...
Hi Darwin, Not to stir the pot but I don't find the rules prohibiting collecting mushrooms to be terrible. I like collecting mushrooms, hiking, and mountain...
Andrew, you have done sme thinking about this subject and some of your arguments are sound, however the rules at Salt Point is about overpicking (commercial)...
Andrew, I have to take exception to your analogy "mtb = mushroomer". A bicycle is a vehicle. A mushroomer is, in most cases relative to this discussion, a...
Can you say that YOU were there? ;) A big crowd of eager mushroom hunters showed up to collect mushrooms at the Park on Saturday, and many, many more showed...
How do differenciate the A. franchetti from the A. pantherina?? I found a real nice one of one of the two. Very dark in color, brown, with excessive warts on...
the yellow veil amanita, franchetii, has yellowish to yellowish tan warts on a dark brown to yellow brown cap and an expanded but not cupped volva base; the...
Here is my personal view.Mushrooms are Food certain plants and animals are also food.They should never totally prohibit the taking of fungi and certian plants...
For those who like this mushroom yesterday I drove by a fruiting of over 150 with some taller than 8" and all large and thick too. Stopped to look at more than...
I posted 4 pics of this mushroom. I don't think its ompholatus because it is not the same color throughout. I don't think its a pleurotus because it was...
Hi Mushroom Person, Â I think that Ryane nailed it. Here's a link to several photos of Clitocybe inversa (or Lepista flaccida, as it is now known) on my...
Get thee to the Cornell Mushroom Blog for some pretty cool new content: http://blog.mycology.cornell.edu/ including Mushrooms as Sacred Objects in North...
This lovely memory of JD Salinger, first published in the New Yorker, is making the rounds. Apparently, JD (or Mr. Boletus, as he called himself) was one of...
Hi Gang, Gosh, we actually had a rain-free day there for a minute! Unless all of Highway 1 washes out in the next couple days, we are good to go for our...
Nice Patrick. It's not often that we get to see a forest of towering elven saddles, the perfect photo op for a belly crawling photog! Elves are optional. Rita ...
I got chased out of the woods today by howling winds. Rain was so-so. Lots of recently fallen trees and branches everywhere. "Don't take a weatherman to...
IMG_3692 You never know who you are going to meet up with when you are mushrooming. Found this shy guy while looking for Black Trumpets. ~Ryane [Non-text...
... Hey Debbie, It's Tim from the Highlands Biological Station in NC, I have finally made it to the west coast and am currently located in Lake county, my gf...
Rules vary from park to park, and unfortunately at Salt Point they're very strict. http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=453 Dogs must be kept on leash at all times...
nice Ryane. looks like all sorts of strange and wonderful critters were greeting your eye out there! that salamander blends in beautifully with the...
