Can someone really lay down the game here -- what's going on? What happens when a park is "closed" and the Staff vacates their cozy quarters? Who owns that...
Rex vernus ! Spring is exciting for many reasons. For me, it means trips to Mt. Shasta for Morels and Boletes !!! The eco system of Mt. Shasta National Park is...
James, wow, I think you can write a book, Ok a booklet on these relationships. We were talking with Arora many moons ago about the kind of things that pickers...
Out here in the midwest...when you see Mayapple and Jack in the pulpit coming up and forsythia is in bloom...morels are starting to fruit. When the may apples...
Great stuff, James, and perfectly mushroom related. The natural world all connects up, and it gives us all joy, or we wouldn't do what we do. Please cross-post...
... no leaves.> You are referring to the Snow Plant, Sarcodes sanguinea, a saprophyte which lives on dead or decaying material, in this case pine roots, I ...
I personally find the Sierra spring season far more gratifying after the morel flushes. I'd' say 2 weeks later. That's when all of the Spring Boletes, Ramaria,...
Gorgeous home page photo, Dimi! I much prefer the coastal edulis to the spring kings, altho I do enjoy seeing the corn lilies, especially once they come into...
Thank you Ruth, yep, I think it is V. californicum -- although that I have to be extremely careful since it probably is foolish of me to agree/disagree with an...
I'm no tree expert by any standard, but in our friend John Muir Laws' nice little "Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada", he says that "Ponderosa and Jeffery Pines...
The Dogwoods bloom and the Snow plants come up at the approximate time the morels do. Jeffery pine bark smells like vanilla. Great idea Dimitar! or Dimi (is...
Hi, Dimitar....nice idea, this site, but who in the MSSF gave you the misinformation that the our San Jose Camp morel foray is the last good one? It's great...
... the ... good ... up to ... Hi Pat, come to think of it, nobody specifically gave me that info, it was just "an impression"... Perhaps, it used to be the...
Wait for the Yosemite Mycoblitz! And frankly, your best shot for a truly hi elevation foray is in CO, but bring your O2 tank! 14,000 feet is pretty airless ...
I have called those "False Hellebores" and they do flower Aprl-May-June-July at various elevations where I look for spring fungi. I haven't thought of them as...
Hi,again,Dimitar... A couple of Augusts ago I was backpacking in the Minarets area of the Eastern Sierra and found lots of B. edulis at the 8,000+ elevation. ...
Jeffrey cones are why that pine is sometimes called "Gentle Jeffrey" in differentiating them from ponderosas. Ponderosa cones are very prickly to hold but...
Yep, Patrick, that's what was explained to me too and I collected a few cones. Well, they are prickly too... And the direction of the prickle is not that clear...
... You never know, unless you go You can't scout, unless you go out You won't cook, unless you look shall I go on? Kevin ... elevations where I look for...
Thanks for the kind words Dimitar. There are lots of things I would like to write about. Not only are there plant and insect indicators but animals as well. I...
Thanks for the wonderful links and info. I'm getting a good digital camera before the season up there starts so I can document these things. All these little...
FYI those Coulter pines in the Marin watershed, at least when I lived in Fairfax (1992-94) close to a stand near Lagunitas Lake, were being eradicated as a...
Precisely, near Lagunitas Lake, but as soon as 2006 the Coulter stand was there, since I noticed them. Yeah, those cones have a striking power, it may do some...
I hope I'm not the one that needs a conking on the head with a pine cone! Speaking of pines... there are Pinon Pines on the east side of the Sierra's along...
... [...]The best indicator of all is finding the big yellow Ramaria or any yellow Amanita fruiting. Just to expand a bit on that because the list will...
But seriously Dan, walking near Sugar Pines definitely gets my attention, just eyeballing at the kind of bombs they're dropping. Yep, the Indians and early...
