happy new year everyone.. just sitting her scaning thru my fungi pictures and hopeing for an early spring..... hope this year brings on an abundance of...
When identifying mushrooms, one thing we always preach is "get a spore print". The trouble is when we are all on a walk and come back and dump everything on a...
Hey John, The larger mushrooms, you can put the cap, that has been removed from the stem on a piece of paper and then put that in a wax paper bag and then put...
I agree with Jim, in everything he said. Another posibility is to put the mushroom or part of a large one and tape it on a piece of paper in a petri dish....
Here we are in the middle of January. Mushroom hunting isn't real good at this time of year. Some of us are beginning to get a little cabin fever. We have...
In a message dated 1/13/2009 11:15:54 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, sable_bp@... writes: Here we are in the middle of January. Mushroom hunting isn't real...
A leather flyswatter.... I have friends that could have too much fun with that..... how camo can you make something to hit a critter that has that many eyes?...
It's surprising that the woman lived long enough to become a grandmother as evidenced by her statement"Ithaca does not have Amanitas". My guess is that Ithaca,...
Wow.... it is always the hidden fear when i go hunting.... I am VERY careful, pick through each mushroom as I clean them, any one that doesnt look right, gets...
In a message dated 1/14/2009 9:52:27 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, boletebill@... writes: It's surprising that the woman lived long enough to become a...
  Amanita phalloides is rare in CT and going through about 30 years of CT Valley Myco. Soc. records yields less than 5 records and none before 1990. Two...
Harvard's Pringle Labratory has done some work on the biogeography of A. phalloides. Their most recent publication is in print. The following manuscript is...
When Bill Yule speaks, I listen. If I interpret what Bill has said, CT records show it being found 5 times in CT. I don't believe Bill said that he ever found...
In a message dated 1/15/2009 7:28:37 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, sable_bp@... writes: The question then arises, was it really found in western PA? Or...
A photo is indeed worth a thousand words. The photo of A. phalloides in Mushrooms of Northeastern North America and in Edible Wild Mushrooms of North America...
For those of you who do not have Mushrooms of Northeastern North America by Bessette, Bessette, and Fischer, I highly suggest that you get it. I consider it...
According to "Sam's Corner" notes, A. phalloides was found in Maine by Dr. Laurie Leonard MD on Mackworth Island. ID was confirmed by Rod Tuloss. That said, it...
The biogeography of non-native species is a great learning experience and the spread of the Death Cap from Europe to western N.America to eastern N. America is...
Good information, Bill. By the way, some of you may not know that Bill is one of the mushroom experts in the northeast US. Although he knows a lot of...
By the way, it just struck me that John III told me one time Walt Sturgeon found A. phalloides on Cape Cod. Cape Cod is where the 2009 NEMF Foray is going to...
In a message dated 1/16/2009 9:16:43 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, sable_bp@... writes: If David Fischer found the collection of A. phalloides and it was ...
For those of you who may not know, Kathy Hodge is a mycologist and director of the Plant Pathology Herbarium at Cornell University. ... thought ... there is a ...
The Plot Gets Thicker! Our son, John Plischke III, has been busy writing articles for the Toronto Club, COMA, Britt Bunyard's new Fungi magazine, and our own ...
John III just stopped and gave us a disk that he has information from the former PA herbariums. PA has a raft of state parks. If my memory serves me there are...
We emailed Rod last night. He emailed us back but we think he meant to post this message. For those who have been following the discussion and don't know Rod....
For those who would like to see Rod Tulloss' web site on amanitas, it can be found at: http://pluto.njcc.com/~ret/amanita/mainaman.html We highly recommend it....
For those of you with an interest in Species Lists, we think our club has one of the most outstanding Species List of any club in the country. It is a highly...
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