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Post by ceara on Mar 7, 2009 10:14:18 GMT -5
Well I am not cultivating mushrooms yet, but will soon! In the mean time I have taken it upon myself to try and catalog wild fungi in our area. Thought I would share some photos from 2008 mushroom hunting on our property. None of these are edible as far as I know. In fact I only found one edible type, Lactarius thyinos, but never got decent photos of them.
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Post by ceara on Mar 7, 2009 10:15:30 GMT -5
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Post by ceara on Mar 7, 2009 10:17:07 GMT -5
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Post by Seasons Eatings Farm on Mar 7, 2009 14:58:14 GMT -5
Excellent sauteed with onions in olive oil.
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Post by bunkie on Mar 8, 2009 10:20:58 GMT -5
hi robin! glad to see you here! ;D
great pics ceara!
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Post by houseodessey on Mar 8, 2009 17:07:08 GMT -5
Wow. Those are nice photos, Ceara. I can almost smell the dampness and leaf mold just looking at them. I wish we had a habitat suitable for fungi to grow so nicely.
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Post by Seasons Eatings Farm on Mar 8, 2009 20:25:27 GMT -5
hi robin! glad to see you here! ;D great pics ceara! Bunkie!! ;D
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Post by flowerpower on Mar 9, 2009 5:07:05 GMT -5
Awesome pics, Ceara!
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Post by ottawagardener on Mar 9, 2009 8:36:54 GMT -5
Beautiful. I really want to learn more about wild mushrooms.
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Post by canadamike on Mar 9, 2009 19:54:42 GMT -5
What is their name!! I can't recall, but I had them once and like them....
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Post by ceara on Mar 10, 2009 0:32:05 GMT -5
Thanks for all the nice compliments! Those are but just a few pictures and I have a lot more, but those are the prettiest with no blurs. lol One picture was taken with a DVD video cam on photo setting so it looks a bit fuzzy compared to the others. I found a few Lobster fungi also. Usually they are edible, but it all depends on their host, for the Lobster fungi are parasitic, either on a Bolete or another kind I can't remember. haha The Lobsters attack other mushrooms and then consume it like Invasion of Body Snatcher style. Here's one of my favorites to photograph - Amanita muscaria var guessowii. And yes I know they are not good to eat. I like to keep my liver and kidneys intact. lol
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Post by stevil on Mar 10, 2009 6:43:49 GMT -5
Here's one of my favorites to photograph - Amanita muscaria var guessowii. And yes I know they are not good to eat. I like to keep my liver and kidneys intact. lol I'm not encouraging you to eat Amanita muscaria, but I'd just like to point out that there is a 20 page article about the edibility of this species in the latest Journal of Economic Botany (Vol 62, No. 3) by Rubel and Arora. A very interesting read basically concluding that as long it is parboiled for 10-15 minutes it is perfectly safe and even raw it is far less poisonous than made out by many field guides, some of which even claim it is deadly. The paper ends with an Appendix: How to safely prepare Amanita muscaria for the dinner table, and why bother? Sorry, no more time to give more details, but it's certainly a thought provoking paper....
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Post by ceara on Mar 10, 2009 12:59:15 GMT -5
Oh yes some Amanitas, but not all, can be prepared to consume safely as an entheogen. video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8999968493586165660Usually the red ones are dried and then made into a tea. But some white or brown Amanitas can be deadly. The guide books lump them all together as poisonous or non-edible because a normal mushroom hunter novice probably doesn't have a microscope to check the spores/spore prints and such to differentiate. However I just prefer to photograph because they are so beautiful. Unfortunately the red/white Amanitas don't grow here. We only get the "sunburst" guessowii with the white patches, and also a yellow with yellow patches. Well there seems to be a disagreement between var guessowii and formosa. I always thought formosa was European while guessowii was found in Eastern N America. Then there is A. flavonica too. So yes ID mistakes can be easily made.
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Post by mnjrutherford on Mar 27, 2009 17:25:56 GMT -5
Love the photos. We have an interesting assortment of mushrooms and puffballs around here. Most don't peek out until late summer and early autumn. I'll look forward to posting a few photos then!
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Post by ceara on Mar 28, 2009 17:32:14 GMT -5
Fall of 2008 was when I really started actively "hunting" and photographing all the fungi I could find. But before that I was interested but didn't make an effort to search.
Will be paying lots more attention this year and see what happens. Hoping to find the elusive Morel. *crosses fingers*
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