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I’ve always like fungus and mushrooms. Although as a child, my parents often frightened me about them. I wouldn’t get near edible mushrooms or fungi for most of my early life.
I photographed this fungus (left) in the mulch under a shrub in our front yard. I’m sure it arose from covered up cat poop. Although we have a litter box for the cats in the garage, they prefer to go in our mulch, or in our neighbors’ mulch, during the warm months.
Here’s a photo of mushrooms that I took in a...
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More Mushrooms The Black Trumpet is often ignored by foragers in my neck of the woods. It is easy to overlook these incredibly fragrant fungi because here on Cape Cod, they rarely grow large enough to make them worth hunting. They are difficult to spot on the forest floor because their appearance so closely resembles brown, fallen leaves. This very thin and fragile fungi only last one or two days at most before they shrivel up into hard, coal black pieces of debris. What...
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Toward the end of the Morel hunting season and after a couple days of good rain. It is usually a good time to start hunting oyster mushrooms. Although Morel mushrooms have to be the most popular there are many good wild mushrooms to be picked though out the summer and fall. In the early part of the summer one of the first to appear are the oyster mushrooms. These can pretty much be divided into 2 groups. The most popular being the summer oyster ( Pleurotus populinus), And the darker...
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With summer almost here the thought of hunting Chanterelle Mushrooms gets me pretty excited. This is one of my favorites. This mushroom is one of the easiest wild mushrooms to identify. They are very good and many times grow in large quantities. They have excellent size, caps ranging 1 ¼ to 6 inches. They have a good texture and taste great. They also freeze well for later use. I have not tried canning these- but think they would also take to that very well. Their color being yellow to a...
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With the coming of spring many of us are looking forward to foraging for morel’s. These mushrooms being easy to identify are favored among many mushroom hunters. They are very good and found in very large quantities in many parts of the country. They are even picked and sold commercially.Here in Upper Michigan we first see the black morels around the end of April. With the white or yellow morels starting to appear a couple of weeks later. This mushroom should not be eaten raw only fully...
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Mycelium grows unseen usually alongside tree roots before forming mushrooms. Mushrooms belong to the group of organisms known as fungi, which includes the ...
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Ferial Welsh presides over a buffet of fungi -- smoked and fried, in sandwiches and salads -- at the Baltimore farmers market, one of several where her ...
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The holy grail of fungi culture is the cultivation of such treasured wild mushrooms as chanterelles, porcini, morels and truffles. ...
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Note: King trumpet mushrooms are generally available at Asian markets. 1. Trim the mushrooms of any dried ends if necessary, then slice them lengthwise as ...
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U.S. scientists say they've discovered pine beetles carry an antibiotic molecule that can destroy pathogenic fungi -- something no drugs can yet achieve. A team led by Harvard Medical School Professor John Clardy and University of Wisconsin Professor
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... project involving 45 Kiwi scientists has started the work of identifying a treasure trove of unique, unrecorded plants, insects, bacteria and fungi. ...
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Fat, meaty, earthy: mushrooms are just what the turning weather calls for. They are a boon for the busy cook and, hooray, their season is upon us. ...
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