Mushrooms
With the damp rainy weather that we have been having there has been an appearance of some different types of mushrooms.
Mushrooms are one of Mother Nature's sophisticated and successful spore producing machines. A good sized mushroom can shoot off about a hundred million spores in the few days it lives.
There are many varieties of mushrooms and I am not up on all the different types except the ones you buy at the grocery store. This clump was on a maple tree.
Here is a different formation on another tree. I do have a lovely book titled Mushroom and Other Fungi of North America by Geoffrey Kibby so I had better start looking up the varieties that I have found.
A clump of ink caps popped up on the lawn.
I know that some wild mushrooms are edible and some aren't. I won't be trying any of these mushrooms but will leave my mushroom buying to when I'm at the grocery store.
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6 friendly comments:
Linda,
I buy mine at the grocery store just like you-but many people here just love to mushroom hunt. The first one with all the brown in it looks the most interesting.
vickie
Hi Linda~~ They really are diminutive works of art, aren't they? I've read that they are beneficial and a sign that your garden is healthy. Hopefully this is true. :) I'll stick with eating the grocery store types too.
Linda,
The most fun I've had on a mushroom hunt (admittedly, it was my only mushroom hunt) was with our aunt while visiting during a summer in Yellowknife, NWT, when I was 16.
She had been annoyed by Farley Mowat's claim that nothing poisonous grew in the North. So, in her true, gung-ho fashion, she marched my sister and I and our young cousins off to look through the northern bush to see what we could find.
I was amazed at the diversity of mushrooms we discovered. It included the (poisonous) red with white polkadot toadstools that, till then, I'd assumed were some invention of childrens' book illustrators. We found a number of edibles, too, including a form of morel. And I believe we also found the (I think it's called) Destroying Angel mushroom that would offer the unknowing the last tasty mushroom omelet that they might eat.
We did take samples, and afterwards looked them all up in a mushroom book -- in some cases watching them turn to liquid, as mushrooms can do; in others, removing the caps to make prints of the gills on paper.
Obviously, it was an experience I've never forgotten.
What great examples of mushrooms. I especially like the ones on the maple.
Interesting mushrooms. You notice the neatest things.
I eat only the ones from the grocery, too. I do like to take my books and try to identify many of what I see.
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