Mushroom Articles
Follow me as I learn more about mushroom hunting and identification.
Thursday, July 29, 2004
Mid-Summer Mushrooms
We had quite a few different kinds of mushroom growing on the land when we visited last weekend.
Follow this link to a web site where I’ve posted a few pictures and descriptions:
And, here is the recipe we used to cook up the Angel Wings:
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Tuesday, June 01, 2004
Gyromitra Gigas?
This weekend I found 6 large, rather ugly mushrooms growing in the bog around the beaver pond at the cabin. They were of the type Gyromitra. And, I suspect from their size and multichambered stem, that they were Gyromitra Gigas although, I suppose they could be Gyromitra Esculenta. It probably doesn’t matter since neither is edible!
Since these mushrooms are in a class often called “false morels”, I’m wondering if their presence is any kind of indicator that I may still find morel mushrooms?
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Monday, May 17, 2004
In Search of the Black Morel
From all the reading I’ve done, it seems like the cabin property would be a great place to find wild black morel mushrooms in the Spring. So, for the past two weekends I’ve searched likely places, but with no luck.
Of course, I have no idea what the likely places are since I’ve never found one!
The cabin is at about 8600 feet in altitude with hills and valleys surrounding it that are probably beween 8200 and 9000 feet. The woods are a mixture of aspen, pine and fir trees. The bottom of the valley where the Spring creek runs also has willows and other brush.
The snow is mostly melted, with a few large drifts on the Northerly sides of hills remaining. The pasque flowers are blooming. The aspens have just leafed out.
All of these things seems to be signs of the right location and time.
In many of the photos I’ve seen, the mushroom is next to a Fairy Slipper or Shooting Star (wild flower). These have not yet bloomed, so maybe it is still too early.
I plan to keep looking every weekend that I am up there. If anyone reading this has experience in finding black morels in the mountains, I’d love to hear from you!
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Saturday, September 13, 2003
Anyone know anything about mushrooms?
We get lots of different kinds of mushrooms growing in the forested area of our land at Sand Creek Park. Here is a link to a photo gallery of some of them:
We’d love to figure out if any of these are edible. Anyone know of someone who is a mycologist?
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