Over the past few days, I’ve seen more mushrooms of the genus Amanita than I have since I started paying attention to fungi in our forests. It seemed as if every spot I visited was punctuated by some of these often striking and beautiful mushrooms.… Read More
If you look closely, you’ll see that Ellie Mae is posing beside some mushrooms. We hiked into Duck Chutes on the Muskoka river. The dogs are loving the swim. Memphis is posing in front of a huge basswood tree, on a trail around a lake… Read More
for the next few days. I’m blowing town to wander some forests and forage for mushrooms. I’m looking at this as an educational venture. I want to see how many species I can identify while I’m away. Beyond that, I’ll be having fun, goofing around… Read More
This year I’ve spent way more time in forests than in rivers, but today looked like a perfect day for some fly fishing. Off I went to The River. I just call it that. Everybody who needs to knows which one I mean. Around this… Read More
I’m going to visit some enchanted mushroom forests next week, with a goal of identifying as many different species of mushrooms as I can find. Looks like the weather is going to cooperate, with a little rain just about every day. Add to that what… Read More
I thought mushroom hunting was a gentle activity. Avoid eating the nasty ones and and it’s all about wandering about in the woods (preferably with the dogs), picking mushrooms, and later cooking up wild mushroom dinners at home. Well, Salvelinas sent in a link to… Read More
I only started foraging for mushrooms last summer, with the help of my brother Salvelinas, a load of books and a night course at the university. Last year, Salvelinas kept telling me about all the various boletes we were going to find, but we never… Read More
I had planned to take the dogs out for our usual Sunday in the woods, but it was a grim and rainy morning, so I decided to do leave the dogs at home and do an abbreviated trip. I know a forest that often gives… Read More
Here are some more mushrooms we came across today. The Velvet-footed Pax seems to be fairly common in pine forests. It’s a poisonous mushoom. The pretty orange ones were growing found growing from a log. Perhaps they are Mycena leaiana?
We found several examples of this mushroom today, this one being the largest. Gills are unattached. There is no ring and no vulva. The stalk seems to have an extension going below the surface of the ground.
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