After a few days under the weather, I was feeling much more energetic by yesterday afternoon. I planned to take the dogs for a walk in the woods this morning to see if I could find some oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus populinus) fruiting. Unfortunately, the morning… Read More
My brother the trout, Salvelinas Fontinalis, took me to a top secret morel spot today. How secret was it? It was so secret, I had to drive blindfolded. Secret handshakes were involved. Some of them were yellow; others were more greyish. Here’s a huge one!… Read More
I’ve been looking for morels with no success. Looks like they are later than usual this year. Maybe after a weekend of rain there will be more around. Today, I took a drive up to a forest I forage in during the summer. All I… Read More
We’ve been experiencing unseasonably cool temperatures here in Southern Ontario. I wonder how much that will affect the timing of the fruiting of morels this season. I wish I had a better understanding of the triggers that cause various mushrooms to appear. Is the primary… Read More
The warmer weather has got me thinking about foraging for wild mushrooms. It’s only a matter of weeks until the morels make an appearance in Southern Ontario. I should say elusive morels because last year I was spectacularly unsuccessful in my quest for morels for… Read More
Not that I’m anxious for winter to be over or anything like that…. ….but in fewer than 90 sleeps, trout will be poking their noses out of the water to gobble up emerging Epherella subvaria mayflies and the elusive morel will be poking its head… Read More
what do hydnum umbilicatum eat Well geez, they’re mushrooms. Fungi often exist in relationships with plants or other fungi in order to get their nutrients, but I don’t think of them as eating exactly. This particular mushroom does have teeth though…but it doesn’t chew. The… Read More
Someone found my blog by searching “had a bad reaction from eating chanterelles”, and I thought this deserved a comment. Chanterelles are by all accounts one of the safest edible wild mushrooms. However, some people suffer allergic reactions to all wild mushrooms. My first question… Read More
Today, someone landed here after searching: Nasty Mushroom. Speaking of mushrooms, I drove out to my local forest today to see what I could find. I left the dogs at home. I don’t want to let them roam the woods with hunters around. There were… Read More
This morning, I packed a bit of a lunch, loaded the dogs in the car and drove up to meet up with my brother Salvelinas in a forest an hour or so from home. Salvelinas is very knowledgeable when it come to mushrooms and when… Read More
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