My sister and her husband have foxes living on their property…she sent me this pic tonight
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More adventures in the hidden urban landscape…
bugs and mushrooms
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
Search term of the day…
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
Unsung fungi…slimes and resupinates
For me, these are curiosities I notice while I’m out looking for some tasty edible mushrooms in the woods. I’d like to learn more about them one day. Not today though. For now, I’ll just share some photos of these strange items.
Boletes
Last week I observed many different varieties of boletes – mushrooms with pores instead of gills or teeth. Here are some examples.
Purple Mushrooms
I found some purple mushrooms while I was away. In order to try to figure out what they were, I took spore prints. They turned out to be the rusty brown colour characteristic of mushrooms in the Cortinarius genus. Salvelinas has suggested, and I think… Read More
Eating Wild Mushrooms
Let’s be clear. I don’t want anyone thinking I’m suggesting you go out and pick yourself a bunch of wild mushrooms, compare them to photos of mushrooms I have posted as edibles, and eat them. Here’s the thing. It isn’t too difficult to learn to… Read More
The Bracebridge Resource Management Centre
This is a so-called experimental forest in the Bracebridge area of Ontario. As you can see in the photo, it consists of an extensive network of trails near the Muskoka River through a variety of forest mixes. I observed a lot of mushrooms as the… Read More
Puffballs
I observed many puffballs on my trip. There are several varieties of small puffballs in our area, and I’m not an expert on telling them apart but my best assessment is that I saw Lycoperdon pyriforme – the Pear-shaped Puffball; and Lycoperdon perlatum – the… Read More
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