Posts Tagged ‘mushrooms’
I don’t get out on many mushroom hunts these days, but with the record one-day rainfall of last week, I figured that over the weekend it would be as good a time as any to get out. So, on Sunday, September 18 we took a short trip over to Black Forest County park in El [...]
Tags: Colorado, Foray, mushrooms, wild mushrooms
According to Are mushrooms the solution to the beach closings on Madison’s lakes? a coalition of local non-profit orgnizations aims to employ fungi as part of a plan to clean up the beaches of Lake Wingra in Wisconsin. Christina Cappy, a member of the UW-Madison chapter of Engineers Without Borders and one of the coordinators [...]
Tags: bioremediation, Lake Wingra, mushrooms, mycoremediation
It’s been awhile since I got around to uploading some new YouTube videos to Fungal Visions. I recently took the time to look over the most recent uploads to YouTube that had anything to do with mushrooms, fungi, or mycology. There is always a steady stream of such things. Most of them are not worth [...]
Tags: Berkeley, Biofuels, Chlorophyllum, Fungal Visions, lecture, mushrooms, mycoremediation, video, YouTube
More museums ought to do stuff like this. The National Museum of Natural History in Sofia, Bulgaria recently put together a display, The mushrooms – familiar or dangerous: Briefly presented is kingdom Fungi – characteristics, distribution, and systematics. Photos and replicas show the most popular edible mushrooms and their poisonous counterparts, and how to distinguish [...]
Tags: Bulgaria, mushrooms, Science Centric
A blog called The Stir recently had a short post on the most hated foods. According to 9 Foods We Love to Hate, mushrooms came it at number 5. In this admittedly unscientific poll, the only foods ranked worse than mushrooms were anchovies, onions, liver and tofu. Well! Fungus is a Food? Now my interest [...]
Tags: cooking, edible mushrooms, food, mushrooms
Although there exist some decent instructions on the web for how to make a spore print as an aid to mushroom identification, some people just enjoy making them and consider them sort of an art form in and of itself. Anyone who has ever made one has surely recognized their intrinsic beauty. In fact, every [...]
Tags: art, crafts, mushrooms, spore prints
It’s not exactly news to anyone who pays attention to mycology and mushrooms in general, but a guy in Nova Scotia has sung the praises of Paul Stamets and his work. The article titled (aaargh!) Here’s to the fungus amongus is by Silver Donald Cameron. PAUL STAMETS is a mycologist. He studies fungi and mushrooms. [...]
A new Yahoo Group, Rocky Mountain Fungi, has just been formed. According to the group landing page: “This group is dedicated to Rocky Mountain Fungi. We hope this board encompasses groups from New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and anywhere else in the Rocky Mountains. It is my hope that people can post what kinds [...]
Tags: mushrooms, Rocky Mountains, Yahoo Groups
