Posts Tagged ‘wild mushrooms’

Washington Mushroom Collecting Permits Available

If you plan on collecting more than “a gallon” of mushrooms in the State of Washington, you better get your permit. Details in Commercial mushroom permits available published by the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin:
Permits for commercial mushroom gathering in the three Blue Mountain forests are now available. The permits are required for anyone intending [...]

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Heavy Metal Mushrooms

By now it is pretty well known that mushrooms can accumulate metals. Heavy metals accumulate more in some mushrooms than in others describes some recent research on accumulation of metals by mushroom producing fungi.
The researchers have analysed the presence of lead (Pb), neodymium (Nd), thorium (Th) and uranium (U) in a hundred samples of 12 [...]

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Indian Wild Mushroom Prices an Economic Indicator?

An article in the Indian publication, the Nation, asks if the current high price of wild mushrooms is an indicator of true supply and demand. Could it be because of dwindling forest resources leading to a smaller mushroom supply? Who knows? See Wild mushrooms a symptom of economic imbalance by Wichit Chaitrong. It has an [...]

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