Finally... mushroom!

[alexpgp]

While walking Shiloh past the local Pasadena Fire/Police Substation, I noticed several familiar-looking mushrooms growing in front of the building. Without getting into specific identification, these look an awful lot like the edible boletes one would normally have found this past mushroom season in Pagosa (if there had been a mushroom season in Pagosa).

However, given that there's no telling what kinds of chemicals, if any, that the city sprinkles on the ground around the station (e.g., fertilizers, pesticides, etc.) and that these mushrooms are growing about 15 yards from a four-lane divided highway, I passed on harvesting them for possible consumption.

But one can dream, can't one?

Cheers...

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[vuzh.livejournal.com]

A past-due Leccinum.

We didn't have a mushroom season up North either. Weird. It was very rainy early in the season, but I don't know what it did in the mountains. Obviously not much.

Quite discouraging, because when we did go, not only was it very dry, but there was heavy pine beetle presence, and the big beetle kill hasn't yet made it to our part of the woods.

Last year there were so many commercial mushroom hunters that it was impossible to find anything, everything was over-picked, this year nothing, and who knows whether those beetles will make a huge impact or a minor one? Rough times for a mycophage.