First mushrooms!
Jul. 28th, 2004 08:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Egged on by LJ friend
vuzh's question about shaggy manes, I decided to take the Civic out into the boonies to see what I could see. I was pretty sure it's way too early for shaggies, but then again, the woods have been receiving a pretty steady diet of rain over the past couple of weeks, so you never know.
Based on where I've seen shaggy manes erupting in previous years, I can definitevely state that there are no such mushrooms in evidence in our neck of the woods, yet.
However, on the way to where there be shaggies, I found the following:

The specimens on the left-hand side are oyster mushrooms, while the mushrooms with the orange caps are aspen boletes (I'm pretty sure they are Leccinium insigne, but I may have one or two exemplars of Lecciuium fibrillosum, too.)
I cooked a couple of the boletes and ate them with some pork. I found the mushrooms to be on the lackluster side, tastewise (then again, I didn't spice 'em up or anything.)
Cheers...
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Based on where I've seen shaggy manes erupting in previous years, I can definitevely state that there are no such mushrooms in evidence in our neck of the woods, yet.
However, on the way to where there be shaggies, I found the following:

The specimens on the left-hand side are oyster mushrooms, while the mushrooms with the orange caps are aspen boletes (I'm pretty sure they are Leccinium insigne, but I may have one or two exemplars of Lecciuium fibrillosum, too.)
I cooked a couple of the boletes and ate them with some pork. I found the mushrooms to be on the lackluster side, tastewise (then again, I didn't spice 'em up or anything.)
Cheers...
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Date: 2004-07-29 02:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-29 03:08 am (UTC)your aspen bolete finds have convinced me to head up to the hills this weekend.
aspen boletes are a hardy, pretty mushroom, and are very welcome in time of scarcity!
oysters are rare in the mountains up North, i find them more often in the lowlands. on what substrate did you find them? aspen?
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Date: 2004-07-29 01:50 pm (UTC)Cheers...
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Date: 2004-07-29 02:08 pm (UTC)I love you- my best to you and Mom please.
Also, ask her to check her email!
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Date: 2004-07-30 03:06 am (UTC)Will do.
Cheers...