There was not enough rain in our usual monsoon season (Late July and August) so we found no mushrooms. But for the last two weeks we have had monsoon- style storms, and Libby thought we should go to the mountains and look. I was skeptical, thinking there was an element of seasonality as well as …
Tag: Mushrooms
Food links and catching up…
A few catchup things before New Year’s blogging commences… First, a food manifesto I can get behind, at least as an ideal. But foraging can be dangerous if you don’t know what you are doing– if you are not conscientious or at least CONSCIOUS. Here is a harrowing first- person account by someone who ate …
Lobster Mushrooms
One of the best, and strangest. Our fellow Mycophile Simon Armijo picked these in the White Mountains of Arizona just over the border from us. We haven’t seen them in the local ranges– maybe they need to be just a bit wetter or higher. The weirdest thing about them is that they parasitize other mushrooms, …
Blogger and Boletes
Last weekend we went looking for Boletus edulis in the San Mateos southwest of here. It was an amazingly bloggish crew– us, MDMNM and Miss A., Mrs. Peculiar who also blogs as The Pumpkin King (Mr. P. is guiding in the Grand Canyon); and non- blogger saluki fan, artist, architect, and polymath Daniela Imre, another …
Bolete Season
We went out looking yesterday but ours haven’t started yet But Chas‘s have: