The fungi of northern America
Mushrooms are in woods, everywhere. They never last for long, only a few days, but their form and colors delight many a 'shroomer.
What is okay to eat? What is poisonous? What is simply pretty to look at?
Take a look downward on your next hike through the forest.
What is okay to eat? What is poisonous? What is simply pretty to look at?
Take a look downward on your next hike through the forest.
Pretty Reds
Walking in September woods, there is more than trees and hills and lakes and streams. The cry of the trumpeter swan or the occasional last-of-the-season mosquito buzzing.Look down. Off the path to the side. Nearly every step draws you deeper and deeper into the world of mushrooms.
Tiny Camouflaged 'Shrooms
These tiny 1" mushrooms were easy to miss. They blended in nearly perfectly with the surrounding fallen leaves. Yellow Mushroom
Mushroom Information (and hat)
Gills
Getting ready to open its display to the world, these mushrooms show off their gills as they push their way from beneath a ground-cover mulch. Looking like buttered pancakes,
not for eating; these mushrooms are poisonous.
Morel Mushroom Festival
Boyne City, Michigan -- Each mid-May
Including seminars, guided hunting, morel breakfast, a carnival, and the National Morel Mushroom Hunting Championship, this Michigan festival is a must for all mushroom lovers.
(Photos coming in the spring!)
(Photos coming in the spring!)
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Partying Mushrooms
It's mushroom partying time!
Post-Party Mushrooms
And all tuckered out from too much partying.
New Igo GREEN Tip of the Day
Never eat mushrooms in the wild unless you are an expert 'shroomer.
EAT THESE INSTEAD --
or any others packaged in stores.
New Orbitz!
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BigGirlBlue
Dec 30, 2009 @ 3:07 pm | delete
- They really can be quite lovely.
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