David Fischer's AmericanMushrooms.com. AMERICANMUSHROOMS.COM was formally launched on March 7, 2006 by DAVID W.
FISCHER. The site is intended to educate, inform, and entertain the general public in addition to veteran mycophiles and mycologists. Wild About Mushrooms: Chanterelle. Cantharellus cibarius This pleasantly aromatic fleshy wild mushroom shines like an exotic golden flower when seen from a distance against the drab autumn forest background.
Also known as "golden chanterelle" and "egg mushroom," it has a magical appeal for most culinary experts in Europe, United States, and Asia. But all chanterelles are not alike. European and Asian forms are usually about the size of a thumb. In the eastern United States they are the size of a fist. Europeans and easterners claim that their varieties are tastier than those from the West Coast and suggest that flavor is more important than thumb size. Chanterelles seem to be worth their weight in gold. Chanterelles will reappear in the same places year after year if carefully harvested so as not to disturb the ground in which the mycelium (the vegetative part of the mushroom) grows. There is an off-white species of chanterelle, called C. subalbidus, the white chanterelle, found in California and the Pacific Northwest.
Mushroom Pictures & Mushroom Reference. Boletus edulis. Boletus cf. edulis [ Basidiomycetes > Boletales > Boletaceae > Boletus . . . ] by Michael Kuo No, "cf" doesn't stand for "chicken fried," even though I am writing this in the Midwest (where, for the uninitiated, we actually have a popular meal called "chicken fried steak").
It's a mycological convention that abbreviates a Latin verb for "compare" (conferre)--as in, "compare this mushroom to Boletus edulis. " In other words, "cf" is what mycologists say when they don't want to actually say, "I dunno; maybe. " Maybe it's Boletus edulis, the well known European species. A throng of roughly similar North American species constitutes the North American Boletus edulis group, but most are fairly easily separated from the mushroom described here on the basis of geography and/or physical features.
Description: Cap: 8-25 cm, convex in the button stage, becoming broadly convex to nearly flat; greasy to tacky, or sticky when wet; bald; light to dark orangish brown (oac 644, oac 650). Barbara Spencer - Mushroom Pictures. Mosses use 'mushroom clouds' to spread spores (w/ Video) (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in the US have solved the mystery of how peat mosses manage to get their spores high enough to catch the wind, discovering that they produce vortex rings of air, like miniature "mushroom clouds" to boost the spores along -- the first time plants have been shown to be capable of creating such rings.
Sphagnum mosses (also known as peat mosses) are among the commonest plants, with over 285 species. They all use the wind to disperse their spores, but they have a slight problem: they grow flat on the ground where the air is still. They need to get their spores 10 cm into the air to reach the "turbulent boundary layer" where the wind can catch the spores and carry them far away, but until now scientists have not understood how they could do it.
Some species have stalks, but these are only around a centimeter long. The tip of each stalk contains from 20-250,000 spores in a spherical, waterlogged capsule that dehydrates on sunny days. Mushrooms Demystified by David Aroura. The "Bible" of wild mushroom identification!
Nothing is more elusive and mysterious than the wild mushroom. David Arora celebrates the gathering and study of wild mushrooms with engaging style, wit and simple terminology. Mushrooms Demystified includes descriptions, photographs, and keys to over 2,000 species. There is a Beginner's Checklist of the 70 most distinctive and common mushrooms plus detailed chapters on terminology, classification, habitats, mushroom cookery, mushroom toxins, and the meanings of scientific mushroom names. -------- This is the be-all and end-all of mushroom books! Truly an encyclopedia of mushroom facts and lore, lavishly illustrated with full-color photographs, literally everything you need to know about mushrooms, edible or not. Also from David Arora: All That the Rain Promises, and More... 256 pages | size: 4 x 7 Paperback Ten Speed Press Retails for $17.95 - Our Price $15.25 15% off retail!
Chaga mushroom. The chaga mushroom is considered a medicinal mushroom in Russian and Eastern European folk medicine and research on its medicinal potential is ongoing.
However there is currently no evidence for its effectiveness or safety for medicinal use. Name[edit]