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Post by belgiumreporter on Oct 11, 2014 17:07:20 GMT -5
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Post by genazzano on Oct 12, 2014 0:54:45 GMT -5
Phil: that first pic is of a mushroom that is probably the ones we ate and was excellent. Unfortunately it is a kind that has micellium that attack neighboring healthy plants and kills them. They were good to eat but they also killed the hedges along our driveway. Strange. David
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Post by genazzano on Oct 12, 2014 1:14:44 GMT -5
Belgiumreporter: those images are wonderful. The last one of the Aminita muscaria is especially beautiful. Of course it is one of the seriously toxic varieties. One Amanita that is excellent to eat is the amanita cesarea. Caeser's favorite? And your first image of Morchella looks great. We never take identification lightly and my wife will often take specimens to an office in Palestrina to have the mycologist confirm her ID. David
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Post by genazzano on Oct 17, 2014 2:39:41 GMT -5
A never ending fascination with these strange things that appear practically overnight. David
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Post by Stephen on Oct 17, 2014 19:24:17 GMT -5
Although the autumn weather has been right for fungi in south east England, the dry summer appears to have stopped any quantities appearing outside well established wood land. In a good year the local playing fields give a crop, but little or nothing this year.
Like most English, I don't trust my identification, and unlike France and Italy there is no formal way of getting indetification confirmed. Best stick to supermarkets, which do supply more exotic types these days.
I stick to picking only types so distinct no mistakes can be made. The theory falls down with Puffballs, edible, but awful!..older are like cardboard and cotton wool.
Favorite's...mushrooms in omelettes, or baked with cheeses.
Even better are truffles, and yes they do turn up in local beech woodland and are delicious in many dishes.
I should add these are black truffles, not the white Italian!
Stephen.
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Post by genazzano on Oct 18, 2014 0:17:39 GMT -5
Speaking of truffles: I know we have white truffles in the wooded areas. My wife found one in a potted sapling that she took from the boschetto. Also, the ground is usually torn up with holes freshly excavated by cinghiali. I suppose we could train one of our dogs.
David
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Post by philbirch on Oct 25, 2014 13:28:19 GMT -5
A couple of little groups seen under the fence this afternoon. Mrs B said don't eat these
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Post by genazzano on Oct 26, 2014 4:04:55 GMT -5
I don't know whether these are toxic or not but they are quite useless since they rapidly liquify. They frequently appear around old dog feces. Nice images though. You had to be down in the dirt to get these shots.
David
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Post by belgiumreporter on Oct 26, 2014 5:35:08 GMT -5
there must have been a lot of dogs here:
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Post by philbirch on Oct 26, 2014 10:02:47 GMT -5
I don't know whether these are toxic or not but they are quite useless since they rapidly liquify. They frequently appear around old dog feces. Nice images though. You had to be down in the dirt to get these shots. David The great thing about the NEX family is the flip up viewfinder. I would have preferred to shoot wider but I was using an old Canon 35-100 macro zoom and the macro has an extremely limited range, there is a huge gap between the minimum focusing distance and the macro distance.
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Post by philbirch on Oct 26, 2014 10:05:01 GMT -5
there must have been a lot of dogs here: They look like Psilocybin, perhaps you stumbled upon a magic mushroom farm.
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Post by genazzano on Oct 26, 2014 15:52:38 GMT -5
Do you have GPS in the EGIF? Whoa!
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Post by philbirch on Oct 26, 2014 17:43:15 GMT -5
Do you have GPS in the EGIF? Whoa! ha ha, I can give you the gps co-ordinates of a cannabis farm found in a local woodland. But I won't!!
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Post by genazzano on Oct 27, 2014 2:01:56 GMT -5
BTW, no psilocybin there. In my opinion, they look like Mycena mushrooms, perhaps flavoalba, and are of no value other than to photographers.
David
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Post by philbirch on Oct 27, 2014 9:49:49 GMT -5
BTW, no psilocybin there. In my opinion, they look like Mycena mushrooms, perhaps flavoalba, and are of no value other than to photographers. David That shows what we British know about 'shrooms!
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