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Post by krazydiamond on Sept 13, 2005 14:45:48 GMT -5
 it's toadstool season in this neck of the woods! i was finishing up the mowing and just had to share these grand daddy fungus with you. these are right by the fence line (where i dump my slurry...hmmm?) so it wasn't easy to get a good shot (i tried to put a foot long ruler in there for scale), but these suckers are enough to make Alice and the hookah smoking caterpillar proud:    just for fun, KD
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Post by gaetzchamp on Sept 13, 2005 14:57:54 GMT -5
Hey, those are cool. When I lived back in Wisconsin, we used to go find shrooms and cook 'em up in butter. It was kind of fun. The only one's I remember eating were the Puffball variety. We'd find them about the size of softballs and they'd cook down to almost nothing.
Do you ever find the edible varieties?
Gaetz
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Post by Duckbean on Sept 13, 2005 15:17:30 GMT -5
Love my fungus! We have spring mushrooms up here and another that most people call something that I won't repeat here,along with puff balls and others. The spring mushrooms are quite exspenceive if you can even find some one who will part with them! The flat top one looks almost like a portabella!
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Post by Debs on Sept 13, 2005 15:35:33 GMT -5
Cool! It's interesting how big some of them can get. We will get them here in Iowa in the spring and during rainy humid summer days. I love those puffballs. Aren't they something? It's unreal how big those things can get. LOL!!!
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Post by Cher on Sept 13, 2005 15:51:55 GMT -5
Puffballs? The kind the dry up and when you squish them they spray their spores all over? I always thought those were poisonous. KD those are huge, and just cool, are they edible? Man you could make a real meal out of those, shrooms fried in butter, doesn't get much better than that.
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Post by rollingstone on Sept 13, 2005 16:05:18 GMT -5
Just so you know KD, and I think perhaps you do because of your reference to the hookah smoking caterpillar, I believe those are Amanita muscaria mushrooms, which are indeed the same ones of Alice in Wonderland fame. They are usually reddish, though do occur in the yellowy colour of yours, and the surface warts and large size are pretty characteristic of the species. They are hallucinogenic, although they can also make you desperately ill and can cause death, so it's not something you want to mess with. A closely related Amanita species is known as "the destroying angel"... it is white form that basically dissolves your insides, leading to a very nasty slow death.
Some trivia, the part in Alice in Wonderland where they say something like "one side of the mushroom makes you tall and one side makes you small" is a reference to the fact that one of the effects of this mushroom is that it can make you feel as though you are either unusually large or unusually small. That bad old Lewis Carroll did like to dabble in things that alter your mind.
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Post by krazydiamond on Sept 13, 2005 18:47:33 GMT -5
i thought that was Jefferson Airplane lyrics, Rollingstone....LOL!
i'd NEVER cook and eat any 'shroom i didn't buy in the grocery. these babies are poison by the pound, i'm sure. cool looking, tho. good year for fungus.
KD
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Post by rollingstone on Sept 13, 2005 20:21:45 GMT -5
I think in "White Rabbit", Jefferson Airplane says "One pill makes you smaller and one pill makes you tall." But check out this exerpt from Alice and Wonderland, and back in 1865, Lewis Carroll was definitely talking shrooms. www.xs4all.nl/~4david/alice1.html |
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Post by agatenut on Sept 14, 2005 6:00:47 GMT -5
Man! Seeing them 'shrooms sure brings back some psychedelic memories! ;D ralph |
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Post by stefan on Sept 14, 2005 7:48:37 GMT -5
OHHHHH YEAAAAAA Shrooming- I can still here the echos of pebbles tossed in a river passing through a huge culvert (had to be there) KD those things are HUGE!!!!! We have been way to dry for the shrooms around here- But we get those biguns too- oh and they are deadly- A few years back we had a local "expert" almost die from eating em Swears he had been eating em for years- Nope I don't even like the ones in the store- Oh and Lewis Carroll Was heave into mind altering substance- Oh yea!!!!
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Post by cuervo73 on Sept 14, 2005 22:11:02 GMT -5
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Post by creativeminded on Sept 15, 2005 9:03:14 GMT -5
I don't think I have ever seen any fungus that big, thank you for sharing.
Tami
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Post by Bikerrandy on Sept 15, 2005 21:10:54 GMT -5
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Post by fatrichie on Sept 15, 2005 23:49:04 GMT -5
I can tell you from many hours of study, that those are most definately Amanitas KD. They will disperse with you in a matter of hours should you ingest them. My other major hobby is photography, my favorite subject is Fungi. www.rfadney.photosite.com/Images/Chapter2/A_Muscaria.html During the rainy season here in Oh-ree-gone, I study shrooms for something to do. Amanitas are among the most beautiful of all the fungi out there. They are however, also among (if not) the deadliest. They come in various colors, and configuratons. Just like some of the minerals we deal with while rockhounding (Arsenic for one) we must be carefull when messing with those cute little toadstools in the yard. Whats really kind of funny is that the puffballs we fear are poisonous in the yard are very edible and tasty at the right point in their growth pattern. Even to the point of being a delicacy! Here is another link: pluto.njcc.com/~ret/amanita/mainaman.html#continueAnd the best mushroom site on the web is: www.mushroomexpert.com/Hope you all find this information useful, I don't mean to be Cliff Claven. I just love the subject!!!!!!!!! |
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Post by joe on Sept 16, 2005 0:05:51 GMT -5
Your photos are great Richie! I loved your Oregon scenery. Can I suggest you do a "rock album" next??  Joe |
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Post by LCARS on Sept 24, 2005 22:27:07 GMT -5
Those are Panther mushrooms!!! Pretty poisonous!!  How many did you eat? |
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Post by Cher on Sept 24, 2005 22:43:34 GMT -5
Hey Richie,
Your photos are really super, thanks for the link.
Cher
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Post by fatrichie on Sept 25, 2005 0:02:13 GMT -5
Thanks for the kind words about my pics folks.
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Post by deepsouth on Sept 25, 2005 4:31:21 GMT -5
Just had a look at your slideshow...Hmmm beautiful. I like fungi too. Leave most of them alone , collect some that are edible. Safest place is after a hot dry period, let the rains come and then the mushrooms appear in our paddocks ( pastures). But not every year they are plentyfull. It is the same mushroom that is called Champignon by the French and that you can buy in the shops.
Many years ago we had a very dry summer and i found extra work in an orchard. I milked my cows once a day in the morning . Went collecting freshly grown mushrooms on the farm and then went to work in the orchard , where I sold every muchroom I could carry.
Helped my cashflow at the time when the dairy season was cut short.
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Post by stefan on Sept 27, 2005 10:15:24 GMT -5
How sad is this- KD some idiot locally just ate those same shroooms- Took him a week to die- very painful and sad- He supposedly was an Expert-
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it's toadstool season in this neck of the woods! i was finishing up the mowing and just had to share these grand daddy fungus with you. these are right by the fence line (where i dump my slurry...hmmm?) so it wasn't easy to get a good shot (i tried to put a foot long ruler in there for scale), but these suckers are enough to make Alice and the hookah smoking caterpillar proud:
