Mushrooms can do strange things
This is an interesting time within our mushroom hunting season. Mushrooms like winter chanterelles, bellybutton hedgehogs, and verpas are pretty much finished while morels, spring boletes and coral mushrooms are...
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Verpa typically has a bell-shaped cap with a wrinkly, brain-like appearance. The cap on some bohemica specimens can appear somewhat similar to its cousin the morel, both being in the fungal family Morchellaceae....
The shriveled mushroom mystery
I’ve always enjoyed the challenge of trying to figure out the solution to a good mystery. So I was quite excited back in early February when Sandy and I received...
SOMA Camp – The good, the bad, and the ugly
You may or may not remember the 1966 spaghetti-western movie starring Clint Eastwood that went by the same name as this article’s title, minus SOMA of course. When I thought about my first SOMA camp experience, that...
Ringing in the 2023 Mushroom Season
As January ushers in the new year, Oregon’s wild fruiting mushrooms quickly dwindle down to a handful of sought-after edibles. Two of the most commonly picked during these colder months...
A little of this and a little of that
I know it’s been a tough fall for those like us who love the thrill of wild mushroom hunting. I felt like Mother Nature crapped on us this year, if...
