Look Mom, No Cavities
I’d like to count myself as one of the few Homo sapiens to fall into the “no cavities” group. However, my mom told me it wasn’t nice to lie about...
Tagged: Ron’s Mushroom Musings
The Dark Fungi and the Light Fungi
If the title of this article seems confusing to you, well you’re probably in very good company. On a recent PBS broadcast of Science Friday, one of the topics of...
Weather, Mushrooming, and Vegan Meat
I thought I would start with a follow-up on last month’s article regarding Oregon’s weather Prognosticators. Some were predicting the Northwest to have a very strong El Niño event, which...
Will this mushroom season be better than 2022?
April showers bring May flowers but having plentiful late summer and fall showers brings out the mushrooms in great abundance. Last year’s September/October rainfall was nothing short of terrible and...
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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...