[Rhodes22-list] Mushrooms

[Steven Alm]

Bill,

There are plenty of picture books to help you identify the various species.
'Shrooms come in all different shapes, colors and sizes.  They also grow in
varying but specific situations.  In the case of the Morel, if it's this
time of year in MN and you see one growing from a rotting elm tree and it
looks like a human brain in its appearence, it really can't be anything else
but the coveted morel.  I'm not really a big mushroom eater but these are
different.  Sauteed in a little butter is all you need do.  Try them if you
get the chance.  I think it's illegal to sell them comercially and the
hunters guard their secret locations, so they're quite rare.

http://thegreatmorel.com/

There is something called a "false morel" which looks similar but it grows
in the sand and/or from pine trees and has a different season.

Another example:  If you're walking through a cow pasture in southern
Florida in the spring just after a rain and it's a steamy afternoon and you
see one growing out of a "cow pie" and it has a big golden cap with a thin
black fringe and a blueish stem,  you don't even have to eat it--just handle
it with your bare skin and soon the cows will start talking to you!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin_mushrooms

Slim

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Bill Effros <bill at effros.com> wrote:

> How do you know you're not going to die when you eat a wild mushroom?
>
> Bill Effros
>
>
>
> Thena Carville wrote:
> > Steve,
> > Thanks for the update on Roger...some of us really miss him...Gary
> working
> > for the police dept...heh heh...in the traffic division?...heh heh...
> > Thena
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
> > [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Steven Alm
> > Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 1:30 AM
> > To: Rhodes
> > Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Met Roger P. on our Shakedown
> >
> > Sunday, June 1st.  Went for our first sail of the season today.  Temps in
> > the low 80s, winds light and variable.  We motored about half the time.
>  We
> > beached on "Boy Scout Island" and searched the area for morel mushrooms.
> > This is their time--when the lilacs bloom, after a rain, followed by a
> hot
> > day.  But no luck.
> >
> > After getting under way, from behind me I heard, "STEVE!!!"  I looked
> around
> > and saw a paddler in a kayak.
> >
> > "Zachu, Roger?" I yelled but I knew damn well who it was.
> >
> > I hove to and himself boarded Fandango (demonstrating his deluxe kayak to
> > Rhodes equilibrium boarding system) and we offered him beer and snacks as
> we
> > drifted and chatted for about a half hour.  This week his wife, Deb is
> out
> > of school in MI and coming to be with him for the summer.  Son, Gary has
> > been hired by the Madison, WI police dept.  Roger is still traveling the
> > world with his position at Emerson and is talking wistfully how it's four
> > more years until he can retire and move back home to Sanford.  Dynamic
> > Equilibrium is still on the hard getting a bottom job.  We did not
> mention
> > "da list."
> >
> > For those newbies who weren't here then, Roger was a prolific contributor
> to
> > the list before he got tired of the political banter and left a couple
> years
> > ago.
> >
> > But we're near full-pond at the lake and all systems GO on Fandango's
> > shakedown--let the good times roll!!!
> >
> > And that's all the news that's fit to print from Lake Minnetonka.
> >
> > Slim
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