If you go down to the woods today.........

[Xerxses]

Gerrit,

 

do you then rehydrate with boiling water, or just add to whatever you're cooking ?

 

 

 

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I do dry some sometimes but find that they loose a lot of taste... The one that really dries well is Craterellus cornucopioides! I normally store some dried ones next to the stove and just add a few crumbeled into whatever Autumnstew I make! Othervise just leave them a couple of hours in cold water and add it to soup or use them in watever way you want.

[Fungus]

do you then rehydrate with boiling water, or just add to whatever you're cooking ?

 

David,

No, I "revive" them, just as thin sliced and dried Boletus edulis, in good quality olive oil and then sometimes mix them with in the same olive oil fried onions and champignons before they become an ingredient of a risotto or a soup of dehydrated and pulverized forest fungi and a Boletus edulis chutney.

[Fungus]

I would never reveal my safehouse!!!

 

Tobias,

Hiding my identity on this forum would be a bit unrealistic. As far as revealing my address is concerned, neither would I, so I didn't ask for your "safe house" address, only the region would have been enough .

[Xerxses]

Tobias,

Hiding my identity on this forum would be a bit unrealistic. As far as revealing my address is concerned, neither would I, so I didn't ask for your "safe house" address, only the region would have been enough .

 

I was only joking... any arb in Sweden would know who I am since my name previously has been revealed... (If I am that person...! I might use somebody elses name to go really deep undercover:blushing:)

 

I might have to open a new account so that I can carry on asking stupid questions...

 

 

 

Sorry David for derailing...

[David Humphries]

On an afternoon stroll between two job sites at work................

 

 

Collybia fusipes at the base of Hornbeam

Coprinus micaceus on a very rotten old fallen Beech

Podocypha multizonata at a new site

Scleroderma areolatum - Panther Earth Ball

Fistulina hepatica on a pretty long term fallen Oak

Mycena crocata - The Saffrondrop bonnet

Scleroderma citrinum

Very young forming Fistulina on Oak with Daedalea quercina on lower trunk & adjacent fallen branches.

Couple of Amanita (rubecens) at the base of an Oak

Oudemensiella mucida on an Oak branch

The remnants of a slugs feast of some poor Rhodotus palmatus - Wrinkled Peach

& what I imagine is Lycoperdon exipuliforme - Pestle Puffball

 

 

 

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[Fungus]

1. Scleroderma areolatum - Panther Earth Ball

2. Fistulina hepatica on a pretty long term fallen Oak

3. what I imagine is Lycoperdon exipuliforme - Pestle Puffball

 

David,

As always, great pictures .

Some remarks (as expected) :

1. This not S. areolatum, but S. citrinum, the far more regular pattern of the "panther" skin of S. areolatum looks like the surface of the specimen in my photo.

2. Quite exceptional, such a long and well developed stem.

3. I think it might be L. molle.

[David Humphries]

David,

As always, great pictures .

Some remarks (as expected) :

1. This not S. areolatum, but S. citrinum, the far more regular pattern of the "panther" skin of S. areolatum looks like the surface of the specimen in my photo.

2. Quite exceptional, such a long and well developed stem.

3. I think it might be L. molle.

 

Thanks 'as always' Gerrit, for the comments

 

I'm now away from the world of cyberfung for the rest of the evening, so will get back to you on the morrow.

 

The Fistulina was exceptional indeed

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

nice shots, your photography is really good these dyas fella, focus plane colour rendition depth of field, all good man!

[David Humphries]

Over in Highgate Woods (which is a fragmented part of the Medieval Bishop of Londons Wood that stretched across the north of the city) yesterday for a Conservation Management Plan meeting with local entomologists, archaeologist & reps of some of the user groups of the site.

 

The aim is to put together the next 5 years Management Plan, which in part is about how we are going to manage this lapsed Hornbeam coppice & Oak standard woodland.

 

The site doesn't have a lot of light & the top soil is pretty poor in quality & quantity. Many of the Oaks are in a state of decline and are in need of opening up to light & improving the soil horizon.

 

Will be a very interesting project.

 

 

During lunch went out and snapped a few fung

 

Really like the way that the Lycoperdons are carrying on regardless of the obvious trampling their getting

 

 

Not sure on which Ramaria species

 

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[Fungus]

Not sure on which Ramaria species

 

Not yet fully developed Clavulina cristata.