I know, I know. This is Greensboro Birds, not Mushrooms. But the birds are avoiding my camera and the mushrooms are popping up like crazy. Go with what you’ve got is my motto. And this week, I’ve got mushrooms. Like this fantastic quartet of platter-sized shrooms that Josh and I found up in Madison. It’s [...]
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Yet another gigantic mushroom
August 1st, 2007 · Comments Off
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Gargantuan oyster mushroom
July 31st, 2007 · Comments Off
This here’s an oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus) that’s about a foot or so wide. I kid you not when I say it sprouted overnight on this tree in Battleground Park. Josh spotted it yesterday when we were walking the young Happy. Apparently oyster mushrooms are highly edible and delicious. They’re also a source of statins—the [...]
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Make way, it’s the mushrooms
July 30th, 2007 · Comments Off
Another sure sign of the end of summer is the sudden appearance of these big mushrooms. We’ve had some drenching rains this past week that have awoken the dormant spores, sometimes in surprising spots like the parking lot at Battleground Park (above). I’m not sure what the pictured mushrooms are, but they’re similar to a [...]
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