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Post by maddogblues on Dec 31, 2009 11:02:49 GMT -5
www.alternet.org/healthwellness/144856/the_search_for_an_endangered_mushroom_that_could_cure_smallpox,_tb_and_bird_flu/?page=entire "IN THE OLD-GROWTH forests of the Pacific Northwest grows a bulbous, prehistoric-looking mushroom called agarikon. It prefers to colonize century-old Douglas fir trees, growing out of their trunks like an ugly mole on a finger. When I first met Paul Stamets, a mycologist who has spent more than three decades hunting, studying, and tripping on mushrooms, he had found only two of these unusual fungi, each time by accident -- or, as he might put it, divine intervention."
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Post by werewolf on Jan 9, 2010 11:06:58 GMT -5
Wow, might mistake that for a rock.
I found a giant "artist's mushroom" in the Catskills.
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Post by Freedom on Jan 9, 2010 12:34:58 GMT -5
Wow, might mistake that for a rock. I found a giant "artist's mushroom" in the Catskills. They sure do grow big, found one in the Berkshire a few years back , it's sitting on a shelf in the house. Must be 14" across.
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Post by maddogblues on Jan 9, 2010 19:40:21 GMT -5
Damn that's big. Wow, might mistake that for a rock. I found a giant "artist's mushroom" in the Catskills. They sure do grow big, found one in the Berkshire a few years back , it's sitting on a shelf in the house. Must be 14" across.
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Post by werewolf on Jan 11, 2010 21:35:39 GMT -5
Wow, might mistake that for a rock. I found a giant "artist's mushroom" in the Catskills. They sure do grow big, found one in the Berkshire a few years back , it's sitting on a shelf in the house. Must be 14" across. Mne was way bigger than 14" across. Over twice as big, I think. ww
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Post by Freedom on Jan 12, 2010 2:06:58 GMT -5
They sure do grow big, found one in the Berkshire a few years back , it's sitting on a shelf in the house. Must be 14" across. Mne was way bigger than 14" across. Over twice as big, I think. ww Damn that's a monster. Good find Were you shrooming or just walking through the woods?
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Post by werewolf on Jan 12, 2010 9:59:52 GMT -5
Just walking in the woods in the Catskill mountains in the autumn. I gave it to my girlfriend at the time. I think she still has it. I'll ask her to measure it. I still have a small artist's mushroom that she painted a Christmas picture on.
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Post by werewolf on Sept 13, 2010 17:49:35 GMT -5
Finally measured it: Approx. 12 X 18 inches.
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Post by Freedom on Sept 15, 2010 8:37:22 GMT -5
Finally measured it: Approx. 12 X 18 inches. That's a good one. Heading out to western Mass late october for the annual walk in the woods, definitely will find Oyster shrooms, Hen or Chicken would be a welcome bonus.
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Post by werewolf on Sept 16, 2010 21:12:45 GMT -5
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Post by Freedom on Sept 20, 2010 23:25:50 GMT -5
www.alternet.org/healthwellness/144856/the_search_for_an_endangered_mushroom_that_could_cure_smallpox,_tb_and_bird_flu/?page=entire "IN THE OLD-GROWTH forests of the Pacific Northwest grows a bulbous, prehistoric-looking mushroom called agarikon. It prefers to colonize century-old Douglas fir trees, growing out of their trunks like an ugly mole on a finger. When I first met Paul Stamets, a mycologist who has spent more than three decades hunting, studying, and tripping on mushrooms, he had found only two of these unusual fungi, each time by accident -- or, as he might put it, divine intervention." Not to judge, but that looks inedible, even still that is a incredible mushroom.
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Post by werewolf on Sept 21, 2010 22:49:36 GMT -5
It's a giant sandwich!
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