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Sunny_0ne

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  1. Thanks so much, Dave! I don't know why I didn't just think of doing a black/white paper with my printer!

    I have used aluminum foil before and I had a very difficult time trying to see light colored spore prints on it. Of course, they were not thick spore prints because I was trying to rush things along. There is probably a lesson in patience there. :)

    Maybe I will take the glass out of an old photo frame, tape the edges thickly to make it safe to handle, and use that. At least until I can buy some Plexiglass.

    I don't know why I thought I had to buy specialty black paper! I am one of those who usually devises the most difficult, circuitous way to do anything!

  2. Thanks for the information Dave!

    My wife grilled some a few weeks ago based on recipe in The Complete Mushroom Hunter. Just a little olive oil, salt/pepper and parsley I think.

    Thanks!

    I wonder if they would work as a mushroom pizza base like a portabello? The oysters I have cooked have been a little tough, but it might be fun to find out!

  3. I would never have expected that mushrooms would grow on a beach. I would have thought it would be too dry, too windy and too salty.

    But one of my girlfriends took this photo at St. Joseph Peninsula State Park in Florida last week.

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/pshermanfl/Kayaking%20photos/Camping/mushrooms111213.jpg

    At first I thought someone might have put them there as a prank. Maybe they were plastic?

    But I did some reading and discovered that there are mychorrizal mushrooms that grow on beaches, too, that help the scrubby trees that grow in the dunes.

    I am sure the mushroom experts here won't be surprised, but I certainly was! :)

  4. Oh well

    Should stick to my gut I guess. It just didn't look the same as others I've seen.

    One time I wrote a mushroom expert asking why my sample didn't look like the one in his book.

    He replied, "They don't know they are supposed to look exactly like the ones in the book."

    :)

  5. Earlier this year my sister found this gorgeous, translucent, ethereal mushroom with yellow "umbrella ribs." She asked me to identify it for her, and I believe it is Pleated Inky Cap. The scientific name was listed as both Coprinus plicatilis and Parasola plicatilis.

    this is the most beautiful mushroom I have ever seen. Since they are her photos, I am just posting a link to them.

  6. Dave, I'm convinced they are not a cortinarius, too.

    I just went outside and tried to find some more so I could do a better job of examining them, but there are none to be found.

    I didn't get a good spore print. I got just a smudge of brown. I can't remember now exactly what color it was, but I think it was a medium dark brown -- darker than rusty brown, but not chocolate brown.

    Also, the stalks are not broken off. I cut them off with a knife and they were firm and not brittle.

    I think I am going to have to wait until I find more of them and get a good spore print before we can really attempt a good ID.

    I did use the mykoweb software and came up with nothing on it.

    So thanks so much for trying to help, but I don't think I gave you enough to go on this time! :)

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