This was about 30 seconds after it was cut
Found this mushroom the other weekend and would love to know what it is. It smelt mushroomy and stained red when you bruised or cut it. It was in a well rotted collapsed tree but i can’t remember what it was… I’m, not sure it was possible to tell. do you know? or know someone that might? thanks.
The whole mushroom
Chicken of the woods
We chanced upon a feast in a tree – finding sorrel and chicken of the woods lying before us during our walk. We had left with only cheese and bread to fill us for the over night journey and ended up with a mighty and magical feast before us hanging from this tree.
Oak laden with orange fungi
The dinner was made from the fungi, some spec, fresh peas, cheddar cheese rinds and sorrel and was the most fulfilling I have eaten – full of satisfaction. There are some more pictures here.
Dinner
Lots of seeds!
I’ve just come back from talking to lots of children about growing mushrooms. It quite blew me away. They approached the world form such a different perspective and asked a monumental number of questions. The school has focused everything on growing, the kids had created papier mache vegetables, were showing each other things from home related to growing and started growing peas.
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Snowing from the gilles
After 3 days of neglect, the mushrooms decided to spread their ’seed’ and explode all over my desk and papers leaving a spore shadow around 0.5meters from the fungi. If you look closely at the photo you can see the print. I’m quite pleased to have seen the mushrooms through the entire cycle, thought I would have liked to taste mushrooms grown on pages. The guy from the suppliers mentioned that mushrooms are good at absorbing toxins from it’s substrate. I tried to pick up the cheapest book I could find so I’m sure there is plenty of chemicals floating around.
I love oysters
The book has fruited!
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You just can’t get more exciting that this!!!
Look at it go!
My book is flourishing… come on you oyster mushrooms!
mouldy
Bloody brilliant. They are just fantastic.
Oyster Mushrooms at CityEcoLab
Its an incredibly fast way to show the joys of growing food. In ‘Food for Free’ Richard Maybe talks about peoples morbid fascination with them. They grow from dead matter, not producing anything themselves but making the most out of the death of something else.
There is a great but slightly scary guy named Paul Statements talking on TED.com about the wonders of mycelium and how they are going to save the world. He has a lot to fit in to 20 minutes so its worth watching a few times… Its filled with an amazing amount of product design (an unfortunately some images of US patents), looking at using fungi to breakdown hydrocarbons after oil slicks to produce an incredible amount of oyster mushrooms, or harnessing their antibiotic producing abilities to fight flu.
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