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
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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