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May. 12th, 2004 10:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aslantthis morning, in the walled garden outside my building, there were three large mushrooms sprouting. the soil around them was newly ruptured---i find this so interesting because they were so huge, and they had obviously grown so quickly, overnight. so this morning i've been doing a little amateur mycology, and i have identified the mushroom! i picked the largest cap of one, and an entire medium-sized one for identification. there are no pictures online, unfortunately. they are: callistosporium purpureomarginatum. a purplish-reddish-brownish ovoid cap, no bruising, no milking; purplish attached gills; spongy fibrous stem with tough lateral ridges. white spore print. some puckering on the cap.
here is the boston mycological club, which has amusing headlines. "optimists thrilled! the morel is found!" this page of rules for morels has funny mnemonics like "if it's reddish, you could be dead-ish". now i want to go mushroom hunting. i didn't know it was possible to hunt king boletes/ceps here in the northeast.
i have vivid memories of the black truffle festival in gubbio, italy, which i visited during my junior year abroad. there was a vast tent full of tables and tables of truffle sellers, and free samples of pate tartuffo nero on bread. i bought a tiny jar of it for 25,000 lira and brought it home to my family, but i don't think they appreciated it as much as i did. truffles make me swoon.
here is the boston mycological club, which has amusing headlines. "optimists thrilled! the morel is found!" this page of rules for morels has funny mnemonics like "if it's reddish, you could be dead-ish". now i want to go mushroom hunting. i didn't know it was possible to hunt king boletes/ceps here in the northeast.
i have vivid memories of the black truffle festival in gubbio, italy, which i visited during my junior year abroad. there was a vast tent full of tables and tables of truffle sellers, and free samples of pate tartuffo nero on bread. i bought a tiny jar of it for 25,000 lira and brought it home to my family, but i don't think they appreciated it as much as i did. truffles make me swoon.
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Date: 2004-05-12 09:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-12 09:15 am (UTC)my boss walked by when i had a morel identification page up on my computer, and she told me all about the morels that grow outside her house in maine. ooh i want some.
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Date: 2004-05-12 09:47 am (UTC)Unfortunately, my best spots have been bulldozed for new home construction. It's been tough the last couple of years trying to find new places to hunt.
When we were in Seattle at the end of April we saw fresh morels being sold in the stalls at Pike Street Market. Beautiful.
Funny, I don't like to eat them, just find them. I usually give them to my parents.