According to InStyle Magazine, if you are looking for skin hydration, you’ll love snow mushroom extract. Yes. It’s a thing. The Megacollybia Rodmanii is a medium-sized mushroom with a streaked-looking, gray-brown to brown or olive brown cap and a whitespore print. Two fairly easily distinguished “forms” of Megacollybia Rodmani have been described: form rodmaniand form…
Underscoring the need to go slow and steady, because the consequences can be deadly. In 2020, one man died and at least eight people were hospitalized after eating poisonous mushrooms. Marasmiellusis a genus of fungi in the family Marasmiaceae. The widespread genus contains about 250 species, including Marasmiellus Candidus, Marasmiellus Luxurians, Marasmiellus Confluens and Marasmiellus Dichrous. The name…
We like them fresh when we eat them, right? Well, a company in New York has stocked bars with jars of different varieties. Bonus: they grow 30-100 lbs. of mushrooms a week all the while collecting data on light, temperature and other factors. They are both decorative and close to diners! One of a handful…
A recent study published in Food Science & Nutrition found that adding mushrooms—84 mg, or half a cup—to your diet daily can help increase the intake of several micronutrients, especially vitamin D, potassium, fiber, and zinc. If you are looking for a Lactarious Volemus recipe online, or are just wondering how to cook Lactarius Volemus mushrooms, you’ll find lots of options. This…
In mid-March country singer Blake Shelton was on a hike and found a Lions Mane mushroom which he fried and ate. Do not try this at home unless you know what you’re doing. Mycorrhaphium Adjustum can be found in summer and fall on the sticks and small logs of hardwoods in eastern North America, and…
Washington DC decriminalized magic mushrooms in March. Ganaderma Curtisiis 1 a wood-decaying polypore whose distribution is primarily in the Southeastern United States. Distinguishing features include its gorgeous, lacquered cap and its pale brown flesh, which features melanoid bands but no concentric growth zones. What are the Ganaderma Curtisii medicinal uses? Often used as an immune…
We have a wide variety of wild mushrooms on our farm, but you could grow your own. People do! Craterellus Ignicoloris is characterized by its small size, its fairly well developed false gills, which often develop pinkish shades with maturity, and its yellow-orange cap, which develops a perforation in its center and becomes vase-shaped. Some…
This little beauty may be edible, but I wouldn’t eat any of the ‘shrooms from the farm without running them by an expert first! Panaeolus Papilionaceus a “coprophilous” mushroom, which is nice way of saying it grows on dung (primarily that of horses and cows). Aside from the habitat, identifying features include the blackspore print;…
You know the old adage, “treat me like a mushroom”? Well, not all mushrooms like the dark and or… um, fertilizer. The most common question for this species is, “Is Cerioporus Leptocephalus edible?” Cerioporus Leptocephalus, commonly known as blackfoot polypore, is an inedible species of mushroom in the genus Cerioporus. It usually grows on the branches of broad-leaved trees. The cap…
Cantharellus Cinnabarinus is a fungus native to eastern North America. It is a member of the genus Cantharellus along with other chanterelles. It is named after its red color, which is imparted by the carotenoid canthaxanthin. If you are wondering is Cantharellus Cinnabarinus edible and is Cantharellus Cinnabarinus safe, the answer is yes to both. It is edible, fruiting in association with hardwood trees in the summer and…