I also found some today cut them into bite size pieces fried them in oil with a little butter and a…
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1 week ago
- No, I have had no reports from any one else who has been looking at the burns. Let us know if you find more than you can handle.
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Gillian, the best way to insure that you get up to date information is to be on the membership email list. However you are welcome to join any of the outings as a guest. We try to update our web site with current information but a location or specific meeting spot may change. You should if possible attend our meeting next week (June 27) at the Don Wheaton YMCA in down Edmonton this will be the last of our indoor meetings until the fall. Stay tuned. Bill RichardsRead More…
1 week ago
- o expand the definition a little further “Kananaskis country” is an Improvement District (kananaskisid.ca/) which makes it a rural municipality similar to a County or Municipal District. Parks sits on the managing council of the ID as well as being responsible for the lands designated under the Provincial Park Act within the ID. As for picking mushrooms on lands designated as parklands (Provincial Parks, Provincial Recreation Areas, Wildland Provincial Parks) the Provincial Parks Act effectively states that nothing should be collected within Parkland. It also gives the minister the authority to provide permission to collect.However our legislators were wise enough to allow us to collect some editables without having to apply to the minister for a permit. Permission is still requires and according to the regulation brochure it need only be verbal but this approval has to come the mouth of the delegated authority in this case that is the Conservation Officer. See attached links to the brochure www.albertaparks.ca/media/445808/regulations-brochure-web.pdf and the General Park Regulations (45(2)(a) www.qp.alberta.ca/1266.cfm?page=1985_102…9768394&display=html .
This leaves a lot of questions how long is the oral approval for? Is it transferable? How many people can it apply to …?
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2 weeks ago
I have tried to up load some photos of the burn site foray at Lodgepole on June 8 2013 but only one took. We had very little luck within the burn site several dozen morels were found by 40 or more participants and there was lots of debate as to whether these were burn site morels or not. The morel photo uploaded is not a “burn site” morel (forgive me if I do not guess at it species name) but it was growing in sandy soil with aspen a grassy ground cover and the several large one were easy to spot but it was onto hands and knees to find the smaller ones where there.
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It looks very much like one of the black-footed polypore (Polyporus badius, P. varius). Habitat is correct. You can often get a spore print when you have overlapping caps as you do by looking on the top of the mushrooms which are underneath.
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This is good, there are more reports coming in this week of people finding morels. Be sure to record the location for future forays. If the mycelium is there, they should be there again next year.
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Dom, You have been lucky is this is the first time you have come across these larva as this is a very common issue with oyster mushrooms. If we get large amounts we cull the worst of them and cut away any areas which show maggots. This gets rid of the hatched larva. If we can not get them these in the fridge the same day we blanch the cut mushrooms. Otherwise more larvas will appear on what looks like clean mushrooms. Speaking from experience the larva is not poisonous, I have eaten many over the years but I try not to dwell on that.Breading (culinaryarts.about.com/od/culinaryfundam…standardbreading.htm)the mushrooms and pan frying them not only masked any larva missed but reheated (on a cookie sheet)in a hot oven in the winter is one of the finest ways to enjoy oyster mushrooms.
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3 weeks ago
As Evan noted go back to the patch you know and if possible go back every few day if you can. Each patch has it own window of time when it will fruit. But for some reason if conditions are not perfect that window of opportunity is very small. From my limited experience if the Canmore area I can only say that I have found morels in mid June at low elevations I 1993. I have found some morels as late as mid-August near the Columbia Glacier in 1998. And I have seen morels on many summer hikes I have had in the mountain parks in July over the years. The most important thing is to find a patch and seen what is optimum for it. Morels may grow almost anywhere.Read More…
4 weeks ago
I have not been back. But i still here of some people finding some. Rosemarie was planning to recheck Ministik this afternoon. I have requested that she post her findings.
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The foray was good even if it was wet as this will only bring on other mushrooms if not morels. I got to meet many new members and saw some of the same faces. In total 54 participants showed up at Ministik and when we regrouped after the first foray we were at least able to show the congregation a few morels and verpa. And because the dead aspen trees are still wet from the late snows there were even several clumps of oyster mushrooms which came. With Oysters out so early I will certainly be watching for them in my travels.
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Rick, I have collected the photographed species several times usually when I found it on the ground is growing on composted dung. I have also found a very similar species growing on well rotted aspen bark. The closest I have come to is the family Humariaceae. Check out this link for a photo of Byssonectria terrestris.www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Byssonectria_terrestris.html
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1 month ago
Evan, interesting. I’d take you up on the offer but I am still eating Parasols we collected in abundance from a patch we have on a friend’s property. I would be interested in the results if you can find any takers, One thing for sure is that these mushrooms we find in the Edmonton areas do grow in association with white spruce. Bill