My Muskokan Mystery Mushroom Here is a curious individual which escaped identification on the Cain Foray in Muskoka last weekend. Anyone out there have a theory? The experts said it was too difficult to ID because of a lack of … Continue reading
Mycognostic
It was very exciting to be the least knowledgeable of 40 or so mushroom lovers on the 39th Annual Cain Foray. Apparently, between us we collected and identified over 250 different fungi. Thank you to the Mycological Society of Toronto … Continue reading
Finding wild mushrooms, then cloning and domesticating them is one of the most fun and challenging mycological exercises for me. I have been successful cloning wild Turkey Tail, as well as King Oysters from the store, today I’m trying to … Continue reading
I won’t be able to continue this experiment until next year as it will involve growing corn and inoculating it with spores of the Ustilago maydis I was given by my neighbor Justine. For now I’ll put up some pictures … Continue reading
This is the time of year you might find Ustilago maydisa, a biotrophic parasite fungus which takes over corn. Thanks to my friend and neighbor Justine for spotting some for me this year, which I will try to use on … Continue reading
I have my “lab”, incubation space and fruiting chamber down in the basement. It’s a pretty simple set-up and I feel I am about to outgrow it, but here are some pics of the current state of it. If I … Continue reading
Hardy stuff! Here is a picture of Blue Oyster mycelium growing off discarded grain spawn in dirty dish water. The same strain just fruited from a pile of old bulk straw/sawdust/woodchip spawn from last year which survived a winter with … Continue reading