MushroomExpert.Com How Heat Affects Fungi | Fungi: Bipolaris | Environmental Reporter Hello, I hope you're doing well and will find the attached articles both interesting and useful. The first is about how heat affects fungi by Dr. Harriet Burge and the second is about the fungi Bipolaris by Dr. Michelle Seidl. With best wishes, Dave Gallup How Does Heat Affect Fungi? The effects of heat on fungi depend on many factors, including the genus, species and strain of the fungus, the amount of available water, kinds of nutrients, and many other environmental factors. Fungi can be divided into groups according to temperature requirements for optimal growth. The groups are as follows: Psychrophiles: with optima less than 10°C Mesophiles: with optima in the room temperature range (18-22°C) Thermophiles: with optima at or above 37°C There are also categories defining the ability of the fungi to withstand different temperature regimes. The effects of heat on fungi are related to the chemical reactions within the fungal cells. Table 1: Fungus of the Month: Bipolaris By Dr.
Online Books : "Golden Guide Hallucinogenic Plants" - pg 51-60 - StumbleUpon Golden Guide: Hallucinogenic Plants pages 51 to 60 .Contents...1-10...11-20...21-30...31-40...41-50...51-60...61-70...71-80...81-9091-100...101-110...111-120...121-130...131-140...141-150...151-156...Index Mandrake, with the Propane alkaloids hyoscyamine, scopolamine, and others, was an active hallucinogenic ingredient of many of the witches' brews of Europe. DHATURA and DUTRA (Datura metel) are the common names in India for an important Old World species of Datura. IBOGA (Tabernanthe iboga), native to Gabon and the Congo, is the only member of the dogbane fancily, Apocynaceae, known to be used as an hallucinogen. The drug, discovered by Europeans toward the middle of the last century, has a reputation as a powerful stimulant and aphrodisiac. Although intoxicating substances have not yet been found in the puffballs, there are reports in the literature that some of them have had narcotic effects when eaten. religion surrounded the sacramental use of these fungi. Contents Next
MykoWeb: Mushrooms, Fungi, Mycology Inhabitat Want to put your DIY and upcycling skills to the ultimate test? Enter our second annual Spring Greening DIY Design Competition and go head to head with other green designers to come up with the most creative and clever new uses for your dusty old household appliances, furnishings and decor! If your design makes it to the finals, you’ll have a chance to be featured right on Inhabitat for the world to see and win a $250 gift certificate to the Inhabitat shop! How to Get to the Avatar Grove in Port Renfrew, BC Directions Coming from Victoria, BC – Drive time approx 2.5 hours Click for larger imageA giant Douglas-fir (left) and burly redcedar (right) in the incredible Avatar Grove near Port Renfrew, BC.Photo by TJ Watt *** Please note: The Avatar Grove is wilderness area! Work has begun on the initial construction of a boardwalk (See photos here or click here to donate) in some areas of the trail but good balance and basic hiking experience is required in certain areas ie. possible muddy sections, slippery roots or slopes, crossing over logs, etc. The trail is not like Cathedral Grove! Here is a Google map showing where to go as you enter Port RenfrewPoint A is the Coastal Kitchen Cafe in Port Renfrew and Point B is the Avatar Grove. View Larger Map
Making a wood chip mushroom garden A mushroom garden is a low cost, DIY way to increase the diversity of your home-grown produce, as well as your overall resilience. It’s also surprisingly simple to do, once you understand the basics of how and why. Recently Nick was over in the US doing some training with Paul Stamets at Fungi Perfecti, and one of the many techniques they covered in the the myco-remidation training was making simple mushroom gardens with king stropharia mushrooms… King Stropharia growing in woodchip in Stamets’ forest. Stropharia rugosoannulata are known as King Stropharia, Wine cap mushrooms or Garden Giants. King Stropharia are native to the Northern Hemisphere but are a hardy fungi that will do well with the right growing conditions, which is mainly woodchips, with partial shade. Step 1: dig your hole in a shady place: A shallow semi-circle is dug around the base of a tree (in this case an alder) to provide the fungi with shade, and some scrap cardboard is laid down. Step 2: add your woodchips.
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Paper-Back Planters: Recycling Books to Pot Indoor Plants | Designs &Ideas on Dornob Have books finally met their match with the Apple iPad, or is it just another fad like the Amazon Kindle? Readers may find some poetry in these volumes regardless of whether they are willing to give up their favorite paperback companions: potted plants put into scooped-out sections of beautiful old hardback books. Gardenkultur (via Inhabitat) makes a simple recycling project out of even the most complex novels, but carving into the heart of a book, sealing off the resulting space and putting seeds of little trees or other plant life into the curved void. Of course, this would work just as well as a do-it-yourself gardening project for those green-thumbed enough to provide proper moisture barriers for their own plants. But if a picture is said to be worth one thousand, at how many words do we value a wee plant? Hopefully these books were beyond repair and those ripe only for reuse.
encyclopedia of spices Spice Advice – how to make the most of spices, which spices to use with particular foods, when to add them, grinding, storage and more. Herbs and Spices Fight Disease — Most of us look at spices as a way to perk up the plate but are you aware of their potential to fight disease? Look here for some recent findings. All about Vanilla – and then some… history, curing, varieties, vanilla extract, essence, powder – even vanilla salt. How to cook with vanilla. including top 10 vanilla recipes! Cooking with Thyme – Getting the most of thyme in your cooking – including varieties of thyme, preparation, infusions, fresh vs. dried and many suggested uses for cooking with thyme.
Koksilah River - Ancient Forest Hiking Guide Vancouver Island Area Description: The Koksilah Ancient Forest Reserve is an absolutely incredible stand of old-growth Douglas-firs that rivals Cathedral Grove with its beauty and scale. Old-growth Douglas-firs have been reduced to 1% of their original numbers on Vancouver Island so getting a chance to hike through a forest so full of them is an incredible experience. Most of the grove’s big trees range from 4 to 6ft in diameter with the largest ones reaching over 8ft across at the base. The forest is located alongside the winding Koksilah River which has excellent swimming areas as well as a Provincial Campground nearby (the park does not include the giant trees). Status: Unprotected Upon reaching the area in the 1980’s, two loggers put down their chainsaws and refused to cut the forest for they felt it was something remarkable. Hiking Guide: Difficulty – Moderate Once you have followed the driving directions (below) and arrived, use these instructions to access the area. Total walking distance 1.85km.
Guide to Edible Wild Mushrooms and Fungi Warning: main(./campaign-banner.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/c/e/celtnet/public_html/recipes/ancient/mushroom-guide.php on line 453 Warning: main(): Failed opening './campaign-banner.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/lib/php') in /home/c/e/celtnet/public_html/recipes/ancient/mushroom-guide.php on line 453 Example Entry Below, you will find an example wild food entry produced randomly from our database: Mushroom Guide Entry For: Cep Making Spore Prints If you are picking your own mushrooms from the wild, then one of the key identitying features of a mushroom is what's called the 'spore print'. Many authors suggest that you do this on black paper, but over the years I have found that it's best done on a clear sheet of clean glass. In order to get a spore print you need a mature (well opened) specimen of the fungus or mushroom you are trying to identify. The following day, remove the mug or glass covering the fungus. Mushroom Recipes
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Food in Uncertain Times: How to Grow and Store the 5 Crops You Need to Survive by Makenna GoodmanOctober 21, 2010 Having food resiliency is as much about learning how to store and use food properly as it is about growing it. The key is learning interdependence not independence. In an age of erratic weather and instability, it’s increasingly important to develop a greater self-reliance when it comes to food. Makenna Goodman: Many gardeners (both beginners and more serious growers) come across obstacles they might not have planned for. Carol Deppe: The basic issues are getting more control over our food, getting lots higher quality and more delicious food, and enhancing the resilience of our food supply. However the person who has learned to make spectacular applesauce or cider or apple butter or pies can often trade some of the processed products for all the apples needed. So the first thing I would say is, garden if you can and if you enjoy it. We humans trade. Neanderthal stone tools, interestingly, are all found within a few miles of where the rocks originated.