Leo Schordje
wilted blossom
Beautiful photos, well done, thanks for the visual history lesson.
Great fungi photos. There are only a handful of dangerously poisonous mushrooms in the USA. Once one learns to accurately identify these few bad ones, it is much safer to begin to sample wild edible mushrooms. You are right, the smaller orange one does look like an edible mushroom. Unfortunately, one of the more dangerous poisonous mushrooms is the Galeria, which is one of the "little brown mushrooms", so always be very cautious before tasting anything from the "little brown mushroom" group.
Most (if not all) of the conch or shelf fungi are not poisonous, at worst they will cause some discomfort, but not likely to kill anyone. Conch is a correct name to apply to many of the Polypore mushrooms. Most of the Polypores are too tough and leathery to be edible. A fair number of the Polypores, like the woody Turkey Tail & Ling Zhi, contain an interesting number of medicinal compounds. They are extracted by powdering the dried conch, then making a tea. Polypores contain compounds that have proven to be antibiotic, anti-cancer, and immune boosting. There is a whole host of medicinal uses for the Polypores, much tested and documented by Western Allopathic Medicine. Traditional Chinese Medicine has documented use of Polypores for 3000 or more years.
I am just learning about wild mushroom collecting, so I have not proposed names for you images, because I am more likely to be wrong than right.
Great fungi photos. There are only a handful of dangerously poisonous mushrooms in the USA. Once one learns to accurately identify these few bad ones, it is much safer to begin to sample wild edible mushrooms. You are right, the smaller orange one does look like an edible mushroom. Unfortunately, one of the more dangerous poisonous mushrooms is the Galeria, which is one of the "little brown mushrooms", so always be very cautious before tasting anything from the "little brown mushroom" group.
Most (if not all) of the conch or shelf fungi are not poisonous, at worst they will cause some discomfort, but not likely to kill anyone. Conch is a correct name to apply to many of the Polypore mushrooms. Most of the Polypores are too tough and leathery to be edible. A fair number of the Polypores, like the woody Turkey Tail & Ling Zhi, contain an interesting number of medicinal compounds. They are extracted by powdering the dried conch, then making a tea. Polypores contain compounds that have proven to be antibiotic, anti-cancer, and immune boosting. There is a whole host of medicinal uses for the Polypores, much tested and documented by Western Allopathic Medicine. Traditional Chinese Medicine has documented use of Polypores for 3000 or more years.
I am just learning about wild mushroom collecting, so I have not proposed names for you images, because I am more likely to be wrong than right.
