…Giant Puffball Mushroom This fall mushroom lives up to its name, resembling a giant puff ball. These mushrooms grow directly from the ground or may be found on rotten wood….
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Six Wild-Grown Fall Foods to Forage
…looks and distinctive flavor, chicken of the woods (a.k.a. sulfur shelf mushroom) are a colorful, shelf-like, reef-like mushroom that grows primarily with overlapping, layered, fan-shaped clumps on the dead stumps…
The Pheasant’s Back
Pheasant’s Back, or Dryad’s Saddle, mushroom at Ponca State Park in the spring. Photo by Jenny Nguyen-Wheatley, Nebraskaland Magazine By Greg Wagner You thought this blog was going to be…
When and Where to Find Morels
…great habitat for finding the morel. Nature’s Signs With more than 50 years of morel mushroom foraging experience, I have found the peak of morel mushroom harvest to be when…
The Wonderfully Named Fungi
…Dacryopinax are known as fan-shaped jelly fungi, and that name will have to suffice for this tough, yet gelatinous mushroom. Common in North America from the Great Plains eastward, the…
Discovering Slime Molds
Wolf’s milk growing at Indian Cave State Park on Brueggemann’s prized slime mold log. Photo by Gerry Steinauer, Nebraskaland Magazine. By Gerry Steinauer, Botanist Two years ago, while morel mushroom…