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Southeast Alaska has an unusual climate that allows a large number of edible plant and edible mushroom species to grow. The area consists primarily of the Tongass National Forest, which is a temperate rainforest. This rainforest has plenty of precipitation and the temperature remains relatively constant, therefore many plant and fungi species ...
Phaeolepiota is a genus of fungi in the family Squamanitaceae.The genus is monotypic, containing the single species Phaeolepiota aurea.Commonly known as Alaskan gold, [1] Alaska gold, [2] golden bootleg or golden cap, P. aurea is an agaric (gilled mushroom) found throughout North America and Eurasia – often in groups [3] and next to nettles. [4]
Common in western North America, [2] its range extends south to Mexico [4] [6] and north to Alaska. [ citation needed ] Variety rasilispora is found in the Pacific Northwest . [ 5 ] Variety scatesina , originally collected in coniferous forests of Idaho , [ 1 ] has since been reported growing in a deciduous forest in the eastern Himalaya .
Mushrooms appear from September to November in North America, [27] and July and August in Alaska. [28] It prefers acidic and sandy soils and avoids chalky ones, [29] and may be found in the same habitats as bay bolete (Imleria badia), brown roll-rim (Paxillus involutus), and chanterelles. [30] It forms relationships with Scots pine (Pinus ...
A. muscaria poisoning has occurred in young children and in people who ingested the mushrooms for a hallucinogenic experience, [21] [54] [55] or who confused it with an edible species. A. muscaria contains several biologically active agents, at least one of which, muscimol , is known to be psychoactive .
This is a choice edible species [10] with an especially high repute. [citation needed] Despite this, the fruit bodies of this and other yellow-staining Agaricus species often have a build-up of heavy metals, such as cadmium and copper. [9] However, this mushroom can resemble deadly Amanita mushrooms, such as A. verna. [11]
It is a member of the genus Cantharellus along with other popular edible chanterelles. It was distinguished from C. cibarius in the 1990s. It is orange to yellow, meaty and funnel-shaped. On the underside of the smooth cap, it has gill-like ridges that run down onto its stipe, which tapers down from the cap. The false gills often have a pinkish ...
L. deliciosus is an edible mushroom, [19] but may taste mild or bitter; [13] its misleading epithet, deliciosus ('delicious'), may have been caused by Linnaeus mistaking it for another species. [5] The mushrooms are collected in August to early October, where they are traditionally salted or pickled.