Bug on a Tree

A watercolor painting by Peter Murray.

MUSHROOM FORAY

Essential background info for a mushroom hunt.

.. a delightful animation on how a happy basidia makes another happy basidia!

This (above) is one of the specimens collected in the local wooded island (surrounded by a never ending pressure of human colonization).  The cap measures about a centimeter and the texture is stiff and rubbery. The red is bright.

This is called Ductifera pululahuana. It is a jelly fungus, firm in texture even though quite jellylike in character. It is white but is also faintly translucent. I found about half a pound (it has heft) on a rotting log of hardwood.  

                                             

After carefully brushing all the dirt out of the crevices under running water, in it went to a soup. Potato, onion, carrot, thyme, oregano, chicken stock (veg stock good too of course). Sautee onion, add thyme and oregano, add potato and some water, simmering the lot till potato is cooked. then add the mushroom, snipping it into bite sizes with a sissors.

.........yum........