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 thetonebone72
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 Trametes Versicolor 
#6486829 - 01/22/07 06:04 PM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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Anyone ever chew these as gum while hiking? David Arora says they can be used raw as a natural chewing gum.
Lots of color in these two
Holding onto a twig
that's a lot of gum!
showing the thin sponge layer
Habitat: Wood - Found in deciduous woods, growing from a standing dead alder
Gills: underside with thin sponge layer, color varies from a white to a light pinkish color.
Stem: absent
Cap: fan shaped with narrow concentric zones of colors and
Spore print color: not taken
Bruising: No color change was observed.
Location: Found in Portland metro area wildlife refuge
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elmanimal
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I guess they just taste like mushroom?
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Hotnuts
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Re: Trametes Versicolor [Re: elmanimal]
#6486910 - 01/22/07 06:41 PM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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"that's a lot of gum!"
That tastes like shroomey cardboard. No way in the world will you catch me chewing on them. Now to be used in a tea of some sort? Sure, but certainly not to be used as chewing gum. Ack!
Edited by Hotnuts (01/22/07 06:42 PM)
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pscyanescens
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Re: Trametes Versicolor [Re: Hotnuts]
#6487003 - 01/22/07 07:15 PM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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I believe that its common name is turkey tails. They are not chewed like gum, for the flavor. This is a medicinal mushroom. here are some notes i took at a local fungus fair.
- widely used in japan to prevent cancer
- anti-tumor effects
- improves hepatic function
- used to reduce side-effects of chemo-therapy
- 1-2g maintenance dose
- 3-6g therapeutic dose
also i wrote down no polypores are toxic. so even the lookalikes won't harm you. They might not provide the medicinal effects though.
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thetonebone72
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great info pscyanescens. It's very admirable that you took notes at the fungus fair. I think it's time to start chewin' some turkey tails!
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canid
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i have heard it speculated that a majority of the shelf fungi have medicinal properties, though i would advise sticking with those with established benefits.
as for trail-side chewing, i like cherry-gum or the young catkins of certain [non-bitter] hardwoods, to name a few.
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Hotnuts
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Re: Trametes Versicolor [Re: canid]
#6487351 - 01/22/07 09:03 PM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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Birch is fantastic to chew on in the woods as well.
There's about a kazillion research papers done by many on versicolor's and their medicinal properties. Here's one. And do check out more of the papers available at the Internation Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms. There's a lot of great information available to the public on this sight, for many species and uses.
http://www.edata-center.com/journals/708ae68d64b17c52,0d0f121956dd501b,3b982e7727b685b7.html
Edited by Hotnuts (01/22/07 09:04 PM)
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Re: Trametes Versicolor [Re: Hotnuts]
#6488395 - 01/23/07 01:19 AM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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yeah id associate those more with teas than chewing.
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Re: Trametes Versicolor [Re: Zen Peddler]
#6489094 - 01/23/07 10:33 AM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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bluemeanie!!! is that ziggy stardust posing with your mushrooms!??!
Mushrooms have proven tremendous value in certain afflictions. I highly recommend anyone who commonly seeks out medial or psychoactive species consider expanding their collections to include medicinal varieties.
Trametes are pretty much ubiquitous, unlike other of the prized medicinals such as Ganoderma or Grifola.
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canid
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Re: Trametes Versicolor [Re: georgeM]
#6489754 - 01/23/07 03:06 PM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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i think that's david bowie.
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pscyanescens
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Re: Trametes Versicolor [Re: canid]
#6491645 - 01/24/07 03:01 AM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
i think that's david bowie.
David Bowie=Ziggy stardust
Bluemeanie: Yes that is one thing i did not add. They are more commonly dried, ground into powder, and then used to make tea. It is much easier then chowing down 6 grams of gum-like mushrooms. Also you can go to your local health-food store and most likely get some powdered already. Allot of times they sell multi-pack mushroom powder that include multiple medicinal species. Usually Shiitake, Miiatake, Turkey Tails, Reishi, and more.
The list of medicinal mushrooms is getting longer everyday and we need more people to do research. Mycologist don't make nearly enough as they should IMO. For the 10,000 mushrooms we know about, there are 10,000 we don't know about. When we do learn those 10,000, we will have another 10,000 species that have evolved and genetically changed.
I truly believe after attending the medicinal mushroom seminar that the cure for cancer lies within a mushroom or fungus. It is the only organism/plant that we can study only by its fruits. The mycelium is almost impossible to differentiate from another species of mycelium until the fruits actually come up.
For those who think the cure is within a plant, i am not saying it couldn't be. However the mushroom/fungus kingdom contains more species then all plants and animals combined.
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snoot
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Quote:
thetonebone72 said:
Anyone ever chew these as gum while hiking? David Arora says they can be used raw as a natural chewing gum.
Lots of color in these two
Holding onto a twig
that's a lot of gum!
showing the thin sponge layer
Habitat: Wood - Found in deciduous woods, growing from a standing dead alder
Gills: underside with thin sponge layer, color varies from a white to a light pinkish color.
Stem: absent
Cap: fan shaped with narrow concentric zones of colors and
Spore print color: not taken
Bruising: No color change was observed.
Location: Found in Portland metro area wildlife refuge
I love mush, looks like some kind of really mature turkey tail of some kind. I love those rings, you should go back after it rains early in the morning and take some shots, or in the evening judging the sun.
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Re: Trametes Versicolor [Re: snoot]
#6492702 - 01/24/07 01:38 PM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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nice pics, i like the colours 
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hooksbooks
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Yipes! Stripes! Shroomery Gum!!
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