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Preserving a mushroom in its origional form
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Today I was volunteering at a local nursery where there was a fair and one of the booths belonged to the mushroom society I belong too. I saw several wonderful mushroom specimens in glass boxes so I asked if they had went out and picked them earlier that day...to my astonishment the women told me that the mushrooms were somehow preserved years ago and no one knows where they came from.

I am very interested in preserving my mushroom finds for artistic and scientific reasons but for the life of me I cannot find any information of preserving the original look of a mushroom.

anyone have an answer for me? id really appreciate it.


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Re: Preserving a mushroom in its origional form [Re: 2Cents]
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i'm not sure..

Honey?

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Re: Preserving a mushroom in its origional form [Re: 2Cents]
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Did you ever figure this out?

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Re: Preserving a mushroom in its origional form [Re: VancouverNoob]
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Nope, I never found out how to make this work.


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Re: Preserving a mushroom in its origional form [Re: 2Cents]
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Coming from the side of trying to preserve aquatic insects which are generally small and more easily preservable in strong ethanol or isopropanol: it doesn't work :sad: at least... not for extended amounts of time. There will always be color loss in biological samples in these media.


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Rod Tulloss said:

The bulb is the bulb.

The volva is the volva.

They have a very long term realtionship, but they’re “just friends.”

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Re: Preserving a mushroom in its origional form [Re: suchen]
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I don't think it is possible to preserve fresh mushrooms with todays technology.

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Re: Preserving a mushroom in its origional form [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
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The best way at present is with good photography.


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Re: Preserving a mushroom in its origional form [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
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Did you never ask the lady how someone did it so long ago? Or maybe other higher-ups in your mycology association? Seems like they may know the magic trick to preservation.

Also, I was thinking you could take quality 3D images and put them in a 3D digital frame. That would be pretty badass :awesomenod:


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Rod Tulloss said:

The bulb is the bulb.

The volva is the volva.

They have a very long term realtionship, but they’re “just friends.”

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Re: Preserving a mushroom in its origional form [Re: 2Cents]
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Maybe vacuum desiccation or freeze drying. For the vacuum desiccation, you'd need a vacuum chamber, it's been a while and I don't remember where I saw it but vacuum dried mushrooms retain their shape very well, if the vacuum is gradually increased, there is some loss of color, though. Another way is to freeze dry them in a chest freezer in a paper bag or wax paper bag, freeze drying this way takes a long time to get good results, but it also gives you a mushroom that retains it shape well with minimal loss of color, but you need a freezer that doesn't have defrost cycle and it takes a month or more depending on the size of your mushroom.

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Re: Preserving a mushroom in its origional form [Re: falcon]
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I have tried drying them and then covering them with polyester resin, they look quite cool

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Re: Preserving a mushroom in its origional form [Re: AIRDOG]
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AIRDOG said:
I have tried drying them and then covering them with polyester resin, they look quite cool


Got any pics? I thought about trying this sort of idea myself.


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Re: Preserving a mushroom in its origional form [Re: Ieponumos]
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inski said:
The best way at present is with good photography.


Ieponumos said:
AIRDOG said:
I have tried drying them and then covering them with polyester resin, they look quite cool


Got any pics? I thought about trying this sort of idea myself.



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Re: Preserving a mushroom in its origional form [Re: VancouverNoob]
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I think preserving the colour is always going to be the biggest challenge. Most preservation methods destroy the colour to some extent.

I came across an article recently that is relevant to this thread (attached). It talks about freeze drying fungi and impregnating them with wax.


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Re: Preserving a mushroom in its origional form [Re: TimmiT]
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Hmm, thanks for sharing that TimmiT! Will have to experiment a bit.


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Rod Tulloss said:

The bulb is the bulb.

The volva is the volva.

They have a very long term realtionship, but they’re “just friends.”

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Re: Preserving a mushroom in its origional form [Re: suchen]
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No one in the club knows where they came from, I guess they were found years ago in the cabinet.


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