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fry day


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Re: Help with Polypore Identification [Re: obsessed]
#18742889 - 08/22/13 03:04 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yeh, I didn't bother to look up the vid, but I thought that was the fungus that stamets was waxing poetic about when I saw the pic. (Laricifomes Officianalis)
I don't think it is, tho'.
So, the tinder fungus makes a good tea? I don't know it as one of the more medicinal conks... Reishi, red belted, artist...
What does it taste like and how do you prepare it? I've got lotsa red belted and artist dried but have been a little leery of making tea, just need to hear it tastes good or at least not gagging bitter...
-------------------- "Shrub, 30-90 cm. Leaves 2.5-) 4-9 cm, sessile or amplexicaul, broadly ovate to ovate-oblong, obtuse or rounded to subapiculate or subacute, when crushed not smelling of goats." "The initial quake was a 6.6 but fairly shallow. I felt it as a prolonged up and down vibration followed by a jolt forward and then to the left, like square dancing."
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Re: Help with Polypore Identification [Re: fry day]
#18754643 - 08/25/13 10:10 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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I haven't tried the red belted or artist Tea yet. But Fomentarius tea tastes excellent. I give it a few good wacks with a sludge hammer then break it apart into small pieces and put it into my Vitamix. Blend it into a dry pulp. The tea is a lot stronger this way and you dont have to boil it for very long... like 5 min. I like to make a hot or cold milk tea with it and sweeten with honey or sugar.
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fry day


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Re: Help with Polypore Identification [Re: obsessed]
#18755075 - 08/25/13 12:49 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Good to know. I'd concocted some tea from F. pinicola, ground in the coffee grinder, dried calendula and dried red clover. It was horribly bitter. Later I read that calendula can be bitter if you use older flowers, so maybe that was it.
The F. pinicola fluffed up incredibly when ground. Looked like great tinder. Prolly should just try one ingredient at a time. Put me off the whole gig for awhile. ;-)
I found some conk similar to the ones on the left, pics are in this thread, conks #5. The tops were covered with a fine redbrown dust, probably from some earth work in the park. Check those out and see if you think they look similar:
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/18752443
They look like pics of artist conk I've seen, tho' the other stuff I've gathered here is lumpier and more striated like the two on the right. And no weeping drops... They exhibited the classic underside of artist when scratched.
-------------------- "Shrub, 30-90 cm. Leaves 2.5-) 4-9 cm, sessile or amplexicaul, broadly ovate to ovate-oblong, obtuse or rounded to subapiculate or subacute, when crushed not smelling of goats." "The initial quake was a 6.6 but fairly shallow. I felt it as a prolonged up and down vibration followed by a jolt forward and then to the left, like square dancing."
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Forrester
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Re: Help with Polypore Identification [Re: fry day]
#18755309 - 08/25/13 02:12 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
fry day said: The tops were covered with a fine redbrown dust, probably from some earth work in the park.
Probably spores
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fry day


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Re: Help with Polypore Identification [Re: Forrester]
#18755365 - 08/25/13 02:27 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Nah, there was nothing above to sporify on 'em. The ivy leaves were coated with it also. It looked like they'd stirred up a bunch of dust there on the trail awhile back. It was a bit odd that it wasn't on EVERYTHING.
And I tried printing the one I took... Nada. This stuff was fine, red-brown and prolific in that small location. Could be something from ivy...
-------------------- "Shrub, 30-90 cm. Leaves 2.5-) 4-9 cm, sessile or amplexicaul, broadly ovate to ovate-oblong, obtuse or rounded to subapiculate or subacute, when crushed not smelling of goats." "The initial quake was a 6.6 but fairly shallow. I felt it as a prolonged up and down vibration followed by a jolt forward and then to the left, like square dancing."
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Gravija
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Re: Help with Polypore Identification [Re: fry day]
#18755659 - 08/25/13 03:34 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Conks create a thermal uplift with their shape. The spores accumulate on top of the mushroom.
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fry day


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Re: Help with Polypore Identification [Re: Gravija]
#18755842 - 08/25/13 04:23 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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-------------------- "Shrub, 30-90 cm. Leaves 2.5-) 4-9 cm, sessile or amplexicaul, broadly ovate to ovate-oblong, obtuse or rounded to subapiculate or subacute, when crushed not smelling of goats." "The initial quake was a 6.6 but fairly shallow. I felt it as a prolonged up and down vibration followed by a jolt forward and then to the left, like square dancing."
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