Edible Aspen
Many Mushrooms Among Us
Photo by Dan Bayer
Light shines through the gills on the underside of a mushroom cap.
Photo by Dan Bayer
A common yellow russula makes landfall on the forest floor. Like others, this mushroom prefers a wet environment and will fruit after rainfall.
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Poisonous amanita muscaria color the forest landscape. A forager's rule of thumb suggests avoiding mushrooms with white gills and those with red on the cap or stem.
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Midsummer rains brought on a bounty of boletus edulis, edible mushrooms known more commonly as boletes or porcini, in the valley.
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The buttery gills of a wild mushroom stand out against the otherwise crunchy ground cover in fall.
Photo by Dan Bayer
"The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground." —Rumi
