If you noticed that the president has grammar that is just as bad as the newsletter editor, don't worry; this message is paraphrased by me from a conversation over the phone with Genie Coleman.
Sounds like we've had several great forays over the past thirty days. In fact, I talked to Genie on the evening of Thursday November 19th, shortly after her getting back from picking Chanterelles in the snow around the Black Rock area. Now there's dedication! We should have pictures of this interesting outing for the December meeting.
Genie says that even though most of the forays were relatively small (6-7 people at most), every outing this year brought anyone who went at least enough Chanterelles for dinner, in some cases much more.
Mushrooms seen over the month of November were ton's (literally) of Russula and Lactarius; Inocybe; Laccaria laccata & L. amethystina; Gomphidius glutinosus & G. subroseus; miscellaneous puffballs much too old for the table; several different Amanitas (muscaria, pantherina, beautiful white button silvicola); a few candy caps (Lactarius camphoratus); Cantharellus tubaeformis; and Tricholoma flavovirens (Man on Horseback) to name just a few off the top of her head.
There were enough of the Man on Horseback found to make meals for both Genie and Katsu Young. In fact, she had just finished eating them when I had called for the months happenings.
The Man on Horseback is one of those mushrooms that those spending a little extra time in identifying some of the "non-standard" mushrooms (i.e. not a King Boletus, not a Chanterelle), will find a real treat in (David Arora says of its edibility "edible and excellent -- one of the least appreciated and most flavorful of our fleshy fungi...".
Genie says to be thinking of possible foray locations for the months of December and January. There should still be several months worth of picking left along the coast at least.
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