like butter

matsutake in its natural habitat

leccinum ponderosa?

Matsutake Madness Seizes The Japanese Every Autumn - New York Times

Matsutake Madness Seizes The Japanese Every Autumn - New York Times: "at wholesale for more than $725 a pound this year -- say a great deal, not just about what the Japanese like, but also about why they like it."

how to cook them

I'm big in Japan

Matsutake Tester!

Scawey!

NetCARD

he double dares you

coworkers with spirit

Happy Hallows Eve

add two more to the list; Cauliflower Mushroom and King Trumpet (Eryngi)

Oishi (not my photo)

But are they Kosher?

: "A FUNGIBLE FEAST, MUSHROOMS IN HALACHA by: Rabbi Zushe Blech"

cordyceps is a fungal pathogen that infects an insect, eats its innards, and sprouts a mushroom out the top

you can often follow the mushroom underground or in a rotting log and find the insect body. The insect goes insane while being eaten, and drills into the earth to try to escape

chaos fungorum

chaos fungorum

boo 3

oH matsutake, elusive autumn fungi, your days are numbered- dansho 2007

looks tricholoma, but not matsutake
lord vader

the gates of hell mushroom coral




peppermint stick mushroom -another name i made up.

the wooly chantrelle -gomphus flocculus?

boo! 2

ha

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