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Shaggy Mane (Coprinus comatus)

This spring and fall mushroom is choice edible.

Three years ago I spotted some in a city park just out the window of my home.

The first flush was about five hundred…….(I have a lot of friends that love wild mushrooms) I took a spore print and grew it out in my lab…..Thank Goddess…they dug up the park to spruce it up a bit, haven’t seen one back yet. Expanding the mycelium to larger substrates I eventually put it out in fifty locations at the 145 acre forest, Pouch Camp on Staten Island NYC owned by The Boy Scouts of America where I work.

 

This photo is the result of my work….my children…but… I ate them…Does that make me a cannibal?

 

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Uploaded on October 9, 2008
Taken on October 9, 2008