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Chicken of the woods and mushroom nerds

It's strange how these things happen ...

Walking through the park yesterday afternoon with my partner and the dogs and out of the blue I remembered seeing a large fungi across the river. Seconds later I looked across the river and spotted a large fungi, of the same kind ... a growth of Chicken of the wood (Laetiporus sulphureus)

I'd found a smaller growth on a tree on my side of the river once and taken it home to cook and eat. Delicious!

 

As I started taking photos a man approached and talked excitedly about this wonderful sight and PING that was it, the meeting of minds of two mushroom nerds and quickfire tales of everything mushroom: a mushroom to rewire the brain and cure depression, eat waste plastics, reduce cholesterol, of Viking berserkers eating Amanita muscaria on their raids, of tasty dinners and poisonings ......

His children and our partners looked on, bewildered

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Uploaded on April 28, 2025
Taken on April 27, 2025