ππΌπ on Gaia since 2005, but just returned (2024) after a long hiatus
ππΌπ nature lover / naturalist (with a biology background and lots of field experience)
ππΌπ not the best at making human friends but can easily bond with moths, frogs, and pretty much any other critter (or plant or fungus)
ππΌπ CLICK HERE TO VIEW MY NATURE OBSERVATIONS
you're welcome! always love me a good clutter avi 3nodding
aa! thank you! ever since I threw it together I haven't been able to change it
the face is just so precious to me
checked your avi since I saw you fav my avi and I gotta say, the avis you got displayed on your profile are so good
and your current avi is so good too!
Lucky! My usual spots are all under snow and won't melt until April. I don't think we have much of a late fall early winter mushroom season except maybe some pasture/lawn stuff. Come January we'll start
Yeah I only got to forage for boletes twice this year. I love their heartiness. Both times maggots were pretty extensive. So depressing. Morels I think way more people hunt for and I'd go back for babies I left 2 days later and they'd be wiped out. Guess that's what happens on forestry lands.
Id more more enjoy the coastal range I think. Longer foraging seasons with more diversity!
I live in the central Sierras in California like an hour from Lake Tahoe. I mostly hunt for gourmets (also grow my own if we have a nice enough spring like lions main oysters etc). We have spring king and butter boletes I can never remember their Latin names and at least 4 morel species I get in the spring/summer. My main myco man who led ID forages moved full time to Italy to do truffles.
The bloody tooth fungus is my unicorn mushroom/fungus. I don't think ill ever find one!!!
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Pictured below is Monotropsis odorata (aka Sweet Pinesap), a mycoheterotrophic plant which does not photosynthesize and therefore must obtain its nutrients elsewhere (in this case from fungi). CLICK BELOW for more of my iNaturalist OBSERVATIONS
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