https://jon.kelbie.scot/category/fungi/ Recent content in Fungi on Jon Kelbie | My Site | jon.kelbie.scot Hugo -- gohugo.io en Sun, 02 Jan 2022 09:01:48 +0000 https://jon.kelbie.scot/photo/2022/01/61d169fc/ My mum bought me a “Grow your own gourmet mushrooms” kit and I thought cool, a handful of oyster mushrooms for a couple of generations (can re-use the kit 1-2 times after first harvest).. .. woah.. there are so many more sprouts than I was expecting! (https://jon.kelbie.scot/photo/2022/01/61d169fc/) A brown and green cardboard box hosts an abundance (possibly in excess of 100) of tiny little mushrooms with white stalks and grey caps. Sun, 02 Jan 2022 09:01:48 +0000 https://jon.kelbie.scot/photo/2022/01/61d169fc/ https://jon.kelbie.scot/photo/2021/11/6189236c/ Been waiting for ages for this book to be back in stock, looks fantastic! (https://jon.kelbie.scot/photo/2021/11/6189236c/) A white book cover with a large and a small bolete mushroom atop some woodland foliage. the stems are bulbous and beige whilst the caps are brown. The text is black and says "Roger Phillips - Mushrooms - A comprehensive guide with over 1,250 detailed photographs of mushrooms and other fungi". There is also a quote by David Bellamy "A masterpiece of identification" Mon, 08 Nov 2021 13:17:32 +0000 https://jon.kelbie.scot/photo/2021/11/6189236c/ https://jon.kelbie.scot/photo/2021/09/61445a6b/ Found these wee beauties growing on a tree stump in our garden. I haven’t attempted identification yet but I have my suspicions as to what they might be. (https://jon.kelbie.scot/photo/2021/09/61445a6b/) A ring of clustered, yellow mushrooms growing around the top of a tree trunk. Fri, 17 Sep 2021 10:05:47 +0000 https://jon.kelbie.scot/photo/2021/09/61445a6b/ https://jon.kelbie.scot/photo/2021/09/61437adb/ Right! Where did I leave my trainers? Very much looking forward to having the time to read this book, and indeed to the act of reading it.. equally, probably. (https://jon.kelbie.scot/photo/2021/09/61437adb/) The front cover of a book entitled "Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World". The title is capitalised and in light blue, against a black background. Subtitle is in red font against a white banner, there is an illustrated view of a forest with white branches of mycelium entangling with the roots of trees, a fish swims in a river. The bottom section of the cover is in white text on a red banner and says "PAUL STAMETS author of Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms" Thu, 16 Sep 2021 18:11:55 +0000 https://jon.kelbie.scot/photo/2021/09/61437adb/ https://jon.kelbie.scot/photo/2021/09/6135e9f6/ Mushroom hunt 4th September 2021 My guess: Sulfur Tuft Certainty: ~80% Not edible! (https://jon.kelbie.scot/photo/2021/09/6135e9f6/) A all cluster of yellow-ish mushrooms which I have think are sulfur tufts on a dark brown wooden tray A small cluster of yellow-ish mushrooms which I think are sulfur tufts on a dark brown wooden tray. One mushroom has been removed and dissected and sits aside the cluster. Mon, 06 Sep 2021 11:14:14 +0000 https://jon.kelbie.scot/photo/2021/09/6135e9f6/ https://jon.kelbie.scot/note/2021/08/61295974/ That (Fantastic Fungi) was perhaps the best documentary that I’ve watched in years.. Amongst other things I took the following from it.. Lion’s mane mushrooms have potential qualities which MAY be able to assist in combatting conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.. but they are rare and at least here, picking them is apparently illegal.. they can be grown though. I really need to experience psilocybin (magic mushrooms), as soon as possible, please. I need to read, Mycelium Running - and will purchase before I go to bed.. .. I also then answered my own question of what to do with spent grain when I become a brewer (not going to give it to cattle farmers.. as most people suggest..).. I’m going to grow a fuck tonne of mushrooms! (https://jon.kelbie.scot/note/2021/08/61295974/) Fri, 27 Aug 2021 22:30:28 +0000 https://jon.kelbie.scot/note/2021/08/61295974/