Mushroom on the Old Birch
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Birch polypore is medicinal but not edible because the texture is like styrofoam
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DeleteI would never ever eat a wild mushroom. PhD*Son ate one when he was just under 1 year old, while we were camping. Long story short, it was one of the most poisonous kinds...orange with a collar...and we were so grateful that our pediatrician had gifted us with a little bottle of Ipecac at our daughter's 1st birthday, and we had never needed to use it, so still had it...and had it with us. Worked well. Then we had to watch him for possible effects of the Ipecac. He sweated a little, but was fine.
I have read that all tree fungi are non-poisonous.
DeleteFrom Wikipedia: Laetiporus is a genus of edible mushrooms found throughout much of the world. Some species, especially Laetiporus sulphureus, are commonly known as sulphur shelf, chicken of the woods, the chicken mushroom, or the chicken fungus because it is often described as tasting like and having a texture similar to that of chicken meat. The name "chicken of the woods" is not to be confused with another edible polypore, Maitake (Grifola frondosa) known as "hen of the woods/rams head” or with Lyophyllum decastes, known as the "fried chicken mushroom". The name Laetiporus means "with bright pores".
We harvested field mushrooms when I was young; we could identify the single species, and that very well-- but every once in a while there was one that didn't look quite typical, so we threw it away. On part of our land a particular large kind of mushroom grew that we understood to be edible, but didn't eat. We had heard that it had to be prepared in a particular way, but never investigated.
DeleteI'm still not willing to experiment with wild mushrooms.
DeleteI had never seen it before--birch trees are not native hereabouts. Wikipedia notes that it was found on Otzi the Iceman and quotes speculation that he might have used it as medicine, but I recall (correctly or not) that it was part of his fire kit-- it is good tinder. I saw a demonstration of it-- just knock a spark into it, blow lightly and a tiny flame appears.
ReplyDeleteHe also had in his kit flint and a specific type of stone that sparks well-- an unusual type of pyrite? Too lazy to look it up now.
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Woo, quite a weather day--brooms, spoons little and big branches rolling rocks. Hitting roof and siding. Only had one of these before, never want another.
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DeletePBS is showing LIVE: NASA is going to deliberately crash a spacecraft into a small asteroid (in just a few minutes) to see if that can alter its course...incase it is ever needed to save Earth.
ReplyDeleteImpact expected at 7:20pmET
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Whoa! It hit (direct hit) at 7:16pmET.
DeleteI am of the opinion that it would be better to nudge the asteroid and slowly push it into a different orbit. But that would be considerably more complicated.
DeleteI take it that the asteroid didn't shatter, which would be the main concern with a direct hit.
DeleteRight. The asteroid is the size of a pyramid. The spacecraft being only the size of a refrigerator, it couldn't have shattered it.
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