Sep. 4, 2006 - So cool...
Recently on one of the many yahoo groups I am on, someone mentioned mushroom spore prints. Well, this is something I have never done and it sounded interesting. It's a very timely project...after many months with little to no rain here, we have had a couple of glorious days of slow, drenching rain...praise the Lord....perfect conditions for growing mushrooms. We began by collecting 1 mushroom from a neighbors yard.
The directions for doing these spore prints are simple. You turn it over onto paper and cover it with a glass bowl overnight.
This morning, we had a gogeous mushroom spore print on our paper.
Then I found some great information online...
http://www.fungaljungal.org/trunk/edtr5.htm
http://www.fungaljungal.org/trunk/edtr4.htm
http://www.mushroomexpert.com/spore_print.html
So, on this rainy Labor Day, while my parents are still in town, we decided to go on a mushroom hunt. With kiddos in tow, we set out to see how many different kinds of mushrooms we could find in our area. To my surprise, we found about 8 different varieties...all unique and beautiful. Very exciting. Right now they are drying in the garage. Later today, we will start the spore print process and I will post some pictures of what we do. This is so cool.
