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  • Mushroom Toasts with Artomyces pyxidatus

    Get a recipe for mushroom toasts with a curious mushroom that grows out of moss-covered hardwood logs and looks like a white coral under the sea. This mushroom is Artomyces pyxidatus, or as it is commonly known, the crown-tipped coral. Keep reading to learn how to identify this spring edible mushroom and make a delicious dinner or lunch with it. 
  • Discovering Spring Mushrooms in the Enchanted Cook Forest

    Join me on a mushroom walk in the enchanted Forest Cathedral in Cook Forest, a state park in northwestern Pennsylvania, and discover the spring mushrooms growing in these magical old growth woods. Learn about entolomatoid and marasmioid mushrooms or a bright pink red raspberry slime mold that looks like snail eggs. Find out about the two types of violet-toothed polypores and the medicinal properties of the hemlock reishi and birch polypore, and more!