It was early September ... just after Labor Day and my wife and I. .. Geezer and geezerette ... decided to make a small campsite late summer our favorite place, Housatonic Meadows State Park, just upstream of Cornwall Bridge top Western Connecticut. The weather can get a little chilly at night than during the time year in northern CT, but the days can be as large and the river water is still warm and the trout are still hungry, well, it an ideal time to camp ... hardly any people there. Of course, some bowhunters nights and weekends, but hunters are well behaved and a weekend are sometimes sociable and we met nice people there.
I am interested initially in the mushroom SP Kettletown River Housatonic below. We've been there, but twice and the first time we've been pretty high on a hill overlooking the river and weather had been hot and humid ... good for mushrooms to grow ... and although we were not "in" proliferate at this time we have continued to fall on those beautiful bodies and varied ... you can not really call the plants ... I think I counted about eighteen species different in the space of 90 minutes, just walking a hundred yards from our campsite! And the variety ... different colors and shapes and textures and smells ... I was dazzled by the screen. I do not remember the exact time of the summer that we were there, but he was told to catch the fungi growing season at its peak! Well, I was hooked, and later that summer has been presented a birthday field guide of the National Audubon Society mushroom from my fair lady ... and now I'm never in the woods without it.
But I digress ... back to this past September and the Housatonic Meadows ... I took a short stroll under pines, both living and dead ... great trees. The forest floor was clear of dense undergrowth and very open. The sun filtering through the branches high and the forest was dappled shade and the sun. Gomphidius I saw a little runny and a couple of mushrooms King ... very good to eat ... and some others ... oh yes, even a small group of yellow fairy cups ... Do not laugh! they are quite a standout! They are found in the Audubon book as Slimes, Jellies and Crustlike mushrooms ... I'm not joking! Anyway, suddenly I see a fungus that almost breathless. I know, I know .. sounds a little high, but it was certainly a show ... white snow mushroom light. The rod was about 7 inches tall and up (CAP) of the fungus was close to 5 centimeters in diameter and almost flat making it seem even larger. It may be fanciful to say that the fungus looked proud, but the word seems timely and appropriate. The way it was Distinguished Environmental dull ... the brown leaves and twigs and small branches and needles of hemlock .. it was simply spectacular!
I had no idea what it was at that moment and hastily began to leaf through the book to try to find it. I found a couple of possible candidates look in the book and then began to inspect the fungus closer withouf it disturbing. One thing I do not know ... I had never met before this fungus. I have seen quite easily in a cup shape around the base of the stem, and have begun to reduce the choice ... a veil up the stem ... as a thin membrane. the stem itself was a bit flaky and seemed to be .... I guess soft is a good word It did not take much longer and I quickly decided that I had found my first Amanita virosa ... English: the avenging angel! A name very appropriate, because that, according to the book, he is "deadly". Symptoms: vomiting, diarrhea and cramps ... kidney and / or hepatic dysfunction and follow without treatment may lead to death ... I quote from the book.
My three fairly young grandchildren were at the campsite later in the day and I took on another foot "fungus" and showed them the Amanita and drummed into their head is so beautiful and innocent things can be very, very bad for you. I, of course, they had to wash thoroughly after returning from the walk ... they had processed some other mushrooms which I thought Benin. But I wanted them to get used to taking precautions. I really think they were impressed by the experience of learning of the planned march. A few days later they even commented on the experience ... When they are a little older, I'll tell them that they are descendants of John and William Bartram, botanists first in this country ... but that is another story.
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