Mushrooms and mushrooming in Ukraine

[sivaram]

With reference to the on going discussion, CoCo peat and Neem coir are wonderful mushroom casing/ growing mediums.

For more info kindly visit http://www.greeneem.com

[Zbyszek]

Dear wild mushroom lovers,

I had a holiday in the country and there was a prolonged drought lasting almost a month. Then, violent rains came but it was too early to activate fungi bodies. I desperately looked for an opportunity of mushrooming in my neighbourhood.
There were no mushrooms in surrounding vast forest but... I found them in my yard unexpectedly. I think I had noticed pale brown little mushroms growing in grass before but I absolutely paid no attention to them. This time, however it was different, maybe because "na bezrybiu i rak ryba" as they say in my country. I picked a few and dried them up. Their smell was delicious!
It turned out later that mushroom sauce based on Marasmius Oreades was wonderful. That way I added one more valuable specie to my collection of known and valued mushrooms.
Marasmius is quite intriguing fungus and you can read more about it. They often grow in mysterious fairy rings.
http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species/M...s_oreades.html
Do you know them in Ukraine, too? What's their popular name? In Poland, they call them pzhydruzhka because they often grow by the road.



[Edited by Zbyszek on 9th August 2005 at 19:14]

[Evanna]

Regarding the radiation from mushrooms in the Chernoboyl area, just today my husband was there and he does tours to Chernoboyl and has his own new geege metre they tested 11 micromons, 40km from Chern and they can be tested in KIEV markets from babashukas selling them and we have found them to be as high as 15 micromons, so pls dont think that everything in the Chern area are high YES some things are and some are not you need to test them first, so least to say I'm picking 3kgs of 11 micromons of white mushrooms.