My search for wild mushrooms in the green spaces of Tokyo coincides with “The Many Faces of the Mysterious Mushroom”, a free art and science exhibit in the INAX building in the Ginza district. It’s a wonderful little one-room exhibit on the world of mushrooms, with mushroom models, preserved specimens, videos, stamps from around the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘mushrooms’
Tokyo Mushroom Life and Death
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amanita, mushroom art exhibit, mushroom death, mushrooms, Tokyo mushrooms on December 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Koishikawa Botanical Garden
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amanita, boletes, boletus, Chicken mushroom, conk, conks, Dryad’s Polypore, Fairy Ring mushrooms, Koishikawa Botanical Garden, Laetiporus sulphureus, Marasmius, Marasmius oreades, mushrooms, Mycena, Tokyo mushrooms, Tyromyces chioneus, White Cheese Polypore on December 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have so many pictures to load that I sometimes wonder why I’m doing this, starting yet another blog to keep up with. These pictures are on my facebook page but I can’t quite write the narrative on FB that I can do here. Endlessly go blah blah blah, y’know? Here I can link website [...]
National Park for Nature Study in Shinagawa-Ku
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amanita, artist's conk, boletes, boletus, Coltricia cinnamomea, Coprinus plicatilis, dragonfly, Earth tongue, Ganoderma australe, Ganoderma lucidum, Golden Waxy Cap, Helvella macropus, Hygrocybe flavescens, Japanese Umbrella Inky, mushrooms, National Park for Nature Study, Shinagawa-Ku, Shiny Cinnamon Polypore on December 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In late June 2009, the next park I went to in Tokyo was the National Park for Nature Study in Shinagawa-Ku near the Meguro station. To call this park such a name is pushing it a bit. It’s pretty small and tight and like the others, quite cultivated and manicured, but boy was there a [...]
Shinjuku Gyoen, Late June 2009
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Auricularia auricula, Coprinus radians, mushrooms, orange mat coprinus, Russula, Shinjuku Gyoen, Tokyo, Tokyo mushrooms, tree ear on December 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yes that Shinjuku. Crazy shopping youth culture blah blah blah district. Whatever you wanna call it. I call it the nabe with the nicest park I visited in Tokyo during my 2 months there, Shinjuku Gyoen. I went back over and over again to see what else sprouted up. It’s an urban park no doubt, [...]
First Mushrooms
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amanita muscaria, Coprinus micaceus, deliquescence, fly agaric, Mica inky cap, mushrooms on December 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
These are the first wild mushrooms I identify. This is in Seattle, WA just last fall. The greater region is mushroom heaven to many folks. Resources for mushroom identifying, cultivating, research, scholarship and enthusiasm are at one’s fingertip here. Plus the abundant mushrooms to be found in the region. Plus it’s Paul Stamets country. Plus [...]
Mushrooms on the Brain
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amanita muscaria, fly agaric, mushrooms, Wallingford Post Office on December 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Lately, I’ve had mushrooms float around my head and wake me up at night. Their stalks with caps or their non-capped globular/blobular shapes drifting around in my mindspace during sleep. On a free day, I’m walking around the city with my eyes to the ground and if I’m lucky, I’ll find mushrooms. I’ll take pictures [...]
