Back to Shinjuku Gyoen to check out what’s growing now in July 2009. First a gallery of photos, then some highlights. It is freaking hot and humid at this time.
Posts Tagged ‘Tokyo mushrooms’
Shinjuku Gyoen, July 2009
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bolete, Dunce cap mushrooms, Ganoderma lucidum, Japanese Umbrella Cap, Marasmius, Mycena, puffballs, Shinjuku Gyoen, spiky puffballs, Tokyo mushrooms, turtles on December 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Off to Japan!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Hibiya Park, Tokyo mushrooms, unidentified mushrooms on December 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So come June 2009, I go off to Tokyo, Japan for the long-awaited reunification with my husband and spend a fabulous summer there. It’s really hot and humid when I arrive and it’s the tail end of the rainy season. Hmmmmm, you know what that means! Japan is already quite a mushroom-conscious culture as it [...]
