2 the Mushroom Log

July,Aug., 2007 Volume 35 Issue 4

O h i o M u s h r o o m S o c i e t y The Mushroom Log Friday Night (Early Arrivals): collections, table walk, Fall Foray- followed by collecting on 8PM - 10PM Libations and your own. Deep Woods- food at the Sandstone Bistro in Logan. Camping is 12:00: Clean up. permitted on site Fri. and Hocking Co. Sat. nights Accomodations: Camping: By Walt Sturgeon Saturday : Camping is permitted and 9:00 Coffee/ Donuts the hardy may choose to 9 am Sat., Sept 29 till Noon 9:30 On-site forays on your sleep in one of the caves. Sunday, Sept 30. own. There may also be indoor space available upstairs in Where: Deep Woods Farm, 10:00 Gorge Foray and the garage for those with air owned by the Blythe family Upland Foray mattresses. who are all naturalists. The site itself is rustic. We will be 12:00 Lunch (Bring Local Motels in the garage and outside if something to share) the weather is good. The The Inn Towner on woods are classic Hocking 12:30: Driving Foray to Mulberry St. County with black hand Wahkeena. www.inntownermotel.com sandstone cliffs, caves, and More on-site collecting or Located in Logan, about 30 diverse woodland. It is collection study. Possible minutes from the foray site, rugged country but there are mycophagy. It is a dated, bare bones trails in some places and Beginner’s Program. motel but clean. Bring your easy collecting once you get (tentative) own cell phones as there are up on one of the ridges. no phones in the rooms. Seeps and the bottoms of 4:30 Slide Program TBA Rooms are about $50. Other the narrow gorges are also motels in Logan cost over accessible. In very dry 6:30 Covered dish onsite or $120 per night, include: conditions Walt and Andrea back to the Sandstone Moore got 56 species of Bistro. Holiday Inn Express, 12916 fungi and 4 myxomycetes. Grey St. Logan, OH 43138. Dates: Saturday, Sept 29th - Sunday: Phone 740/385-7700. Sunday, Sept. 30. 10:00. Review of the Amerihost Inns 2 The Mushroom Log www.amerihostinn.com the CMNH Sand Barrens at tele. 740/536-7448) so she 12819 Ste. Rte. 664S, 10:00 am. There are no can email precise directions. Logan, OH facilities-so stop before you 740/385-1700 arrive! We plan to break for Morel Foray at lunch at a nearby pizza place Directions to Deep Woods and head for the ”swamp” in Woodbury Wildlife Farm : the afternoon. We will finish Area by 2:30 pm. By Dick Grimm UPDATE (04/23/2009): Call Pete & Pauline Munk for OMS had special permission more information at 440/236- 23 folks converged on Grandma’s Kuntry Kitchen in to hunt mushrooms here as 9222. Warsaw, OH for brunch before part of their 2007 foray Directions: Take I-90 east to the Morel hunt. Grandma didn’t program. the Ohio Rte. 193 exit. know we were coming…wow! Follow 193 north to US Rt. After the color returned to her This location is private 20 east. Travel on US Rte. face, she served up 21 very property and there is no 20 east to Poore Road. A nice meals and was 21 meal blanket permission to hunt left (north) on Poore Rd. will slips richer as we cleared out. mushrooms here for the take you the Preserve, She appeared tired, but was general public. located just on the other side smiling! Just south of the of the railroad tracks. village, the two hour hunt Please do not attempt to produced a grand total of 19 morels of different sizes, if not hunt mushrooms at former Mini-Foray at species. 6 very large morels OMS foray locations without were found by Hugh Urban and the prior permission of the Christmas Rocks Dick Grimm. Janet Sweigart property owners. and Nancy Murray found By Shirley McClelland several “Tulip” morels. It was an ideal day with plenty of recent rain but…who knows Dick Grimm and I will foray why the lack of shrooms? into Christmas Rocks, a “permit only” state nature My apologies for the delay , your Ed. preserve outside of Lancaster. The foray starts at 10 am, Aug. 25 at the Changing of the covered bridge, and Guard continues through lowlands Fall Mini- to a hardwood (mostly oak) By Jerry Pepera old growth forest. Foray- Sand Depending on how ambitious You may have noticed a few we are, it could also include organizational changes in a mature pine plantation, or the club this year. Walt Barrens a climb to the lookout point Sturgeon is now the known as Jacob’s Ladder. Chairman and has been By Pete & Pauline Munk We have received a active since the board research permit, and will be meeting in January. Effective Site: North Kingsville Sand submitting a list of species to today, I am taking over as Barrens & Kingsville Swamp. ODNR after ID’ing them at a Treasurer and Membership nearby Lancaster location. Secretary. We wanted to Our fall miniforay will try a Please let Shirley know if delay this action until mid- new location in Ashtabula you will be attending, year County. We will meet [email protected] since membership activity Saturday, Oct. 13, 2007 at slows down at this time. All 3 The Mushroom Log future inquiries regarding history is probably new Xenia and Yellow Springs area. membership should be information and helps to put By word of mouth and through directed to me. Of course, Jerry’s announcement of the diligent effort from the original any complaints recent changes in a larger spore, the mycelium grew should go to Walt since that perspective. slowly into probably 50 or 60 what he now gets paid for! fruiting bodies. And spread like OMS: Past And Armillaria mellea to distant At the last board meeting, Present habitats. Dick Doyle expressed an By Dick Grimm interest in Around this time, a tall, thin, transitioning out of this role Every so often we publish a gangly professor of Chemistry so that he can spend more short history of the club. from Denison University, one time enjoying his retirement When it started, how it Richard Doyle, joined the club. which includes studying started, some names, some Dick immediately wanted to be mushrooms, of course. Dick numbers and just general treasurer (Dick has a nose for has been faithfully information money). There was no pressure performing the Treasurer Dick Grimm started the club to take the job, so after he said and Membership Secretary back in 1972. He had to scratch "uncle" we released his arm role for most of its history around to find enough and he took over the duties. He and as long as I've been in interested mushroomers to loved the job so much we the Club. He has done a truly launch the program off the pad. allowed him to be secretary outstanding job all these He finally got in touch with along with it (another "uncle"). years and we are grateful for Harry Knighton of Portsmouth, Dick has maintained that his Ohio who, at the time, was double duty through the past 30 dutiful service. Dick will president of NAMA, the years, or practically the total remain a board member in National Amateur Mycological time the club has existed. good standing and will Society. Harry put him in touch continue to help the club in with a group of men in Xenia, The presidential baton was whatever way we can twist Ohio who at the time had a passed from Grimm to a young, his arm! He small local club in action. dedicated member fresh out of organized the Denison Among a few others, Doc college from Youngstown, Ohio BioReserve Morel Hunt and Morton (deceased), and Rube around the same time Doyle will also be hosting the Dick Holcomb assisted Dick in took over the duties of Grimm Banquet, so he's getting the seed planted and Secretary-Treasurer. His name hardly retired as a board from that point on the society was Walt Sturgeon. Walt was member. grew from 6 beginning not an avid mushroom members to the over 200 active enthusiast. .. he was a rabid Also, a big congratulations members today. mushroom enthusiast (in and thank you goes to Walt We could include names here tenacious pursuit, that is). After for accepting the Chairman's but they would only be names. Grimm taught him the basics job. Even though I've had Most of those members from and some important this job since about 1990 or that spore-hypha beginning are preliminaries, Sturgeon was off so, Walt has served in this now deceased. Rube Holcomb, the block and running like a capacity before and brings Dr. Wayne Ellett, and Dick are Psilocybe-filled man possessed much experience and the only charter members still (figuratively speaking, of expertise to the job. remaining in the club. course) and within a ten-year Since most of the members span Walt emerged as one of Ed. Note: I’m following up during that beginning era were the finest amateur field men in Jerry’s announcement with this the country. brief history of the Ohio from Xenia and the surrounding vicinity, the main activity, Bill Roody, who got his Mushroom Society which Dick beginnings in the Ohio Grimm recently sent me. For regarding forays, was held at most of us, me included, this John Bryan State Park in the Mushroom Society, has gone on to become a national 4 The Mushroom Log authority in wild mushrooming pried his mouth open, Sturgeon and volunteer . .if nothing and has authored and co- held an Amanita virosa close to more ... ATTEND! authored several books on the his mouth and threatened to go subject. Harold Keller another further with it if he didn't accept Since the club is a statewide author, specializing in the the job of Chairman as the membership (and beyond) club, myxomycetes, was also a board. Jerry Pepara didn't, at the newsletter is the tie that member in those earlier days. that time, know too many binds. Grimm, Sturgeon, Bob And Dr. Sam Mazzer, a species of mushrooms, but he Burrell, Roody, Bobersky and professor of biology and did know Amanita virosa and its Shirley Hyatt and Terry Miller mycology at Kent State ramifications. Jerry accepted each took a turn. Hyatt and University joined the club at the job and has been an Miller probably bit the bullet for that time, as well. Sam was a excellent Chairman since that the longevity record and only protege of the noted memorable occasion at Penn- recently handed the editorship mycologist, Alexander Smith, Glenn. to David Miller a professor at from University of Michigan. Oberlin College. Dave When one begins to hand out consented to give it a shot after Dr. Mazzer brought much plaudits and trophies there are Pepera confronted him with the knowledge to the club. He was never enough to go around. offer (gun in hand). We thank an excellent identifier of People get left out; feelings get Dave for volunteering and mushrooms. Walt's love of the hurt through no fault other than the biggest assist we could hobby kept him extremely busy being overlooked. Thirty years give him is to send him some and after he became an officer would fill several pages of copy now and again. in NAMA the time load became those members who stepped So, there you have it, 30 overpowering and he eventually up front when needed. years digested into a few handed the reigns of the Workers, on site volunteers, paragraphs. Every fruiting presidency to Mary Bobersky, a foray leaders, speakers, cooks, body has its mycelium life member from Lake Milton, bottle washers and the list goes (roots) and this article is a Ohio. Mary served as President on. The Sweigarts, the Munks, brief insight into ours. until her business activities Daphne Vasconselos, Doyle, began absorbing most of her Sharon Greenberg, Grimm and Truffles in time, and Walt again stood in his wife, Phyllis, Sturgeon, as an interim President. It was Shirley Hyatt and Terry Miller, Tennessee at that time the consensus Dave Morris, Joe Christian ... among the group of officers all active board members now, (Excerpted from the NY Times was that the club should be run or were at one time. How many article Feb. 28,207 sent in by by a board of directors rather of the faithful have we missed? Hiroko Saeki, published in the than a President. Walt wanted We can't forget you, Betty Spring, 2007 issue of Spore off the hook, He tried to hand Poorman, or you Joe Strong Print, the Newsletter of the the ball off to Grimm, but Dick and Jack Smith Photographers Connecticut Valley Mycological Society) wouldn't take it again. So, since and instigators and nobody wanted the job the implementers of our "The town of Chuckey is decision was made to establish incorporation. Or you Jack located on the upside of the an official board to handle the Fronz, always ready to assist Nolichucky River valley in an business of the club's and opening a Yahoo news eastern jut of Tennessee operation. Again the question web. As we said, 30 years is a about 20 miles from the crest remained of who would accept long time. So, if we've of the Blue Ridge Mountains the chairmanship overlooked anyone we and the North Carolina apologize. To most these are border ..... On the edge of A young man from Mentor, near only names anyhow, but clubs town, perched on a south- Cleveland, was backed into a do not function without helpers facing slope overlooking the comer at a PennGlenn foray as here mentioned, including birthplace of Davy Crockett, near Cleveland. While Doyle those we've inadvertently an orchard of 350 hazelnut held him down and Grimm overlooked. So Step forward, 5 The Mushroom Log trees has begun to sprout them and smelled them and an animal. In order to attract Perigord truffles, the fragrant tasted them, before one of rodents and marsupials, the black fungi that can send his truffles had found its way truffle, like a tiny epicures, as well as routing into the chef Daniel Boulud's underground perfume pigs and dogs, into fits of kitchen in Manhattan, before factory, produces up to 50 frenzied greed. the chef had confirmed the different chemicals that grower's suspicion. combine to create a scent "The truffles from Chuckey powerful enough to are not the first American- ·'This is it," Mr. Boulud said. penetrate up to three feet of grown Perigord truffles. They "The first time in America. earth .. "Some smell like are, however, the first This Tennessee truffle is the cheese, some like garlic, American grown black real thing." Only then did Dr. some like fruit, some like truffles to excite some of the Michaels realize that up to sewer gas," Dr. Trappe said. country's top chefs, like 150 pounds of world class The aroma of T. Daniel Boulud, Thomas truffles could be ripening in melanosporum, generally a Keller, John Fleer and the ground behind his mixture of musk and fruit and Jonathan Waxman. modest three-bedroom forest floor, and the earthy, ranch, and that he had garlicky Tuber magnatum, or Although unexpected, the neither dog nor pig to sniff Italian white truffle, are the Tennessee truffles were not them out before they most prized ..... unplanned. Tom Michaels, a withered and disappeared "Dr. Michaels is the first 59-year-old plant pathologist, domestic truffle farmer to pianist and Scrabble "According to James M. produce commercial tournament competitor, Trappe, a professor emeritus quantities of truffles of a sprouted the hazelnut trees of mycology at Oregon State quality that commands top from seeds. He inoculated University and the coauthor dollar ($50 an ounce, $800 a their roots with Tuber of the forthcoming "Trees, pound). But he is not the melanosporum, the Perigord Truffles and Beasts: How only one panning for black truffle, before setting them in Forests Function" (Rutgers gold. There are, said Charles his backyard seven years University Press), there are K. Lefevre, the owner of New ago. He resisted dreams of a about 60 species of true World Truffieres in Eugene, truffle bonanza as truffles, the subterranean Ore., about 300 promising assiduously as he limed his fungi that attach to a plant's orchards on American soil. soil and trimmed his trees. roots and issue long tendrils 'The same sort of people you Dr. Michaels had, after all, that gather nutrition for the find growing grapes in grown up on a mushroom plant and use the California are starting to farm west of Chicago and carbohydrates that the plant plant truffle orchards," said had written his thesis on the returns to eventually form the Dr. Lefevre, whose company difficulty of the in-vitro "fruit" we call truffles - but last year supplied about cultivation and growth of T. only a dozen are prized in 13,000 inoculated trees to melanosporum ... :. the kitchen. about 50 hopeful growers.

"When, on the morning of "Most fungi sprout a stem "In Hillsborough ... Garland Jan. 3, he noticed patches of and cap that contain Truffles supplies a similar the tawny Tennessee soil reproductive spores. The quantity of inoculated trees. bubbling up like blistered truffle does not. The truffle is With a $235,000 grant from asphalt in his orchard, a "sack of spores," explained the North Carolina Tobacco however, Dr. Michaels lost Dr. Trappe, and while other Trust Fund, which supports his circumspection. "I was mushrooms need nothing but research that may benefit jumping around yelling a rustling wind to loosen and former tobacco farmers, Mr. 'Eureka!' " he said. And that spread their seed, the Garland has also supplied 45 was before he saw the size subterranean bulb needs to of those farmers with trees. If of the bulbs, before he felt be digested and excreted by even a small number of 6 The Mushroom Log

these orchards succeed, Spend more on mushroom Are careful in identifying truffles will be more plentiful books than on the furniture in anything they intend to eat, but and their prices may begin to the room where the books are will find some good quality in drop." kept. When entering a any nonpoisonous mushroom. bookstore they always head for “It adds texture.’’ ”It adds the “nature guides” area first. color.” “It smells like anise.” They can identify most Articles for the next newsletter mushrooms without a field Have a real problem enjoying guide, and have never had a the scenery when visiting parks Deadline –September 21 “near death experience” due to because they are always misidentification. looking for mushrooms. David Miller Can be found in the woods any Give honest answers when 352 W. College St. month of the year, in any kind of asked where they find Oberlin, OH 44074 weather, and with complete mushrooms. “In the country.” [email protected] disregard for the temperature. “North of town.” “In a pasture.” “Down by the river.” “Out in the Would rather spend half a day woods.” lost in the woods than be found by somebody who is not lost but Are noted for their distinctive is hunting their favorite dress. In addition to oddly Real Mushroomers mushroom patch. matched clothing they frequently carry fancy walking Can spot a mushroom from sticks and almost always wear By Ron & Bob Roseberry their car window at any speed very funky hats. From Mycelium, Mycological up to 45 miles per hour. The Society of Toronto, July-Sept., true professionals can Think almost every mushroom 2000, “discovered” by your sometimes perform the same is beautiful. intrepid editor in the Dec., 2006 feat at 60 mph using their rear issue of Spore Prints, the view mirror. Can be spotted walking around Bulletin of the Puget Sound their yard shaking spores off Mycological Society. Will gladly crawl through poison mature mushrooms or dumping ivy or stinging nettles to harvest the wash water for choice Are you a real mushroomer? a single choice mushroom, and edibles in the hopes of starting Following is a guide to are as adept as circus their private mushroom patch. determine whether you are performers at the three-person- The more ingenious ones use really qualified for entry into this stack (feet on shoulders) to their rotary mower or their elite society or just a wannabe. harvest the high growing garden hose sprayer to edibles. distribute the spores evenly. Real mushroomers: Can frequently be seen Always carry a bag in their Can be identified by their funny wandering across the automobile just in case they walk. They walk with their centerlines or on the shoulder suddenly discover a fruiting in heads down, looking at the of roads with their automobiles an unexpected location, and ground, until they come to a because of their habit of carry eight or more concealed tree, when their head suddenly constantly evaluating the bags on their person in case comes up and they appear to wooded areas they are passing they find the “Mother Lode.” be looking at the sky. And they for their hunting potential and frequently look behind checking in their rear view Can a smell “stinkhorns” at 100 themselves just to make sure mirror for poachers who might yards. Normal people must be they haven’t missed one. Other be following. within a few feet. (These are identification features include considered beautiful and worth the burrs on their socks, the Have half their refrigerator collecting, even if they must be constant scratching of chigger shelves occupied by strapped to the hood of the car bites, and either waterproof mushrooms they hope to to avoid the odor.) boots or wet shoes and socks. identify. 7 The Mushroom Log

Will walk miles through the appearance of mushrooms and “I looked up the data on the woods on a foray when they are toadstools around Salisbury, average temperature for too sick to sit in a chair at work. and he also got his friends in February in southern England the local natural history group to during the 1950s, and it was 3.5 Will select the “wild bring back samples they found C,” he said. mushrooms” dish on restaurant when they were out walking. menus, which usually contain “In the current decade it’s 5.2 portobella and shiitake “When he retired, he bought C. We used to get cold days mushrooms. himself a computer, taught and nights in February which himself (the database program) caused fungi to be dormant; Excel, and typed in all these these days we get very little of Climate Change 52,000 records.” that.”

Fruitful for Now Mr. Gange senior finds his In recent years a significant Fungi enthusiasm and diligence number of studies have found rewarded as a named author on changes in species’ behavior a paper in one of the two most during springtime apparently By Richard Black, reprinted eminent scientific journals in the related to climate change, with from the May, 2007 issue of The world. growing seasons starting Spore Print, the Journal of the Los earlier, and young animals born Angeles Mycological Society, Inc. “I’m on top of the world, I can’t in months which would, in quite believe it yet,” he told the previous years, have been too A remarkable father-and-son BBC News website. cold. research project has revealed how rising temperatures are The records included sightings This is one of the first studies to affecting fungi in southern of 315 species of mushrooms show a parallel trend in autumn. England. and toadstools which appear in the autumn, being the seasonal After more than 50 years of Fungus enthusiast Edward fruiting parts of fungi that live in observing the natural world, Gange amassed 52,000 the soil, on rotting wood or in Edward Gange is convinced sightings of mushrooms and tree roots. that the climate is changing-at toadstools during walks around least within a 30 km radius of Salisbury over a 50-year period. One of the changes Professor Salisbury-though he prefers to Gange turned up was that the attribute the warming to natural Analysis by his son Alan, autumnal fruiting period has cycles rather than humanity’s published in the journal expanded. Some mushrooms production of greenhouse Science, shows some fungi and toadstools are emerging gases. have started to fruit twice a earlier each year, others later, year. which he thinks are responses “When I was a lad, it was an to warmer temperatures and absolutely categorical fact that It is among the first studies to higher rainfall. Red Admirals would not survive show a biological impact of the winter,” he said. warming in autumn. More spectacularly, he found that more than one third of the “This year we saw them on 19 “My father was a stonemason, species recorded have started January. That’s a heck of a and his hobby was mycology,” to fruit twice per year. There change, and it’s not the only recounted Alan Gange, an was no record of this before one.” ecology professor at Royal 1976; but since then, 120 Holloway, University of London. species have shown an 5 April, 2007. Story from BBC additional fruiting in spring. News. “For 50 years of his life, he went out and recorded the 8 The Mushroom Log Calendar of Events

See announcement on Mushroom Foray, North Park OMS Events Page 1 of this issue of PA. See their website the Log. Walt Sturgeon. www.wpamushroomclub.org. Email Jerry at (330) 426-9833. [email protected] National & More to receive notification of Sat. Nov.10th. Annual Dick impromptu events. Check Grimm Banquet. Details your most recent issue of tba. August 16-19---NAMA the Mushroom Log for Foray in Pipestem, WV. event updates and for more detailed information. Ohio & Regional See NAMA’s website, Please plan to join us. NEMF-Northeast www.namyco.org, for details. If you’ve never attended a Impromptu mini forays, as Mycological Federation national foray, many of us follows: Foray Aug. 9-12,2007. Orono, ME can tell you it’s a great More info , a registration experience. There will be An open invitation to numerous opportunities to anyone who wants to form and a Maine checklist are available at meet fellow mushroomers mushroom hunt in from all over the country. Fredericktown. Call Dick www.nemfdata.org and www.nemf.org They also have a varied Grimm (740) 694-0782, and program of talks, workshops, if he’s available and there COMA’s 30th Clark and social events all of which are mushrooms in the makes this a very worthwhile woods, he will go. Rogerson Foray Aug. 23-26. at Cave Hill event to attend. Campsites available in the Aug. 25—Christmas Rocks Resort in Moodus CT. Contact Don Shernoff at Park, call Pipestem Park at State Nature Preserve— 304/466-1800 or 800/225- Lancaster OH. Shirley (914) 761-0332 or [email protected] 5982. Outside the park there McClelland with Dick Grimm are cabins for rent in See page 2 of this issue. Sept. 7-9th. Terra Alta Bluestone and a new Holiday Mountain Mushroom Inn located in Princeton. October 13, 2007 Sand Weekend. $95 non- Barrens-North Kingsville, members, $80 members. Wildacres North Carolina th Pete & Pauline Munk. (440) Walt Sturgeon’s intensive Foray 10 Anniversary 236-9222. See page 2 workshop identifying fungi Sept. 27-30. announcement for details. collected from their site plus Cathedral State Park. And Limited to 50 NAMA Email Jerry as instructed other sites. For more info members. Registration is $200 per person, inclusive of above. call Greg Park at 304/242- 6855. double occupancy. Contact Glenda O’neal at Sept. 29-30. Fall Foray, [email protected] Deep Woods, Hocking Co. Sept. 15—WPMC’s Gary Lincoff Mid-Atlantic

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Reminders: Please send your E-mail and mailing address changes to Jerry Pepera at the above address. 10 The Mushroom Log 2007 Ohio Mushroom Society Volunteers Chairman Newsletter Editor Program Planners Hospitality Co-chairs Walt Sturgeon Dave Miller Daphne Vasconcelos Janet & Jack Sweigart (330) 426-9833 (440) 774-8143 (614) 475-4144 (419) 634-7216 [email protected] David.H.Miller@oberl vasconcelosD@battell [email protected] et in.edu e.org Sharon Greenberg Treasurer/Membershi All-round Special Pete & Pauline Munk (330) 457-2345 p/Circulation Person (440) 236-9222 [email protected] Jerry Pepera Dick Grimm pjgmunk1@peoplepc. (440) 354-4774 (740) 694-0782 com Cathy Pepera g_pepera@sbcglobal. dickiephyls@netzero. (440) 354-4774 net com Lake Metroparks [email protected] Liaison Jack-Of-All-Trades Cleveland Metroparks Jennifer McAnlis Corresponding Sec’y Board Member Liaison (440) 256-2106 Joe Christian Dick Doyle Debra Shankland jmcanlis@lakemetrop (419) 757-4493 (740) 587-0019 (440) 734-6660 arks.com [email protected] [email protected] dks@clevelandmetrop arks.com 11 The Mushroom Log

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