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ISSN 1941- 4943 Volume 6 - No.3 Fall 2013 fungimag.com $9.00 ISSN 1941-4943 01> 9 771941 494005 Calendar Contents 11th International Fungal 8th International Congress on Biology Conference the Systematics and Ecology of 2 Editor’s Letter Karlsruhe, Germany Myxomycetes (ICSEM8) September 29 - October 3, 2013 Changchun, Jilin Province, China 3 Letters to the Editor The meeting will be combined with August 11 - 15, 2014 the biannual German Molecular For details visit www.jlau.edu.cn. 6 Filamentous Foes and Mycology meeting. For details visit Mycological Maladies, www.iab.kit.edu/conference/. Alan R. Biggs Annual Fall Foray at Mingo Maitake, Paul Stamets Wildlife Refuge 12 Lake Wappapello, Missouri The Periodic Cicada, October 3 – 6, 2013 15 Hosted by Missouri Mycological Tovi Lehmann Society (MOMS). For details visit www.MoMyco.org. 18 Aquatic Myxomycetes, Mitsunori Tamayama 28th Annual Breitenbush and Harold W. Keller Mushroom Gathering Detroit, Oregon Ascocoryne turficola October 17 - 20, 2013 26 For information, contact Teddy (Boud.) Korf Records Bazladynski at [email protected] from West Siberia, or visit www.mushroominc.org. Nina Filippova, Elena North American Mycological Bulyonkova Association (NAMA) Annual Foray Shepherd of the Ozarks, Arkansas 31 Industrial Mycology October 24 - 27, 2013 101, Britt A. Bunyard Mushroom collecting in the heart of the Ozark National Forest, Arkansas. Editor’s Picks, Hosted by the Arkansas Mycological 34 Society. For details visit Britt A. Bunyard www.namyco.org. The Woodwide Web, On The Cover: Teliospores of the 42 10th International Mycological cedar apple rust Gymnosporangium Susan Goldhor Congress (IMC10) juniperi-virginianae. This fungus is Bangkok, Thailand commonly seen around the home but 45 Foray in Thailand, August 3 - 8, 2014 most people have no idea what it is. Roy Watling For details visit Learn about its interesting life story www.imc10.kasetsart.org. in “Fungal Foes” by Alan Biggs. 47 Hebeloma, Pioneer Genus in Forensic Mycology, Danny Haelewaters 49 An Icelandic Fungal Seasoning, Lawrence Millman 50 Bookshelf Fungi 53 Unusual Sightings FUNGI Volume 6:3 Fall 2013 1 headache except that regulations, once foray entrenched, may be more difficult to Editor's Letter Letters to the Editor remove from the system than drugs. The the earth itself is fruiting and the dark longing you keep analogy of regulations to antibiotics is Rust never sleeps. (My heartfelt Errata: step historical process with respect to particularly striking because overuse apologies to Neil Young.) While a plant pathology wild mushrooms—and forest knowledge breeds resistance to regulations when locked until august fingers through you like fibrous n the article by Patrick Harvey doctoral student in the mid 1990s, I was lucky in general—in which mushroom they are truly needed. on Noah Glatfelter (FUNGI enough to travel to Mexico and even visited a coffee gathering is first forsaken (as people For many, foraging for mushrooms webbing. notice how your relationship with truth strains summer 2013, vol. 6 no. 2) an older finca. “Search all you want,” I was told and was move to the cities or mushroom habitats is about freedom. Freedom from photograph of Lepiota glatfelteri was assured that I would not find coffee rust fungus against the deeper pull of subterranean logic. see how I are destroyed), then forgotten (as their oppression, from surveillance, from the included with the updated caption. The there. It took all of about five minutes to spot what children grow up with little or no omnipresence of civilization, from the photograph published in the article appeared to be the infamous fungus (though my opportunity to gather mushrooms), 21st century, from stress, from relentless should have been credited to Darvin host was adamant that it must be something else). even your posture changes; the sky becomes superfluous. and finally forbidden (as preservationist demands, from a lack of enchantment, DeShazer. The photograph shown That the fungus is now widespread in the Americas models of forest management severely and in some cases from personal here is the one that should have gone was inevitable. What that means for the future of in the periphery, evidence of the usual chronology: restrict or prohibit people from loss and misfortune. To paraphrase a with the caption (and was taken at the THE most essential part of my diet, I cannot foresee. maintaining or rediscovering foraging different Benjamin [Franklin], “Those NEMF foray in Stroudsburg, PA in The current status of coffee rust in the Americas is filling the car with gas, making toast, making love with traditions). The third step in particular who would sacrifice freedom for the 2012, by Jim Barg). security of their favorite matsutake patch discussed in the “Editor’s Picks” for this issue. passion or with none. this penumbra fades into stands need not be inevitable... ” No doubt our nontraditional cover gave you I also want to make it clear that his deserve neither.” pause at first glance. (A beautiful shot of rust article in no way represents my views. Denis Benjamin urges mushroom teliospores, by the way, courtesy of Alan Biggs.) Our of spruce and aspen, the liminal space between greens In fact, I found his piece surprisingly hunters to accept more regulations economically-important plants may succumb to rust histrionic. He speaks of a “sea-change” or face extinction. I am not sure what of the fungal sort (see Alan’s article in this edition is almost holy. you could crouch here forever, digging in the mushroom foraging scene as extinction he is talking about, certainly of “Fungal Foes”), but rest assured, we will never let exemplified by an incident involving the not the mushrooms’. But I have FUNGI grow rusty or stale. It’s why we decided to tenderly at the crown of a head. russet, damp with birth, temporary demise of a matsutake patch. another suggestion that doesn’t require break with tradition of having a mushroom on our But the PNW matsutake harvest has government intervention: find another cover. Indeed, this issue has many nontraditional the surface world’s time slowing to the speed been in decline for nearly two decades matsutake patch! mycological articles featuring rusts, aquatic because Japanese demand for it has David Arora mushrooms (you gotta see this!), and slime molds. of a heartbeat. softened. Furthermore, I just returned Denis Benjamin responds: We’re also beginning a brief series of papers on the from his neck of the woods (near Cle was expecting more vitriol from less familiar aspects of industrial mycology. Not Ellum, Washington), having spent an the pot-hunting community to my to worry—inside you’ll find there’s plenty of what immensely pleasurable week there Jennifer Hancock, MFA, PhD concerns about the burgeoning you’ve come to expect in every issue of FUNGI, too! Assistant Professor of English gathering morels and spring kings. No dramatic “sea-change” was evident to me foragingI fad, but was pleased that Colorado Mesa University Also in the article on Noah Glatfelter, compared to 10 or 20 years ago; there David Arora, a great writer who thinks the Acknowledgements should have were plenty of wild mushrooms to be carefully about these issues was willing included a note recognizing that some had for anyone willing to look. to take it on. It is a debate worth having. of the materials made available for Easterners may not realize it but He is quite correct in suggesting that I the report were courtesy of the Lloyd there are already numerous mushroom don’t have the right prescription, nor Library and Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio. Contributing EditorS Harold Keller regulations and permit policies on the did I claim to and explicitly stated so. The Botanical Research Institute of Texas Perhaps we live in different worlds. It is FUngi Denis Benjamin e received a great deal of letters books for western public lands, some of Michael Beug estimated that local clubs in our region Lawrence M. Leonard, M.D. in response to “Mainstream them quite obnoxious such as requiring P.O. Box 8, 1925 Hwy. 175 Alan R. Biggs Maine Medical Center, have added up to 5,000 -10,000 new Foraging: The Coming Wars” that you slice your morels and other Richfield, Wisconsin 53076-0008 USA Albert J. Casciero Portland, Maine foragers in the past decade. This does and “Paranoid Lunatics with Guns” in mushrooms in half lengthwise the E-mail: [email protected] Art Goodtimes W not include the many thousands of new Nicholas Money instant you pick them. Benjamin says we Machel Spence the spring issue of FUNGI. I hope we can immigrants, and all the local families Web site: www.fungimag.com Miami University, Oxford, Ohio need new regulations but fails to show Edward Matisoff keep this discussion going. –Ed. who have foraged for generations. (262) 227-1243 Michael Nicholson how any of the regulations he proposes Rebecca Miller Perhaps Arora has not seen thirty to Lawrence Millman Oxnard College, California A Sea-change? would solve or prevent the incidents he describes. fifty individuals line up and vacuum Tobiah Moshier David Pilz I am writing in response to Denis an entire hillside. This is not the bucolic Publisher & Editor-in-chief Robert Dale Rogers PilzWald-Forestry Applications of Mycology, I find it useful to think of legislation Benjamin’s article “Mainstream Foraging: communing with nature that Arora Britt A. Bunyard David Rose Susanville, California as a form of medical treatment where The Coming Wars” (FUNGI vol. 6 no. Mark Spear we prescribe regulations instead of romanticizes. It is resource extraction. It Scott Redhead 1, spring 2013). Since I was prominently ProduCtion Editor Steve Trudell medications. We should insist that is not the freedom to enjoy, but freedom Agriculture Canada, Ottawa quoted, I wish to provide context for Jan Hammond James Tunney the prescription effectively treat the to destroy.