Clamp Connexions

A conference devoted to the concerns of the amateur mycologist

Our major thrust will for the most part be local (call it Central Ontario,) but the world is our Pleurotus!

Mycophagy

Vegan recipes; sour-cream backlash!

• Lactarius Lasagna
• Ants on Beanstalks
• Hericium warm salad
• *Purple Garlic Toast*
• Gomphidius Glutinosus au fenouil
• Morels, Wild Onions and Asparagus
• Cèpes in Savoy
• Pleurotes in Shirts

More recipes, methods, and kitchen tech support in Beta Tasters Required! , q.v.

Edibility ratings

Will you make yourself sick in the cause of kitchen science?

New Taste Sensations

• Lactarius volemus
• Boletellus russelii
• Laccaria ochropurpurea
• Gomphidius glutinosus
• Hygrophorus russula
• Boletopsis subsquamosa
• Agaricus silvicola
• Panellus serotinus

Collections

We will attempt to identify to Genus, anyway, with, of course, absolutely no guarantees, of anything! from your photographs or text submissions. Also see the taxonomy and identification area.

Foray Notebook

• Muskoka 8/8/95
• Mississauga 9/7/95
• On the Niagara Escarpment 9/9/95
• King Township 9/9/95
• On the Niagara Escarpment 9/23/95
• 9/28/95 North of Oshawa
• 9/30/95 Ganaraska
• 10/8/95 North of Whitby
• 10/14/95 North of Oshawa
• 10/15/95 King Township
• 9/12/96 Sand Lake, Kearney
• Dufferin County 9/20/96

Taxonomy and Identification

The frustrating art of fungal identification using macroscopic characters.

New Taste Sensations

• Lactarius volemus
• Boletellus russelii
• Laccaria ochropurpurea
• Gomphidius glutinosus
• Hygrophorus russula

Lumpers and Splitters;

The ever-evolving professional literature

Dichotomous Keys

Miscroscopy

For those lucky enough to be so accoutered.

If any of you subscribers should have microphotographs of pertinent parts of sporocarps, we'd be more than pleased to display them!

Back to Collections

Visual Virtual Fungi

New Taste Sensations

• Lactarius volemus
• Boletellus russelii
• Laccaria ochropurpurea
• Gomphidius glutinosus
• Hygrophorus russula

Photography Puzzle Page

We invite digi-graphic submissions of mystery mushrooms.
Photographers who wish to shoot in situ will be co-opted to accompany foragers in the season.

Illustration

We invite your digitized submissions of fungal watercolours for inclusion in our online library.

Mushroom Icon Contest!

Those participants whom are graphically inclined; please fashion some icons for the discussion digest area, okay? Some potentially useful symbols might be; collection basket, microscope, a Pleurotus trap throttling a nematode, a frypan or other vessel, a tiny question mark composed of baffling red Russulae, I don't know.

Disclaimer

We are not even responsible for our spelling, let alone anything of real import, that goes on out here. You read, write, communicate, and experiment entirely at your own risk.

Notes

While other MycoVortices on the Net are perhaps more technically to the point, we here will attempt to focus a bit on the mycophagical aspects; preparation, storage and comparison of various wild fungal edibles.
Communication is the name of the game up here; so please take the trouble to use the Latin binominals to refer to the various fungi if you can.
We are very interested in tabulating, in a very casual way, what fleshy fruiting fungi we are all eating. Subjective impressions vary to an amazing degree. Tell us more.

Queries/Postings

Please feel free to contact me, Howard.

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