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It has been a week since Hurricane Helene brought such destruction to the Appalachian Mountains. Here in the foothills there wasn’t much damage. But the tropical weather than brought Helene has lingered, with warm days, humid nights, and some showers. It’s the perfect weather for mushrooms.<\/p>\n
An online site that attempts to identify mushrooms from a photo thinks that the orange mushroom above probably is Amanita jacksonii<\/em>. If that’s what it is, it’s edible, though I would never eat a wild mushroom. Mushrooms from the amanita family are common here, including Amanita muscaria, which is a hallucinogenic (though toxic) mushroom.<\/p>\n Click here for high-resolution version. It has been a week since Hurricane Helene brought such destruction to the Appalachian Mountains. Here in the foothills there wasn’t much damage. But the tropical weather than brought Helene has lingered, with warm days, humid nights, and some showers. It’s the perfect weather for mushrooms. An online site that … Continue reading “Helene, mother of mushrooms”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29437"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29445,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29437\/revisions\/29445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/orange-mushroom.jpg\")
\nProbably a <\/em>Chlorophyllum molybdites, a poisonous mushroom. The mushroom in the photo is just a youngster. A day later its cap was eight inches in diameter.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"