February 28, 2018
Tantalizing Truffles
At this time every Year, the Montréal en lumière Festival is a unique chance to discover some of the World’s best chefs.
A few days ago, after a days...
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December 28, 2017
Eldorado in Hell
In October 2016, Miro and Fanny, in their late twenties, were preparing a trip to Yukon: like thousands of other apprentice adventurers, they were dreaming of...
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October 27, 2017
Breaking down diesel in Yukon contaminated soils
Mycoremediation is the use of fungi to break down organic compounds and pollutants. Mushrooms naturally recycle hydrocarbons. This is particularly the case for...
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October 7, 2017
What's in a name?
The official name of a species is an internationally recognized origin certification: it determines the commercial value of a given mushroom. Thus, the...
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June 23, 2017
The Secret of Fairy Rings
Numerous species of mushrooms draw on the ground circles which have, at all times, intrigued. The story begins with a spore germinating and releasing...
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May 18, 2017
Drug trafficking and identity theft
One morning, the postman brought a white cushioned envelope: "return mail". The address of the recipient, unknown to us, is in Texas, the return address is...
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April 19, 2017
Brexit and Mushrooms
Toadstools is a British word for suspect mushrooms. In the 5th Century, Germanic tribes, migrating from northern Germany, brought the rather unappetizing word...
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March 30, 2017
Holistic mushrooms
From April first to July 20th 1934, Austrian anthropologist David Winkler stayed in a northern Amazonian region where he visited remote Wayampi villages. The...
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February 27, 2017
Mushrooms named desire
Through time and people, mushrooms have had the reputation of boosting sexual ardour.
The truffle, for example, had this reputation among ancient Greeks....
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December 11, 2016
Dry Rot Fungus: the nightmare
Some mushrooms do not only bring benefits. In our area of northeastern North America, the dry rot fungus (Serpula lacrymans) has been spreading. In some...
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Others Links
- - Intellicast: accurate precipitation readings of the past 7 days
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- - The Québec Mycoblogue
- - Identification Key of Entolomatacea in the Pacific Northwest
- - A compilation of mycological information found on the internet
- - Benoît Peyre
- - When mushrooms and photography collide
- - General Mushroom Info (France)
- - Steps to identifying your harvest (France)
- - Good advice for finding and identifying (France)
- - The Eguisheim Mushroom Boutique (France)
- - The Villefranche Mushroom Boutique (France)
