How many mycorrhizal associations do you know that help you find your favorite edible mushrooms? It strikes me that my livelihood depends upon the relentless pursuit of the host, and yet I meet so many pickers who just have patches and gain patches by happenstance... and who cant even identify the trees in their areas... I know that most of my chanterelles are associated with Pseudotsuga menziesii... thats just too easy... though the situation on the coast is a bit confounded by the Picea sitchensis, because Cantharellus roseocanus is prevalent in the Picea englemannii in the high Cascades, there is much speculation about whether it is present in the coastal fog belt. I do not believe it fruits in the fog belt... nonetheless, if you get into the spruce zone on a creek up in the Cascades, you are going to see B. edulis and C. roseocanus, among other myriad edible mushrooms and pretty stuffs... As for C. cascadensis, C. formosus, and C. subalbidus... thats all P. menziesii. It took me a couple of years to figure out what the Queens were doing in my area. Literally thousands of miles driven. Years of research. But heres the thing in the Willamette Valley... to find Boletus regineus, you seek Chrysolepis. Learning where the Chinquapin like to be is another story altogether, but I have seen too many isolation events to doubt the association between B. regineus and Chrysolepis... What do you know about the myvcorrhizae that help to fill your baskets?
Posted on: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 16:38:51 +0000
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