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- From: "kieran or donna" <redherring@tnaccess.com>
- To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Advice for apricot failure?
- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 22:05:36 -0500
Armillaria mushrooms usually don't come up till
fall, but another name is "shoestring fungus" as after the bark falls off the
dead tree, there are long black strings underneath. I'll tell you
something weird about this mushroom though. I ate some in England in 79,
and then I just didn't really see them in the US till about 96, when they came
up EVERYWHERE throughout the woods in our area, around Cookeville 20 miles to
the north, and Monterey which is 12 miles east and a couple thousand feet
higher. During that time we went to a Permaculture get together at Adam
and Sue Turtle's 150 miles southeast of here and there were Armillaria mushrooms
everywhere there too. I pointed to a cluster and asked Adam what they
were. He said there was a book in the house, but I said I'm sick of keying
out mushrooms and I'm at a damned Permaculture meeting where someone should be
able to just look at them and tell me. (I figured I knew what it was
anyway, but would like confirmation seeing as I hadn't eaten them in 15
years.) He said ask Michael, so I did and Michael took one look and said
"Honey Fungus" (its gastronomic name). Then he said they were coming up
everywhere in Virginia where he lives.
What are the odds of one
type of mushroom appearing in huge quantities over such a large area without
some driving force behind them? Was it the weather that year? Do
they synchronize their fruiting, like pecans do, to improve pollination and
reduce pests on off years? Was there a big die off of trees in the
year or two before or after that flush of fruiting bodies? As our property had been logged some 5 years
beforehand, could it be that every place the mushrooms appeared had been logged
recently enough to feed their mycelium on dead roots for years waiting for the
big bloom? Seeing as we saw no effect on trees in the years AFTER the
fruiting, and we know perfectly well that the mycellium had to be spread
thoughout nearly every square foot (at least in every square yard) on
our property and millions of other acres to produce that many mushrooms, could
it be that Armillaria is unfairly blamed for killing trees? Maybe it
infests them all a little bit, but only kills the weak ones. Any opinions
welcome. Donna
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Re: [NAFEX] Advice for apricot failure?
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Re: [NAFEX] Advice for apricot failure?,
Mark or Helen Angermayer, 06/13/2006
- Re: [NAFEX] Advice for apricot failure?, Thomas Olenio, 06/13/2006
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Re: [NAFEX] Advice for apricot failure?,
Dennis Norton, 06/12/2006
- Re: [NAFEX] Advice for apricot failure?, Andriy Palamarchuk, 06/13/2006
- Re: [NAFEX] Advice for apricot failure?, Lon J. Rombough, 06/12/2006
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[NAFEX] Advice for apricot failure?,
Jwlehman, 06/13/2006
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Re: [NAFEX] Advice for apricot failure?,
MARIE ASHTON, 06/13/2006
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Re: [NAFEX] Advice for apricot failure?,
nbeaureg, 06/13/2006
- Re: [NAFEX] Advice for apricot failure?, Andriy Palamarchuk, 06/13/2006
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Re: [NAFEX] Advice for apricot failure?,
nbeaureg, 06/13/2006
- Re: [NAFEX] Advice for apricot failure?, Andriy Palamarchuk, 06/13/2006
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Re: [NAFEX] Advice for apricot failure?,
kieran or donna, 06/14/2006
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Re: [NAFEX] Armillaria,
Stephen Sadler, 06/15/2006
- Re: [NAFEX] Armillaria, Hal Love, 06/15/2006
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Re: [NAFEX] Armillaria,
Stephen Sadler, 06/15/2006
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Re: [NAFEX] Advice for apricot failure?,
MARIE ASHTON, 06/13/2006
- [NAFEX] Advice for apricot failure?, mauch1, 06/16/2006
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Re: [NAFEX] Advice for apricot failure?,
Mark or Helen Angermayer, 06/13/2006
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