happybadger [he/him]

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  • It’s such a unique city. Ancon Hill and Metropolitan National Park were the first places that really set me down my current career path in the natural sciences, just the idea of a rainforest in a city being so unlike anywhere else I had been. That area around Avenida Central and Chinatown is what I’ve judged other urban pedestrian markets by and most of them aren’t as fun. Boquete and Valle de Anton were the most remarkable places I went in Panama but the city was a really special place.













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    If you could get a picture of the full thing, golden chanterelles have a really unique trumpet shape that’s vaguely similar to oyster mushrooms. They should have gills running about halfway down the stem which you can easily pull off and a fruity smell.

    If they are chanterelles, save a few of the largest. You can either cut them up and put them in a bucket of water with 4% sugar added or put them on a piece of paper for a few hours, collect the spores, and put those in a bucket with the sugar water. Leave the bucket to sit for a few days for the mycellium to start growing into a liquid culture, then you can pour the contents of the bucket around trees that it associates with, in this case hardwoods and pine/birch. Your trees will be healthier and the mushrooms should start fruiting there within a couple years. I always expand the habitat of ectomycorrhizal fungi when picking them.


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    Puffballs should be easy to positively ID too

    I don’t forage for them. When they’re young they taste great but they’re easily confused for young death caps. When they’re old you risk dislodging the spores and they’re super toxic. Only mushrooms that are really morphologically distinct are safe foraging unless you’re using a guide and going through the list of every distinguishing feature.