{"id":75,"date":"2020-12-28T19:28:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T19:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/veryinterestingthings.com\/?page_id=75"},"modified":"2021-01-09T09:27:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T17:27:42","slug":"wild-mushrooms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/veryinterestingthings.com\/index.php\/food-drink\/wild-mushrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Mushrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_263\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-263\" style=\"width: 321px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-263\" src=\"http:\/\/veryinterestingthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/mushroomsyellowvintageimage-graphicsfairy-768x708-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"321\" height=\"296\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">19th century engraving of chanterelle mushrooms.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Edible wild mushrooms in the Pacific Northwest US come in many varieties, but the most commonly collected are chanterelles, morels, and the boletes (particularly <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boletus_edulis\">Boletus edulis<\/a>,<\/em> otherwise known as &#8220;Cep&#8221; or &#8220;Steinpilz&#8221; in Europe).\u00a0 Chanterelles and boletes are fall mushrooms, whereas morels fruit in the spring.\u00a0 One of the reasons these particular varieties are popular is because they are easy to distinguish, and therefore not readily confused with mushrooms that may be toxic.\u00a0 HOWEVER, if you are considering venturing out into the wild to pick wild mushrooms to eat, it is strongly advised that you take a mycology class or get expert advice on how to identify what goes into your basket.\u00a0 All it takes is the spores from one <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amanita_phalloides\"><em>Amanita phalloides<\/em><\/a> (Death Cap) to turn an entire basket of edible mushrooms into poison!\u00a0 And there are a whole host of intermediate mushrooms that will give you a ripping case of purge, at both ends.<\/p>\n<p>All that being said, this section will include some &#8220;less-than-edible&#8221; species, just for their cultural significance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edible wild mushrooms in the Pacific Northwest US come in many varieties, but the most commonly collected are chanterelles, morels, and the boletes (particularly Boletus edulis, otherwise known as &#8220;Cep&#8221; or &#8220;Steinpilz&#8221; in Europe).\u00a0 Chanterelles and boletes are fall mushrooms, whereas morels fruit in the spring.\u00a0 One of the reasons these particular varieties are popular&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":62,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-75","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/veryinterestingthings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/veryinterestingthings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/veryinterestingthings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veryinterestingthings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veryinterestingthings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/veryinterestingthings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/veryinterestingthings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions\/361"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veryinterestingthings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/veryinterestingthings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}