Fabulous fungi

[mark smyth]

back again yesterday and took some better photos
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King Alfreds cakes

[Lesley Cox]

Because they're burnt presumably? Things have been known to come from my own oven in the same condition, when I've put them in then gone to look at the seeds. The pancake is a very pretty colour though.

[Stone Rider]

Do not think my mushrooms are over.  

About edible mushrooms. Do you know that mushrooming is a national russian amusement like hunting or fishing? When mushroom time begin many people wear rubber boots, take baskets and drive or go to forests where spend all day. We gather many kinds of mushrooms. Some of them grow in big colonies and some apart.

This year I met legendary mushroom which is known like the best. In Russian it names Ryzhik. It could be eaten uncooked, roasted, boiled, marinaded or fermented. It has it’s own unique scent. It is rare and usually worm-eaten. But this year…

We called Lactarius deliciosus in Czech   Ryzec. It is quite strong in the tast. Lovely photos from darkness. ZZ

[Stephenb]

We called Lactarius deliciosus in Czech   Ryzec. It is quite strong in the tast. Lovely photos from darkness. ZZ

...and in Norway and Sweden they are called Riske and Riska respectively.  Sounds like our name comes from the east...

[Olga Bondareva]

Zdenek and  Stephen,
Sometimes I think we speak the same language...

[gote]

The Swedish/Norwegian name can be interpreted as coming from (but not being identical to)  "Dangerous, risky"
Which is of course misleading
Is there any second meaning in the Russian Czech words?
cheers
Göte

[Stephenb]

Zdenek and  Stephen,
Sometimes I think we speak the same language...

Добрый день, Ольга!

(I did Russian at school many years ago...., but don't reply in Russian as that's almost all I remember....)

[Olga Bondareva]

Stephen
What a pity I didn't learn Norwegian at school. 
But I know how to say good day in Czech! Dobrý den! 

gote
No, Ryzhik in russian means orange, red. It named after it's color no doubt.

[gote]

Interesting - and natural. perhaps the Scandinavian word was originally imported from Russia when many Swedish POWs spent time there 1709-1721.
Göte

[Stephenb]

No, Ryzhik in russian means orange, red. It named after it's color no doubt.

What do you call the genus Russula then? I wonder if it also means red? The botanical epithet russatus means red...

[Olga Bondareva]

What do you call the genus Russula then? I wonder if it also means red? The botanical epithet russatus means red...

Stephen we call Russula syroezhka (сыроежка) that could be interpreted as it can be eaten uncooked or as it eat moisture.

gote may be.  Words come by strange ways. My village names Redrick's Mountains. It was named in ~ 1400-1500. I know Redrick is a common name in Europe. But I wonder how it appeared here.

[Lesley Cox]

We called Lactarius deliciosus in Czech   Ryzec. It is quite strong in the tast. Lovely photos from darkness. ZZ

...and in Norway and Sweden they are called Riske and Riska respectively.  Sounds like our name comes from the east...

But can be eaten without risk, presumably.

[Panu]

The famous matsutake, found only one :/ But lots of Boletus pinophilus. It´s risotto day today, with white wine of course.

[Stephenb]

Congratulations, that was a good find!  How did it taste? I wonder why the latin name for Matsutake is Tricholoma nauseosum (syn T. matsutake) - doesn't sound very promising (nauseosum = sickening, nauseous).

I only know one place where Boletus pinophilus grows here - in a small pine forest on the outskirts of the city of Trondheim...

[Panu]

I didn´t prepare it yet, but the taste is very peculiar. Most of the people I know, doesn´t really like that (not that many after all). Especially the smell is funny, fruity sweet. Unprepared fungi smells like garden cress. There was a good article few years back in Finnish Sienilehti, about the nomenclature. I remember, that it said T. matsutake is conserved name, but Index Fungorum says they are separate species.