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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1984)
Mushroom followers flock to Mount Pisgah By Lori Steinhauer Of the Emerald If variety is the spice of life, then a forest of flavor was in the offering as mushroom en-. thusiasts and inquirers came to Mount Pisgah for the third an nual Mount Pisgah Arboretum Mushroom Show and Plant Sale on Sunday. Upon tables covered with moss and leaves were 207 mushroom species in a natural autumn setting. The arboretum barn filled with fungi of all shapes, colors and sizes, was visited i Freeman Rowe throughout the day by more than 1.000 spectators young and old. Some mushrooms looked like rubberized coral in tones of oranges, pinks, browns and creams. Others took the form of giant leathery marigolds. And others resembl ed slimy buttons — some fluorescent pink and some olive green. And for the fungus pickers and eaters at the show, the or dinary mushrooms cultivated indoors and sold in super markets could hardly hold a candle to the wild ones. “There are a whole host of different flavors in mushrooms,” ranging from licorice to apricot, nut and garlic, said Freeman Rowe, a Lane Community College pro fessor who teaches a general biology course with special em phasis on mushrooms. Rowe, whose students and former students picked the mushrooms for the show, was available to answer questions and identify fungi brought by the public. One man stepped up to the table w'here Rowe sat, and pull ed a chu.nky, foot-long mushroom from the basket he was carrying for Rowe to. identify. “That’s a King Boletus,” Rowe said. “It’s edible in choice. It’s sought after all over America and Europe.” Near Rowe’s table was, another table with “Mushroom Madness.’.* * for sale.' This . 76-page cookbook is filled with tips and more than 30 recipes for wild-mushroom cookery, featuring ways to bake, stuff, sautee and pickle mushrooms. • But the true adventure in w'ild mushrooms comes before cook ing them. "Going mushroom, hunting is like reliving a childhood.easier.' „ egg hunt;” Rowe said. \; "It’s never knowing- what’s over the next hill that' makes mushroom hunting fascinating," he said. However, “you never eat anything unless you’re ab solutely certain of its identifica tion," he said. "That seems to be so obvious." Yet people often come, up to Rowe and describe a mushroom they’ve already eaten', and ask-’ him to. identify, it. ’ Rowe said the" best .way to . team mushroom identification; is through foripal . courses" bi,. through'field trips with people. . who know what they are pick-*' ing. "Ifs much betterto be able - to look-at the actual'mushroom . and have it identified for you',,", .he said. ' • . • .; r . "You have fo. know- fife in . dividual mushroom.. There are . no general tests. Some of them , are very* distinctive and you caii, • learn to identify them by look" . ing at them >just one time., and - othere are very difficult (to.iden-: tify).” he explained Meanwhile, one spectator'at . the show had. his own system for identifying mushrooms. "The plies 'that dance the marumba are wild." he.said. Phut cm by Michael (Japp More than 1.000 spectators attended the third annual Mount Pisgah Ahoretum Mushroom Show and Plant Sale on Sunday arid were treated to a display of. 207 mushmom species. The auto-everything ‘35’ now adds the Quick flash bonus of: OIYMPUS yjp|^ BATTERY LIFE ASSURANCE Portfolio print add $1 A new FREE "PLUS" added to the '35' that has everything? Battery Life Assurance: a free bat tery replacement within 5 years! That's how con fident Olympus is about the AFL’s long-life Lithium Battery. - . . t „ All this on top of 1.5 sec. flash recycling from first flash on, year after year. And auto everything...auto load, focus, expose, advance and rewind. Made to work with the new. ultra fast films, too! Olympus quality throughout—which means more compact design and trouble free performance. 13987 We Promise you that if you have your color film in by 4:00 p.m. we will have it back to you by 11:00 the next morning. Or It’s On Us!! (Valid M-Th 3R Print size) Student Health Center University of Oregon ARE YOU SURE YOU ARE PROTECTED AGAINST RUBELLA AND FACT: University students are at the highest risk of developing measles of any group in the United States. Complications can be serious—including encephalitis (brain in flammation), deafness, pneumonia, and ear infections. SOLUTION: If you are unsure about your immune status regarding measles, check at the Student Health Center. We are offering free measles immunizations. FACT: Pregnant women who have rubella have a high risk of having a child with mental retardation, cataracts, deafness, or heart defects. SOLUTION: Protect yourself and your future children by obtaining a free rubella immunization at the Student Health Center. If you are unsure of your immune status for rubella, please check at the Student Health Center. FREE MEASLES and/or RUBELLA IMMUNIZATION MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. STUDENT HEALTH CENTER • 686-4441