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.
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