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Date: Saturday 7 October Username: Colene Welsford Location: Lincoln UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: What an informative site! I will use it with my students. Your site was appraised as one of the worthwhile sites in the Chch Press on Thursday and I can see why. I have science interests and lecture at Chch College of Education in this area. I used to live in Havelock North from 1977 - 1983. I lived in Joll Road and during that time taught at Hastings Intermediate, Havelock North Intermediate, Peterhead School and Fernhill School (now Omahu). Cheers, Colene (Ps I like the personal touch to your site) ******************************************************************************* Date: Oct 7 2000 Username: Amy Location: Hastings, new zealand UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: cool site - like your pics *S* ******************************************************************************* Date: 8/10 2000 Username: leen colijn Location: christchurch NZ UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: great site and some wonderfull info very good talk to the experts in frace special the dordogne they are good at mushrooms ******************************************************************************* Date: 08/10/00 Username: Gillian(Gilz) Graham Location: Hawera, taranaki UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: hey there, hope you are taking care, cool site, talk to ya in minute ******************************************************************************* Date: 10/08/00 Username: Byron Bailey aka gagolf(Fungiandyou) Location: South Georgia, USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hi Aiman You have a wonderful site !! I enjoyed every minute of browsing!! I must say you have a knack with website design, very professional and impressive! I hope this finds you well and happy! And since it is probably spring where you are at,Happy shrooming! Byron ******************************************************************************* Date: 10 Oct 2000 Username: Hazel Location: Havelock North! UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hi Aiman I'm impressed! You're website looks very professional. The only problem is, my Dad has done something which means the pictures don't show (I'll figure it out soon). But you must have changed lots since I last looked. There's even classification thingummys! I'll have another look when I figure out how to get the pictures back. Seeya at work (yippee) Hazel PS General is spelt with two ees (I'm not being picky, really!) ******************************************************************************* Date: 11 OCt 2000 Username: Ehab Samy Location: Cairo Egypt (Well, for the next week, then it's Vancouver BC) UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Your website is now hosted correctly, wow, congratulations. And I hope it becomes really really famous soon ******************************************************************************* Date: 21.10.00 Username: Kylie Location: tauranga Comments: very flash. lots of pictures and easy reading. ******************************************************************************* Date: 26-10-2000 Username: Chandra Location: Havelock North Comments: Hi Aiman Lot of work. I can understand why you are late to work!! Haven't read all anyway. another time.Thankx ******************************************************************************* Date: 10/26/00 Username: Gloria Location: Mukilteo, Washington UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Its nice to know that I am not the only one: on a wet rainy day I am out hunting down that fragil little fungi that only grows at certain times of the year. I like to draw them, and like you ,I'm not an expert on mushrooms, or a very good artist but after a couple of art classes the mushrooms I draw; well they really look like them now. ******************************************************************************* Date: 10-30-00 Username: rick coffman Location: indiana usa UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I enjoyed the page . ******************************************************************************* Date: 3rd Nov 2000 Username: tom Location: Queenstown UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Great fotos. I am looking for a supply of spores (?) so that I can grow mushrooms on my patch of hillside. Can u help pls? rgds tom ******************************************************************************* Date: 3rd Nov 2000 Username: Sally Location: Havelock North UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: oved your site Aiman...real neat!!!!! ******************************************************************************* Date: 5/11/2000 Username: Ross McCardle Location: Auckland UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hi, I am trying to get some info on growing mushrooms from home? Do you know of anyone in the Auckland area who I could talk to about this matter, If soit would be most appreciated. Thank you Ross. ******************************************************************************* Date: November 5, 2000 Username: Jennifer Roddy Location: Lafayette, LA UserEmail: [email protected] ******************************************************************************* Date: Friday 10/11/2000 Username: y n Zohdi Location: London, United Kingdom UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hay Aiman, Well what can I say, you're Website is great, it looks that you are living in harmony with nature and enjoying it, not like me in the crowded, pullulated and cold city of London. It's very nice to be able to see my cousin whenever I want to. Even though he's hiding in a phone box or perhaps doing a “Doctor Who” impression :)). Keep it up and take good care. I will come back soon. ******************************************************************************* Date: 12 November 2000 Username: Richard H. Reiss Location: San Antonio, Texas UserEmail: [email protected]</pre> <pre> Comments: </pre> <pre>My 9-year old daughter has selected mushrooms as her topic for the gifted-talented program that she attends (fourth grade). You site will be of great interest to her. Thanks ******************************************************************************* Date: november 16 2000 Username: sandra Location: kingston,ontario,canada UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: great site ******************************************************************************* Date: 28/11/00 Username: Simon Octavio Valdez Location: Guadalajara,Mexico UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I just write to say you have one of the greatest fungi sites i have seen, im a biology student who found your info very intresting, specially the polyporum sp. i havent found anithing else about it on the web congratulations and thanks for your site Simon ******************************************************************************* Date: 3 Dec 2000 Username: Ehab Samy Location: Vancouver, Canada UserEmail: Me@EhabWeb,net Comments: Wow. First of all, I love where this site is going. Second, you have come a long way in photography in a very short period of time. Your dream is starting to come true and I believe you will achieve it. Keep up the good work. ******************************************************************************* Date: 12/9/00 Username: Ed Tieman Location: Graham Washington, USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: For a home site it is one of the best. Too bad you live in New Zeland. Any mistakes I did not see any. Maybe some day I will try and build my own. ******************************************************************************* Date: 12/19/00 Username: Megan McClure Location: Lincoln Nebraska UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: your website is a very good recourse. ******************************************************************************* Date: 20 December 2000 Username: Cynthia Cheong Location: Singapore UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Thanks for the fantastic pictures which helped me in my explanation in my teaching. ******************************************************************************* Date: 22/12/00 Username: RayPuddy Location: Taradale HB New Zealand UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Splendid site and some magnificent photos. ******************************************************************************* Date: 29th of DEC Username: jeff Location: nz UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: cool site!! very informative, keep up the good work ******************************************************************************* Date: 01/01/2001 Username: Cole Hemphill Location: South Africa UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: A Happy New Year to you! I am very pleased that you are making a concious effort to inform people about mushrooms. I feel it is particularly important to make people aware that fungi should not be picked or removed from their natural habitat, unless it is for research purposes, as this just lessens their chance at survival. As it is they need a very particular climate to thrive in. Living in South Africa I seem to face the same problem as you, in not having enough local material on the species found in my Country. The guide available to us is very comprehensive, but unfortunately only holds 20% of our known species. Written by Prof. Albert Eicker from the University of Pretoria, "The Field Guide to Mushrooms in South Africa" is a good source of information. I would be very grateful if you could send me via e-mail, the names of the guides you find useful, including title and author. Perhaps we can make a difference. Regards, Cole Hemphill ******************************************************************************* Date: 1-06-01 Username: paul schroeder Location: milwaukee, wi UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: i have a mushroom that looks like a penis (no joke). what can you tell me about it. ******************************************************************************* Date: 8-1-2001 Username: Esther Location: New Zealand UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: What an interesting web page I learnt some amazing things about mushrooms!! I wondered if you could help me. I am looking for business partners in New Zealand, for my company which is expanding. If you know anybody who is looking for more income or better health please pass on my E-mail address. Thank you. <center><p><a href="http://www.relivonline.com/esray"><img SRC="http://mysiteinc.com/ esray/bugsy.gif" BORDER=0></center> ******************************************************************************* Date: 01/08/01 Username: Chip Johnson (Grey Bear) Location: Chattanooga TN USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Mate, Don't knock your photography. I've done nature macro-photography for 40 years as a hobby, and your pix are fantastic! Chip ******************************************************************************* Date: January, 10 2001 Username: Dore' Smith Location: United States UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I have never grown mushrooms and I have am currently working in the woods. I have stumbled across what looks like could be edible mushroom. I enjoy cooking in the kitchen and I was wondering what mushrooms would be good in my soups. I like my family to feel very full, relaxed and HI in the evening time after a long day of working.Could you give me some advice on wha species I should cook in order to obtain the effects that I have described earlier in my comment. Your help in teaching me would be much appreciated. Thanks for caring!! ******************************************************************************* Date: 1/15/01 Username: ben birkbeck Location: grand rapids MI USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: loved our recent trip to your country.hope to return and explore more. mushrooming is good here in michigan-especially morells ******************************************************************************* Date: Jan. 24, 2001 Username: Johnny Location: Davao City,Philippines UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I'm doing a research on a mushroom called gano. It is mainly planted in malaysia, but I can't seem to find any info. Any info would be highly appreciated. Salamat. ******************************************************************************* Date: Jan. 27,01 (U.S. date) Username: Joy Rising Location: Maine, USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Dear Aiman, It was wonderful to see your website with all the wild mushrooms. I am going to try to print the pages. I have long hunted for wild mushrooms, mostly in N Carolina - but to eat! We even led mushroom hunting week-end tours. I am coming to NZ in a few days and will be staying in Napier part of the time. Since it is right on Hawkes Bay I hope I will see some of the same mushrooms you did. Thanks for making your site! Joy Rising ******************************************************************************* Date: 2001.1.28.sun Username: Taeho Location: Korea UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hi, I'm a highschool student in Korea. Your homepage helped me.(homework) Thank you very much and Happy New Year ******************************************************************************* Date: 28 Jan., '01 Username: Tom Wright Location: Oklahoma City, OK, USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Surfed in on the web ring. Didn't know there was so much to a simple "toadstool". ******************************************************************************* Date: 31.1.01 Username: john trewick Location: havelock north UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: have you got any of those purple ones ? ******************************************************************************* Date: 31 January 2001 Username: chuck Location: centrl pennsylvania UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Your site looks like it will be really coo.I have been hunting mushrooms for the last 15 yaers and have come across many different kinds. The one the person said looks like a penis sounds like a morel, which are generally what I find here on the east coast. Although there are other edible types out there.Keep up the good work and I will be visiting regularly.E-mailme if you have any questions ******************************************************************************* UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: aywa ya za3bola you are not contacting me as you have promised Ahmed ******************************************************************************* Date: 3 Feb 2001 Username: kweeboon Location: singapore UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Interesting and informative site. enjoyed browsing your book. gained a little information about mushrooms. thanks ******************************************************************************* Date: February 17, 2001 Username: Mansoor Kazemi & Gaylene Van Dusen Location: Dundalk, Ontario, Canada (2 hours north of Toronto) UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hello Aiman, We really enjoy your site. Thank you for all the effort you have put into creating it. This is the most wonderful thing about our time, that people with similar interests can communicate around the globe. You are truly one who is using the internet for the improvement of the human condition. I am Mansoor Kazemi. I was born in Iran 46 years ago and moved to Canada in 1974 to go to school. My wife is Gaylene Van Dusen. I have bookmarked your site and will be dropping in from time to time. I am very interested to see the seasonal diversity of similar types of mushrooms with due respect to Canada. ******************************************************************************* Date: 2 20 2001 Username: ROGER LEE CURTIS Location: SMITHVILLE TN.37166 UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: VERRY INFORMATIVE ! BUT ,GOT ANY GOOD PICTURES OF THE MOREL MUSHROOM? JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT THEM AND CANT WAIT ! TO FIND SOME LAND FISH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ******************************************************************************* Date: 21/3/2001 Username: sajjad Location: Tariday walli Dis-shakupora Tahs-feroswala Pakistan UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: good ******************************************************************************* Date: march 7,2001 Username: yvonne Location: novascotia UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: great feature on the mushroom story. ******************************************************************************* Date: 12 March 2001 Username: Fred Jewell Location: Ruston, LA 711270 UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: searching for information for my pathology class here at Louisiana Tech Univ. ******************************************************************************* Date: march 14 2001 Username: Tim Wheeler Location: Palmerston North UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: hello aiman, my name is tim and i just recently arrived in new zealand from the states. im studying at massey and love mushroom hunting. anyways i dont know much about NZ mushrooms but im interested in learning and was wondering if you could recommend a NZ field guide. great web site. thanks tim ******************************************************************************* Date: 15/3/01 Username: Linda Goin Location: Schaumburg, IL, USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Thanks for signing up on my newsletter! I still want your article...*grin* ******************************************************************************* Date: 17 March 2001 Username: Linda Tappenden Location: Christchurch Comments: I was looking for some information about fungi for a year 7 student to complete a Science Badge in Botany. This homepage is excellent but I need something much simpler. ******************************************************************************* Date: 20/3/2001 Username: baldwin dias Location: india UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: i want to buy oyster mushroom seeds .how can i.telol me how can i? tell me which mushrooms r on great demand for export. & method of growing them quickly. ******************************************************************************* Date: 03/21/01 Username: Frances Location: Ohio UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I`m looking for information on edible mushrooms there is one in the fall that grows on the side of trees & stumps .Can you help identify them ******************************************************************************* Date: 22/03/00 Username: lucas Location: loughborough, england Comments: I actually think your photography is rather good. I also like to go mushroom spotting in my spare time. You can get hold of some realy good mushrooms in Amsterdam. I recomend the libity caps. They taste horible but you'll have a great time. ******************************************************************************* Date: 24.03.2001 Username: Zac Location: Christchurch.NZ UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I loved roaming through your web site. It made me quite hungry for a lovely plate of mushrooms. Congratulations ******************************************************************************* Date: 3/29/01 Username: Hayley UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I like ur mushroom site! it's really a big help especially when im learning about fungi in my bio class now. thankx. ******************************************************************************* Date: 30 3 01 Username: Shannan Mortimer Location: Seoul, Korea UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I like your site, I'm from Auckland but have been in and out of NZ for 4 years and this year I am living in seoul teaching the mycoflora is best represented in the supermarket where there is a wild variety! ******************************************************************************* Date: April 6,2001 Username: Jennifer Bolster Location: New York UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: i think it is a great site it has a lot of information thanx for your time haha bye bye now ******************************************************************************* Date: April 11 2001 Username: Tom Wingert Location: pennsylvania UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Mushrooms forever ******************************************************************************* Date: 4-13-2001 Username: DON ANDREWS Location: BURLINGTON, IA. US UserEmail: DONNIEA51 Comments: I LIKE TO HUNT MUSHROOMS TOO FROM EARLY SPRING TO LATE FALL HERE I ALSO EAT MANY DIFERENT KINDS. ******************************************************************************* Date: 4/15/01 Username: Byron(gagolf) Location: Georgia , NA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hi Aiman Wow You have done a great job with your site, It has been awhile since I was last here! I had asked Clive if he had heard from you, and he said you were busy with your site and such. Just wanted to stop in and say hi and I hope things are going well for you. Take care Byron ******************************************************************************* Date: 18/4/01 Username: Ray Gilbert Location: Auckland UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Nice to see someone else in the country keen on fungi - especially at his time of the year. More boletes please - they're one of the few types I've found over here for eating. Now if I can only convince someone to take me out to the forest for some more slippery jacks! ******************************************************************************* Date: 04/18/00 Username: Juan C. Gonzalez Location: santa cruz mountains UserEmail: [email protected] ******************************************************************************* Date: 4-18-01 Username: Katie McIlwain Location: Ft. Wayne,Indiana,USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: The site was great! It really helped me with my project on mushrooms. Thanks a bunch! ******************************************************************************* Date: 04-20-2001 Username: Barb Location: New Castle,In UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I really injoyed your site, thank you for being so cool with your life style. most people don't understand the beauty of nature, I find it refreshing to see you see a part of nature and are excited about it. I have lived in Indiana for years and we have some wonderful mushrooms, of course some are good eating, some are not. I don't have any pics, but if I'am able to one buy a cam, I'll make sure to take some pics for you. Barb ******************************************************************************* Date: april 20, 2001 Username: Katie Location: ~Ft. Fun~ UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hi ******************************************************************************* Date: 4-24-01 Username: mary majors Location: kokomo, indiana UserEmail: [email protected] ******************************************************************************* Date: April 26 2001 Username: Maria Location: Wisconsin Comments: I used your site to see if it could help me with my biology report and it helped alot. Thank you! Age:15 ******************************************************************************* Date: april 28,2001 Username: James Murphy Location: Clarksburg, West Virginia UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I like your interesting webb, I am a retired green beret, but I was never taught wheather the meriplus giganteus was useful or not especially editable. I was hoping to find this info in your webb but was unable to so I e-mailed you. I hope to find your webb useful in the future. ******************************************************************************* Date: 4/29/01 Username: andrew nadherny Comments: great site ******************************************************************************* Date: 1 May 2001 Username: Dianne Location: Wellington Comments: Certainly very interesting is the mushroom. Well done! ******************************************************************************* Date: 1 May Username: E Dudfield Location: Nelson UserEmail: lainydude@yahoo Comments: Thankyou for your information on mushrooms, I enjoyed your site. It would be great to have some Nelson region covered. The lakes, and the sounds. I'll be back ******************************************************************************* Date: 1 May Username: E Dudley Location: Nelson UserEmail: lainydude@yahoo Comments: Thankyou for this site, very enjoyable there was an article on edible wild mushrooms in the Nelson mail 1997or98 ******************************************************************************* Date: May 3,2001 Username: Brianna Location: New Jersey UserEmail: [email protected] ******************************************************************************* Comments: like your site real helpful for school studies ******************************************************************************* Date: May 5, 2001 Username: La'Keisha Hall Location: Virginia UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: This site is great! There is many sites that are not organized like you are! ******************************************************************************* Date: May 6, 2001 Username: Linda Serrianne Location: Lancaster, New York - near Buffalo UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I did my Master's research in Mycology some years ago. However, I am still totally "charmed" by these phenmomenal organisms. I teach high school biology now at an inner city school...Mycology is never a topic...but it is certainly nice to revisit an "old friend" such as your website. Marvelous job!!! ******************************************************************************* Date: May 9th, 2001 Username: Lenzi Jo Location: United States UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: This site was really helpful with my projects on kingdom Fungi in Biology. It would be really nice,tho, to see the kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species of some of the certain organisms. ******************************************************************************* Date: 13th may 2001 Username: Di & Jens Martin Location: Parnell Auckland UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: We have found in our garden a Ileodictyon Cibarius, can we eat this? 14 years ago we too lived in Havelock North, in Kopanga Rd. ******************************************************************************* Date: 13.05.01 Username: paul Location: patumahoe UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I tried to use your web site to identify a mushroom but it would have taken me ages to look at every page. if you had a page where you could enter in a couple of characteristics and it would narrow the field that would be a big help! ******************************************************************************* Date: 13/05/2001 Username: Stathis Anastasiou Location: GREECE-Karditsa UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Excellent work,I thank You for your work.Stathis ******************************************************************************* Date: may 12 Username: irene Location: virginia Comments: great information!! thanks!! ******************************************************************************* Date: 21st May 2001 Username: Marica Lewis Location: Melbourne UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: GREAT SITE, KEEP IT UP ******************************************************************************* Date: 05-27-01 Username: travis Location: home is N.C in ohio atm. UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: im new at hunting fore mushroom's but i do enjoy it a lot im checking out the net for some info on mushroom's and yourpage is nice i have just gotten to it and have not fully explored it yet. i came to the guest book first. ******************************************************************************* Date: 6-3-01 Username: Brittany Harrigton Location: Tennessee UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I Personally think this is a good website,but still i think u should have some pictures of diffrent kinds of mushrooms so its easier to see what kind of mushroom it is and if its posinious and stuff like that. Sincerly, Brittany Harrington ******************************************************************************* Date: June 4, 2001 Username: Lauren Mitchell Location: Texas, USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I found your site very informative and interesting. I am going to recommend it to my friend who is for some reason afraid of mushrooms! ******************************************************************************* Date: 16.06.01 Username: kaye Location: napier UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: hi, I am not a bush walker, I tuned into your page just by accident, I am into the candlemaking business and when I find the time, I will make you a mushroom candle and get in touch again.perhaps you could add a touch of the unreal mushrooms by taking a photo of it and adding to your page as well. keep up the interesting hobby Kaye ******************************************************************************* Date: 18/06/01 Username: Leigh Butler Location: Martinborough UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Thank you so much for such an extensive photo library on New Zealand mushrooms. We were looking for a mushroom that we found in the backyard and we went to various sites before we found your link. The mushroom was the White Basket Mushroom. You made it easy with all the photos and descriptions. We found about 25 of these mushrooms in the backyard a few days ago and we no idea what they were. Thank you very much. the children are going to take them to school for show and tell. I would like to know if they are poisonous? Are they safe for them to handle and do they dry out well? Thank you, Leigh ******************************************************************************* Date: 18/6/2001 Username: Kasturi Location: Malaysia UserEmail: n_kasturi @hotmail.com Comments: As a mycolgy student I really enjoy your website. Thank You. ******************************************************************************* Date: 6/20/01 Username: J. Steve Wilson Location: South Eastern Georgia, USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Nice site and very interesting. I have just recently taken an interest in the fungi in my area and was looking for info on several different ones. I have identified a few of them through field guides but would enjoy a second opinion. If you would be interested in seeing them send a reply. I am going to set up a web site but just haven't gotten to it yet ( still learning Frontpage). Anyway. I enjoyed the site. ******************************************************************************* Date: 06-21-01 Username: Robert G Elston Jr. Location: Palawan, Philippines UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I am retired from washington state, my wife and I sailed our boat to Palawan where we now reside, there is a need here for good quality mushrooms and i would like to grow them, I need your help and products to start. Can you help me? thank you R G Elston. ******************************************************************************* Comments: Please kind sir, edit your information by phoneticaly spelling out the scientific words,ex. hyphae, is it (hi - fay). than kyou for updating this information for us lay people. ******************************************************************************* Date: 21.06.01 Username: frans baay Location: whitianga UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Have just come across your site and will revisit it in di\ue course to try and identify a possible foodsource growing with abundance amongst a bark mulch in my garden ******************************************************************************* Date: July 12, 2001 Username: Keith Location: Warsaw,POLAND UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Howdy, Liked your site. Been living in POLAND fro 4 years now. WE love wild mushrooms here. My wife, Beata, who is Polish takes me mushrooming each Autumn (Sept.Oct) in the forest. Delicious. All the best Keith ******************************************************************************* Date: 7/18/01 Username: Bethany Location: North Carolina, U.S.A Comments: This website is really cool. Mushrooms are really pretty, and yet unappreciated. It's neat to see your pictures and look for them near where I live. I know I already recognize a few. This is a great page! ******************************************************************************* Date: 7/18/01 Username: Beth Location: North Carolina, United States UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I am a high school student, and this web site saved my biology grade! I had a biology project which involved taking pictures of wild mushrooms, identifying them, and displaying them in a book. I was really having trouble using the field guides to find my mushrooms, but looking on your site made it a lot easier. Even though I live in the United States I found many of my mushrooms on this site. I had one picture of a seemingly ordinary mushroom I found growing on my lawn which I really couldn't identify! I went through 3 field guides, but couldn't find it until I went on your site and discovered that it was Panaeolus rickenii. Thanks a lot! ******************************************************************************* Date: 19 july Username: mimi fournier Location: taupo UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Thank you for making this site . I am doing a school project on fungi and it has helped me lots as books on fungi are all gone form libaries . Thanks heaps and I'll tell you my grade when I get the project back ******************************************************************************* Date: 7\8\01 Username: Thomas Heluit ******************************************************************************* Date: August 15, 2001 Username: Mary K Location: Nashville, Tennessee USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Your site is great. I was looking for some basic, clear information on mushrooms to share with my two children (ages 8 & 10) that I homeschool. We have some mushrooms in our yard, so I thought it would be interesting to dissect them. Thanks for putting this website together. Mary ******************************************************************************* Date: 8/20/2001 Username: Jarred Location: Kentucky UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: hey i was just visiting your webpage to see if it had anything about if mushrooms make their own food or not. it's for a science project at school. oh i'm only 11 but just wondering ok bye ******************************************************************************* Date: 09/03/2001 Username: Lev and Elena Zaltsberg Location: Dallas, USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hello Aiman, how are you? We've really enjoyed your website. While Dallas is our home now, both of us are originally from Russia. Recollections of my childhood are full of summer trips away from Moscow, which inevitably involved mushroom gathering walks into the forest. Continuing the tradition in Dallas is a difficult proposition, subtropical climate, and all. But mushrooms are prolific things and grow even here, in spite of most unlikely conditions. Quite recently after a heavy thunderstorm we’ve discovered a large grouping of rare and quite edible Boletus mushrooms on a grassy knoll next to the parking lot of our condo. We can appreciate your fascination with the wonderful, little known world of mushrooms. Unlike anything else in nature, they can be a great addition to your diet, keep the flies at bay (Fly Agaric), give you hallucinations, or quite efficiently send to the netherworld. Thank you very much. Keep up the good work. Lev and Elena Zaltsberg 6220 Bentwood trail, unit 1705 Dallas, TX USA ******************************************************************************* Date: 4/9/01 Username: Rebecca Location: Auckland Comments: This is an awesome site you have created.You deserve alot of money for it!!! ******************************************************************************* Date: September 2001 Username: Jen Location: UK UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Nice site. Front Page? I have mushrooms for sale. Several tons. Need a market to sell to. Any ideas? ******************************************************************************* Date: 9/9/01 Username: Sarah Scoggins Location: centertown,ky UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: How am I supposed to identify a mushroom if I don't know what type it is? All I know is its big and red with white stripes. ******************************************************************************* Date: 09/09/01 Username: R. Harvey Location: California Comments: I found this nasty thing growing in my yard! I went to the internet to try to find out what it was. Which led me on a very interesting and educational search. "Fun facts about fungi" hinted that it might be a Stink Horn, then using that as my search word led me to this sight which confirmed it! Nice site, I'll be back to try to identify another specimen growing in a planter at work. Thanks, R. Harvey ******************************************************************************* Date: 11.9.01 Username: Juliet Location: Littlehampton/Lewes, Sussex, UK UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Just a note to say, what a great site. I found it by accident whilst looking for info on Philip Pullman books (his story Northern Lights has a character called Asriel) for my 10 year old daughter. Now I know alot more about mushrooms! I had always wondered why they don't cultivate a wider variety. We live close to Portsmouth and travel to France from time to time. In the French markets they have a much wider variety than we do in England. Have you ever thought of setting up your own mushroom farm? We have a few locally, as farms go in the UK they seem to be doing well. I was also intrested to see where you live. We are visiting my brother in NZ in December. My brother raves about NZ but when I looked at NZ on the tourist sites I thought, well OK. Looking at your pictures, I can see what he means! Why is Asreal named so? We have a black cat called Gabriel. We brought him from a gypsy, who said he was a she. When this fact came to light, we decided that you can't have a boy cat called Eileen! We decided to call him Gabriel after walking through Gabriel's Wharf, because angels cause similar problems - to look at them you would think that they are girls but they always turn out to be boys! PS. In case you are wondering about the email address. I work in IT Support at Sussex Police, I have a degree in Environmental Science and wanted to save the world, but I could not find a childminder so now I work for money like most other people! ******************************************************************************* Date: September 18, 2001 Username: Karla Pollock ******************************************************************************* Date: September 18, 2001 Username: Karla Pollock Location: Calgary Canada ******************************************************************************* Date: September 19,2001 Username: Bud Kazdan Location: Huntington, NY USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: My son in law discovered some mushrooms in the lepiotas family which he called green gill. He wants to know whether they are edible ******************************************************************************* Date: 09/25/01 Username: DENNIS Location: Rockford, Illinois UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I was surching the web to find out what kind of mushroom was growing in my backward. I wanted to see if it was something that we might eat. That's how I came to your site. I was only able to read your first page, perhaps an error. Perhaps you might open a page where people can foreward their own pictures to be identified and then to learn uses. Thank you - Dennis ******************************************************************************* Date: 29.09.2001 Username: Bodhi Radford Location: Kemijärvi, Finnish Lappland UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hi! I'm a 16 year old guy from Auckland on exchange in the far-away-from-all forgotten north of Finland and got interested in mushrooms when my last hostfamily took me to their summer cabin where my hostbrother picked a few to eat. Over the last 4 months or so I've got more and more interested in them and every time I see one on the side of the path somewhere I have to go home and get our mushroom book to find out what it is. I dunno what it is about mushrooms that fascinates me - I've always liked plants but never even payed attention to mushrooms until recently, apart from toadstills. Interesting page anyway!PS: I don't eat rare ones. PPS:It would be good if the text comments were automatically fit to the page widge so people wouldn't have to scroll across when reading or insert breaks when typing... ******************************************************************************* Date: 10-5-01 Username: Cathy Location: USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Beautiful site! I enjoyed my visit. ******************************************************************************* Date: 10-10-01 Username: Lee neal Location: home UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: hi, i just have 1 question: what enviroment and climate do mushrooms need to live? ******************************************************************************* Date: 10/15/01 Username: Randy Besancon Location: Arkansas UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: My wife and I like mushrooms. I recently found a new recipe for broiled sirloin steak served with sauteed mushrooms and wild rice. We would like to know if there is any nutritinal value in mushrooms. thanks for any help. ******************************************************************************* Date: 10/15/01 Username: Spot Daniel Location: Prescott Arkansas UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I found a beautiful mushroom in my yard. Knowing nothing about mushrooms I stumbled on your site. Reading comments fronm Paul Schroelder Date 1/6/01 to you Mushroom looks like a penis (no Joke} I would like information. ******************************************************************************* Date: October 2001 Username: Cmaza Location: Soemwhere UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Im doing a science project on fungi and related plantae lifeforms and was looking for reference, I like your site... ******************************************************************************* Date: 10/20/01 Username: julie Location: aol UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: i think you should have a page just on stuff on a report. or a page on just the 6 carecteristics if you don't know them here they are cells, movement, metabolism, growth and devolupment, response to stimuli ( behavior ), and reproduction. ******************************************************************************* Username: Lim Location: Malaysia UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I am fascinated with the commercial value of mushroom I wonder have you heard of cordyceps? Do you think it is possible to grow cordyceps in NZ? Cordyceps are highly sought after by the Chinese community throughout the world. Cordyceps are as valuable as Ginseng. I am very interested in finding out how to grow Cordyceps out of their original habitat in Northwestern China By the way, I am migrating to NZ next year too. ******************************************************************************* Date: October 25, 2001 Username: linbla Location: US UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Amy, Thanks for the website on mushrooms. It was just what I needed for my group of second graders. All the other sites either gave me too much or not enough. But as the words of a wise little storybook character.....yours was "just right." ******************************************************************************* Date: Oct,28/o1 Username: Earl and Laura Netzlaw Location: Nanaimo,BC Canada UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: We have a winter home in Palm Springs, California. We usually summer on the oregon coast. This summer we came to BC and fell in love. We bought a place on the beach. We can see the ferry coming and going to Vancouver BC. We have been to Nancouver a couple of times, but we like the slower pace on the island. Summer has gone and we are still here??? ******************************************************************************* Date: oct 25 01 Username: ken rose Location: british columbia UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: excellent website. we have shaggy mains. and eat a lot of them. ******************************************************************************* Date: 29/10/2001 Username: Dhanula Location: Sri Lanka UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hi man, Thanks for ur information about mushromms I m finding detalis about mush for a project for my a/l s Thanls agaain,,, Keep up the good work meet me www.sethpriya.8m.com ******************************************************************************* Date: 11/01/01 Username: GILBERT LOPEZ Location: USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I WAS TRYING TO FIND INFORMATION REGARDING THE JAPANESE REISHI EXTRACT. WHAT CAN YOU TELL ME ABOUT THIS TYPE OF MUSHROOM EXTRACT. DOES IT HAVE ANY OF THE ELEMENTS OF ARISTOLOCHIC. I JUST READ THAT A WOMEN IN ENGLAND CAME DOWN WITH KIDNEY CANCER ATTRIBUTED TO USING THE CHINESE EXTRACT OF ARISTOLOCHIC. I RECENTLY STARTING TAKING REISHI. ANY INFORMATION YOU CAN PROVIDE WILL CERTAINLY BE APPRECIATED. GIL ******************************************************************************* Date: 11-03-01 Username: Shannon Bachler Location: Seattle, WA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hello, I put you under 'favorites". I have seen my customers picking the mushrooms in a wide open field, where I work> They say the shrooms are edible, as I have now come to find out. The coprinus comatus. Love your site. I work at a County Transfer Station For trash!! Funny to have such a treasure here!! Am going to get the lil' rascals and share them w/ friends and family. But will know for next time to gather in October. Thank you for an amazing and informational site. Love and God Bless Shannon ******************************************************************************* Date: 11-13-01 Username: Carol McDaniel Location: Alaska UserEmail: [email protected] ******************************************************************************* Date: 16 dec 01 Username: john Location: Nova Scotia,Canada. UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Your site is very well put together and is very informative. You say you were excited to find the pycnoporous coccineus. We have a cousin in Nova Scotia called Pycnoporous cinnabarinus,also known as Polyporous cinnabarinus.I have, within the last month, established my own site on mushrooms and coincidentally a photo of cinnabarinus is included on the site.If you would like to check it out the URL is http://mushroom67.tripod.com/mushroomsofnovascotia/ ******************************************************************************* Date: 20/12/01 Username: harry Location: uk Comments: great informative,interesting, well put together site merry christmas H ******************************************************************************* Date: 29-12-01 Username: Angela Davis Location: UK UserEmail: Westweald1.btopenworld.com Comments: Really good site. It must have taken you ages to build up your data. I belong to the West Weald Fungus Recording Group. You may find our little site via http://Westweald1.users.btopenworld.com Unfortunately we have no photos on this site, but you may find some of the people interesting. e-mails can be found at the bottom of the macro form page. Especially Pat Leonard. He spends 6 months of every year in New Zealand, and then retuns to England to spend the summer studying fungi here. Dave Mitchell has written a book on Myxomycetes (Slime Moulds) and is quite an expert. Ron Davis would be very interested in any Inocybe's that you might feel doubtful about identifying. I'm sure any one of these members would be really pleased to hear from you ******************************************************************************* Date: 1/4/02 Username: Joanne Broman Location: Cambria, Calif. UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I live on California's Central Coast in a village. This is a jewel location, it is on the coast halfway between Los Angeles & San Francisco. The weather is an ideal average of 70 in summer, in winter we have the rains. The topography is lovely, hilly, with Oak trees, lots of pines. So this lovely forest town by the ocean is ideal for mushrooms to sprout up in the winter. I love to just walk around & look & try to identify them & also get rewarded with Porcini's, or Boletis Edulus, spelling may not be right, also, Califlower, oyster, chantrelles, & others, it's fun. Right now there's tons of Aminitas, slippery jacks, russola's, pine cone mushrooms, little brown mushrooms, on & on. If you don't have it I highly recommend the book. "Mushrooms Demystified" It's really good for identifiing. Anyway, enjoy your interest & happy hunting. ******************************************************************************* Date: 12/1/02 Username: gail rawlings Location: napier UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: thought i would say hi, enjoying the lovely weather/ ******************************************************************************* Date: 1-15-02 Username: Rockeeteer#2 Location: LA UserEmail: Rocketeer#[email protected] Comments: This site rocks for the project that I must do. All the pictures rule! ******************************************************************************* Date: Jan 18, 2002 Username: Ronda Location: Canada UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Comming to NZ in March would like to talk to you about the different kinds of mushrooms in your bushs. Let me know if you are interested in seeing me or chating to me by email. In Canada I have spent 12 years with mushrooms of all types Ronda ******************************************************************************* Date: 2002.30.01 Username: adriaan Location: welkom sa UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: i live in south africa and am doing a projeckt on mushrooms and your site helped me a lot ******************************************************************************* Date: Feb02 Username: Sze Location: UK UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: The chinese eats Silver Ear (Tremella fuciformis) in syrup (plus other ingredients)as a dessert. It is believed to be good for the lungs. see http://www.mssf.org/cookbook/snow.html ******************************************************************************* ******************************************************************************* Date: 21/2/02 Username: Maria Location: Adelaide, Australia Comments: hey man thanx for the info. i am doing a science project and it wa good information on the fly agaric. maybe u could try putting all of the classifaction names in. seeyas ******************************************************************************* Date: 3 March 2002 Username: Paul George Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I have recently seen a similar slime mould to Stemonitis axifera. The spores appeared to be a lighter chocolate colour than your photos indicate. The droplets on the end of the stems appears to be water (they fell off when disturbed). I can send you a photo if you are interested. ******************************************************************************* Date: March 7,2002 EST Username: Raelinor Location: Foreign Lands Comments: Thank you for your info on Gasteromycetes and your pictures! I'm working on a school project, so your site helps! ******************************************************************************* Date: 11th March , 2002 Username: Anne Gregerson Location: Moeraki, North Otago. UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Wonderful experience to visit your site. Thanks. Really wanted info on fungus found in our strawberry tub. Filled with sawdust and composted earth. Has size of deflated small football - white tubular formations that create spaces within themselves. If you are intersted I will take photo and email to you. Could not find anything like it on your site. Regards Anne. ******************************************************************************* Date: 19 MARCH02 Username: HENRY ODENEYE Location: HOUSTON TEXAS USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Do you have training facilities for training would be mushroom rearers? Thank you. Henry ******************************************************************************* Date: 3/21/02 Username: daniel garris Location: WA UserEmail: [email protected] ******************************************************************************* Date: 23 March 2002 Username: Hugh J. McSpadden Location: Glendale, Arizona, USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Thank you for a wonderful view of your environment. My wife and I have been to NZ twice, with great enjoyment. Last night we received a phone call from Dunedin telling us that a dear friend has passed away. Our hearts ache because of the wonderful memories. ******************************************************************************* Date: 25th March Username: Maurice Location: Hamilton UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hi! enjoyed your site.Being a bit of an epicure would be great (and wise) if you could include the edible status of your featured mushrooms. Oh! noticed the word used "walked PASSED " rather than PAST. GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR SITE. Maurice. ******************************************************************************* Date: 05-04-2002 Username: Pradeep Kumar Mishra Location: Chennai- India UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Dear Sir Thank u very much giving good information regarding mushrooms. I am producing Alyster Mushrooms and intrested to export. R u also buing Mushrooms which I will send u Dry Alyster Mushrooms. If so kindly reply me as soon as possible with ur terms and conditions. Thanking u Pradeep K. Mishra ******************************************************************************* Date: 08.04.2002 Username: Ebrahim Location: Tehran UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I wonuder if you could send me some speciments /culture of the mushrooms...?you kindly reply to my mail & then i will let you know which species i need please.? ******************************************************************************* Date: 4-18-02 Username: Kelli Foster Location: Illinois UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I really liked this site. ******************************************************************************* Date: 18-04-02 Username: Catia Ninni Location: Brasil UserEmail: [email protected] ******************************************************************************* Date: 04-19-2002 Username: Erly Location: Tallahassee, Florida UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: You protest too much. Your photography is very good!I was delighted to see an example of the poisonous pretty orange one with the white spots.I saw one much like that in a cemetery in Pennsylvania years ago, never forgot how prety it was. Didn't have a camera, of course! Already I've forgotten the name of it, but, hey! I'm 70 and have "Sometimer's Disease", i.e. sometimes I remember and sometimes I don't!! :-) ******************************************************************************* Date: 20 APRIL 2002 Username: Randy hasan Location: MEDAN, INDONESIA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Good MORNING I want to get about information clacification of deuteromycetes, basidiomycetes, ascomycetes,and fungi imfertic.Oke trhanks for you information ******************************************************************************* Date: 20 APRIL 2002 Username: RANDY HASAN Location: MEDAN, INDONESIA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: GOOD MORNING. PLEASE, I NEED ABOUT INFORMATION OF DEUTEROMYCETES, ASCOMYCETES, BASIDIOMYCETES AND FUNGI IMFERTIC. THANKS FOR U INFORMATION ******************************************************************************* Date: 4-25-02 Username: kyle Location: miami UserEmail: kcenter Comments: my teeth heat i just got braces this web page helped me out on a report thanks ******************************************************************************* Date: 20/5/02 Username: Laura Polack Location: Melbourne UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I have found your website really useful! I am using it for an assignment at school. Thanks. Laura. ******************************************************************************* Date: 5/28/02 Username: Jennifer Location: Reno,N.V. UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hi im Jennifer and i love mushrooms too! you would not believe i have a huge collection thanks for sharing your information!!! E-mail me! ******************************************************************************* Date: 30/5/02 Username: rachel Location: newcastle,australia UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: i was just wondering if you know of any australian mushroom pages like this,i cant seem to find any. and i really like your site. ******************************************************************************* Date: June 13, 2002 Username: Bob Location: Stratford, Ontario UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hi, I am looking for a supplier of shroom spores in my area. If you know of anyone please send me an e-mail. thanks bob. ******************************************************************************* Date: 15th june 2002 Username: keven Location: auckland UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hi Asamy, Thanx for putting up such a good site. I live next door to a kids park and we have an explosion of beautiful looking mushrooms sprouting out of the bark layer. I am concerned as to there edibility or rather there toxicity. They are orangy gold on top, waxy in appearance and have lots of gills. Around the edge it looks as though there is an extra set of gills moving only a short way into the cap. Looking from the top is as tho the sides of the cap edge has been pinched inwards to look like a two piece clover. They are grow in bunches of about twenty or so. The cap is about 50 mm across. Any ideas? Apologies for the vague description but it would be nice to know. Kindest regards Keven ******************************************************************************* Date: june 17th 2002 Username: lacey lee niblock Location: 1643 seabreeze dr. UserEmail: [email protected]/ Comments: hey you! i think this is wonderful! i love you'r site. i tink i love it so much because i plan on being a professional photographer when i get older! i'm only 17. keep up the good work and it sounds like you guys have allot of fun together. gotta go. = ) *lacey* ******************************************************************************* Date: 02/06/25 Username: justine grift Location: ontario, UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I would relly like to now the names of the mushrooms and what they look like I am starting a collection of mushrooms and I want to know if you know where I can find a big mushroom that looks like a christmas tree is dark brown looks kind of prickily tall very rare and I think its in the country I also think you shold have a place on the net in your section the names of mushrooms you know with there pictures beside there name . ******************************************************************************* Date: 8/6/2002 Username: Tily Location: Salisbury, united kingdom UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Thank you soooooooooooo much it really helped me with my science homework, i have learnt so much!!! ******************************************************************************* Date: july 22,2002 Username: john cree Location: usa UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: there is a mushroom that is some time called wild fish do you know what it look's like and do you have a pictif so send it to me john ******************************************************************************* Date: 7/22/02 Username: Christina Smith Location: Roanoke, VA, USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I'm a 42-yr-old writer working on a short paper for a summer class. I decided to do something on mushrooms -- a bigger topic than I realized. Ran across your Website. It is as charming as it is informative! One of the better ones out there, in my opinion. Keep up the good work, and happy mushroom hunting. CKS P.S. Your photos are quite nice. ******************************************************************************* Date: July 27,2002 Username: Barbara Wronowska Location: USA.New York UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I have found Your page about mushrooms very nice and interesting. I am original from Poland and from childhood my Father taught me which mushrooms can we eat,which not.Every year,I spent some time in the polish wood and always I was admired the beauty of mushrooms growing in our neture. Thank You four Your pictures and article -I like the job You have done. ******************************************************************************* Date: august 9nth 2002 Username: Ryan Location: Northern New York UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: One morning i woke up and looked out my window and there was a big organgish fungus growing on our big oak tree. I couldnt believe a plant that big could just grow over night! and i know for sure because i mowed the lawn the day before and it wasnt there. anyway my father and I knocked the thing off a few minutes ago in fear for our beloved big oak tree. I was just curious if it was and what king of mushroom/fungus it realy was and even if it was edible or not. You seem to know a lot about Mushrooms so if you get the time could you please e-mail me if you know or if you have an idea>? thanks ******************************************************************************* Date: 08.11.2002 Username: Fagyas Oszkar Location: Romania ; Baia Mare UserEmail: [email protected] ******************************************************************************* Date: Aug. 11, 2002 Username: Jack Chitwood Location: Seattle, Wa. UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I enjoyed your website. It is full of information that probably took hours to put together. Thank you, Jack ******************************************************************************* Date: August 13, 2002 Username: Christine Harris Location: West Virginia USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hi, I have a question about mushrooms. Are they considered a mold or a fungus. I have a customer who would like to know. Thanks for your input, Chris ******************************************************************************* Date: 8/14/02 Username: Chana Location: Minnesota, US UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: i have a question. I found these mushrooms underneath the pinetrees in the backyard. They look like the Amanitaceae that you have on this site. Are they also in the US?? could you write back and tell me? Thank you very mcuh ******************************************************************************* Date: 16-08-02 Username: John Zothanzama Sailo Location: Meghalaya,India UserEmail: [email protected] ******************************************************************************* Username: Comments: Dear Sir/Madam, I,m presently working on the woodrotting fungi of Meghalaya,India.Your website is highly appreciated. Keep up the good work. ******************************************************************************* Date: 16-08-02 Username: John Zothanzama Sailo Location: Meghalaya,India UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Dear,Sir/Madam, I,m presently about starting my work on the wood rotting fungi of Meghalaya,India. I highly appreciate your presentation of this website. ******************************************************************************* Date: 8/18/02 Username: Misa Location: Sunnyvale, CA,USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hi there, I really enjoyed yor website. I love mushrooms, I'm from Czech republic and back there I used to go to forests every weekends and pick them. I'm so sad, I can't do it here. Last year I spent 4 months in Christchurch, great people, great country. Misa ******************************************************************************* Date: 8-20-02 Username: Emily Halston Location: USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hello, I have been photographing mushrooms in the woods near my home for the last two years. I find them elegant, fragile, yet strong enough to push up through the soil. Amazing and so many different ones. I am trying to identify the mushrooms in my photographs. Your info has helped. Thanks. Emily ******************************************************************************* Date: aug 20 2002 Location: ky UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: i am a home schooling mom who was looking for info to share with my 1st grader about mushrooms. thanks for you site. ******************************************************************************* Date: August 24 2002 Username: Howard Location: Chicago Comments: Wonderful site-I stumbled on it and doubly enjoyed it because my wife and I wished we could live on the South Island-your gentle site brought us considerable enjoyment ******************************************************************************* Date: 8/24/02 Username: Teresa Location: Virginia UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: My mom gave me a mum in a big pot and since yesterday I have had little yellow mushrooms come up and today since it rained they are 10 times bigger than this morning! They look like squash and they are bright yellow! What are they???????? ******************************************************************************* Date: 25 Aug 2002 Username: Rushina Location: India UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hi, I really liked your webpages on Mushrooms. Lucky wou for wher u live and all. Been to NZ some 4-5 times and it is beautiful. Rushina ******************************************************************************* Date: August 31, 2002 Username: Chi Location: Canada UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: An informative site, but there are some info missing on specific fungi. Also, I would like to let you know that Tramella is actually edible. For centuries, the mushroom, was believe to have medicinal properties for the treatment of Tuberculosis. It can be eaten many ways. The only I know however is to dessert like tonic thing. You can boil it in sugar syrup. You can find the mushroom in many Asian stores. :) ******************************************************************************* Date: The 2nd Day of September in the Year of 2002 Username: Jason Location: United States of America UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hi. Just signing your guestbook ... for no reason other than to let you know that I am visiting your site and am hoping to find what I need. ******************************************************************************* Date: 9/2/02 Username: Johanna Location: Iowa UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Your pics. were alot of fun to look at for artistic inspiration especially. Would you happen to know what causes some mushrooms grow in a circle pattern? Recently I found two huge rings of white mushrooms(sorry I have not looked up the type. I'm just curious. Thanks, JMS ******************************************************************************* Date: 9-4-02 Username: Rhiana Location: Grovetown, G.A.(in U.S.) UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I liked the pictures of the mushrooms, although I don't really know much about them. ******************************************************************************* Date: sept 6-02 Username: Ron Location: Sask,Canada UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: What is the nutritional value of mushrooms? What are the medicinal claims? ******************************************************************************* Date: 9-7 Username: shiana Location: USA Comments: This site was so informative! I simply love mushrooms! I painted mushrooms on the walls of my living room, and have curtains in all my rooms that have a mushroom pattern on them. I eat mushrooms with every meal. I have a little candy dish on my coffee table with mushrooms in it, so I can snack between meals. some people say I am obsessed but I think they are overreacting. once again, good job on the site and keep up the good work! ******************************************************************************* Date: 9-7-02 Username: Donna Mikles Location: Salisbury, NC UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hi! I had a question about mushrooms. What type of mushroom is the following a description of? beige in color with a slight shade of brown, the top of the mushroom is like a lamp shade....reason asking is I all of a sudden have many mushrooms right at my front door steps. I have not seen any here before and I have lived here for 5 years. Ironically, today when I went to put flowers on my grandparents grave at a cemetary, there were three of the same type mushrooms on her grave in a line. My sister has mushrooms similar to these growing in her front yard too that never have been seen there before. What would be your explanation for these mushrooms? I know this sounds sort of weird, but please let me know your comments on this. Thank you for your time. ******************************************************************************* Date: 08SEP2002 Username: Gregory Humphrey Location: Chesapeake, Virginia, USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Enjoyed your site. Just wish to point out that you used the wrong spelling with the word "oversees". It should be overseas. Again. I enjoyed your site. ******************************************************************************* Date: september 8th Username: bozo Location: madison, wisconsin Comments: i found a puff ball. what's the best way to cook em? me hungry! ******************************************************************************* Date: 09-09-02 Username: Margaret R bockman Location: SD UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: have mushrooms that pop up in my yard-lg. white,with brown underneath, just wondering what they were ******************************************************************************* Date: September 9, 2002 Username: Bonnie Location: USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I have found a mushroom in my yard I have never seen before. I've tried getting a name for it but only got one. I would love to send a picture. They look like a carrot sticking out of the ground, pointy end up, with a muddy like, greenish brown shiny substance half way down from the top. They are 4 to 6 inches tall. They attract flies and have a bad odor. Any ideas? ******************************************************************************* Date: September 09,2002 Username: Georgia Czapek Location: Wisconsin, USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I found your website on the recommendation of my daughter who knew of my interest in mushrooms. I belong to a mycology club here in northern Wisconsin. I visited Christchurch in November or 2000. I enjoyed visiting your beautiful botanic garden, the trolley, and the Antartic Center. I would love to return to South Island. the people are very friendly. Your website is very informative. Keep up the good work. Georgia ******************************************************************************* Date: 10/9/02 Username: Hattie Location: Scotland Comments: Thanks for the great site it really helped me with my homework. Keep it up!!! ******************************************************************************* Date: 9 -11-02 Username: britdad Location: tennesse UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: i have found several very very large mushrooms growing in a weedy area that i am cleaning out and i have never seen mushrooms that big they are white and spongy they are the size of a large pumpkin if you have any comments please let me know ******************************************************************************* Date: 9/12/02 Username: Debbie Evans Location: Washington, DC (US) UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I appreciate your pictures. Keep up the good work. I visited your site because my 8th grade daughter is looking for ideas for a science project. We just learned that mushrooms are prone to grow around animal droppings. I was supprised to hear that but not so much so, because we have a pug and this is the first year that we found big mushroom in my back yard and yeah, droppings were very close. Anyway, keep up the good work. debbie evans ******************************************************************************* Date: 9/12/02 Username: mike Location: up state ny UserEmail: my69nv Comments: hi i,am a beginer piking mushroom ,and would like input on picking mushroom,i too enjoytaking pictures of mushroom and other wildlife thank you for any input. mike ******************************************************************************* Date: 9-13-02 Username: Beth Location: Michigan UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I found something that I think is a type of mushroom. Most of it is under woodchips in our flowerbed...the only reason i spotted it was because part of the orange tentacle was sticking out. After removing some of the brush, I found the 4inch long orange tenecal was attached to a white body. The tentacle is hollow, and looks like a sponge. It also has a very bad smell. Can you help me out...what is the "thing" i found? is it really a type of mushroom?? ******************************************************************************* Date: sept 15 Username: Renee Location: NY UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Found a very strange mushroom in the woods not under fur trees but under maples and cedars It looks just like a soccer ball and was 6 inches around Could not see the stem Need to know if you know what it mayb will try to get a digital to send photo thnaks ******************************************************************************* Date: Aug 02 Username: mushroommania Location: china UserEmail: yoifhy@hatmail Comments: mushrooms rock ******************************************************************************* Date: 19 September 2002 Username: Erica Thomas Location: Whyalla UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: could i Have some information on mushrooms Different types mushrooms mushroom farms as much information as possible ******************************************************************************* Date: 9-18-02 Username: Jacob Location: Phx, AZ Comments: Found your site while I was looking for things for my science class on fungi. I thought mushrooms would be cool to talk about. I am 7th grade. Thanks for the cool information. ******************************************************************************* Date: 19 September 2002 Username: Thomas M.Vallikappen Location: Kerala, India UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: This is a truly wonderful site on mushrooms and I enjoyed reading it. Thanks to you now I know so much more about mushrooms, which I probably would not have got to know even by reading many books! All the best to you, your parents, to your brother and sister, and your girlfrined Alice! ******************************************************************************* Date: SEPT 21 Username: BUTCH JANZEN Location: HUTCHINSON, KS UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: YOUR SITE IS VERY INTERESTING THE REASON I WAS LOOKING IS I HAVE MUSHROOMS EVERYWHERE IN MY YARD SO MAYBE YOU COULD HELP ME IS ANY WAY TO GET RID OF THESE? THANK YOU ******************************************************************************* Date: 29/06/89 Username: Dimentho Location: home Comments: Brilliant Site. Just what I was looking for!!!! ******************************************************************************* Date: 10-29-02 Username: Sally O'Connor Location: Virginia UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I found this site interesting but it did not seem to have what I am looking for. I have two clusters of orange mushrooms in my yard and would like to know what they are. The clusters are about 2 ft. in diameter and when new the tops have caps and then flaten out some. I don't really know thing about mushrooms, but I have never seen these before. Thanks for you help. Sally ******************************************************************************* Date: 30/ 10 / 2002 Username: Salah Hashem Salah Location: Helmiat El- Zitoon, Cairo, Eygpt. UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Dear Aiman Samy: I am fine to met you in internet via Ahmed Nabeal Zohdy. ******************************************************************************* Date: 10-29-02 Username: Kristen Violante Location: New York UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Interesting site!! ******************************************************************************* Date: 30 Oct 2002 Username: Ken Plumlee Location: Fairbanks, Alaska UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I'll send you a picture of a fungi that grew on a stump in my back yard. Can't seem to find an ID anywhere. ******************************************************************************* Date: 4-11-2002 Username: Mahesh Jayadrath Khandagale Location: Solapur Maharashtra India UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: i m mahesh from india i get the cultivation of the mushrooms & i want the market for it so i wish to you that you can get me the market for it ******************************************************************************* Date: Nov-3 -02 Username: Norma Cramer Location: Martinsville,Indiana 46151 UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I will be sending a picture of some mushrooms that I found in an old garden spot Sat. would like to know if you know anything about them.thank you ******************************************************************************* Date: 11/05/02 Username: jacob Location: Dar es Salaam Tanzania UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I need some information on these types of mushrooms; 1. Oyester s.p.p 2.Sajo Kaju 3.Pleuroutus 4.Flabelatus Kindly advice me on these mushrooms. ******************************************************************************* Date: Novemeber 6 2002 Username: shannon white Location: Nova Scotia Canada UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: nice site! when i feel depressed ,which is alot cuz i have no friends, i eat mushrooms! atleast now i know what mushrooms will killl me.......... i'll make sure to eat lots of them! see u later! I LOVE THIS SITE!!!!!!!!!!!!! ******************************************************************************* Date: 09.11.02 Username: Peter Smith-Wayman Location: Rugby England UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Great site. Very intersting with heaps of info. We live in Rugby England but have a home in Frimly Rd Hastings. Back in a couple of weeks for a holiday then back for good in the new year. ******************************************************************************* Username: pete Location: otorohanga UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: very good all round im very impresed on you knoledge on shrooms i find it hard enough to learn different trees i will sugest this sight to some tutors of mine ******************************************************************************* Date: 11.Nov.2002 Username: Kheng Khoo Location: England UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Very interesting reading - would suggest you add in an important paragraph like so (based on my past experience about 12 years now). Please for inexperienced gatherers/collectors of mushrooms, when in doubt about the edibility of mushrooms, don't just pick them up and then leave nature's wildlife to die unnecessarily, even poisonous ones are pretty to learn and admire. When collecting edible ones, try to leave the really small ones to grow and regenerate, yes it is tempting to be greedy but wild mushrooms can go extinct too due to our greed. ******************************************************************************* Date: 11/11/02 Username: dave rayls Location: springfield mo. UserEmail: [email protected] ******************************************************************************* Date: nos 11 2002 Username: rod potter Location: ont. Canada UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I was looking for nutritional information about mushrooms. Are they high or low in cholerterol? Your site is excellent, I was surprized when I hound out you were from New Zealand. I lived in NZ for about 5-6 months on a working holiday and loved every minute of it. I spent most of my time in the southland, working with the elk and deer industry. Now at home I farm bison and elk, here in Canada and there is nothing like sauted mushrooms on an elk or bison steak. I love mushroms, so does my sister and her husband but he has to watch his cholestrol and hence our question to you. If you are interested you can check out our web site www.centurygamepark.com Thank you for your time. you must work very hard researching all of that information for your site, well done! ******************************************************************************* Date: 12.11.2002 Username: providence ndiweni Location: zimbabwe UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Well lm young agricuturalist aged 19 l experianced in mushroom for two years and now l was planing to visit you and see how are you pushing at your side and if its posible lm willing to work with you so l just to hear it from you hope to get a reply ******************************************************************************* Date: yes, please (if you're hot) Username: Oliver Kloezoff Location: Catalina High Tucson AZ 85716 UserEmail: [email protected] ******************************************************************************* Date: 11/18/2002 Username: Joetta McCollum Location: USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I am looking for the explanation of why the mushrooms we found in Washington,PA. were growing in a circle and we were not the only ones to find them this way. I have went mushroom picking before and never saw them growing this way. My uncle who is 80 years never saw them grow this way. I would appreciate an explanation if you have one. Thanks ******************************************************************************* Date: Nov. 26, 2002 Username: Dgital Service Group, Inc. Location: 18325 Valley Blvd. #E, La Puente, CA 91744 USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: It is a great website and we learn a lot! www.IN-Call.com ******************************************************************************* Date: 30/11/02 Username: Niall Hamilton Location: Auckland UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: It always heartens me to see an interest in mycology, especially in the form of such a nicely designed and clear website. I have quite an interest in mycology myself, though it is more of the hyphomycetes/deuteromycetes/zygomycetes and some of the ascomycetes... Anyway, great web-site! ******************************************************************************* Date: DECEMBER 1 2002 Username: EDUARDO GUTIERREZ Location: BOGOTA-COLOMBIA-SUD AMERICA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR INFORMATION ABOUT STROPHARIA RUGOSOANULATA. IDID TRY TO CULTIVATE IN A COMERCIAL WAY BUT IT HAS BEEN VERY HARD BECAUSE CAN NOT HAVE AN STANDART PRODUCCION IT GOES UP AND DOWN HAVING THE SAME CONDICIONS ALL YEAR HERE IN BOGOTA 2800 METERS OVER THE SEA LEVEL, EMPERATURE 8° TO 15°C AND 80% HUMIDITY. THANKS IF YOU CAN HELP ME FINDING THIS INFORMATION. ******************************************************************************* Date: December2 2002 Username: Nicole Location: Ny UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Thank you for this site i had to do a report on mushrooms and i could not find a site! this is the best site on mushrooms!! ******************************************************************************* Date: 12/8/02 Username: Elroy Cowles Location: Bremerton,Washington UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I want to thank you for your WEB SITE on mushrooms. This is wonderfull. I am learning a lot because of your site. YOURS: Elroy Cowles ******************************************************************************* Date: Dec 11, 2002 Username: Helina DeMello Location: Vallejo, CA, 94590 UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: What is the name of the mushroom in the fifth picture down on the front page of your Website. Thank you very much, Helina A DeMello ******************************************************************************* Date: 12/12/02 Username: Bobby Fischer Location: kentucky UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: your site is to conceded ******************************************************************************* Date: dec 13 2002 Username: jeff Location: USA (arkansas) UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Very interesting, keep up the good work!! ******************************************************************************* Date: 19 Dec 02 Username: Diane Holsinger Location: Timberville, VA USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: very nice website I also love mushrooms and am a member of the Mylogical CLub in Washington DC ******************************************************************************* Date: Dec 31 2002 Username: Lawrence Moose Location: Kansas City Missouri UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I really enjoyed your sight and wanted to let you know to keep up the good work!!!!!!!! ******************************************************************************* Date: Jan. 7, 2003 Username: John Wolfe Location: Bourbonnais, IL 60914 UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: My middle school 6th grade Science class recently did a unit on Mushrooms, and as their teacher and avid lover of mushrooms, your site caught my eye. Your photographs are excellent. I also can't order Pizza without them. Thanks for sharing your information. JW ******************************************************************************* Date: 8 Enero 2003 Username: Manuel Lorenzo Location: Zaragoza ( Spain) Comments: Felicidades por su pagina, muy interesante. http://www.altogallego.com/setas/ ******************************************************************************* Date: 9th Jan 2003 Username: Salwant Singh Location: Amritsar, India UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hi asamy your site is just great.i really enjoyed reading it.if you do come to this part of the world i could take you up to Himachal Pradesh where there are a lot of wild mushrooms growing and what photography you can do.i grow mushrooms on my small farm and find it the most rewarding spiritual experence. ******************************************************************************* Date: 15/01/03 Username: norhana daud Location: johor bahru UserEmail: www.hana.com.my Comments: show a artikel and pictures for mushroom ******************************************************************************* Date: 1/16/2003 Username: Tiffany Location: Oregon UserEmail: none Comments: This is a cool website and keep up the good work. Mushroom hunting is fun huh! ******************************************************************************* Date: 1/19/03 Username: Robert Reppy Location: Palm Harbor, Florida, USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Mr. Samy: I'd like to read more about how to begin identifying mushrooms, with tips from your experience in what to look for in differentiating them. I'm just starting in on the hobby. Since the climate here is tropical and wet, there are plenty of species. I wanted an excuse for getting out in the woods that didn't involve bringing a gun and killing the very things that make going out in the woods fun in the first place (I've never understood that!). Here in the redneck-infested American South,hiking for the sake of hiking is shocking ("Hells Bells,if'n you-all ain't gonna kill nothin', wot's the point?". ******************************************************************************* Date: 20/1/03 Username: Cheri Low Location: Singapore UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: >>> Nice and interesting website you have! Keep it up!! ******************************************************************************* Date: jan.20/2003 Username: Alexandria Location: canada Comments: i think you should have more about mushrooms so kids can use the website for school work!! ******************************************************************************* Date: jan 26,2003 Username: paul Location: maine UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: was wondering which mushroom you can eat and how do you tell which ones you and and can not eat could you respond back as soon as possable ******************************************************************************* Date: 2/4/03 Username: Sally Smith Location: Columbus, Ohio UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: My grandson is doing a paper on mushrooms for school. He needs to tell the job of each part of the mushroom. He can't find anything on the "ring".Could you please email me with the answer? ******************************************************************************* Date: 02-03-03 Username: chancelle smith Location: columbus ohio home of the BUCKEYES UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: you need more info on the ring because iam doing a report on them. ******************************************************************************* Date: 2-8-03 Username: Grace Giles Location: Richardson, Texas USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Can I safely grow mushrooms at home? What do I need? thanks a bunch grace ******************************************************************************* Date: February, 8th Username: Catia Ninni Location: Brasil UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: It's Beatiful Site!!!!! ******************************************************************************* Date: 10th. Feb 2003 Username: Joan Stewart Location: Victoria , Australia UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Great site. My daughter's year9 science class has been given a $10 challenge by their teacher to find out a food that is not a plant or feeds of a plant. A friend and I suggested mushrooms and when she mentioned this the teacher asked her to find out more info. Hopefully your site has given her the answers! ******************************************************************************* Username: Zeline Location: Oklahoma, USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I loved your site. I'm always interested in mushrooms. Thanks for sharing. Opossum Sally's Goldenmean http://opossumsally.homestead.com/index1.html ******************************************************************************* Date: 17/02/03 Username: Simba Kangara Location: Harare, Zimbabwe UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I am a button-mushroom grower and wish to start training some rural folks on button-mushroom production. I would be glad to get assistance from you on the cheapest rural resources they can use for the compost. The sort of grass they can use and mind you rural Zim hasnt got horses. Will be glad to hear from you. Regards ******************************************************************************* Date: 18.02.2003 Username: Waseem A. Patel Location: Mumbai, India UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hi, The site has been good but I couldnot find any thing about Calocybe Indica. I am interested in finding out more details for cultivation of the same. Please let me know if you have any information about Calocybe Indica. Regards Thanks ******************************************************************************* Date: 2/18/03 Username: Cheryl Location: Wheatland School Comments: i enjoyed your website very much and im glad you know so much about them because all your knolage helped me with my report. thank you very much. i especially enjoyed the pictures!! ******************************************************************************* Date: 2-19-2003 Username: KT Location: WI Comments: I took a look for my school project on mushrooms.. it was sort of helpful! ******************************************************************************* Date: 21.02.2003 Username: Jonas Hafsteinsson Location: Iceland UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Regards, http://www.mmedia.is/~unimog/setur1/ ******************************************************************************* Date: nice website Username: Yana Dimitrova Location: nice website UserEmail: [email protected] ******************************************************************************* Date: 022303 Username: bobbie Location: texas UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Do you know anything about the Kombucha mushrooms. I have been reading about this and wonder where you get them ******************************************************************************* Date: 03-01-2003 Username: Tomm Frederickson Location: Olympia, WA 98506 USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: First time visitor ******************************************************************************* Date: 3-10-02 Username: kara musso Location: california UserEmail: [email protected] ******************************************************************************* Date: March 10, 2003 Username: Joyce Tibbs Location: Mid-TN UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Want to know if it's ok to eat portabella mushrooms raw........ ******************************************************************************* Date: 17.3 Username: Minttu Location: finland UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hi I really like youre homepage :) I like that mushroom thing ;D good job :) bye! ******************************************************************************* Date: 2003/3/20 Username: diana Location: hamilton UserEmail: [email protected] ******************************************************************************* Date: 22 March 2003 Username: G.J. Noble Location: Oklahoma UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I enjoyed reading your site. The reason I looked into this site is that I have a golden mushroom growing in my front yard. One that I have never seen before. It stands about 2-3inches tall and is about 4-6 inches round. We have seen small mushrooms grown around here but never one this big. Write me and let me know if this is unusual, it is for us. ******************************************************************************* Date: 22 March 2003 Username: John Shane Location: Chicago, IL UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I liked your web pages. I too am interested in fungi. I am keenly interested in identifying the spores that go with the mushrooms. I have just begun to identify mushrooms. I started last year to do field mycology. I am captivated by them. Do you ever do spore prints from the mushrooms you collect? John ******************************************************************************* Date: 24.03.03 Username: Sarah Place Location: UK UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Wow this site reminds me alot of a fit boy in my class who's name is actually mushroom. Unfortunately he has no ear lobes, but then again everyone has a disadvantage don't they?! This site has helped me grow my own little Jamies in my back yard! Thank you so much! ******************************************************************************* Date: 31/3/03 Username: Todd Location: Howick, Auckland UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I have an infestation of STINK horn mushrooms, like your photo. I will soon be the only person left in Howick, unless I can eradicate them. They arrived in a load of mulch. Yes I agree with you , they LOOK beautiful but they must go. Do you have any solutions of how to get rid of them. The crop is spreading quickly and covers an area of about60 square meters. Help Regards Todd ******************************************************************************* Date: 03/31/03 Username: wesley hall Location: rogue river, oregon, usa UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I'm also a, "In training" myses-whatever. A few years ago i had a professor come out to the house and give me a walk in the woods tour. lots of good ones and many unknown. The boletes were abundant and according to him and the literature, most are edible. That word doesnt tell each of us much. ******************************************************************************* Date: abril 4 2003 Username: miller riveros Location: bogota colombia UserEmail: [email protected] ******************************************************************************* Date: 6 April 2003 Username: Robin Jaffe Location: Christchurch UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hello, I was wondering if you might be able to point me in the direction of some mycology groups who go on forays in the Canterbury area. Thank you! ******************************************************************************* Date: 04-06-03 Username: Wanda Location: Kentucky UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Need info about a wild mushroom called dry land fish. When cooked taste like fish. ******************************************************************************* Date: 8/4/03 Username: cameron Location: hastings newzealand UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hey boss thought id have a look at ur site its pretty cool lots of info and stuff. ******************************************************************************* Date: 04 -08 - 2003 Username: John J. Timms Location: St Louis, Mo. UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hi, Good site, I would expect it to be great in the future. An update would be nice. I was looking for recipes. You might consider that. John ******************************************************************************* Date: 04/08/03 Username: Lili Location: US UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hey whats up, you have a cool site. Mine is http://frogbrigadeo.tripod.com, let me know what you think if you check it out. ******************************************************************************* Date: 4-12-2003 Username: Collette Lee Location: Indiana-usa UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hi-enjoy your site-I am a lover of mushrooms also-enjoy the hunt as much as the eats ******************************************************************************* Comments: This site is cool but i cant seem to find the truffles ******************************************************************************* Date: 22 April 2003 Username: Jennifer Pooley Location: Harare Zimbabwe UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I would be very interested in which African wood could be used to grow mushrooms. We do have poplars and oaks but in very small quantities, they are exotics, the most prolific wood on our farm is Msasa, could this be used for Shitake Mushrooms? Very interesting site I will visit often. Regards Jennifer ******************************************************************************* Date: 04/22/03 Username: melissa Location: michigan UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: This is a great site! I will now look for mushrooms I might have just walk over before. THANK'S ******************************************************************************* Date: 04/22/03 Username: Tyler Location: Michigan UserEmail: I can't say! moma said soooo! Comments: cool mushrooms.this site helped me whith my home work ******************************************************************************* Date: 25th of April 2003 Username: Rachelle Cummings Location: Hampton Park UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I really like your website. I found every thing I needed to now about Mushrooms. I'm going to tell all of my friends about your website. I came to oyur website atleast 10 minutes ago, printed out what I needed & I hope I get top marks for my project on Mushrooms. I've all ready told my Dad and he came straight to the computer. I hpe you like this letter I have just sent you. I don't think it needs changing one little bit! I'm really happy I got on to your website. C Ya Rachelle Cummings ******************************************************************************* Date: 04-25-03 Username: Ebony Sutton Location: GCHS/Greene Central High School UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Look all I wanna know is: Can you die from eating regular mushrooms if they have been contaminated with poisionus mushrooms? ******************************************************************************* Date: 04-25-03 Username: Ebony Sutton Location: GCHS/Greene Central High School UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Look all I wanna know is: Can you die from eating regular mushrooms if they have been contaminated with poisionus mushrooms? ******************************************************************************* Date: 4/27/2003 Username: Jim Schmitz Location: Lake St. Louis, MO, USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I have an interest in wild mushrooms and do pick and eat a few varieties. I am very impressed with your web site. I will be sending you an e-mail with pictures attaches of a mushroom that I hope you recognize and am wondering if it is edible. Thanks for any information you can give. I plan on visiting your web site often and thanks again for creating it. JIM ******************************************************************************* Date: 30/04/03 Username: Daniel Manickum-pullen Location: Auckland UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Reasonabally applicable content. Doing primary school project...really looking for basic facts Thanks. Nice to see such lovely fotos from someone who has only had a camera for 2 months Regards Dan ******************************************************************************* Date: 5-3-03 Username: vicki Location: las angelas UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: hey thanx a lot for this webpage! it helps a lot! i needed it for getting my bf back! loves + kissess victoria antonio ******************************************************************************* Date: 5/5/03 Username: Alison Location: Sydney Australia Comments: Hi, U have some amazing phots i stumbled across this website im looking for pictures of mushrooms and i must say congrats on this fantastic web site.... Simple yet spectacular!!!! Hope u had some fun crating this gr8 web site.... Love the pics ******************************************************************************* Date: 5 May 2003 Username: benji Location: piha UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hello there i have always been in ore of mushrooms around the 09 area and have been hunting for new species which i have never seen. i would like to find some magic mushrooms. liberty caps are the go i think? do they like pine needles? i have been to the grave yard in glen eden but have had no luck. there are multiple deadly toadstools. fantastic reds though!anyway even though u yourself are not a shroom taker. u do seem to no your shrooms, please email me with a little help if you could i would be very greatful. thanks. ******************************************************************************* Date: 5/7/03 Username: Shirley Vaine Location: san diego UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Do you know a name of a poison mushroom that is sort and cute. I want to work on eliminating nuclear bombs and deleted uranium, and I thought using the name of a posionious mushroom might be a good slogan. thanks sv ******************************************************************************* Date: May 16 2003 Username: Kimberly Romero Location: Rice Lake High School UserEmail: [email protected] ******************************************************************************* Date: may 17 2003 Username: tara Location: british columbia, Canada Comments: i really enjoyed your web page. i like how you did your drawings that showed the different parts of the mushroom, and how a mushroom is formed. it was easy for me to understand. i also like how you cant get lost on your page! take it easy, tara :) ******************************************************************************* Date: 5\19\03 Username: Emily Location: Califorina,U.S.A Comments: This is a good website and I enjoyed reading it ,but you might want to include if mushrooms are alive and reasons why they are alive. ******************************************************************************* Date: 21-5-03 Username: robert simpson Location: newtownards UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: site interesting but not exactly what i wanted ******************************************************************************* Date: may 22 2003 Username: kathyea jean Location: Philippines UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: hello, i just surfed your site and im happy for the result i had found out... anyway, i wonder if u can give me some information on how to raise or take care of mushrooms...i know it is sumkinda odd but my family is planning to raise a mushroom business.... pls if you do have information, send it to my email...its a great help.. thank you!!! kathyea ******************************************************************************* Date: may 29 2003 Username: Alysha Location: b.c UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: cool site ******************************************************************************* Date: 05-31-03 Username: Robert & Diane Cue Location: Rural North Dakota UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: We enjoyed the article and look forward to more. Thank you, Robert & Diane ******************************************************************************* Date: 2/6/03 Username: maria Location: mildura UserEmail: 4687@ Comments: you should have stuff about toadstools on here aswell and make the title mushrooms and toadstools. ******************************************************************************* Date: 7/1/03 Username: Myles Hughes Location: Kentucky UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Sir I would like to know the growing period of the morel mushroom. I think it is April only. Can you tell me if I am right . Thank you very much. Myles ughes ******************************************************************************* Date: June 08, 2003 Username: Victor Marshall Location: Palmdale, California, USA UserEmail: Comments: Thanks for the view of some of your favorite mushrooms. I was looking for information as I am 7 years old and just was looking at mushrooms in my yard. Thank you. ******************************************************************************* Date: June 08, 2003 Username: Doug Walden Location: Palmdale, California, USA UserEmail: Comments: Thank you for being there. Have a nice day. ******************************************************************************* Date: 6-9-03 Username: Dan Doherty Location: Virginia UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I heard on TV years ago some mushrooms can live forever so long as they have enough sunlight and water. Your website says only tougher woody ones can last a month. Are there any mushrooms that can live a very long time if they are not eaten? ******************************************************************************* Date: 10.6.03 Username: james minehan Location: hastings UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: paola recommended i look at this site - very interesting ******************************************************************************* Date: 12th June 2003 Username: Harishchandra Jagtap Location: India UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hi, I'm from India. I'm a mushroom cultivator. I'ld like to export Oyster Mushrooms. If there is any such party I'ld like to contact for the trade. Please contact on my email.This web site has done a great job. Thanking you. Jagtap ******************************************************************************* Date: 06-13-2003 Username: Adam Siano Location: Clarkston, Michigan UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I just found a corprinus sp. at the end of a driveway on a side street of downtown Clarkston. Single mushroom some white rock. Thank You for the photo of this example. ******************************************************************************* Date: june 13 2003 Username: anthonhy Location: 302 cr 3105 clifton tx 76634 UserEmail: Comments: am trying to find out what murshrooms are good for you. They grow wild here int hese pastures. I want to now what would happen if I cook with them . Or ate the in a salad, What is the effect from doing so ? Is it safe to do this ? What kind do I need to look for so I know I pick the right ones ect. Thank you for your help ******************************************************************************* Date: june 13 2003 Username: tanner 6 michael 35 (dad) Location: columbus ohio UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: We checked out the site and tanner read the whole front page and was interested in learning about mushrooms after we found some in our front yard. We found the mushroom while playing tag and looked it up on your site. Thank You for a learning experience for a hyper-inquisitive 6 year old. ******************************************************************************* Date: 14.06.2003 Username: milena Location: Bulgaria UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: It is a great site. I love it. I am in love with the muchrooms myself. Can you please tell me anything about growing this white big one that turns to powder when grown up? It is big as a football ball. And the same white. i dont know its latin name.I am also ready to exchange kits with who is interested. I have white oisters kit. Thanks. ******************************************************************************* Date: 6-16-03 Username: Eric L. Bollinger Location: Avoca Ny. UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Found some large white mushrooms,they look deliciouse imagining them saute'dwondering if it could be poisonouse...apreciate any help your site may provide...thanx ******************************************************************************* Date: 06/17/2003 Username: bill jordan Location: statesville,n.c. UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: while growing african violets i have grown a pot full of orange with brown and then a white top either mushrooms or fungus. wanted to know what they were. ******************************************************************************* Date: 20/6/03 Username: McIntosh John C Location: Palmerston North UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I am interested in edible mushrooms particularly Morels. Is there any group in my region? ******************************************************************************* Date: 21/06/2003 Username: Jagmeet singh Location: India UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: hi Aiman,i happen to visit ur site while i was searching for few interesting page on mushrooms,since recently i am my friend thought of venturing into growing mushrooms.Since u have the required knowledge about mushrooms,i would like u to suggest me the commercial viability of growing mushrooms.I hardly know anything about mushroom,just had it,kindly suggest me on the finer points that i need to know about growing mushrooms before i could venture into it. bye,waiting for ur reply ******************************************************************************* Date: 06/25/03 Username: Charles F. Scaia Location: United States New York UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Article was of Interest ******************************************************************************* Date: june 30th Username: Rizwan Siddique Location: Pakistan. UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: hellooo dear Aiman Samy, i really like ur site very much and appreciate ur effort to introduce some one with the mushrooms. first of all i would like to indicate a little mistake, infact in the sentence "residents of this area my find this site even more interesting" i think the word "may" should come instead of word "my". however as i am not from a english speaking country so if i am wrong then i appologize in advance. But the most important thing is that i want to start producing mushrooms here in pakistan and i think as u r so much experienced in this field so i want to take ur help in the sense that i ask u some questions and hope u will guide me through.the questions are is it possible to grow mushrooms here in pakistan? how much costly is it? from where to get its seeds? where to sale the mushrooms once grown? and how much is the chance of profit? how much place is requried ? i will be so thankfull if u provide me with the required information. i will be so thankful to u for helping me. ******************************************************************************* Date: June 30, 2003 Username: Sherry Park Location: Miami FL ******************************************************************************* Date: July 3, 2003 Username: Jerry SIms Location: Kansas, USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I found your site to be AWESOME.....I found it because I have a RED mushroom growing in my back yard....several as a matter of fact. They have just popped up recently. I have two little pups....and the mushrooms are growing in their area to play. My concern is......is it a poisonous one should one of the pups eat one? I can take a picture and send to you IF that's acceptable? Ive never seen this kind in the USA before. They are VERY pretty...but does pretty kill? THanks...I'll await a reponse from you on how I can send you a picture of them. Jerry ******************************************************************************* Date: 7/4/03 Username: GEORGIA STAPLES Location: FREEDOM, IND. UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I DONT KNOWN TO MUCH ABOUT MUSHROOMS. WHICH ONES ARE GOOD OR BAD? ******************************************************************************* Date: 6 july 2003 Username: ROMINA GAZIS OLIVAS Location: PERU UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I AM BIOLOGIST AND I AM DOING MY THESIS IN TROPICAL MYCOLOGY OF MY COUNTRY AT THIS MOMENT I HAVE MADE OTHER PROJECTS TOO, SO MAY BE WE CAN SHARE INFORMATION ABOUT MUSHROOMS. ******************************************************************************* Date: tue 22 july Username: coe Eronini Location: nigeria ,west Africa UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: i like the simple format of your presentation.i would like to know about growing mushrooms.and a brief back ground on them. ******************************************************************************* Date: 29 July 2003 Username: Lauren Location: south africa UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Thanks ******************************************************************************* Date: 04 August 2003 Username: Itshekeng Mashiane Location: South Africa UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I definitely think that your site is user-friendly. I was able to download the information I needed easily. Keep it up! ******************************************************************************* Date: 5/08/03 Username: malbe Location: South Africa UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hi, i found the site really informative and fun. i hope the next time i go to the woods i will sport some of the nice looking mushrooms and start my little collection on them. cheers. ******************************************************************************* Date: 11/08/2003 Username: melissa Location: south africa UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: great site.should have more specifics ******************************************************************************* Date: 8/11/03 Username: Maria Location: Maryland, USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I found some odd looking mushrooms in by backyard and I am trying to identify them and I came across your web site. ******************************************************************************* Date: 8/18/03 Username: JM Location: MA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: My friend has a house at the cape with a lot of shade and this season, since it has been so wet, his lawn and yard have been covered with a forest of mushrooms of many varieties. I too some digital pictures. Are you interested in seeing them and posting? I am interesting in identifying these mushrooms and whether they are edible. Thanks. JM ******************************************************************************* Date: 22-aug-2003 Username: Paulous aquaticus gobot taberdicus the mammoth Location: UK UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Great site, there are not many with a complete classification system for the basidiomycetes. Very well constructed, unique, the web master knows his mushrooms!!! ******************************************************************************* Date: 8/23/03 Username: Azrel Location: Spring Comments: www.solariserecords.com; you should check out the artist w/ the same name as your cat... Asreal/Azreal/Azrel ******************************************************************************* Date: 29/08/03 Username: Sami (aka Battered Mushroom) Location: Norfolk, England UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hello!!! My names Sami, and i love mushrooms cos theyre pretty and they make me laugh! i have a new religion based around mushrooms and the green pigment chlorophyll which i couldnt help noticing was featured in your fabulous website! I think ur sites great, and people say i am a mushroom and iv sent u a email, hope youl reply! If you would like any information about our little friendly green chlorophyllic religion, dont hesitate to email me! its a very happi religion (dont worry i am not batty, im only 15) its a bit of fun but im trying to get the religion "chlorophyll" noticed, and so we can all share a love for mushrooms! Yours sincerely, Sami, Battered Mushroom x ******************************************************************************* Date: 31,August 2003 Username: Shiva Devkota Location: Central Department of Botany,Tribhuvan University,Kathmandu,Nepal UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Dear sir, i am student of master level and doing my dissertion works entitled "Mushrooms of Lumle" Here locality Lumle is the most rainfall area of Nepal.Having your web relating mushrooms helps in different aspect of this work So i found it really fruitfull. thanks for your this contribution. i am hoping good regards towards me in future .I want to share lots of feelings with you .So sir plz give me oppurtunity to have it. trying to be yours Shiva Kathmandu,Nepal ******************************************************************************* Date: i dunno Username: Rachel (aka Rölf!- am big fan of Rolf Harris) Location: Peterbourgh, England UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: G'day! wow this website is amazin! it has answered a great deal of my questions about mushrooms, which I have always wanted 2 know more info about because i think theyre beautiful and r not given enough praise, even though they are 'king of the fungi'. i have read thru the guest book, and I have noticed comments from a 'battered mushroom' about starting a religion about chlorophyll. i think this is a really good idea about how we can all unite in r own special community for mushroomic rights. * ******************************************************************************* Date: 01.09.03 Username: Rach (aka Rölf!-am big fan of Rolf Harris) Location: Peterbough, England UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: wow this website is amazin! I have learnt many new facts about mushrooms that I have longed to know for some time. I think that mushrooms are beautiful and they do no get enough praise for being 'king of the fungi'. i have read through the guest book and I noticed someone known as the 'battered mushroom' who would like to start a chlorophyll religion. I think this is a great idea how all of us can unite together to form a chlorophyll community where we can stand for mushroom rights. what are your views on this? ******************************************************************************* Date: 9/1/03 Comments: Thanks for your site and all the interesting facts! We homeschool and look to learn all the time. Thanks for helping us with our education. ******************************************************************************* Date: 2 September 2003 Username: Melissa Parry Location: Papakura South Auckland UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: i find that your site is very interesting and helpful thank you ******************************************************************************* Date: September 3, 203 Username: Diana Location: Oakland California UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Aiman, thanks for the information, I am a culinary student and needed info on portobellos...nothing too academic...i can ascertain I think from your descriptions which category they are in, but can't be sure so I am just going to go on what I have which isn't much. I guess it is enough that I can cook the darn things in 100 different ways right? Your home and pictures are lovely, keep up the good work. ******************************************************************************* Date: 06 September 2003 Username: Bill Barr Location: Pennsylvania UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Interesting site. I have sent 3 pics of a type of fungi or maybe mushroom growing at my home.. Maybe you can let me know what it is.. ******************************************************************************* Date: 7 September 2003 Username: Ruby Sinnott Location: New Zealand, Greymouth UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hi, My name is Ruby Sinnott and I am 12 years old. I just want to thank you for the information you have provided, I have searched many sites and yours was the best site that explained what mushrooms really are! I myself have started a mushroom site www.geocities.com/rubysinnott as a school project and all the information I need is in you site! Thank you so much!! Yours sincerely Ruby Sinnott ******************************************************************************* Date: 9/10/03 Username: Carol Evans Location: Seattle, WA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I've found your site interesting and helpful. We identify fungi found in buildings, and I've actually come across a couple of your "critters" among those I've seen. Thanks ******************************************************************************* Date: September 12, 2003 Username: Chris Edinger Location: Kansas City Mo. USA UserEmail: dinger@planetkc. com Comments: I have a huge ( 9 to 10") mushroom in my lawn.. i was just looking to see if i could find out anything about it.. Your site is very informative... but i didnt find a match... Regards Chris ******************************************************************************* Date: 13.9.03 Username: Shiva Devkota Location: Kathmandu,Nepal UserEmail: Devkotashiva2yahoo.com Comments: If it is possible send me a online article in my mail yahoo. ******************************************************************************* Date: September 19/03 Username: Kayla Russell Location: Nova Scotia UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I really like your site...in school we're doing a project on mushrooms and i found your site very helpful!!Keep up the good work. Sencerly:~*¤Kayla¤*~ ******************************************************************************* Date: 21-09-2003 Username: Ulla Nørskov Location: Denmark Comments: I have seen your homepage, and can say, that we also have tehm in Denmark Rrgards Ulla ******************************************************************************* Date: 9/21/2003 Username: JAY Location: RHODE ISLAND UserEmail: JAYPATB83@AOL ******************************************************************************* Date: 7/21/03 Username: racing Location: yukon, ok UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: cool site ******************************************************************************* Date: 9*23*03 Username: Piper*Johnson Location: Coast of California UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: mushrooms have a great source of Chitin ******************************************************************************* Date: 9-26-03 Username: krystal Location: san antonio UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: we found a mushroom with an oarnge cap, it is spongy looking underneath. it has a large stem that is yellow,ot is also very smooth. it wouild be greatly appreciated if you could tell me what kind the mushroom is and a little bit about it.i would really like to learn more about it. thanks, krystal ******************************************************************************* Date: sept.29 2003 Username: Lacey jones Location: princeton ky ******************************************************************************* Date: 9/30/03 Username: donna g Location: maryland, usa UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: really liked the site...it's great to see there are still lots of "shroomers" out there... ******************************************************************************* Date: oct 2 2003 Username: Don Ireland Location: northern Idaho USA UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I recently moved to Idaho fron Indiana and have been amazed at the number of mushroom species found in the pacific nothwest. I'll attempt to photograph some of these fall mushrooms and send them to you. I.m trying to identify the edible kind. Is there a "rule of thumb" in identifying the edible varieties? Thanks Don ******************************************************************************* Date: October 1, 2003 Username: Ellie Benner Location: Foster City, California USA UserEmail: [email protected] ******************************************************************************* Date: 5 October Username: Muriel Polet Location: The Netherlands UserEmail: [email protected] ******************************************************************************* Date: 10/6/003 Username: ben Location: HOUSTON , TX UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: hello, my name is ben , i am 19 years old international student, i am looking for a host family in houston for proving my lnaguge . thank you for your atention ******************************************************************************* Date: Oct. 2003 Username: Ozzie Location: Missouri UserEmail: [email protected] ******************************************************************************* Date: 9.10.03 Username: nina ozols Location: london UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: i have a cut down tree (trunk only to be exact) and yesterday over hundreds of mushrooms grew, just over night, they are firm, when put on the tip of a lips they do not stink are they known to you ******************************************************************************* Date: Oct. 11, 2003 Username: Rodger Harris Location: California UserEmail: Rharris @email.com ******************************************************************************* Date: 11 Oct 2003 Username: Steve MacNeil Location: Cherryville, BC, Canada UserEmail: Anita)[email protected] Comments: I have some digital photos of mushrooms that I haven't the faintest idea what they are. Where would I get such info? ******************************************************************************* Date: 10-11-03 Username: Chris Bonar Location: Tacoma WA. UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: I like your site. I was in the woods today and saw all kinds of mushrooms. I saw some brown ones that were growing on the side of the mud on mountains as we past them in the woods. I also saw some white round mushrooms that had a brown spot on the top in the middle. I did not know if they were poisonous or not . I did not pick them. But came home to look on the internet for information on mushrooms. I always see alot of them and don't know if I should pick them to eat them. I will not pick them untill I find out if they are edible. Chris ******************************************************************************* Date: 10-14-03 Username: Kelly Location: PA Comments: Hey, I jsut really enjoyed using your site for a Biology class paper. It really helped me a lot! THANKS! ******************************************************************************* Date: October 14 Username: Sean Zane Ramirez Location: Texas UserEmail: [email protected] Comments: Hello, I love your site but i must head to class now. P.S. im a mycophile too. ******************************************************************************* Date: October 15, 2003 Username: Jackie Location: Vermont Comments: Thanks for the pictures. We are studying mushrooms in school (grade 4) |