Date: Saturday 7 October Username: Colene Welsford Location: Lincoln UserEmail: colenewelsford@clear.net.nz 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: nzamy@hotmail.com Comments: cool site - like your pics *S* ******************************************************************************* Date: 8/10 2000 Username: leen colijn Location: christchurch NZ UserEmail: colijn@netaccess.co.nz 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: gilz75@hotmail.com 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: bc_golf@yahoo.com 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: hbroadbent@yahoo.com 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: Me@ehabweb.net 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 UserEmail: Comments: very flash. lots of pictures and easy reading. ******************************************************************************* Date: 26-10-2000 Username: Chandra Location: Havelock North UserEmail: 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: gloria.vandenheuvel@gte.net 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: indygunslinger@aol.com Comments: I enjoyed the page . ******************************************************************************* Date: 3rd Nov 2000 Username: tom Location: Queenstown UserEmail: tomos@ihug.co.nz 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: sal.ad@xtra.co.nz Comments: oved your site Aiman...real neat!!!!! ******************************************************************************* Date: 5/11/2000 Username: Ross McCardle Location: Auckland UserEmail: bidjanet@zfree.co.nz 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: Ironcheffan@cs.com ******************************************************************************* Date: Friday 10/11/2000 Username: y n Zohdi Location: London, United Kingdom UserEmail: kazzbar70@hotmail.com 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: r_reiss@hotmail.com</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: festus2121@yahoo.ca Comments: great site ******************************************************************************* Date: 28/11/00 Username: Simon Octavio Valdez Location: Guadalajara,Mexico UserEmail: elsimon@hotmail.com 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: wa235@earthlink.net 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: Spacecadet1187@aol.com Comments: your website is a very good recourse. ******************************************************************************* Date: 20 December 2000 Username: Cynthia Cheong Location: Singapore UserEmail: aosmedia@pacific.net.sg 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: relay001@hotmail.com Comments: Splendid site and some magnificent photos. ******************************************************************************* Date: 29th of DEC Username: jeff Location: nz UserEmail: nzwebcomp@yahoo.co.nz Comments: cool site!! very informative, keep up the good work ******************************************************************************* Date: 01/01/2001 Username: Cole Hemphill Location: South Africa UserEmail: Miss_croft@hotmail.com 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: smudkicker@aol.com 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: esray@relivonline.com 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.

******************************************************************************* Date: 01/08/01 Username: Chip Johnson (Grey Bear) Location: Chattanooga TN USA UserEmail: linchip@avon.net 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: laddhillestates@AOL.com 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: 6/9/01 Username: dude guy Location: that one place UserEmail: n Comments: this site sucks balls __________________________ For a guy that knows so much about balls, you didn't have enough of them to leave your e-mail address!! ******************************************************************************* Date: 1/15/01 Username: ben birkbeck Location: grand rapids MI USA UserEmail: birkbec@ibm.net 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: mail4me@jliboon.com 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: jrising60@hotmail.com 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: yth3194@hanmail.net 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: wtfo67@prodigy.net 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: jtrewick@xtra.co.nz Comments: have you got any of those purple ones ? ******************************************************************************* Date: 31 January 2001 Username: chuck Location: centrl pennsylvania UserEmail: roof2do@aol.com 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 ******************************************************************************* Date: Username: Location: UserEmail: azohdi@cwcom.net Comments: aywa ya za3bola you are not contacting me as you have promised Ahmed ******************************************************************************* Date: 3 Feb 2001 Username: kweeboon Location: singapore UserEmail: kweeboon@netscape.net Comments: Interesting and informative site. enjoyed browsing your book. gained a little information about mushrooms. thanks ******************************************************************************* Date: Username: 3EYED BEEVR Location: THE ZAE... UserEmail: Comments: I WAS HOPING YOU WOULD HAVE MY FAVORITE MUSHROOMS ON HERE BUT YOU DONT. I GUESS YOU'VE NEVER BEEN TO HUMBOLT. ******************************************************************************* Date: February 17, 2001 Username: Mansoor Kazemi & Gaylene Van Dusen Location: Dundalk, Ontario, Canada (2 hours north of Toronto) UserEmail: gaylene.vandusen@sympatico.ca 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: ROGERLOO7@AOL.COM 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: sajjadnazar@yahoo.com Comments: good ******************************************************************************* Date: march 7,2001 Username: yvonne Location: novascotia UserEmail: yvonleon60@altavista.com Comments: great feature on the mushroom story. ******************************************************************************* Date: 12 March 2001 Username: Fred Jewell Location: Ruston, LA 711270 UserEmail: fredfjewell@aol.com Comments: searching for information for my pathology class here at Louisiana Tech Univ. ******************************************************************************* Date: march 14 2001 Username: Tim Wheeler Location: Palmerston North UserEmail: Twheeler_nz@hotmail.com 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: webmaster@fungifest.com Comments: Thanks for signing up on my newsletter! I still want your article...*grin* ******************************************************************************* Date: 17 March 2001 Username: Linda Tappenden Location: Christchurch UserEmail: 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: baldwindias@usa.net 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: jokeya@aol.com 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 UserEmail: 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: angelworms@hotmail.com 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 Location: UserEmail: pickygirl2003@yahoo.com 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: muscaria2@yahoo.com 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: SwEeTaNdSe756172@aol.com 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: tom_wingert@hotmail.com Comments: Mushrooms forever ******************************************************************************* Date: 4-13-2001 Username: Location: UserEmail: Comments: ******************************************************************************* 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: Username: Location: UserEmail: Comments: ******************************************************************************* Date: 4-13-2001 Username: DON ANDREWS Location: BURLINGTON, IA. USA UserEmail: donniea51 Comments: I HUNT MANY DIFERENT KINDS OF MUSHROOMS FROM EARY SPRING TO LATE FALL. I ALSO EAT THEM. ******************************************************************************* Date: 4/15/01 Username: Byron(gagolf) Location: Georgia , NA UserEmail: bc_golf@yahoo.com 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: ray.gilbert@neuronz.com 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: heugo@aol.com Comments: ******************************************************************************* Date: 4-18-01 Username: Katie McIlwain Location: Ft. Wayne,Indiana,USA UserEmail: SbGuRl74@aol.com Comments: The site was great! It really helped me with my project on mushrooms. Thanks a bunch! ******************************************************************************* Date: Username: Location: UserEmail: Comments: ******************************************************************************* Date: Username: Location: UserEmail: Comments: 1234 ******************************************************************************* Date: 04-20-2001 Username: Barb Location: New Castle,In UserEmail: Bakermama57@aol.com 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: coonan10@home.com Comments: Hi ******************************************************************************* Date: ?- Username: Location: UserEmail: Comments: ******************************************************************************* Date: 4-24-01 Username: mary majors Location: kokomo, indiana UserEmail: dgtelk@aol.com Comments: ******************************************************************************* Date: April 26 2001 Username: Maria Location: Wisconsin UserEmail: 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: JMU1890767@AOL.COM 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 Location: UserEmail: Comments: great sit ******************************************************************************* Date: 1 May 2001 Username: Dianne Location: Wellington UserEmail: n/a 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: Username: Location: UserEmail: Comments: ******************************************************************************* Date: May 3,2001 Username: Brianna Location: New Jersey UserEmail: bree07@msn.com Comments: ******************************************************************************* Date: Username: Location: UserEmail: Comments: like your site real helpful for school studies ******************************************************************************* Date: May 5, 2001 Username: La'Keisha Hall Location: Virginia UserEmail: giggle1029@excite.com 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: rsq47@yahoo.com 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: LenziJo@hotmail.com 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: may-1-o1 Username: te pe gal Location: Ga UserEmail: GardenNome10@aol.com Comments: ME AND NICOLE LUV ALLEN YEA WE DO. AHHHHH LOOK BEHIND YOU!!!!!!!A BIG FOOT ******************************************************************************* Date: 13th may 2001 Username: Di & Jens Martin Location: Parnell Auckland UserEmail: diseymartin10@hotmail.com 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: adeleg@ihug.co.nz 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: stathis3@otenet.gr Comments: Excellent work,I thank You for your work.Stathis ******************************************************************************* Date: 13/05/2001 Username: Stathis Anastasiou Location: GREECE-Karditsa UserEmail: stathis3@otenet.gr Comments: Excellent work,I thank You for your work.Stathis ******************************************************************************* Date: may 12 Username: irene Location: virginia UserEmail: Comments: great information!! thanks!! ******************************************************************************* Date: 21st May 2001 Username: Marica Lewis Location: Melbourne UserEmail: marica@today.com.au Comments: GREAT SITE, KEEP IT UP ******************************************************************************* Date: 05-27-01 Username: travis Location: home is N.C in ohio atm. UserEmail: Tfizgig@aol.com 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: cheerbrittz@cs.com 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: lmitchell03@mail.utexas.edu 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: kayec@wave.co.nz 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: lalaleigh73@hotmail.com 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: jswilson10@msn.com 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: vaya@pal-onl.com 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. ******************************************************************************* Date: Username: Location: UserEmail: 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: fbaay@actrix.gen.nz 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: ganesa71@hotmail.com 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 UserEmail: 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: bethjd@yahoo.com 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: charlies_angle@hotmail.com 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 Location: UserEmail: Comments: ******************************************************************************* Date: ???? Username: bob Location: taupo UserEmail: charlies_angle@hotmail.com Comments: Grifola sp. Found at Te Mata Trust Park from the beginning of October and still growing today in Novemeber, 2000!! Upper surface velvety or hairy and soft to the touch, different shades of brown. Growing on dead wood in rosette like .... yeah ..... you know that fungi??? me and my friends thought it was called a bracket fungi... but i'm not sure .. there was heaps of it @ my friends place .. i could be wrong though :-) ******************************************************************************* Date: August 15, 2001 Username: Mary K Location: Nashville, Tennessee USA UserEmail: mtkhim@charter.net 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: lil_J_90@yahoo.com 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: levelena@imagetailor.com 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: Auck.N.Z UserEmail: - Comments: ******************************************************************************* Date: 4/9/01 Username: Rebecca Location: Auckland UserEmail: - Comments: This is an awesome site you have created.You deserve alot of money for it!!! ******************************************************************************* Date: September 2001 Username: Jen Location: UK UserEmail: merlin2066@yahoo.com 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: serina69x@aol.com 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 UserEmail: 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: Location: UserEmail: 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! ******************************************************************************* Date: 11.9.01 Username: Juliet Location: Littlehampton/Lewes, Sussex, UK UserEmail: juliet.fowler@sussex.police.uk 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 Location: UserEmail: Comments: ******************************************************************************* Date: September 18, 2001 Username: Karla Pollock Location: Calgary Canada UserEmail: Comments: ******************************************************************************* Date: September 19,2001 Username: Bud Kazdan Location: Huntington, NY USA UserEmail: bckazdan@aol.com 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: a1dodgeboy@aol.com 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: brodyradford@hotmail.com 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! ******************************************************************************* Date: 29.09.2001 Username: Bodhi Radford Location: Kemijärvi, Finnish Lappland UserEmail: brodyradford@hotmail.com Comments: PS: I don't eat rare ones. ******************************************************************************* Date: 29.09.2001 Username: Bodhi Radford Location: Kemijärvi, Finnish Lappland UserEmail: brodyradford@hotmail.com Comments: 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: brockwac@netnitco.net Comments: Beautiful site! I enjoyed my visit. ******************************************************************************* Date: 10-10-01 Username: Lee neal Location: home UserEmail: fonseca33@aol.com 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: rbesa40576@aol.com 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: sdaniel@pcfa.org 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: cmaza1000000000@yahoo.com.au 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: ledo995@aol.com 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. ******************************************************************************* Date: Username: Lim Location: Malaysia UserEmail: shlim@mimos.my 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: linbla@bellsouth.net 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: Walzten@aol.com 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: theroses@telus.net Comments: excellent website. we have shaggy mains. and eat a lot of them. ******************************************************************************* Date: 29/10/2001 Username: Dhanula Location: Sri Lanka UserEmail: dhanula@www.com 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: LLOWRIDER55@AOL.COM 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: 11/01/01 Username: GILBERT LOPEZ Location: USA UserEmail: LLOWRIDER55@AOL.COM 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: Bachsa777@aol.com 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: 11-03-01 Username: Shannon Bachler Location: Seattle, WA UserEmail: Bachsa777@aol.com 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: 11-03-01 Username: Shannon Bachler Location: Seattle, WA UserEmail: Bachsa777@aol.com 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: 11-11-01 Username: Goglatie Tutumhabirashiop Location: UserEmail: Comments: ******************************************************************************* Date: 11-11-01 Username: Gogalatie Tutumhabira Location: Thumbelina, Russia UserEmail: www.Me.com@habica.com Comments: ******************************************************************************* Date: 11-11-01 Username: Gogalatie Tutumhabie Location: Thumbelina, Russia UserEmail: www.me.com@habi.com Comments: I do not agree when you state that this information is unvalueablle. I find you a disgrace! You seem to act as though you are the king and know everything! I do not agree with your ways. Please do not bother writing back because your feedback is unvalueable to me to! ******************************************************************************* Date: 11-13-01 Username: Carol McDaniel Location: Alaska UserEmail: carol_mcdaniel@hotmail.com Comments: ******************************************************************************* Date: 16 dec 01 Username: john Location: Nova Scotia,Canada. UserEmail: mushroom67@lycos.com 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 UserEmail: 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: pajb@earthlink.net 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: alangail@xtra.co.nz Comments: thought i would say hi, enjoying the lovely weather/ ******************************************************************************* Date: 1-15-02 Username: Rockeeteer#2 Location: LA UserEmail: Rocketeer#2@hml.com Comments: This site rocks for the project that I must do. All the pictures rule! ******************************************************************************* Date: 1-15-02 Username: Rockeeteer#2 Location: LA UserEmail: Rocketeer#2@hml.com Comments: This site rocks for the project that I must do. All the pictures rule! ******************************************************************************* Date: Jan 18, 2002 Username: Ronda Location: Canada UserEmail: nane@aisl.bc.ca 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: adriaanl@worldonline.co.za 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: szema@ukonline.co.uk 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: feb 18th 2002 Username: brayden wamboldt Location: north vancouver bc UserEmail: tdwight @telus.net Comments: wow good page stick to the fungus, but where are the aleuria rhenana fuckel, for god sakes save the fuckel lol.... ******************************************************************************* Date: 21/2/02 Username: Maria Location: Adelaide, Australia UserEmail: ------------------------------- 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: paul_george@hp.com 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 UserEmail: Comments: Thank you for your info on Gasteromycetes and your pictures! I'm working on a school project, so your site helps! ******************************************************************************* Date: Username: Location: UserEmail: Comments: ******************************************************************************* Date: 11th March , 2002 Username: Anne Gregerson Location: Moeraki, North Otago. UserEmail: moerakigallery@xtra.co.nz 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: March 19, 2002 Username: GQFatty Location: W UserEmail: Comments: ******************************************************************************* Date: 19 MARCH02 Username: HENRY ODENEYE Location: HOUSTON TEXAS USA UserEmail: henryodeneye@aol.com 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: redmoon13@yahoo.com Comments: ******************************************************************************* Date: 23 March 2002 Username: Hugh J. McSpadden Location: Glendale, Arizona, USA UserEmail: hmcspadden@juno.com 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: mojo1932@hotmail.com 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: 25th March Username: Maurice Location: Hamilton UserEmail: mojo1932@hotmail.com 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: mpradeep_99@yahoo.com 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: 05-04-2002 Username: Pradeep Kumar Mishra Location: Chennai- India UserEmail: mpradeep_99@yahoo.com 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: emgoltapeh@yahoo.com 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: lildevil264@teen.matchmaker.com Comments: I really liked this site. ******************************************************************************* Date: 18-04-02 Username: Catia Ninni Location: Brasil UserEmail: catianinni@yahoo.com.br Comments: ******************************************************************************* Date: 04-19-2002 Username: Erly Location: Tallahassee, Florida UserEmail: elalban@aol.com 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: randy_81@plasa.com 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: randy_81@plasa.com Comments: Good MORNING I want to get about information clacification of deuteromycetes, basidiomycetes, ascomycetes,and fungi imfertic.Oke trhanks for you information ******************************************************************************* Date: Username: Location: UserEmail: Comments: ******************************************************************************* Date: 20 APRIL 2002 Username: RANDY HASAN Location: MEDAN, INDONESIA UserEmail: randy_81@plasa.com Comments: GOOD MORNING. PLEASE, I NEED ABOUT INFORMATION OF DEUTEROMYCETES, ASCOMYCETES, BASIDIOMYCETES AND FUNGI IMFERTIC. THANKS FOR U INFORMATION ******************************************************************************* Date: Username: j richard Location: UserEmail: Comments: ******************************************************************************* 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 repor thanks ******************************************************************************* Date: 20/5/02 Username: Laura Polack Location: Melbourne UserEmail: gibbongirl89@hotmail.com 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: itsallgood316@hotmail.com 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: reichil@hotmail.com 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: br_adams@hotmail.com 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: qpm@ihug.co.nz 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: jniblock@aol.com/ 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: elgrift@mnsi.net 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: fiestywitch@hotmail.com Comments: Thank you soooooooooooo much it really helped me with my science homework, i have learnt so much!!! ******************************************************************************* Date: Username: Blaze Location: tha bronx UserEmail: jtightlips75@hotmail.com Comments: pcilocybe mushrooms are the greatest ******************************************************************************* Date: july 22,2002 Username: john cree Location: usa UserEmail: buster1@cwv.net 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: dans@rev.net 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: BARA.BASIA2@VERIZON.NET 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: rdav57@yahoo.com 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: osz777@yahoo.com Comments: ******************************************************************************* Date: Aug. 11, 2002 Username: Jack Chitwood Location: Seattle, Wa. UserEmail: jakc34@yahoo.com 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: harrisgwm@aol.com 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: stacey_13_1999@yahoo.com 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: john_zza@yahoo.com Comments: ******************************************************************************* Date: Username: Location: UserEmail: 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: john_zza@yahoo.com 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: 16-08-02 Username: John Zothanzama Sailo Location: Meghalaya,India UserEmail: john_zza@yahoo.com 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: patek14@hotmail.com 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: Username: Location: UserEmail: Comments: ******************************************************************************* Date: 8-20-02 Username: Emily Halston Location: USA UserEmail: emilyhalstonartist@yahoo.com Comments: ******************************************************************************* Date: 8-20-02 Username: Emily Halston Location: USA UserEmail: emilyhalstonartist@yahoo.com 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 Username: Location: ky UserEmail: todd.threlkeld@insightbb.com Comments: i am a home schooling mom who was looking for info to share with my 1st grader about mushrooms. thanks for you site.