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mushroom


Entry Type:  
Fungi
Scientific Name:  
Common Name:  
mushroom
Myaamia Name:  
waapantwa
Harvest Seasons:  
Summer, Fall, Spring
Habitats:  
Beech-Maple Forest, Oak Forest including Oak-Hickory, Beech-Oak-Maple Mixed Mesophytic, Human-Disturbed Areas

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Myaamia Archival Sources  
Reference Source Reference Type Archival Data Comments
Tippman, D. 1999 Use - Food

Mushrooms harvested and eaten. Lots of types picked, mostly the ones that grew in pasture fields where there were horses--the mushrooms growing out of the manure that was at least one year old and had been worked into the ground. There were spring mushrooms and fall mushrooms. The fall mushrooms were the same as the ones that were bought in the store, pink underneath and good tasting [Agaricus sp.]. Some were poisonous so they stuck to eating the ones they knew.

Dunn, J.P. 1919 Use - Food

" . . . Godfroy's belief was that they did not use poke, mushrooms, or wild lettuce, until they learned to eat them from the whites. He was probably wrong as to this, as the instruction concerning the use of native plants came the other way".

Botanical Sources  
Reference Source Reference Type Data Comments
Tippman, D. 1999 Habitat 

Found growing out of year-old or more on horse manure in a horse pasture.

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