The forest is now full of edible fungi, witness today’s haul of mostly chantarelles, winter chantarelle, hedgehog fungi (two species) and puffballs (Norw: kantarell, traktkantarell, lys- og rødgule-piggsopp og røyksopp)
Tonight’s veggie pizza (with part of the bread dough as I’m also baking bread this evening) had some unusual for me ingredients: perennial kales, a mix of oriental brassicas (pak choy, mizuna, mustard greens etc.), various spring onions (all hacked out of the frozen soil) with garlic, chili, oregano, dried fungi – Albatrellus ovinus (fåresopp in Norwegian) and topped with dried seed of highly invasive himalayan balsam (kjempespringfrø), the seeds of which are quite attractive (see the picture)
Earlier in October, we found a place with a large amount of chantarelles (kantarell); see http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=23655). We noticed that there were also a lot of winter chantarelles (traktkantarell; Cantherellus tubaeformis) growing in the same place, but we decided to wait a couple of weeks as many were still small and return before the first hard frosts (forecasted in the next few days). Here is the haul:
This week, somewhere in Trøndelag, we stumbled on a large number of chantarelles (kantarell). The aim of the trip was to pick winter chantarelles (traktkantarell) for drying. Imagine our surprise to find a huge number of chantarelles. I’ve never found so many so late in the year! There were many winter chantarelles too, but we decided to pick them next week!
Walking up a very steep slope and suddenly this was the view in front of us:
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A new species for the garden is The Grooved Bonnet (Sølvhette) or Mycena polygramma, a bioluminescent fungi important in decomposing organic matter, recycling nutrients and forming humus in the soil, growing in the wild part of the garden next to a hazel. No bioluminescence seen though! Thanks to Berit Elle for the ID and Per Marstad for the verification!
There’s a giant fairy ring in the garden, perhaps 10m in diameter, formed by a fungi called the trooping funnel (Clitocybe geotropa) or heggetraktsopp in Norwegian. This year only a few fungi have appeared. The pictures are from 12th October 2013:
A line of cloud funnels or puddertraktsopp (Clitocybe nebularis) were found this week in the wild part of the garden. Edible if cooked for 10 mins. I haven’t tried yet.
Friday’s forage (11th October 2019) was combined with a walk to the top of Tripynten (315m).
Please let me know if you can ID any of the fungi!
Malvik’s Pulpit Rock (Prekestolen)! Not advisable to walk out on it though!
Presumably badgers (grevling) have been busy in this anthill.
It was a long time before we found the prey, only one area of winter chantarelles (traktkantarell)
Winter chantarelles (traktkantarell)
View of Fevollberga which is just above the house and the fjord beyond and Frosta. The clearfelled south side of Fevollberga where there used to be a lot of old trees and breeding goshawk (hønsehauk) :(
View of Fevollberga which is just above the house and the fjord beyond and Frosta. The clearfelled south side of Fevollberga where there used to be a lot of old trees and breeding goshawk (hønsehauk) :(
Used in a delicious green wholegrain spelt pasta sauce with Malva moschata (musk mallow), Rumex acetosa (sorrel), shallots, garlic, perennial rocket etc. and a strong organic cheese!
On Sunday, we went for a walk up to a mountain farm (seter) near to the lake Foldsjøen in Malvik with the main aim to gather alpine bistort (harerug) bulbils (Polygonum viviparum / Persicaria vivipara) to dry for the winter. This is one of the 80 plants in my book and I grow various accessions of this plant also in my garden! See also my post on 25th June: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=22680
You can often find large quantities of this plant in open sheep pasture and dampish meadows. I hadn’t been to this “seter” before and right enough there were large amounts of this plant, although the bulbils were still not fully grown. We walked from Verket, an outdoor museum on the site of Mostadmark Jernverk, the site of an old iron furnace (see https://www.malvik.kommune.no/mostadmark-jernverk.6168342-478994.html) up through the forest past Hulåsen to the seter, returning via Slåttdalen and returning along the side of the lake. We didn’t meet a single person or car all the way! At the end you can also see a number of pictures and films of nature and some fungi we found along the way!
Here’s a short film showing thousands of flowerheads in a damp meadow (the flowers are sterile, the plant almost only multiplying vegetatively by bulbils):
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