Black trumpets, wood ears, and mushroom de(compositions).

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Mushroom of the Month:
Black Trumpet (Craterellus cornucopioides)

The cornucopia in this mushroom’s scientific name comes from the mythological Horn of Plenty, one name for this funnel-shaped summer fungus, which is gourmet (it has a smokey flavor) but isn’t always plentiful; its dark color makes it hard to pick out of the leaf litter—but when you find one, you find a whole bunch. Another less-pleasant name is the Trumpet of the Dead, so-called because it looks like the bell of a ghostly trumpet poking up from the ground.

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Every month, we’ll pull a card from our Mushroom Oracle Deck to give you a mini-reading for the coming days. This month, the mushroom guides have chosen:

𓋼 Wood Ear 𓋼

Listener * Resorative * Gossip

Our interpretation: Remember when you were a teenager and spent hours on the phone with your friends, talking, gossiping, and prank three-way-calling? Now when our phones ring, it often feels like an invasion. But this writer recently heard Sheila Liming praise the intimacy of a good old-fashioned phone call, where you can hear the emotions in someone’s voice, listen to them processing their thoughts, and actually LOLing. The wood ear’s appearance today is a reminder to pick up the phone once in a while.

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The Mushroom Log
The latest from the news-shroom:

●EPIC Healing Eugene opened this month in Eugene, Oregon, the nation’s first “psilocybin service center,” where people can legally take supervised therapeutic mushroom trips—for $3,500.

●In the new game Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, players are tasked with collecting glowing mushrooms from a cave, which they can use to make a warming stew that grants protection from the cold.

●This is not a photo of an elfin changeling, but a full-sized human baby taking a nap on one of the giant boletes that popped up recently at a nature reserve in South Australia.

●A team of Chinese and Australian scientists used CRISPR to identify a compound that shows promise as the first-ever antidote to one of the world’s most poisonous mushrooms, the death cap (whose poisonous gills Zoe Sigman wrote about in Mushroom People).

●While you wait for our mushroom photography book Spores to come out, learn to identify black trumpets and wood ears in the wild with the National Audubon Society’s new field guide, The Mushrooms of North America.

●For the first time, the famed Chelsea Flower Show featured fungi; the Centre for Mental Health’s “Balance Garden” included a “Mushroom Den” where purple lights illuminated ten varieties of edible and medicinal mushrooms, and Brian d’Souza’s ambient mushroom (de)compositions played as the soundtrack.

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