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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⋆ ˚｡⋆ Pick a Card ⋆ ˚｡⋆

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.