need to know how to ID trees; places to start looking for the mushrooms, like do they need more sun, shade ?
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The morel is a type of edible cup fungus. It produces a highly porous ascocarp, prized by gourmet cooks, particularly for French cuisine.The best known morel is the Morchella deliciosa, which is commonly known as simply "morel." Other types include orchella esculenta, M. elata, M. semilibera, and M. ulgaris. Mushroom hunters will commonly refer to them by their color, i.e., gray, yellow, black, etc., as the pecies are very similar in appearance and vary onsiderably within species and age of individual mushroom.The morel is the state mushroom of Minnesota.When gathering morels, care must be taken to distinguish them from the poisonous false morel (Gyromitra esculenta and others). However, morels are fairly distinctive in appearance.The morel grows abundantly in the two and sometimes three years immediately following a forest fire, but where fire suppression is practiced, may grow regularly though in small amount in the same spot year after year. These spots may be jealously guarded by mushroom pickers, as the mushrooms represent a cash crop. They may grow near certain types of trees in symbiotic relationship with them, although this is not yet proven. (There is some evidence that disturbance-following morels may be different species than those growing in relatively undisturbed sites, but genetic confirmation has not yet been accomplished.) Commercial pickers and buyers in North America will follow forest fires to gather morels. Morels have not yet been successfully farmed on a large scale, and the commercial morel industry is based on harvest of wild mushrooms.
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try Santa Cruz and a joint,sit on the beach or in the mountains at sunrise or sunset and you will see god. if not try the mushrooms.
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This looks like a good place to start - from the Florida state website http://taxonomy.myflorida.com/Taxonomy/Floridian/Working%20in%20Florida
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There's a forester's tool called a clinometer. Look it up online and get one, or you can go to the local high school and see if the ag department has one there you can borrow. They are very accurate. I use them in foresty competitions with the FFA.
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photosynthetic humanoids with green chlorophyll-containing hair?  Easy.   Or at least my husband thinks so.   He has done drawings of character's like this for his RPG campaigns.  \n\nA photosynthetic humanoid would likely have a skin cell structure similar to that of plants. The hair could be anything from branches to vines to grass.  Use your imagination.  \n\nIf you know how to draw, take some time and think about it scientifically; then start  sketching.  If you don't, find a friend who does.  If you're really desperate, ask my husband.  See his work at www.seansgallery.com.\n\nBest of luck on your project.
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Go to a naturalist. You should be able to take anything. Plus it is better for you. Good luck and take care.
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These systems are called BIOLOGICAL KEYS.\n\nBooks will have titles such as, 'Key to Flowering Plants', or perhaps more specifically, 'Key to Woodland Trees', etc. Some however, have more unusual names such as 'Excursion Flora' (!!!).\nKeys used by Biologists are often very complicated and difficult to use because of the very specific language they need to be precise. So if you were to have a go with one you must find a key that is designed for your current level of understanding.\nYou will also need to decide which bit of nature you want to study, e.g. woodland plants, pasture plants, shoreline plants, salt marsh plants, etc. Identifying trees has a further problem in that leaf shape is an important identifier but deciduous trees lose their leaves in winter; in this case 'winter bud shape' is used instead.\n\nThe link below is an example of an online key produced by the county of Hampshire, UK to identify trees:
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First you have to find them.  They are very easy to\nfind in some places and difficult in others.  They\nare often found in clumps of moss, liverwort or\nlichen.  I have succeeded in culturing them in\nshallow glass dishes in aquatic fungus cultures.\nPut some water from a natural habitat in the dish\nwith some pieces of dead leaf or twig, and a couple of sesame seeds.  Aquatic fungi will grow\non the sesame seed and provide food for other\norganisms in the culture.  One such culture I made\nfrom leaf litter in Arizona mountains produced\nhundreds of tardigrades.  Add the tardigrades to\nthe culture after the fungus begins to grow.
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http://www.nps.gov/grsm/pphtml/nature.html\n\nHope this helps some
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I hope you are not wanting to eat them, these mushrooms usually will grow in the leaf litter on a forest flooor, especially after rain.\n\nyou could grow themin a mushroom kit if you wanted
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what are you looking for exactly. how to grow it at how . give me some details and iam sure i can help.
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Don't forget that your samples must be small and THIN (flat). If the sample is too big/thick then no light will pass through to the lenses.\nMost things are best viewed after mounting them in a drop of water under a cover slip.\n\n1. Crystals of salt, icing sugar, etc.\n2. Fibres of cotton, wool, synthetics, string, etc.\n3. The torn edges of paper.\n4. The individual dots of colour from non-glossy pictures. You will probably have to add a bit more illumination from above the sample for this by shining a light onto it (e.g. desk light).\n5. Leaf 'skeletons'.\n6. Living leaves - from a potted plant (e.g. a 'spider plant') bend the leaf and clip it between two slides. (Additional top illumination needed.)\n7. The thin 'skin' from between the 'leaves' of an onion (onion epidermis).\n8. The edge of a razor blade or sharp knife (with top illumination).\n9. Strands of spider webs.\n10. Dust.\n11. By gently using a potato peeler you can make thin sections of all sorts of plant parts. Usually only the very edges of these sections are suitable for viewing. You might like to stain plant samples with a drop of iodine (use instead of water) under the cover slip.\n12. If you have a wood-plane then make thin samples of different types of wood.\n\n(P.S. Forgive my UK spelling)
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hi there, the best state i think you would find them in is maine, cause up here in the northeast  not many can afford plastic big ones. so they are mostly natural here.  in the northeast.   good luck
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This is a great site (http://www.noble.org/webapps/plantimagegallery/Woodies.aspx) if you need pictures.  You can browse through trees by common name, and there are several good pictures of each tree.  Just click on the small pictures of the leaves to enlarge them.  That works if you already have an idea of what kind of tree it is (if you know it's an oak, you can browse through the oaks until you find the right one).  There's also a search engine, that lets you search for things like leaf arrangement, leaf shape, and flower color, so you can figure out the ones you really don't know, too.  Hope that helps!
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The botanical name I usually see is 'Cordyceps mycelium' and I think that is a tamed strain of Cordyceps sinensis, which grows wild. Here are some companies that offer Cordyceps, or Dong Chong Xia Cao.  You will have to clarify the botanical name with them.\n\nA highly respected company that specializes in mushroom extracts is MycoHerb.  They do some impressive work with mushrooms, offering them alone or in mushroom formulae.  A distributor for them is Kan Herb Company. \n\nYou may want to try May Way Herbs, they are very reputable importers, based in California and importing from China and Taiwan.\n\nThe largest seller of Chinese herbs is Crane Herbs, and they offer a broad product range to practitioners. \n\nA very good Japanese herbal company (Kampo) is Honso USA, importing from Japan (I am not sure if they sell the herb you are looking for).  \n\nOthers that sell Cordyceps include, Spring Wind Herbs, Health Concerns and KPC Herbs.\n\nI have included direct links for some of the places I mention, and Acupuncture.edu's resource page will link to the rest.  Addresses can be retrieved from their websites.
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well ... THAT'S interesting ... i really don't know much about mushrooms though ... mushrooms don't grow in India , not a suitable climate .\n\nwell , actually i DID notice that . (^_^)\n\nDid you REALLY trouble yourself to find a mushroom with MY name in it ? and found pictures of it too ? (*_*)
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ummm if you have a tree in your front yard you could decorate that, or you know those net lights?  get a whole bunch blue ones and lay them on your lawn and it might look like water and you can put some of those deer things and yeah...(i mean like your whole yard covered!)