Thought that was New York City.

Are you nuts? I can’t even get a decent slice of pizza in this place.

Grown for seeds: Coriander
Grown for leaves: Cilantro

False Morels appear 10 days to 2wks earlier than Morels here , in about a month. The caps are more rounded . The cavities in the cap are shallower and tend to be shorter/smaller . The ridges are thicker, smoother , more rounded off. The whole thing looks like a smoothed off morel. If they were stone , they’d be like a morel put in a rock tumbler for awhile . But….. there is a little overlap, so you just have to know.

Also from Wiki — “growers resort to hand pollination or to hanging chicken necks or other meat to attract pollinators”. For some reason I am cheered up by the mental image of hard-working Heartland paw-paw farmers festooning their trees with chicken necks.

In “The Ghosts of Evolution”, Connie Barlow reckons that paw-paws are uncommon because the animals that used to propagate their seeds — the North American megafauna — were wiped out at the end of the Pleistocene.

Aside to Peej: thanks for clearing up the arugula/rocket thing in the other thread. I still wonder when the switchover in American name usage came, though– similarly, when did we change and start calling coriander cilantro?

http://www.michiganmorels.com/ morels2.shtml

If wikipedia is to be believed — Pollinated by scavenging carrion flies and beetles, the flowers emit a weak scent which attracts few pollinators, thus limiting fruit production. — there is a good reason: the flowers are stinky enough that no-one wants to be near them yet not so stinky that they actually do a good job of attracting pollinators. Evidently the Paw Paw is the waffling centrist of carrion-flowers.

PawPaws are quite cold tolerant . They even grow here in Almost-Canada. Don’t know why they aren’t more widely grown, and a popular fruit.

Spore Print or Die!

(Or if you’re lucky, face the Stomach Pump of Life.)

You could allow open comments (standard name & e-mail required) and anonymous comments when I used Blogger. I assume you have some default selections going now. The best I can suggest is to poke around in your preferences or check the Help section.

But the image of the thrusting quillwort on the webpage to which you link is, well, disturbing. I’m just glad it wasn’t a stinkhorn as a thrusting stinkhorn would be NSFW.

Interestingly, someone in one of the links or somewhere asked about Georgia O’Keefe painting stinkhorns. FWIW, my wife has some reproductions (posters) of the paintings of Lowell Nesbitt: if O’Keefe made her flowers look like hoo-has, Nesbitt sure made his flowers look like wee-wees.

Anyway, re what Fred said at Eschaton — I know a lot of people who lurve brie (I’m allergic to milk, so I have no horse in this race): they are all public-school graduates (as in public-school in the American sense, not the old British sense), FWIW.

Anyway, I gave up on hunting morels after someone had to point out that there was one 6 inches in front of my feet. Now I’m strictly a chanterelle man.

Yeah, they’re my own photos. I’m going to see how long I can do it without swiping photos off the intertoobz.

come visit some more

Does anyone know if blogger let’s you allow non-registered comments/ I’m still learning this stuff.

Just wanted to say congrats on yer blog,

Haven’t read it all but I love the look. Are those your own photos?

Nice layout, too, sort of a je ne sais crois going on there with the colors.

(I could have left this comment over there but I didn’t feel like registratin’ one of my sockpuppets.)