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Get going now on functional foods to stave off springtime sniffles.  Article in Durango Telegraph    

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Wood Ear Mushrooms      Auricularia      Jelly Ear     Wild Mushrooms

California Poppy    Eschscholzia californica   Wild Plants   Calming Herbs    Pain Herbs

Red Belted Conk (Fomitopsis schrenkii)     Artist's Conk (Ganoderma applanatum)         Aspen Bracket (Phellinius tremulae)

Shaggy Mane Mushroom               Alcohol Inky Cap Mushroom

Wild mushrooms            Bird's Nest Fungi

Originally published in Plant Healer Quarterly, Vol. IX, Edition IV (Winter 2019/2020) During my 2019 class at the Confluence on the endophytes of medicinal plants, someone asked if Cannabis has endophytes, and whether I would speak on the topic. They were curious, for instance, whether the endophytes in Cannabis influence cannabinoid production....

Amanita vaginata    Grisette

Urtica dioica   Medicinal plants   Gardening    Wild plants

All images (c) Anna Marija Helt/Osadha Natural Health, LLC. Not to reproduced without written permission.   Looks like mushroom season is happening after all, despite a dry fall/winter/spring. Thank you, monsoons! These are Suillus kiababensis growing under Ponderosa Pines, with which they have a mycorrhizal relationship.And the underside,...

Easy and fun to do, mushroom spore printing is also an important step in mushroom identification. Spore prints are when you collect spores en masse from the mushroom cap. By doing that, you can see spore color, which would otherwise be impossible without a microscope.    

Wild Rose      Pedicularis     Lousewort      Rocky Mountains   Medicinal Plants

Yarrow     Stinging Nettles      Shrubby Cinquefoil   Rocky Mountains   Medicinal Plants

Wild Plants    Cow Parsnip   Bottlebrush  Horsetail  Herb Walk  Rocky Mountains   Medicinal Plants 

Wild Plants     Arnica  Cleavers  Meadow Rue  Herb Walk  Rocky Mountains    

Wild Plants    Elder    Elderberry   Jacob's Ladder   Herb Walk   Rocky Mountains 

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Twinberry   Honeysuckle    Raspberry    Blackberry    Star Solomon's Plume

Oregon Grape   Solomon's Plume  Herb Walk   Wild Plants    Rocky Mountains