Spore Print https://verballas.com/ 2026-09-26T09:00:00Z The spore print habit, and what it ruled out this weekhttps://verballas.com/2026/spore-print-habit-ruled-out/2026-09-26T09:00:00ZAn overnight print on half-black paper stopped me twice this week: once for safety, once for honesty about my own nose. A spring without morels, and the false ones I photographedhttps://verballas.com/2026/spring-without-morels-false-ones/2026-05-09T09:00:00ZA false morel under pines, a spring mushroom I probably identified correctly and still left, and the list of what never comes home. Hedgehog fungus: the one with no bad twin, and how I cook ithttps://verballas.com/2025/hedgehog-fungus-spines-cooking/2025-10-18T09:00:00ZSpines instead of gills make this one hard to mistake. Cleaning with a brush, a dry pan first, and a small plate the first time. A giant puffball in a horse fieldhttps://verballas.com/2025/giant-puffball-horse-field/2025-09-13T09:00:00ZA 28-centimetre puffball from a horse field, the knife test that must be done every time, and what to do with two kilograms of it. Field guides, a hand lens and the three-feature rulehttps://verballas.com/2025/three-feature-rule-field-guides/2025-04-05T09:00:00ZThree independent features in two books, a paper bag per species, a hand lens and a notebook: the method from my first winter. First basket: chanterelles, a false one, and what came homehttps://verballas.com/2024/first-basket-chanterelles-false/2024-10-26T09:00:00ZEleven chanterelles from a mossy slope, a bag of false ones from a hollow fifty metres on, and the underside that told them apart.