Castêtus Botanicus
child I was biberonnée to Latin botanical; I confess that I spent a little over his head: my father was talking forest of Quercus and Cedrus, and when my mother opened a jar of dried under Crataegus soothing, sweetish smell my rose
heart ... More Later, I made the Peterson guide wild plants in North America my bedside book. Long, I am driven in the morning, then I drank my coffee barefoot in my garden of Yvelines name my perennials in Latin, French and English vernacular, blocking pitifully at each return of spring after months off before throwing in the towel and diagnose MYSELF Early Alzheimer ... (I must say that over 400 perennials, it started to jam!)
When it leans a little botanical nomenclature is fascinating.
The rigor of this sometimes giving poetry, a plant or fungus can be defined by:
-habitat "pratensis (grass)
-properties: Amanita" muscaria "kills flies and makes people very sick without killing them is his girlfriend "phalloides," it far more treacherous because of its resemblance to harmless fungus, which gets stuck
-its taste, sometimes subjective or overestimated Lactarius deliciosus (while the "edulis" from Boletus edulis only means edible!), besides Roger Phillips, a native of perfidious Albion, does not he write with a touch Irony?, about the delicious milk caps: "Much esteemed and edible On The Continent"
-color: "Alba", "albissima," "albicans" (white, very white, white) and why make it simple, as in Greek with all versions of "leucobases"
-style "reptens" (creepy)
-shape "bifidus" (two branches) or "phalloides (phallus-shaped with the same register all star categories, one which many mistake for a bad joke mycologist schoolboy, the Phallus impudicus, we mark off because of its stench and nearly at its fly-Pilot )
- its "inventor" Inocybe Patouillardii, not very credible for a deadly fungus, Theodore Patouillard, yet it had the cool air as the name of mycologist. At the same time that Mr. Fuchs gave its name to the fuchsia should save you once and for all the recurring fault on the spelling of that color.
Snob, Latin, botany, you say?
Not at all, because take a look at Courson or Saint Jean de Beauregard (Sunday) and see the nursery hair pulling in discussions with clients surreal because of all the vernacular or regional names given to plants ( when you come out of Latin Frenchified): the "finger thing", "horns of stuff," "the fountains of thing," is like the "snowball" and other "Negro heads" (they say chocolate meringues, what should we say now?) When talking about mushrooms.
Because of my gargantuan last harvest, I had neglected yet another fungus that is dear to me: agaric or pink meadow, or rather pink meadow: Arvensis pratensis, campestris (with source) or sylvestris (or near the woods), or bisporus, this band of wild cousins, which was domesticated in Paris mushrooms. I have a soft spot for Snowball, (that's probably accurate !!!), Agaricus macrosporus, anise-scented and sometimes I pick up in the Cevennes around the house, his hat can reach a diameter of 8 to 10 cm before opening.
But it must still be vigilant, I had a few years ago a false joy in discovering a trail of agarics extraordinary, she was still there last week at All Saints:
actually Agaricus xanthodermus (hell, but of course xanthos as yellow as ... dermus dermis) or Agaricus yellowing, easy to identify when we know hardly touched because it is tinged with yellow.
Strangely, it can make you sick ... some people only.
In France, swears by the Paris mushrooms perfectly closed and they are discarded or sold off as soon as their plates pink brown. Yet, in Britain and the United States, it sells and fully mature adult subjects with their almost black strips under the name of Portobello. The heads are often placed under the grill with garlic and herbs or fried in slices to garnish the most snobbish hamburgers.
My dilemma, eating or not eating these agarics pushed flush with the exhaust?
In fact, mature blades provide a very powerful perfume, which returns the mushroom-button to the rank of small player.
If you are interested in mushrooms, buy a serious book that really helps to identify the return of the collection. Many books I have fallen in the hands and it is remarkable because it has mushrooms young, old, twisted and cut.
Book translated from English by Solar:
http://www.solar.fr/site/les_champignons_&100&9782263034589.html
I have already mentioned, but I insist, the books by Roger Phillips ( sometimes in association with Martyn Rix) would be among the first that I would choose if my house was on fire ... What
purists forgive me, next time I will take care to check the botanical writing conventions: capitalization, parentheses, italics (I suddenly Blogger mysteriously deprived of these subtleties and tools hitherto usual layout, fonts, sizes !) and in a second step we will cultivars ...
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