Morels, Truffles and other Spring Mushrooms
by Michael W. Beug Email: beugm@evergreen.edu
The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA
Slide 71.
Flammulina velutipes, Velvet Foot or Velvet Stem, is
an attractive little mushroom that fruits on or near logs and roots of
hardwoods in cold weather late in the winter or early in the spring. Flammulina
velutipes is eaten by those folks hungry for mushrooms in the off-season.
Peel the sticky skin before cooking. It has compounds said to protect against
cancer but also has compounds potentially damaging to the heart. It is
cultivated and sold in asian markets as enokitake. It is cultured to grow
very tall with stems tightly crowded together by growing in a jar. The
caps remain very small and the cultivated version is pure white with a
non-velvety stem.
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