Message #42027

[StillStanding]

 I like fashioning a piece of white paper with a half cut sheet of black or something dark and then take the cap of the mushroom and set it gill side down on the paper to where half is on the white and half is on the black. You could just do white but sometimes it is hard to see or distinguish the actual color on white and dark color will be needed. Just place the cap on the paper and set a cup or bowl or something like that over it for a few hours. Sometimes longer, sometimes less. Depends on what point of their cycle they are in and how dried up and old they are. Some mushrooms drop a LOT of spores and you can actually see them on the forest under them..like the honey mushrooms it looks like snow. Old ones dried up probably don't make a print anymore. Wet soggy ones aren't worth working with either. I don't think so anyways.