Great photos! They certainly illustrate the beauty of these unique wonders. Please try to locate a local mushroom club. They will help you identify and teach you to identify, and may even like to have some dupes of your slides. Most clubs have a fairly large library of photos, and you have some really nice shots. I see you spent some time in the Rogue River area, great mushrooming, as is the area over the California border. I was headed out of the Eureka airport with a friend one time, and heading down the hall I blurted out "I smell Matsutake". We rounded the corner and there was a whole pallet of Matsutakes cleaned and in little plastic boxes, on their way to Japan. Keep up the nice work. Barbara

"By novice I mean basically you plant it right, water it and keep the moose off and it lives." I assume you also intend for it to produce fruit in a normal year? My favorite is "State Fair", which seems to produce well every other year. I got a second one last summer...hopefully they'll be productive in opposite years so that we can always have a heavy crop. This summer we'll be lucky to have 10 apples from it. I see you left Norland off the apple list...is there a reason? It is the primo novice gardener fruit tree, IMHO. I know of one grown totally untended in a very inhospitable site that still produces after 30+ years. Have you contacted the Alaska Pioneer Fruit Growers' Assoc.? Trust me, if it's even remotely growable here, and available somewhere, someone there has tried it. Where/how do you plan to publish the list? And where are you in Alaska? Over 20 years ago, DH and I spent a weekend helping my dad plant over 100 fruit trees near Wasilla. If he could find a 1/2 way hardy tree, he tried to grow it and get fruit.

Here's my list in case you guys are interested. I will save the seeds. I thought I had a lot for Bay Area. Kellogg's Breakfast Beiju Aunt Gertie's Gold Green Giant Marianna's Peace Paul Robeson Cherokee Purple Orange Strawberry Caspian Pink Omar's Lebanese Big Zac Brandywine Pink Sungold Box Car Willie High Country Bull's Heart Aunt Ruby's German Green Anyone going to the fairfield tomato festival on august 16/17? It's a chance to taste some tomatoes to make sure I like it before trying to grow it.

Hi Jreyna, I guess it does not get very cold there in the winter, that would be the reason why you can grow a Mango tree outside. Here in San Antonio, I have tried to grow Mango trees however the frost gets to it and kills it way to the root. I have one in a pot, I put in the garage in the winter. I have an avocado as well but I also put in the garage in the winter. What mango variety do you have? Thanks for sharing your mango information, I love mangoes