Mushrooms on TV

[Jeffrey Dean]

watson at pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (John S. Watson - FSC) wrote:
>
> 
> Did anyone else notice the scene in the last episode
> of StarTrek:Voyager?  The "Doctor" is in the holodeck
> inside a program emulating a forest.  They come across 
> a batch of mushrooms, which the doctor confidently says 
> are "Amanita muscaria".  
> 
You are right -- definitely not Amanitas.

> However, to me, they looked a lot more like oyster mushrooms
> (Pleurotus ostreatus) they probably picked up at the local super
> market.
> 
Also probably right, although they were awfully healthy (large)
versions of P.ostreatus. 

> John S. Watson                  
> NASA Ames Research Center MS/257-7, Moffett Field, CA 94035
> <a href="http://ccf.arc.nasa.gov/~watson/watson.html">John S. Watson</a>
> 
> "Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone ..."

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