We were discussing various recipes and foods from our trip to Namibia with some friends, and the subject of mushrooms and the wonderful cream sauces our hosts served came up. Seems like every time we had some type of fried kudu, gemsbok, or eland there was a sauce on the side for our pleasure. They were incredible!

When we were out driving, it rained almost every evening for the first week, and the hunters and trackers were in heaven each time we saw a termite hill erupting with the fungi. They only called them "termite-hill mushrooms", and we gathered every one we found. All the animals in the field seemed to eat them before we could find them! Had to put them in the cab of the Cruiser, or the Jack Russells would eat every one we picked.

Here are a couple pics for you to look at. Can anyone expand anymore on the name or type of mushroom? They said they had to be growing on the mound, or they weren't any good. I'd like to find out more about them.

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Damn Alf, that was brilliant...... you're such a fun gi - geddit? mushroom, fun guy, fungi

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Good information, and it will certainly make it easier to find out about them. Thanks!

Damn, I was looking forward to some good spent bullet photos!!

Buy hey, i like to eat too!!

JPK

Mmmm - mushrooms, with a side order of "buttcrack" - LOL

So, where the heck did you think they really grew those mushrooms. Did you really think Alf was right?

Good to see that they have a plumber standing by!!!

JPK

Those fungi are damn tasty..........I tried them in Nam' last year........olive oil, pepper...... and throw them on the BBQ

We often paused our tracking of Elephant so we could fill the trackers bag with wild mushrooms.
Have you tried the wild cucumber after a hard thirsty day tracking?

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Alf, I hope you knew I was joking.

I have tried a slightly sour "fruit" that might be what Oz Hunter was referring to. Can't recall what the PH's and trackers called them but we all enjoyed them after or during a hot tracking job. What would they have been?

JPK

In Kalahari is possible to find truffle too, if the rain have been good.

JPK, Those spiky things growing in the Jesse bush?

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wild cucumber

Interestingly they are eaten by Aardvaark and this is how they distributed.

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Originally posted by ozhunter:
JPK, Those spiky things growing in the Jesse bush?

Oz Hunter,

I think so. Don't exactly recall. But yes they were plucked from the jesse bush.

JPK

A mushroom walks into a bar and orders a drink. The bartender looks him up and down, and says, 'sorry, we don't serve your type here'. Mushroom, understandably upset, says, 'Well why the hell not? I'm a fungi!"

KG

Neat pics, BTW.

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Originally posted by Steve Malinverni:
In Kalahari is possible to find truffle too, if the rain have been good.

What??? That looks like tartufo bianco? Yes? How did you find it? Dog? Warthog???

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Originally posted by WPN:

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Originally posted by Steve Malinverni:
In Kalahari is possible to find truffle too, if the rain have been good.

What??? That looks like tartufo bianco? Yes? How did you find it? Dog? Warthog???

Maybe Steve used his own God given snout. Look at all of the wounds he has on it.

This is one of the great things about this forum. I would have never guessed that Namibia had any edible fungi, would seem to dry for them.

Keith

In 2005 while hunting with Hentie Van Heerden, east of Gobabis on the Botswana border, for supper, the first course was a plate of truffles! I'm talking a full, heaping plate for each hunter.The farmer has a big jar on the table filled with crushed truffles as a spice. He said after a rain, they walk the desert and when they see a crack in the sand, they dig. Usually it's a truffle.
I can't imagine the value of the plate of truffles in France. I bet a bunch!

Can you smoke those mushrooms ?

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Originally posted by TJ:
I can't imagine the value of the plate of truffles in France. I bet a bunch!

If they're white truffles, in NYC they are currently over $2000 per pound wholesale.

No Keith,
my nose is not good enough to find'em, and about my nose wount it is a result of a too fast shot on an ostrich.
It is dead, but my S&B scope mounted on a 9.3x62 made me remember that it was mounted on the rifle
WPN unfortunately it was near to rotten, no more edible . I was really curious to taste it, because, even if really expensive I like truffle aroma and taste. My idea was to slice it on fried eggs.
$2000 for a pound? it seems to me cheap.

about the search no cracks in the sand, but some like little cavities in the sand, if I remember well

hi
can some one tell me if those mushrooms are edible?or good to it ?
regards
yes

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Hi,

The Herero name for the mushroom is Omajova, pronounced mayova.
When you take them out you break it off and push the "root" back in with the idea that at the same time in the following year the mushroom will be ready for picking again.
You can eat them raw, you can fry them up after slicing them, you can also dry them and over the year add them to gravy's, sauces, etc.

hi Alf
I like better my steakes with mushroom sauce
regards
yes