Wild Harvest
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Sbob
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Nice,,my favorites are the black ones but brown ones seem to be twice as large down my way.
Got skunked last year not a one ,hopefully my luck improves this year.
Did you find them on a South face?
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Peter Minde
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Nice. Only ever seen morels in the wild once.
Ripitz
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Hey @jamesdeluxe the mushroom on the tree in the Maine trip report that @gorgonzola put up is most definitely Chicken-of-the-Woods
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It is not only edible but quite delicious. Books and apps will tell you that it is not poisonous but if it is found growing on Black Locust or Hemlock it could be.
Laetiporus sulphureus - Wikipedia
It is not only edible but quite delicious. Books and apps will tell you that it is not poisonous but if it is found growing on Black Locust or Hemlock it could be.
DomB
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Mushrooms are interesting. I was on a plant education unit and the person running it said we should not try to ID edible mushrooms because of the difficulty and consequences.Hey @jamesdeluxe the mushroom on the tree in the Maine trip report that @gorgonzola put up is most definitely Chicken-of-the-Woods
Laetiporus sulphureus - Wikipedia
It is not only edible but quite delicious. Books and apps will tell you that it is not poisonous but if it is found growing on Black Locust or Hemlock it could be.
Meanwhile, mushrooming for what we call Chanterelles is a huge pastime in a bunch of places including Poland.
Ripitz
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It’s best to understand and be able to ID the ones that can kill you first. There has been quite a few Aminita poisonings this year in the West. I only hunt the ones I know well, learning through veteran hunters and cross referencing multiple resources. There is quite a large population of eastern Europeans around the Gunks and southern Cats that hunt. There has been some misidentification incidents there because the mushrooms they found looked the same as the ones they picked back in their motherland but were not. I believe it may have been Boletes. I don’t mess with those because I don’t know them well enough.
