YEAH MAN!!!!!

Yes I do, the ones that grow on willow trees, I think the real name for them is bracillian (sp)but we call them champignons de zwit or oyster mushrooms. All kinds of ways to fix them, fried, sauteed in butter, thrown in a stew, etc.
They kind of taste like fried oysters, when fried, so hence the name.

Best time to look for them is after a light rain or a heavy fog.

Some that are good to eat and easy to identify are morels, puffballs, most Boletes, and Inky caps.
If you can't identify it, don't eat it. One death angel will rot your liver out. I would not eat any that had white spore print. Black spored gilled mushrooms are usually safe to eat, although a few can produce hallucinations, especially if they bruise greenish/blue.

http://americanmushrooms.com/id.htm

not in the last 30 years or so.
GWB

I have picked and then dried Black Morels in Idaho.

I still have a few pieces of them left.

One memory when I was a kid was going rabbit shooting with my late father on farmland and coming across a massive number of field mushrooms. Shot a few bunnies and boy did we bring home some mushrooms that day!

hmmm freshly killed rabbit and mushroom pie, now thats a tasty meal.

Love to.....but here in Florida where soil is sand, wild mushrooms hard to find. I have found oyster shrooms on old trees, and chanterelles down the block, and Armelaria (honey shrooms) on a friend's lawn. But, it ain't like Upper Michigan, where picking was beyond awesome. Never have I encountered shrooms like I found (variety and numbers) in northern Michigan!!
But then, as good as mushroom hunting...was also fishing, berry picking, hunting, gorgeous country, and fine folks

We get morels here, problem is I find them easier to eat than to hunt up in the woods!



The main thing to remember about mushrooms is that all wild mushrooms are edible.



Some however can only be eaten once.

I'll be fishin for crappie and hunting morels in the morning. It's a spring thing here in missouri.

Reminds me of the Midwest joke --

How are the Cardinals and mushroom hunting alike?



(They're all over in spring, but you cain't find 'em in August!)

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Originally posted by Swamp_Fox:
I'll be fishin for crappie and hunting morels in the morning. It's a spring thing here in missouri.

I'll be killing turkey and hunting morels in the morning. It's a spring thing here in missouri

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Originally posted by ted thorn:

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Originally posted by Swamp_Fox:
I'll be fishin for crappie and hunting morels in the morning. It's a spring thing here in missouri.

I'll be killing turkey and hunting morels in the morning. It's a spring thing here in missouri

Picked 10 gray mushrooms in my backyard last night. Bread em in flour and fry em in oil or butter.....OMG YUMMY!


Mad Dog