Chicken of the Woods is the shit!!!
Comment on Mushroom ID
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
2 mushrooms hard to fuck up in America.
I remember selling like 5 lbs of morels when I was a kid and getting like $200. That was without even driving to the city to make the real money.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 year ago
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 1 year ago
What, a wood pilz that is edible?
treadful@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
There are also mushrooms that look like morels that you shouldn’t eat. Somewhat easy to filter out if you know what you’re looking for but maybe wouldn’t say hard to fuck up.
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Can you show me some that would grow in the same areas next to dead elms? I’m unfamiliar with any and I’ve foraged for them a lot.
MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
I think some people want to find morels so bad they get a sort of “buck fever” and convince themselves they’ve found one. That’s all I can imagine because to my eyes they would be hard to mix up. Same with chanterelle and false chanterelle. Like… sure, I guess if you are profoundly incautious.
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6hA0wqLVkY - True vs False Chanterelle for the curious.
treadful@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
I’m not informed enough to answer any of your questions about them. You should find a better source than my fuzzy memory. I just remember being warned about them since morel picking is fairly popular around where I live.
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
note that chicken of the woods may give about 50% of people horrible nausea for several hours
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sure, if you’re weak. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laetiporus
It’s not near 50% of people though.
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
It seems I misremembered this story that I read years ago after eating some and feeling queasy for several hours:
…cornell.edu/…/eating-the-chicken-of-the-woods/