Mushroom hunting

[YYZ Skinhead]

Seeing as quite a few folks round here love nature and wild foods, there must be some mushroom hunters among us. When I lived in The City I eventually got to recognize edible Chroogomphus, Helvella lacunosa, Suillus, and Armillaria, inedible but gorgeous Amanita muscaria and some white Amanita that I gave a wide berth. I would love to go hunting Morchella and the giant local Boletus edulis (var. grandedulis) and Cantharellus (Cantharellus californicus).

The green shrooms in my avatar are Dermocybe austroveneta aka Cortinarius austrovenetus. Some mycologists consider Dermocybe a subgenus of Cortinarius, and other ones consider Dermocybe a separate genus. It is poisonous under any name. The name Dermocybe is derived from derm = skin, + cybe = head.




No, really.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermocybe_austroveneta

 

[BackWoodsDrifter]

Seeing as quite a few folks round here love nature and wild foods, there must be some mushroom hunters among us. When I lived in The City I eventually got to recognize edible Chroogomphus, Helvella lacunosa, Suillus, and Armillaria, inedible but gorgeous Amanita muscaria and some white Amanita that I gave a wide berth. I would love to go hunting Morchella and the giant local Boletus edulis (var. grandedulis) and Cantharellus (Cantharellus californicus).

The green shrooms in my avatar are Dermocybe austroveneta aka Cortinarius austrovenetus. Some mycologists consider Dermocybe a subgenus of Cortinarius, and other ones consider Dermocybe a separate genus. It is poisonous under any name. The name Dermocybe is derived from derm = skin, + cybe = head.




No, really.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermocybe_austroveneta

Yual be funny my friend! Like me good feed morals and fiddlehead time in spring mighty tasty!

BWD

 

[Lemon Jack]

Whew mushroom hunting as a youngster I remember lol....but I don't think these are the ones we was lookin for

 

[YYZ Skinhead]

Mmmmm...fresh-picked morels...all I need is some salted butter! The fiddleheads look tasty too though I haven't tried them yet.

 

[BackWoodsDrifter]

Mmmmm...fresh-picked morels...all I need is some salted butter! The fiddleheads look tasty too though I haven't tried them yet.

come on up north friend get yual looked after. fire always cookin or simmerin somethin and yual welcome to it

BWD

 

[YYZ Skinhead]

Whew mushroom hunting as a youngster I remember lol....but I don't think these are the ones we was lookin for

Did they stain blue, if you know what I mean? :hubba:

 

[Lemon Jack]

Yes my friend. They weren't very yummy either lol, but we that was besides the point

 

[PartyBro420]

I want to grow some mushrooms along with my weed. I love mushrooms!

 

[Roddy]

Does this take a shotgun or rifle?? :rofl: :rofl:

Here in MI, we find TONS of morels, they're worth more than pot is during season...seriously! I remember mowing one year, went to empty my baskets and there was a patch as big as my living room and covering every inch of the ground! HUGE babes, some were 10" tall....never saw them there again, think it was due to my brother hitting it with round-up shortly after....D'OH!

Season should be upon us soon!!

 

[BackWoodsDrifter]

Good with my fresh fish fur sure.

BWD

 

[YYZ Skinhead]

Okay, now I am drooling LOL. '

I read a proverb that says "May is Morel month in Michigan". The same is true in California. There are several gourmet supermarkets in SF where I used to buy fresh morels, puffballs and Boletus edulis, and even Safeway had fresh chanterelles. Picking my own (mushrooms, not nose) would be more fun and easier on my piggybank.

Northern California has several delicious species that are easy to distinguish from poisonous ones, including giant black morels a foot tall that I would love to slice and stuff with risotto.

 

[ston-loc]

Im with Lemon, haha. No idea what you guys are talking about other than the ones that taste nasty, but had fun results....Other than that, only shroom I know i buy at the store. Did a side job last week and seen some giant gnarly looking ones under a house I had to crawl under. Don't think I'll be eating those though...

 

[Time4Plan-B]

Hey bwd i dont believe you live in the wilderness i think your a 5 star michelin chef in real life.
Lol
T4

 

[BackWoodsDrifter]

Hey bwd i dont believe you live in the wilderness i think your a 5 star michelin chef in real life.
Lol
T4

Dont thinks Im much of chef but do take pride in me abilities to sling a skillet . Been known to love me food and treats it with respect and dignity cause the livin critters that be given what god gave them so I can feed me belly. Much abliged to them and mother nature god to no offence to any folk just me and me ways.

BWD