Mushroom Hunting

[river rat]

Who knows how to hunt mushrooms and wants to go teach a novice? I had a puffball the other day and it was fantastic! Now I want to learn.

 

[glhs837]

Given that I just saw a report last night of two different people who went picking, and ended up only having their lives and kidneys saved by a rush shipment of a new drug. Otherwise it was only a an emergency kidney transplant that would have saved their lives, I would be very leery of shroom hunting.

 

[vraiblonde]

I am totally not eating some unidentified fungus growing in my yard. And believe me, I could feed all those starving African children with this latest crop.

RiverRat, stick with the puffballs. They're easier to identify and less likely to kill you or shut down your organs.

 

[river rat]

I found a puffball yesterday and still wouldn't eat it. I really wanted to but the puffball I had last week was picked and prepared by an expert. It was delicious.
However, I read that the white death angel appears to be a puffball when it is young so this made me reluctant.
I am just poking around to find someone to help me feel comfortable with this before I do kill myself.
After all, tis the season.

 

[Merlin99]

I found a puffball yesterday and still wouldn't eat it. I really wanted to but the puffball I had last week was picked and prepared by an expert. It was delicious.
However, I read that the white death angel appears to be a puffball when it is young so this made me reluctant.
I am just poking around to find someone to help me feel comfortable with this before I do kill myself.
After all, tis the season.

The one on the left is what they mean by looking like a puffball, if it looks like a volleyball growing in the yard it's a giant puffball which is very good.

 

[Bann]

I am totally not eating some unidentified fungus growing in my yard. And believe me, I could feed all those starving African children with this latest crop.

RiverRat, stick with the puffballs. They're easier to identify and less likely to kill you or shut down your organs.

 

[wch]

Right, keep your Mushroom hunting to the produce isle, that way you can sue someone if something goes wrong,

 

[Anabaptist]

This is why I gave up mushroom hunting.

http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/301980_1515695269490_1747728506_773922_224922350_n.jpg

 

[vraiblonde]

DR has the prettiest mushrooms growing in his yard. They should all have a little fairy sitting on them.

 

[Sherlock]

Just go to Dew Drop on a Friday night.

 

[Larry Gude]

It will be a sport when the mushrooms can shoot back.

 

[desertrat]

I found a puffball yesterday and still wouldn't eat it. I really wanted to but the puffball I had last week was picked and prepared by an expert. It was delicious.
However, I read that the white death angel appears to be a puffball when it is young so this made me reluctant.
I am just poking around to find someone to help me feel comfortable with this before I do kill myself.
After all, tis the season.

They don't even live around here. West Coast only.