Death by mushrooms

[jay.sharkbait]

Ok, so I'm chilling, pulling some weeds and enjoying a beer and I look down and see this.

We put down a bagged bark we bought at Home Depot last year and I'm wondering if a bunch of spore came with it. I'm fluent in Chanterelles, but not Morels.

Thoughts?

[fastdam]

Yes that's a black morel

[crazywednesday]

Morel! Lucky you. If your worried, you can cut it open and if it looks like this you are 100% good to go.

Justin

[W_Ellison2011]

Morel! Lucky you. If your worried, you can cut it open and if it looks like this you are 100% good to go.

Justin

what do the bad ones look like inside? I'm curious because I've never picked morels or even searched for them. I'm like the OP I LOVE Chanterelles and can find and identify them really easily. Sorry if I'm hijacking... just saw another learning opportunity and figured I would latch onto it!

[Igottanewknee]

 If you're in Tacoma, don't eat them... I will come and take them from you and dispose of them properly...lol 

[Fl0und3rz]

Or just be a man, and give it a go.

[Oh Mah]

The stem goes all the way to the top on a false morel.

[Remnar]

Yep morel . I have seen this before in new landscaping with beauty bark . One thing I have noticed , one place in particular that I see all the time . Is that they don't reoccur very often or in any kind of abundance after the first year .

[Remnar]

The stem goes all the way to the top on a false morel.

 This pic is a verpa (some call them false,cottonwood , or snowbank morels). They are edible but with caution . There are actual false morels that are truly poisonous .

[Skyvalhunter]

stay away from them.. Not good for you

[pianoman9701]

There's nothing dangerous about eating verpa bohemica as long as you cook them, like almost any other edible mushroom. Their nickname is thimble cap because the cap sits on top of the stem like a thimble sits on your finger. I sell hundreds of pounds of these a year for the last 16 years to restaurants all over the country. Never has any of them complained about sick customers from these mushrooms.

The term false morel usually refers to gyromitra esculenta - the snowbank morel. Google it. It's cap is a dark mahogany color and is all gnarled and balled up. It has a wonderful aroma but can produce a chemical reaction which causes illness and could cause organ damage.

[Boss .300 winmag]

There's nothing dangerous about eating verpa bohemica as long as you cook them, like almost any other edible mushroom. Their nickname is thimble cap because the cap sits on top of the stem like a thimble sits on your finger. I sell hundreds of pounds of these a year for the last 16 years to restaurants all over the country. Never has any of them complained about sick customers from these mushrooms.

The term false morel usually refers to gyromitra esculenta - the snowbank morel. Google it. It's cap is a dark mahogany color and is all gnarled and balled up. It has a wonderful aroma but can produce a chemical reaction which causes illness and could cause organ damage.

Yeah that. 

[Oh Mah]

The stem goes all the way to the top on a false morel.

 This pic is a verpa (some call them false,cottonwood , or snowbank morels). They are edible but with caution . There are actual false morels that are truly poisonous .
[/quote  My point with the pic is the stem.morel looking mushrooms like this are called false mushrooms.They are not safe to eat.The pic is from a false morel link.

[W_Ellison2011]

awesome info guys! I just ordered 3 books on mushrooms and field foraging in the Northwest. We have always picked Chanterelles and Shaggy manes and love them. I've always wanted to branch out and try other fungi or different fruits and plants that can be found abundantly in our forests!

[Buckmark]

Pianoman knows his shrooms, his advise i would trust 

Just remember every mushroom in edible.....once

I have heard about stuff growing out of that bagged bark that is not normal though