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Community => Butchering, Cooking, Recipes => Topic started by: jay.sharkbait on April 10, 2018, 08:06:33 PM

Title: Death by mushrooms
Post by: jay.sharkbait on April 10, 2018, 08:06:33 PM: 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?
Title: Re: Death by mushrooms
Post by: fastdam on April 10, 2018, 08:39:03 PM: Yes that's a black morel
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Post by: crazywednesday on April 10, 2018, 09:03:09 PM: Morel! Lucky you. If your worried, you can cut it open and if it looks like this you are 100% good to go.

Justin

(https://i.imgur.com/Hpm4Irz.jpg)
Title: Re: Death by mushrooms
Post by: W_Ellison2011 on April 10, 2018, 09:48:01 PM: Quote from: crazywednesday on April 10, 2018, 09:03:09 PM
Morel! Lucky you. If your worried, you can cut it open and if it looks like this you are 100% good to go.

Justin

(https://i.imgur.com/Hpm4Irz.jpg)
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!
Title: Re: Death by mushrooms
Post by: Igottanewknee on April 10, 2018, 10:40:03 PM: If you're in Tacoma, don't eat them... I will come and take them from you and dispose of them properly...lol :chuckle:
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Post by: Fl0und3rz on April 10, 2018, 11:57:09 PM: :chuckle:

Or just be a man, and give it a go.
Title: Re: Death by mushrooms
Post by: Oh Mah on April 11, 2018, 01:04:06 AM: The stem goes all the way to the top on a false morel.
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Post by: Remnar on April 11, 2018, 03:21:30 AM: 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 . :twocents:
Title: Re: Death by mushrooms
Post by: Remnar on April 11, 2018, 03:28:59 AM: Quote from: Oh Mah on April 11, 2018, 01:04:06 AM
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 .
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Post by: Skyvalhunter on April 11, 2018, 05:33:01 AM: stay away from them.. Not good for you
Title: Re: Death by mushrooms
Post by: pianoman9701 on April 11, 2018, 06:01:37 AM: 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.
Title: Re: Death by mushrooms
Post by: Boss .300 winmag on April 11, 2018, 06:40:00 AM: Quote from: pianoman9701 on April 11, 2018, 06:01:37 AM
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. :tup:
Title: Re: Death by mushrooms
Post by: Oh Mah on April 11, 2018, 02:58:43 PM: Quote from: Remnar on April 11, 2018, 03:28:59 AM
Quote from: Oh Mah on April 11, 2018, 01:04:06 AM
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.
Title: Re: Death by mushrooms
Post by: W_Ellison2011 on April 11, 2018, 03:08:46 PM: 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!
Title: Re: Death by mushrooms
Post by: Buckmark on April 11, 2018, 03:21:31 PM: Pianoman knows his shrooms, his advise i would trust :tup:

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

I have heard about stuff growing out of that bagged bark that is not normal though
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Post by: jay.sharkbait on April 11, 2018, 04:19:59 PM: Ok, this is one cut in half
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Post by: Oh Mah on April 11, 2018, 05:37:57 PM: delicious. :tup: