Mushrooms

[J.R.W.]

Is anybody out mushroom hunting?

[Starslinger]

My buddy up in Oregon probably is. I would never eat a wild mushroom unless my buddy ID'd it for me. Quite a few wild mushrooms are poisonous and look similar to the non-poisonous ones. Good eating though, if you know what you're doing.

[deckhandmike]

Is anybody out mushroom hunting?

[yoteassasin]

Ya bolets are long gone, coastal chantrels are probably your best bet right now ..... I won't touch an amninita I'm not good enough...even though there are piles of velosas around me. I'm waiting for the thaw for my lovely mountian morels.

[J.R.W.]

I have found many bolettes over the last week they grow pretty local they are just about done though .been out looking for a hill of chantrelles but only a few here & there.Deckhand mike what area is your local?

[edgerly779]

When we hunted near Parkfield we would find them. I bought a book with good imagery to hunt for them. I left it at hunting ranch. It came in handi.

[Spyder]

I got in to a small stash of chanterelles and matsutakes on Christmas eve, and a nice big cauliflower the week before. Haven't made time to get out since though.

[Spyder]

My buddy up in Oregon probably is. I would never eat a wild mushroom unless my buddy ID'd it for me. Quite a few wild mushrooms are poisonous and look similar to the non-poisonous ones. Good eating though, if you know what you're doing.

That is just as unreasonably fearful as the folks that say guns are evil just because.

Yes, there are deadly toxic mushrooms that grow all over CA and OR, but ID'ing them is not that difficult, and furthermore, if one were concerned with mis-ID'ing, it's easy to just bypass any edibles that have toxic lookalikes.

Porcini, black trumpets, hedgehogs, chanterelles...if someone mixes up the ID of those, after a few minutes of due diligence, they probably shouldn't be allowed outside.

[Calif Hunter]

When we hunted near Parkfield we would find them. I bought a book with good imagery to hunt for them. I left it at hunting ranch. It came in handi.

When we had a lease for a ranch near Parkfield, we would see the mushrooms around once in a while, but the wild pigs loved them so they would not be around very long.