Kitchen, woman!

[GopherDaGold]

Aww, just kdding and I will sautee these little morsels myself but it's nice to see they are finally popping in the Show Me State.

 

[smokeythecat]

I finally saw my first one in the wild last weekend in the Va woods. I left it there. It didn't seem to have any friends nearby.

 

[Ammoman]

Are they Magic mushrooms?

 

[smokeythecat]

I don't know....

 

[Carolina Tom]

Are they Magic mushrooms?

They are wild gourmet mushrooms, called morels, Google it.

No "magic" in these 'shrooms, but a lot of deliciousness!

We looked in the Virginia woods last weekend, but didn't see any.

 

[pepperj]

Are they Magic mushrooms?

Just in the gourmet world of taste buds.

You have 28 other kinds of magic shrooms growing in NA and in that 5 are only worth picking. The easiest to obtain and most sot is the Liberty Cap (Psilocybe semilanceata)and not to be confused with the Galernia.

The Liberty cap have the little nipple on top and are firm.

The Galerina Mushroom is a deadly one and looks similar but is different.

 

[Ammoman]

Ok...you got my attention with the nipple comment. So, not all nipples are magic?

 

[pepperj]

Ok...you got my attention with the nipple comment. So, not all nipples are magic?

Nipple = magic

No nipple = medic

 

[1320]

$50 a pound in my area if you want to buy them....crazy!

 

[pepperj]

$50 a pound in my area if you want to buy them....crazy!

Dehydrated Morels go for $10 oz. in Ontario

Gee thinking back in the late 70's I got $10 a gram for my magic ones.

 

[Duckshot]

I love morels. I like to sauté them in butter with that Cavender's Greek seasoning.
It has just the right amount of msg.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Morels are the only mushroom I will collect and eat. There is only one thing that looks like them - the false morel - and that will only make you mildly ill.

I have a "Field Guide to Mushrooms" and another mushroom guide and for every edible mushroom there seems to be at least one that looks just like it called the "Screaming Madness Button" or "Destroying Pestilence Cap". I even gave up on puffballs when I learned the buttons of certain other baddies mimic the young puffballs. Sheesh!

 

[against the wind]

I don't know enough about mushrooms to take a chance on picking wild plants to eat.

 

[hvacker]

I used to pick and eat when I was younger. Just the easy ones. Puff balls, inky's, shaggy manes and the best was Sparassis radicata looked like a cauliflower and as big. A slice took up a fry pan. They were great and hard to misidentify.
Even those well versed can make a mistake. I was talking to a farmer in N.Ill and was told that people that often hunted his fields had died. Problem was some of their favorites looked very similar to one of the amanita family when in the button stage.
If interested in the hunt, find a mushroom club as an expert can save a lot of time.
It's curious that when looking at illustrations in especially children's books the mushroom most often seen is the one with a red cap with what looks like oatmeal scattered on top. This is one of a few "magic" schrooms. Amanita muscaria.

 

[Holyground]

If you don't know for sure, don't eat any of them. The Galerina Mushroom, once ingested, begins to melt organs and intestines. It is very slow and painful. As a matter of a fact, some mushrooms are poisonous to the touch.