Mushroom

Lee Harker

Lee Harker

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Does anyone know if this is a "Sulfer Shelf" mushroom? I read they are edible and this one popped up in the back yard on the root of a Burr Oak. It's about the size of a soccer ball and if it is edible, it probably would have been better yesterday....


Godamnit!

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Go out and take a bite of it if it tastes like chicken it is OK. If you don't make it back in....well it's not.
No really don't go trying it until someone who knows a lot more then me says it's OK. It looks like one to me but if I saw one I'd be asking the same as you are.
I once wanted to try wild mushrooms, still do, so I read a lot and the three considered "starter mushrooms" are morels, inky caps, and sulpher shelfs (aka chicken of the woods). Yours sure looks like a chicken and being on an oak makes sense...but still make 100% sure.

btw If you try inky caps don't have a beer with them, or do and report back on the effect....after you get done throwing up. :-)

Tim
 
I'd like to have a time lapse movie of this thing forming. I have hunted Morels all my life and those are the only ones we ever hunted...now people I know pick puffballs and other weird looking ones that I always thought were toad stools.
 
I can't help you at all but I too would like to get into picking wild mushrooms. Folks say they are really good. Never had one before.
 
Don't eat it Lee.See if a dog will eat a bite after sniffing it.If he does,then take a small bite.Good Luck!
Years ago, had a friend that was a retired forester than knew all about edible mushrooms,among many other
interesting tidbits in nature.Either get a book on mushroom hunting or an expert.BTW,don't let the dog eat more than a small bite.
 
I would get a really good book on edible mushrooms or send the pic to a local college to see if someone there can identify it. There are some shrooms that will kill you dead before you could make it back to the house. My b-inlaw ate a shroom about 10 years ago, thinking he was cool like Jim Morrison. Ended up in the emergency room and it nearly killed him. We get a lot of edible mushrooms around here, but the ones you can eat have a number of close relatives that look very similar but are deadly poisonous. Be carfeful out there.

Nate
 
When the kids were little, we were at a picnic. The head of toxicoligy(sp?) from Michigan was there and about knocked my son down when he came up to us with a mushroom in his hand..he grabbed him and held his hand and ran him inside. He scrubbed the hell out of his hands and told us that the room he had ahold of could kill just by holding it and sticking your fingers in your mouth.That is one of the reasons all I eat from the wild are Morels...and my son never touched another mushroom! Joe, I'll send your dogs a box full....
 
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Dear Brother Lee,

I don't have any advice on the mushroom, but I think I recognize that picture of you. Was that taken up at last year's MLB Convention/Hunt?

Love ya, man!

God Bless you and your lovely family,

Mark
 
Markus...I think so, of course from the looks of my eyes in that pic...my antifreeze level was way high. Blake and I are camping at the cabin this weekend for goose hunting. He keeps asking where we are going to set up....I keep telling him right out in front of the cabin since the local geese live on that end of the lake. Used the Zackbox to lasso part of the dock that floated away last weekend...the water is higher now than when we took the pictures. It came up 5' with all the rain so the Zackbox is tied to the spud and ready to go....have to use it to get to the pontoon!
 
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Lee,if my Britts think it's edible,then it probably is.My guess is they will ignore it,and so should you.
BTW I really liked your previous Avatar.First time I saw this present one,I thought you were in Jail,
then in a nice horse barn,but the bars would have gone down through the wood,so I now think it is your office with security bars,
untill Mark pegged it down.Get the smiley face back Lee.Looks good.LOL :0)
 
I think you're right on the identification. There are no poisonous look alikes, although some have commented it can cause stomach upset when growing on certain tree species (not sure which ones). Pick the small ones as they are more tender.
 
I agree on the avatar, Lee looked like a friendly and wise lumerman in the last one. Every time I saw it I thought of the Menard's Guy (sorry Lee).

T
 
Corey, when I looked it up it said they are edible when on an oak tree but not on other trees like maple or hemlock. I think I'll pass on tasting it but it is a pretty sumbitch.....Tod...you just a reglar sumbitch..Metards indeed! I think someone is messing with the avatar anyway since I can't see it now.
 
Lee,
took Mycology in college as part of the forestry program. They told us don't eat anything you could not ID for sure. That said I came out of that class a converted fungus eater. As a kid you couldn't get me to eat those horse poop grown white mushrooms. After the field days we would cook the findings in butter and boy were they good. ESP hen of the woods. Have been spending the most effort on morrels but a big fat boleat is great too.
 
Don't even think about eatin' it...maybe you could varnish it and work it into your camo scheme...maybe hollow it out and wear it over your head then lean against a tree...nice and sneaky-like

Just my 2 cents

:-)
 
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