What's In Your Front Yard? Huge Oyster Mushrooms!

[RedneckResponder]

@MrFulldankWeed Get a really good field guild book or find a local expert if you're not sure. Oysters don't have any dangerous look a likes that I know of. Spore printing is neat too, lots of videos on how to do that to ID shrooms. There are lots of edibles out there.

[jerryk2198]

@RedneckResponder Oyster do have poisonous look alikes, Pleurocybella Porrigens- Angel Wings

And also Panus Conchatus are the ones i can think of

[hunt458]

@jerryk2198 I'm suspicious of the Japanese claims of Pleurocybella Porrigens poisoning. The species was consumed world wide and a small cluster of elderly kidney patients in Japan are claimed to have been poisoned. It would seem the mushroom took the blame for some other agent.

[jerryk2198]

@hunt458 Yeah, upon futher investigation and talking with some local mycologists we actually ended up cooking some up at our last foray, nothing special tho, most people here avoid them.

[ChannelFadge]

cool mushroom vids. We get a lot of mushrooms and fungi in the woods by me, and sometimes I see people picking them to cook with. I've got some books on foraging and mushroom identification but Im still a bit worried that I will poison myself.

[RedneckResponder]

@ChannelFadge A few are easy to identify. Morels, chanterelles and oysters. They have few bad look alikes and are great to eat. Just do a little research when you find one to be sure and if in doubt find someone with experience to help you. Eat just a few nibbles over several hours if you have any food allergies. If no side-effects then eat up.

[madisonelectronic]

@RedneckResponder Yes, just eat a little. If you die stop eating immediately.

[1gamoguy]

did you say in the vid that those mushrooms are edible?

[RedneckResponder]

@1gamoguy Yeah, they are rated choice which is the highest edible rating. At my local food store they sell for 6.00 a half ounce dried.

[1gamoguy]

@RedneckResponder just saw your top response that they dried up.... so you have to pick them right when they are at the stage in this video or they go bad?

[RedneckResponder]

@1gamoguy You can eat them from the time they are really small til they go bad. The temps around here have been in the 90's everyday so I think the heat had a lot to do with them going bad so quick. They will be out all summer and fall if conditions are right.

[Orangesunshine1]

I used to go to my grandmothers home (VA) She had a ivy like this she called a 5 finger or leaf ivy. It looks the same but it was red and turned green as it grew. That's why I ask. I believe it to be the same thing..It grew on her barn ( grew like wild ) Thanks very informative

BB )O(

[MrLolingoutloud]

@Orangesunshine1 it looks like what ive always known as virginia creeper vine

[kookiemoose]

Those are some nice mushrooms.

[RedneckResponder]

@kookiemoose I went back the next day to pick them and the heat had already turned them brown. There is more out there somewhere though. Just have to lace up the boots and go find them.

[VoodooPolitics1]

Yummy!!

[Orangesunshine1]

P.S. What kind of ivy is that on the tree??

[RedneckResponder]

@Orangesunshine1 Most of it is Virginia Creeper. In the last picture there is a little vine of varigated english ivy.

[Orangesunshine1]

Very nice. That's the way it always goes.. We look and look for whats right there..

You have a very acute sense about you. How many people see spores adrift??? ( magical ) Only people that know or are looking for them see that.. The odds of the wind moving them at that time?? Quite a unique gift you have!!

Blessed be )O(

[RedneckResponder]

@Orangesunshine1 The spore print I took was 1/8 of an inch deep the next day.