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

Huge oyster mushrooms on a maple tree in my neighbors front yard.

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[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[madisonelectronic]

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

[jerryk2198]

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

And also Panus Conchatus are the ones i can think of

[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.

[MrLolingoutloud]

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

[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.