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Tree oysters?

....and whom-may I ask-serves as the 'taste tester/guinea pig' in making sure these deilcasies do not make one see strange things,feel strange things-or assume room temperature...???...

The field guide is a comprehesive description of several characteristics of all common mushrooms. In order to determine each mushroom, one must match up types of stems, rings, gill size- and forked or not forked gills growing season and habitat,as well as ruling out look alikes and lastly, color of spore print. Then one tests the mushroom by giving it to your Mother in law on the sly, and if she survives, then it is good!!! Actually, the final test is trying a small amount, still kind of spooky.I am about to head for the timber in search of more yummy tree denizens. They are starting to say some shrooms have some kind of anti-cancer properties.

Don, what you are describing sounds a lot like what we called "chicken of the woods" a shelf mushroom



They can get pretty big & you must cook them.

....wish I could grow Portabello's-they are fantastic stuffed and grilled lightly....maybe some bacon on onions sauteed and slopped in the middle........very filling.....I get all goochie just thinkin' about it.....YUM...!!!



...by the way-have seen similar ones on logs out back by the creek like yockey describes and like the pic above-but not that color...

But them chicken mushrooms are yummy as heck. Supposedly one of the best mushrooms is a Chanterelle, but I have never confirmed one, and I did eat a tiny piece of very bitter look alike.

Hey Et2SS! Thanks for the lucky post!! I found my first Chicken Mushroom today! Looking at your picture must have zeroed me in. I have eaten them before, but never found one myself.

mmmmmjkkl3oo ,oivmiimmvlev e044kv... sorry, minOr stRoke must get trAnsfusion, but M in law in Alaska, Tasted just like chicken!! Even says so in the book. My kids and boss loved it, even the picky older one who doesn't like mushrooms, but eats the ones I find in the woods.

LOL! Glad to hear it tasted good, and that you made it through to the other side

There was a sort of shelf mushroom my Dad used to find out in the woods hunting that he would bring home and you could sorta scratch off the surface and make almost a little "carving" into it. Sorta folk-art kinda stuff...

we generaly get oysters at our anual campout - adds to dinner greatly ,
i kinda prefer the lobsters we find mid summer , but the last two years all i seem to have in my yard are sulphers - not real keen on those

Wow....

We just dont know whats good up here. I know absolutly no one that has or knows of previous pickers of local mushrooms.....only Shamens, I hear.

I picked up a pamphlet on these here mushrooms....says the best are Cillocibes, Liberty Caps and Cubensis..... I just may know Guess I'll pick what I can and get back at you all