Mushroom Encounter while Camping

[SpineDocWTX]

Mushroom hunting in general: Go pick with someone who "knows what they're doing" watch them pick the shrooms, watch them eat said shrooms, come back and check on them in three days if they're still alive consider eating those puppies yourself.

 

[sunnybean]

We ran into a few this past weekend...

 

[DCGibbs]

 

[Hilldweller]

 

[robert]

All mushrooms are edible but some only once. I joined the Colorado Mycological society years ago and learned the proper identification techniques. I enjoy foraging wild edible mushrooms every summer.

My botany professor used to say that. He was really interested in wild edibles of all types and he had no problems at all in discussing psilocybins. He was perfectly willing to show us how to identify them and would identify anything you brought to his office.

 

[Freebird]

A lady who was an expert on Michigan mushrooms nearly killed her whole family after they moved to Arizona (1960s- I knew them well at the time).
All were hospitalized, but eventually recovered, after she used some AZ mushrooms in her spaghetti sauce. The mushrooms looked EXACTLY like the ones she harvested and cooked with in back in Michigan.
Local knowledge matters.... !

 

[altaboy]

Gotta say, title sounds better than "camping encounter while mushrooming"