Mushrooms

I have weed growing and so does my neighbors

:shush123:

yes

I hope you're right

Sorry......

Yes. Too much rain, here. Tennessee.
Lot of mushrooms in shady part of yard.

With all the rain lately expect plenty of mushrooms for the next few weeks. It's that time of year. Warmth and water equals mushrooms.

We have not had that much rain, I wouldn't call it a drought though. There are some that are nothing like I have seen growing around here and I have been here 30 years. I appreciate the input and I would agree, but there has not been that much rain. It has been humid as hell though. There is just too much weird shit happening. Even with insects, more specifically ants and mosquitoes.

Mushrooms love humid.

Not the kind that I prefer. ;)

me to,

Are the ones growing in yards generally edible?

I don't mind mushrooms, but the thought of finding them (other than in grocery stores) on my own is a little sketchy. Sure, there's edible mushroom books, but you hear those stories of 80 year old mushroom hunters found dead in the woods after they mistakenly ate a similar looking toxic one.

What part of the country are you in OP?

not here

sorry, should have clarified...how about in Michigan? I've noticed there seems to be more mushrooms in yards :)

I'm in Montreal and once saw a dozen kids being treated by ambulance after eating those under my apple trees.

Never tried em....lol

They where making them puke em.

There has been a pretty deeply ingrained fear of mushrooms which is not entirely warranted; at least not to the extent that people seem to have.
Mushroom deaths are relatively rare, though..

BUT, there are some incredibly dangerous ones, like:

Conocybe filaris / Pholiotina filaris
^^^ this can be a common lawn mushroom

Amanita Phalloides (Death Cap)
A. Bisporigera (Destroying Angel)

Gyromitra Esculenta (False Morel)

Galerina marginata (Deadly Galerina)
G. autumnalis (same species?)
G. venenata (same?)

The above Galerina specie(s) is/are one of the really dangerous ones that psychedelic mushroom hunters run into, because it looks so similar to what they are looking for.

I'm not a mushroom expert by any means, but I do dabble and talk to people that hunt mushrooms to eat all the time, and I have a few field guides so I can identify the most poisonous ones fairly well.

I"M NOT TELLING ANYONE TO GO PICK AND EAT MUSHROOMS

Learn about them. :)

Half bubbels are cool l..l fire away