Is it time, yet? Has anybody been finding morels yet? By the date it seems early. But, by the weather it seems high time. Yet, what do I know. I haven't found more than a dozen or two morels in my life.I did go on a mushroom hunting expotition (to quote Pooh) this afternoon. It was lovely to get out. Although I didn't find morels, I did find a couple of what I think are Dryad's Saddle. In Missouri's mushroom book, it says Dryad's saddle smells like watermelon rinds, and so do mine. So, I'm relatively comfortable that I made the right id. After all how many kinds of mushrooms can you desribe as smelling like mushroom rinds? Personally, my list is pretty short.
The boys and I spent about six minutes yesterday looking for morels. The spot I picked was infested with honey suckle making it dern near impossible to see anything on the ground. And, six minutes in to that the boys found a poison ivy vine to grab. So home we went to get washed up.
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| Henry's last batch of poison ivy |
3 comments:
My dad found exactly three small morels yesterday in Paydown. The biggest was probably and inch and a half tall. We have however, dined on red mushrooms (do they have a real name?) several times now! Just as tasty in my book and it takes less to make a mess!
Good to know!
And, it turns out that mushrooms that smell like watermelon rind also taste like watermelon rind. Who would have thunk!
I am not a watermelon fan, so I will remember that.
Hope Henry's poison ivy is better!
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