A friend sent me this recently. Spotted on a walk through a residential area. Thought it was a misplaced Halloween decoration at first
A friend sent me this recently. Spotted on a walk through a residential area. Thought it was a misplaced Halloween decoration at first
DO NOT EAT IT but it looks like chicken of the woods
DO NOT EAT IT YOU MIGHT DIE HORRIBLY
lolllll as someone who’s been there for when foraged mushrooms go bad, cosigned.
Chicken of the woods is pretty easy to identify and tasty and I still would never ever do it over the internet and even in person my days of eating foraged mushrooms are probably over.
It was like a goddamn zombie movie, we all ate them with dinner and then one by one we all succumbed to the worst food poisoning of our lives. 5 people, 2 bathrooms, so I had to run outside. We were lucky it was just food poisoning.
And that was from one badly identified mushroom in a batch of like 10+ good ones, after a couple years of foraging experience.
Woah I thought this was chicken of the woods. People said that chicken of the woods looks nothing like any bad mushrooms.
What is it then?
I think its chicken of the woods too, its just I am not a mycologist and i dont want anyone to die eating a random mushroom
Damn lurker supreme out here not wanting us to have any fun.
It’s 100% cotw and safe to eat. The only lookalike mushrooms are jack-o-lanterns and they don’t like similar at all really. Chickens cause some people gastrointestinal distress if they grow on pine trees but that one’s fine unless the tree is in a maintained lawn that gets pesticides.
Don’t worry, it’s a hundred miles away and 25 feet up a tree. Even if I wanted to I couldn’t