Stopping by to support your post @bucksforaging15, after @porters featured it in his entry in our (@pifc’s) 🎂 one year anniversary 🎂 contest.
Enjoyed your great pictures and the info. Particularly liked reading about the mushrooms. We have picked wild mushrooms here in the Rocky Mountain – King Boletes. Pretty easy to identify. Never felt confident enough to try any of the others out here, although I know there are others which are safely edible.
All the best to you and yours, for an even better tomorrow! 👍
Thank you very much! King Boletes are an absolute treat during the fall! In England, we call them Penny Buns, and they are relatively common. There are many other fungi that are perfectly safe to pick so long as a mixture of common sense and knowledge of key identification features are present! Though if you are not totally 100% confident in the ID of a mushroom, you should never pick it! The supermarkets are still open!
Yes, absolutely @bucksforaging15 ...
... that is why we have limited our "adventures" to the King Boletes. Prior to even doing that, I did a little research on the consequences. As I told my wife, "The good news is you seldom die, if you chose a 'bad' one. The bad news is, you can permanently damage your liver ..."
Even with the King Boletes, we have found "cousins" which, when cut open, turn a darkish purple color and are definitely to be avoided. They are remarkably similar, which is a little sobering about the chances of picking a bad one. From what I have read, even of these, they do not harm you. They just really don't taste good at all ...
Somewhere around, I have pictures of those times. Perhaps I'll write a post about it. Just need the time, which is always a challenge ... 😊
I do the exact same! just this last fall, I came across two perfect young specimens of King Boletes which I took home. After they were home, I spent at least another hour or so looking through all the potential look-a-likes, even the ones which didn't really look like the King Boletes at all! Just to be sure. It never hurts to be extra safe! I look forward to reading your post!