Lobsters

NCHillbilly

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Went out yesterday morning and picked a good mess of lobster mushrooms, and a few assorted boletes. Lobster shrooms are one of my favorites.
 

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BornNRaised

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Yummmm. Did ya have to walk far? Havent seen any shrooms around here. Will wait a few days after this rain.

Ever pick in any cow fields? :rofl:
 

Duff

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Interesting. Never had them
 

NCHillbilly

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Yummmm. Did ya have to walk far? Havent seen any shrooms around here. Will wait a few days after this rain.

Ever pick in any cow fields? :rofl:

Yep. Get purple-spored puffballs and meadow mushrooms out of the cow pastures. I don't pick the little blue-staining ones growing on the cow piles, though. I can see enough real snakes around here without them. :D
 

NCHillbilly

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Interesting. Never had them

Lobster mushrooms are a case of a Hypomyces fungus attacking Russula and Lactarius mushrooms and parasitizing them. The host mushrooms are white. Interestingly enough, the host mushrooms are not really edible until they've been parasitized by the Hypomyces fungus and turn orange and deformed.
 
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