Fresh wild forest oyster mushrooms

[intrepidity]

6. Ahhhhhh!

Unfortunately, I have never happened upon a morel.

I only look in my immediate dog-walking territory, and almost everything I find are still unidentified by me. Although last season I started finding slippery jacks everywhere, and experimented a bit with eating them (since suillus generally are non toxic). I am really, really, really cautious about id'ing what I find and virtually never actually eat them, aside from tasting for ID purposes.

I found some candy caps the other day, and the only reason I know that for sure is because they dried out (it was only 2 tiny specimens) and then my whole (tiny) home smelled of maple syrup! I went back out and collected all the other look-alike Lacterius, and dried them out, but only a couple have that smell! I really love learning this stuff.....