'shrooms part 2

[dcopas78]

I got out again Saturday with my dad, on his 69th birthday. We had a great day together. We found plenty of mushrooms and got to enjoy God's nature. We logged plenty of miles. That pic of the mushrooms was just after I started. I ended up with about three times that many. It was a load carrying out of the woods! I gave a walmart sack full to a few friends in poor health, about a bread sack to my aunt, and the same for my sister. I still had a boat-load to cut up. It is time to start freezing some of them. Dad and I also found the turtle which is probably the oldest, most beat up box turtle I have ever found. For those of you not familiar with the type, they normally have a shape lip around the edge of the shell. His was completely worn off as you can see. The plant is American Ginseng. We think the eggs may be of a woodcock but we aren't positive. I love spring! Second, of course, to the fall hunting seasons

 

[idnative1948]

Man, you are turning into the resident fung guy! Sounds like a great outing.

 

[tarheel]

I believe you're correct on the timberdoodle eggs. The box turtle has had many shoving matches with rivals, either that or he lives in a very rocky area; looks to be 35-40 years old, maybe more. The ginseng in the Smokies has been dwindling in recent years, too many people collecting it for the Chinese market and the deer seem to have a taste for it too. The mountain people in their slang refer to it as "sang", so if ever down in this part of the world and hear that referenced you'll know what they're talking about, which often is difficult even for a native.

 

[dcopas78]

The mountain people in their slang refer to it as "sang", so if ever down in this part of the world and hear that referenced you'll know what they're talking about, which often is difficult even for a native.

Yeah, we call it sang here too. I used to dig a lot of it, yellow root, and blood root when I was younger. Ginseng doesn't have a very good success when it comes to reproduction, especially when people dig it before the berries ripen in late August/Sept. If you find a big patch, that patch is probably several years old. Large roots can be 20-30 years old. That is pretty much why I stopped messing with it; so there would be some for my grandkids to learn about.

 

[JohnCushman]

Last time I did shrooms I hallucinated and almost shat my pants

 

[Gerald Martin]

With any luck we'll be finding some morels on the Hunttalk Bear hunt next week. I've been keeping my eyes open but no luck so far. That's a great haul. Sure am ready to eat some to those dipped in egg and flour and fried in butter.

 

[1_pointer]

Good haul! Do you have any pics of the non-morel in the bag? I've found a few shelf mushrooms, but none that I am 100% certain of the ID, thus I haven't eaten any.

That is box has taken a beating! I'm always amazed at how many we find at our property in southern IN this time of the year. Just last weekend turkey hunting I ran across about 10. Neat little creatures. The kiddos love to find them and feed them worms!

 

[dcopas78]

1_pointer, I'm assuming you are looking at the reddish-colored deal slightly down, left-center in the pic. It's actually a portion of the stem from a monster yellow morel I found that just changed color some. I've never messed with the shelf mushrooms. My grandma used to pick them and slice them up, and fry them. People say they are good.

 

[1_pointer]

Yep, that's the one! Thanks for responding. My dad used to pick "hickory jacks" once in a while and I loved 'em. However, he's no longer with us and thus I can't ask him to show me...