We spent all day today hunting for Black Trumpet mushrooms. Before any of you freak out that I will ruin my liver, we went with 3 experienced fungus guides. The mushroom that causes all the deaths here in California (can't remember the name right now) looks very much like ones that grow in Mexico and Vietman that aren't poisious. When people from there see them, they don't know here in the states they can be deadly. Black trumpet really don't have a nasty evil twin so we were pretty safe. We hiked up in the Santa Cruz mountian for 4 hours which was a great work out. We were off trail, so we were either going up or down a muddy hill and climbing over fallen trees. It wasn't quite raining but it was wet. With the recent storms we had the run off looked like waterfalls. We came home with over 7 pounds of mushrooms.
2 comments:
Sounds like a great day.
How fun is that!!!
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