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Last year I found a strange mushroom out the back. It was actually quite massive being about 6 inches high. It was spongy and odd looking. I threw it away and then curiosity led me to look it up.

Turns out it was a Morel[/url:3hhgvuga] and while weeding today I found a bunch of them.

Hopefully I will cook them right because there are some toxins in them it seems but supposed to be a delicacy.

Ooooh very interesting. Do you have many of them?

make sure you identified it properly, some of the wild mushrooms can do you serious damage <!-- s:( --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_sad.gif" alt="" title="Sad" /><!-- s:( -->

The other thing I'd ask is if you have woodchip mulch down there at all? Apparently that carries the spores with it pretty often for morels.

i don't like the sound of this from the wiki

&amp;quot;wiki&amp;quot;:3uk89z8e wrote: It has been reported that even cooked morels can sometimes cause mild poisoning symptoms when consumed with alcohol.[/quote:3uk89z8e]

I mean all i'm saying is what about the beer <!-- s:P --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_razz.gif" alt="" title="Razz" /><!-- s:P -->

It is definitely a real morel. The False ones are similar but look more like mutant morels <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->

Yes I have woodchip down and I figured that might be where they came from.