Neighbor asked if I knew what was growing on a dead cottonwood tree and I was shocked to see a bunch of big oyster mushrooms so he split them with me. Nice feast last night.

I love mushrooms.....but don’t know a dang thing about them...what to pick and all the edible types....guess I bettah dive into that next

I like oysters as good or better than morels.

Found some more this morning! Notice how the gills go all the way down the stems, not a smooth stem and gills only on the top. Always look for that!

Way to go.

Nessy,
You probably have beech trees where you are. They usually produce good, edible mushrooms.

I prefer the oysters to morels. I've always got an eye out when I'm duck hunting for oysters on the willow trees.

Those look great! Is this the time of year to be looking for them?

Zim

Zim, I think they grow as long as it isn't freezing. Talked to a guy that went down a river in the fall and found them on willow close to the water.

Yes sir....so I look on the beeches ?

Oysters are great. I usually find them on dead and dying aspens and cottonwoods after soaking rains. I found about 8 pounds of them a couple weeks ago.

These were on a dead cottonwood.

Flipper 56, thanks for showing the mushrooms raw.

The can be a gold color too, just always look for the gills running down the stem and not on just the bottom of the top.

I see them more here on Ash trees along creek bottoms in fall just as leave start to drop...They really stand out then, can't say that have looked this time year. I'm wondering if will be less now that Ash Borers kill lot of the ash trees here..
One friend of mine was finding them high enough on tree. He used a stick with a loop heavy mono fish line to reach up cut them down..

Mac

Yeah Nessy, there are other trees that will hold good edible mushrooms, but in the past I have picked a lot of good ones off of beech trees.