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Took me 6 months to get through a 1940s book on mushroom identification
Found this old field guide at a thrift store in Des Moines with hand-drawn illustrations. The author used these crazy scientific names for every fungus and I kept getting stuck on one page about false morels. Has anyone else spent way too long trying to decode an old reference book?
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rivershah11h ago
The part about false morels caught my eye because those things are seriously tricky. I've done some foraging myself and the difference between a true morel and a false one can be a matter of life and death. Did that old book have any practical tips for telling them apart in the field, or was it all just the scientific descriptions?
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rowan_hayes10h ago
Wait, did the book mention anything about the cross-section test for true morels?
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