From: norsgerm@a...........   
      
   "Frederick Burroughs"  wrote in message   
   news:12fjltjnpdldtd9@corp.supernews.com...   
   > mushroomgroup@mushroomgroup.nym wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> We have had no ill effects from the Chicken of the Woods that we ate 24   
   >> hours   
   >> ago so we may go out and harvest a bunch of it today.  It was so yummy!   
   >>   
   >>   
   > I get a lot of Laetiporus sulphureus and L. cincinnatus. I find them   
   > almost exclusively in association with oak. And, possibly another species   
   > growing on a toppled conifer that looked significantly different from   
   > either of the first two.   
   >   
   > I had an interesting reaction after eating it once (I've eaten it many   
   > times). I was drinking a beer (just one) after the meal, and I suddenly   
   > had several simultaneous trains of thought in my head. It was a quite   
   > bizarre sensation. Each line of thought was separate and independent of   
   > the others. I felt very relaxed and entertained by the phenomenon. The   
   > effect resolved itself after an hour or so, and I coalesced back to a   
   > singular psychological entity. I haven't attempted to repeat the   
   > experience.   
      
   Fred, that toppled conifer wasn't a cypress, was it?   
   sulfer shelf is toxic if grown on cypress.   
   Kurt   
      
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