Some fungi you remember from their smell, some from sight and just a few from their sound.
This yellow morel was under an open hedge and was already broken, so I picked it up and as I did so the honeycomb shape made the oddest dry hollow sound, unlike any fungi I have ever heard . I have never even considered the sound of fungi before, but on retrospect I expect a largish mushroom to sound solid and sturdy but this was light and reverberated to the touch.
Yellow morels are apparently very good to eat, but I am very wary of eating fungi as they are so astonishingly different at each stage of their development . The only thing I have ever confidently eaten was a giant puff ball as it simply cannot be anything else once it has reached football size!
Foraging for fungi is very fashionable but I was once nearly killed by a forest mushroom sauce at my favourite French restaurant. I have never been back and I have never eaten mushroom sauce again, much better to admire them and even to listen to them then ever to actually eat them!
Cathy's real country garden 
a fascinating post; I love oddities and a fungi that makes sounds drew me in 🙂
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Like dry paper or origami.
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🙂
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I also prefer to observe mushrooms. It had never occurred to me to listen to them, but I will take your advice and try. 🍄
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I am trying to listen to everything these days!
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Amazing! Like you, I’m wary of mushrooms picked wild. Although my son-in-law is pretty confident he still takes them to the pharmacy to be checked out before eating them.
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No even pharmacist are infallible . The most poisonous of mushrooms look the most innocent. Best to buy them in a shop!
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I’ve never seen a morel growing but I have eaten them in food and they are good. I too am very cautious about mushrooms, the variety is enormous and there are just too many look alikes. Amelia
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Experts have convinced me often enough that fungi look so radically different at each stage of growth that a single illustration online or in a book cannot be definitive. There for best to just look !
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Interesting post. I’ve never been keen on them so don’t eat them nowadays. xx
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