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Burls are ridiculously valuable and tend to be poached, there's a massive problem with burl poaching in the redwoods in the american PNW. It;'s a really egregious crime because it causes irreparable harm and probably death to trees which are literally millenia old. Poachers go out at night on ATVs and 4x4 light trucks and chop hunks of trees which are sometimes over 15 feet tall (the hunk), and since there's no way to ID a poached tree from a legal burl harvest, welp   edit: oh snap I was responding to a pic of a mushroom lol - either way, don't buy any burl top tables or other furniture, it's at least as likely as not to have been poached coyo7e fucked around with this message at 06:08 on Nov 1, 2016 |
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There are some very tasty coral mushrooms, but there are also hundreds of types and they can be really hard to ID from a field guide. It's not worth the risk imho unless you know someone who's hunted and eaten them before. I've been 95% sure of a new mushroom's safety before, after taking spore prints and checking a couple of field guides but I tried a pinky-nail sized piece of it and really regretted it.
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