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RE: Steemit Iron Chef 2017 #17: A Celebration of Forests and Fields!
Cat's tongue - Pseudohydnum gelatinosum - very strange looking and very cool. Kuo places it all around the US, but also indicates it may be entirely absent from specific areas... I have certainly not seen anything quite like it - a jelly ear meets a Hedgehog... and edible. Whole new genus for me.
Good to see you, @dber! I think you would even be willing to eat the Cat's Tongue. It's one of the few that doesn't need to be cooked. And, at least in my region, it's a mushroom of the clean forests. It grows in the deep, dark forests on small sticks and moss. That's about as clean and limited in any issues as someone could ask for in an edible mushroom! Of course, it doesn't have any real flavor on its own -- it picks up on whatever you put it with. I hope you find some someday. They are so cool to see in the wild!