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Brook you are right about hen-of-the-woods. I have one that grows behind the house here, and 2 years ago I let it grow instead of picking it when it was basketball sized. When I decided I couldn't wait any longer, I picked it. I had to cut it in pieces to actually pick it, and total weight was between 50 and 60 pounds.

I guy that I knew when I was a kid used to pick Fall button mushrooms. I tagged along one year and we literally picked enough to fill plastic trash bags full.

That's the same year I learned NOT to put mushrooms in plastic bags as he cooked some and we both got sick.