Quote Originally Posted by KestrelKat View Post
Right. The discovery that they can actually kill you is pretty recent I believe. We used to collect them every mother's day at a log-cabin my family has in the middle of some back-country woods north of here. We get morels, too, but not nearly as many as the beefsteak.
It's not just those particular ones, but *any* mushroom that you do not know well, in a region that you haven't thoroughly studied for a long time, can easily be lethal.