The mushroom pictured here was recently picked from the forest floor in a rural section of Bucks County Pa. Its called a morel, this one is actually a black morel, (they also come in yellow). Morels only grow for a few weeks each spring and are considered by some people to be a highly sought after, and rather rare, edible delicacy. In regions of the midwest, they even have festivals where people go to compete to see who can find the most, or biggest morels. Then they feast on them.
Some people think that wild mushrooms, or toadstools as they are called, are poisonous and can kill you. In fact some can. The question is which ones?