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Marseilles resident harvests 30-pound mushroom · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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Marseilles resident Harvest 30 Pound Mushroom. Written by Michael Urbanek. This
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Everlit. Marseille resident Kobe Clark recently harvested a 30-pound hen of the
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woods wild mushroom. Clark is the grandson of Marseille resident David Raikes
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who said these mushrooms are considered a delicacy, them, only grow around
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oak trees in them fall. I've never seen one this big, Rake
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said. Usually by them time you get to the The
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mould or the rain has flattened them out or destroyed them. Rakes
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said Native Americans used to dry them to preserve them for the
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winter. The hen of the woods is a polypore mushroom that typically
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grows at the base of old-growth oak and maple trees, and it's
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commonly found in both Japanese and Chinese food, according to Plantnimals, an
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online encyclopedia of plants and animals. Hen of the Woods is found
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natively across China, Europe and the eastern US.