You bring back memories....used to go gathering poke with my grandma when I was a little girl in Mt. Vernon. Don't remember mushrooms. Around here, in California, every year a few people end up in the hospital and some die from eating poison wild mushrooms. I leave that to the experts! Patricia In a message dated 4/15/2010 5:12:15 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: days are mushroom and poke salad days in Missouri!