"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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Emery Davis wrote:
On Mon, 27 Oct 2014 22:24:03 +0000, Tim Watts wrote:

I understand that much of naming a mushroom is recognition of where they
are growing as much as what they look like... I think I'm averse because
a nice one can look so much like a super toxic version.

Not any of the ones we eat. I'm cautious and experienced, we don't go
near anything that can be confused with something really nasty.

There are some safe and simple rules, but even they need some
experience to interpret correctly. Not a lot, but it isn't all
that easy to pick up from books alone.

Blewitts are ones I have always been chary of, because there are
some similar-looking fungi that are definitely poisonous.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

I was fairly confident of a mushroom so I ate it. Bad idea. Turned me
inside out even though I have a book and I really thought I'd identified it
as safe.
I now only eat mushrooms from the supermarket and I suggest that if anyone
isn't a specialist at fungi identification does the same.
My neighbours eat blewitts and they haven't died yet.