On Sat, 15 May 2004 04:11:38 +0100, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote:

The message
from martin contains these words:

When somebody says they have giant mushrooms in their garden and I ask
if it isn't a little early for them, the common name does matter. It
doesn't matter whether they are edible or not, because we know that
they are, OP said her husband ate them.
There are a very limited number of edible fungi referred to as
mushrooms.

There are literally thousands of fungi which are referred to as
'mushrooms', and not all of them are edible, and some are poisonous.

I was going by what are claimed to be web sites of edible fungus
experts. They stand corrected :-)