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Old 03-07-2009, 08:30 PM
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Originally Posted by echinosum View Post

Leave them. They are rare and you are lucky, in one sense, to have them, if you have any delight in rare wildlife. I've never seen one. Many rare fungi are legally protected. There are many very poisonous plants grown in gardens - ricinus is popular even in municipal plantings - and there are some other some very poisonous fungi that are much more common. And very few people wander around trying to eat unidentified fungi in this country anyway. So why worry?
Quite agree with you places like the New Forest are littered with poisonous fungi so don't worry about them in your garden. A good site for identification of fungi is: http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/