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Old 28-11-2011, 04:00 PM
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Originally Posted by echinosum View Post
On which point, don't eat it. Rozites is edible, but Cortinarius includes some highly poisonous ones, and very few are known to be edible. Smell and taste are not an indication of edibility - the morituri (and a few lucky survivors) report that death caps are very tasty.
As I said we need a spore print to move forward as the spore colour will help identify the family group