In article , Sacha wrote:
On 2012-05-22 07:04:50 +0100, Emery Davis said:

Not worth the risk; this entire family now lives in dialysis after
eating poisonous wild mushrooms in Scotland

http://tinyurl.com/bmfzop3

That's a bizarre mistake, difficult to understand. What he ate as
gills, the other has tubes! Boletus in general are very safe if you
know what you're doing. (IFF).

Well, like many who pick mushrooms, they really did think they knew
what they were doing and they've done it many times. They're now
awaiting a kidney transplant.

Ignorance always has killed. They didn't have even enough of a clue
to know that they didn't have a clue.

Emrys is right. There are quite a few fungi where there are simple,
reliable rules - and one of those is (almost) never to eat anything
until it has developed far enough to tell its gill type, colour and
whether it has a ring or volva. Both boleti and trumpet fungi
(including chanterelles) can be reliably identified and the only
plausible mistakes are with non-lethal varieties. But you DO need
to know what you are doing, and be careful - just like driving on
a motorway.

The same is NOT true for white or brown fungi that look like young
chestnut or common mushrooms.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.