On 06/15/2012 12:25 AM, wrote:
Dave Liquorice wrote:
There are also lots of other types, ...

We're /fairly/ sure they're safe, as one of our neighbours eats them!
But mushrooms still scare me when they're not from the supermarket. :-(

Any thoughts?

Wise. I wouldn't eat wild mushrooms unless I was absolutely sure of
its identity. There are some that look *very* similar to each other,
some of which are edible and harmless others lethal.

As there are "lots of other types" around get your neighbour who eats
them to positively identify the ones he eats and confirm no ill or
psychedelic (unless you are into that sort of thing) affects from
them.

I wasn't going to go near any of the others. Did you look at the other
photos in the directory? (I'm assuming Nick did, as he looked at the
flat/mature ones) There are some pretty inside-out-looking pinky purple
ones, and some parasol-shaped ones, which don't look in the slightest
edible, but they're pretty all the same.

parasol - http://comps.org/vicky/mushrooms/IMAG1387.jpg
flat - http://comps.org/vicky/mushrooms/IMAG1390.jpg

Looks like a Russule of some sort. Leave it.

pointy - http://comps.org/vicky/mushrooms/IMAG1386.jpg
purple - http://comps.org/vicky/mushrooms/IMAG1384.jpg

These look like "Amethysts", which are a kind of Cortinaire that is
edible, but pretty much dissolves on cooking. They're used raw in
salads sometimes. The problem is that Cortinaires vary widely in
coloration, and the bad ones will finish you. So there's really no
particular interest in eating them.