"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2012-06-14 23:25:03 +0100, said:

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

Mushrooms in shops are not expensive to buy. Ask yourself how much your
health is worth compared to a punnet of mushrooms.
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I did have a bad experience with one that came up in the garden, it nearly
turned me inside out, so I do tend to buy mine from the supermarket now.
I have a mushroom book and I thought I'd identified it as safe, but
apparently not. I wouldn't risk it again. No way.

Tina