"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2012-06-16 01:01:39 +0100, said:

Sacha wrote:
To be frank, I wonder, sometimes, why we bother to discuss this on here
so often. Over and over again we have people who come in asking for an
ID on fungi. I think them to be exceedingly unwise.

Oh give over. It's often me, and of those times it's almost always been
posted witha very clear "I am not planning on eating them, I'm just
curious what they are". And yet absolutely every time I have had you
and your "don't do it!!" and Christina and her multiple "I did it and I
was ill!" messages.

It's a shame really, that asking for suggestions to identity is suddenly
so frowned on, as I've found the /other/ posts in the thread quite
interesting.

It's not all about you, Vicky. Over time, we've had several people asking
that question and I think it's a very dangerous way to go about
identifying fungi. You can go on asking, if you wish and I - and others -
can go on saying we think this is a dangerous practice.
--

Interestingly, today, I noticed the same type of mushroom that made me ill
has appeared in exactly the same place in my garden. One only, it's always
just the one - 3 or 4 inches across, white on top, looks exactly like a safe
one. Will I eat it? Nope. It's been chewed a bit by something, but that
something will never be me!
If there are mushroom experts here, I could pull it up see what colour the
gills are and whether it has a frillie thing on the stem - but I don't think
I would have eaten it before if the gills hadn't been brown which may have
lulled me into a sense of false security.
If it helps, underneath poplar trees, shady garden.

Tina