My poisonous mushroom
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Christina Websell wrote:
Just picked it. The cap is flat 4.25 inches across, was white now going
brown. The gills are brown and the stem has a frill near the cap (although
unfortunately I broke the stem when I picked it. It was an inch and 3/4 high
stem)
I can peel the cap.
Open to your ideas. I only get one of these every year. I ate one because
it looked like a good 'un.
I sure wished I hadn't.
Photographs would help a lot, to identify whether the frill is
really a ring, but the thing that would help most of all is to
know the spore colour. Also, what SORT of brown, and how dark?
It makes a difference whether teddy bear, russet, traditional
shoe brown, chocolate or purplish - that's the gills. Also,
some indication of the cap and stem colour and texture would help.
I may be able to guess, but the ones I am thinking of are not
all that common (I have never seen them), and would rather not
jump in.
Regards,
Nick Maclaren.
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