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Pete

I wouldn't even consider eating it. I had a bad experience a while ago by
eating a mushroom in my garden that I thought I'd identified as safe from
my book and got well told off on here, rightly so.
I was on the toilet for two days.
My mushrooms now come from the supermarket.

Tina

Thanks everybody, and David for having a go. No, I do not think in is one
of those David - mine
has an unusually pronounced convex bottom. Sorry my piccy did not show
this very well. And worry not folks
peter will not be eating it or any of its offspring until he has got
expert guidance. Just that it the biggest fungi
that has ever appeared on any lawn that I have ever owned that I recall
(:-)


My friend in Germany - in the wilds there - knows exactly what mushrooms are
safe, she collects them in the forest and dries them for winter use. Brits
don't seem to have that knowledge.
She sends me some in my Christmas parcel every year and I haven't died from
them yet.
Unless she decides this year she doesn't like me any more :-)

I never thought Germany could be so *rural* until I visited her.
20 houses. One street light extinguished at 10 pm.
I got scared about the wild boar when I heard them approaching, even though
I thought I'd be fine with it and I wanted to see them. We sat out about
half a mile from the house near a pond with bats flitting over the water.
Idyllic.
Then they came..

Total wimp!
I was up and gone. Yes I know they are more scared of us than we are of them
but Leics Brits are not used to them ;-)

They are a total nuisance in rural Germany, they dig up the crops the people
depend on to live. The farmers build wooden towers in their fields to shoot
them from.
They live hand to mouth there. I've seen it for myself. At least they
get some pork..