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Destroying Angel
Uh oh ...
Just found a couple of what look like Destroying Angel mushrooms in the wooded part of our garden. I am complete rubbish at identifying mushrooms and fungi, but I reckon these might be the real thing. My question: What do I do with/to them? (Giving them to the mother-in-law has already been considered - The wife vetoed the idea though). Leave them? Carefully remove/burn/bury them? No kids around, wildlife mainly birds and foxes, no pets. They'll probably turn out to be somthing safe, but just askin' in case Al. |
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Destroying Angel
Al wrote:
No kids around, wildlife mainly birds and foxes, no pets. I'd just leave them to do their thing. We get all manner of mushrooms and toadstools come up around our garden including fly agaric. Many wild plants are poisonous if eaten but since you have no kids or pets around then leave them. Our garden has lots of self set fox gloves (which look lovely) and other poisonous plants but there is no need to become neurotic removing plants that could potentially poison someone. -- David in Normandy. To e-mail you must include the password FROG on the subject line, or it will be automatically deleted by a filter and not reach my inbox. |
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"Al" wrote in message . 4... Uh oh ... Just found a couple of what look like Destroying Angel mushrooms in the wooded part of our garden. I am complete rubbish at identifying mushrooms and fungi, but I reckon these might be the real thing. My question: What do I do with/to them? (Giving them to the mother-in-law has already been considered - The wife vetoed the idea though). Leave them? Carefully remove/burn/bury them? No kids around, wildlife mainly birds and foxes, no pets. They'll probably turn out to be somthing safe, but just askin' in case Al. If it were me, and I was worried about something that poisonous, I'd ring my local authority, as a starting point, and ask for advice. |
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David in Normandy wrote:
Al wrote: No kids around, wildlife mainly birds and foxes, no pets. Sorry to follow up to my own post, but does anyone know if laurel berries are poisonous? We've a mature laurel hedge which has lots of black berries on in the autumn and our black labrador finds them quite tasty and scoffs any wind-falls. Personally I'd have thought they were poisonous but the dog doesn't seem to have suffered from eating them. -- David in Normandy. To e-mail you must include the password FROG on the subject line, or it will be automatically deleted by a filter and not reach my inbox. |
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"David in Normandy" wrote in message ... David in Normandy wrote: Al wrote: No kids around, wildlife mainly birds and foxes, no pets. Sorry to follow up to my own post, but does anyone know if laurel berries are poisonous? We've a mature laurel hedge which has lots of black berries on in the autumn and our black labrador finds them quite tasty and scoffs any wind-falls. Personally I'd have thought they were poisonous but the dog doesn't seem to have suffered from eating them. Yes, they are poisonous. Well, that's my understanding. As a child, the big danger plants I was told to avoid were laburnum, laurel, deadly nightshade, yew. |
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Leave them. They are rare and you are lucky, in one sense, to have them, if you have any delight in rare wildlife. I've never seen one. Many rare fungi are legally protected. There are many very poisonous plants grown in gardens - ricinus is popular even in municipal plantings - and there are some other some very poisonous fungi that are much more common. And very few people wander around trying to eat unidentified fungi in this country anyway. So why worry? |
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Destroying Angel
On 2 July, 19:29, Al wrote:
Uh oh ... Just found a couple of what look like Destroying Angel mushrooms in the wooded part of our garden. I am complete rubbish at identifying mushrooms and fungi, but I reckon these might be the real thing. Doubt it. Far too early for those, and they are rare. |
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Doubt it. Far too early for those, and they are rare.
You're right. Now it's fully grown it's clearly something different Like I said, I'm rubbish at identifying mushrooms Al. |
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Destroying Angel
Al wrote:
Doubt it. Far too early for those, and they are rare. You're right. Now it's fully grown it's clearly something different Like I said, I'm rubbish at identifying mushrooms Waves to Urglers... Mushrooms and Other Fungi of Great Britain and Europe by Roger Phillips is usually recommended - over 1,000 colour pics. A. virosa is generally nicely-proportioned and deathly white all over. -- Rusty |
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Destroying Angel
On 2009-12-06 17:41:11 +0000, Rusty Hinge
said: Al wrote: Doubt it. Far too early for those, and they are rare. You're right. Now it's fully grown it's clearly something different Like I said, I'm rubbish at identifying mushrooms Waves to Urglers... Mushrooms and Other Fungi of Great Britain and Europe by Roger Phillips is usually recommended - over 1,000 colour pics. A. virosa is generally nicely-proportioned and deathly white all over. No mushrooms here but nice to see you Rusty! -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics. South Devon |
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