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I'm thinking Chanterelle, but how to be sure?
http://www.ldwilmer.pwp.blueyonder.c...s/mushroom.JPG Any experts around here? thanks, Lol |
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Lol wrote: I'm thinking Chanterelle, but how to be sure? http://www.ldwilmer.pwp.blueyonder.c...s/mushroom.JPG Any experts around here? No way, Jose! Once upon a time, I could have made a few educated guesses, but I would now have to look up in books. Chanterelle, it ain't, though. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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Gopher wrote: It looks rather big for a Chanterelle (12ish cm across). False Chanterelle is smaller than the "normal" Chanterelle (and can also be poisonous to some). July is also a bit early for FC. Pity there are no pics of the undersides. One of the UK Russulas perhaps? Am sure there will be an expert along soon to ID it. It's not just too big for both the false and true chanterelle, it's the wrong colour, the wrong shape and has those flecks on the cap (which the others don't). It might be a Russula, but there are half a dozen genera that have species with caps that look like that. Even an expert won't be able to do more than guess, based on that picture alone. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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"Lol" wrote in message om... I'm thinking Chanterelle, but how to be sure? http://www.ldwilmer.pwp.blueyonder.c...s/mushroom.JPG Any experts around here? thanks, Lol Wrong size, wrong colour, wrong shape - apart from that just like a Chanterelle - got it, thanks. (Think we need one of those guided walks in Epping Forest with a local society - we did a good one recently that showed how dog poo was destroying ecology of sparse grasses...here boy, Vetch, Vetch). Thanks to all, Lol |
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And we couldn't possibly identify it, even from a book, without a clear shot of the underside of the cap. The formation of the gills (or whatever else it has - in fact Chanterelles have "wrinkles" which are not true gills) and stipe (stem or trunk), is frequently key to identifying fungi. In fact I often need to cut the thing in half vertically to get a clear view of these things side on to be sure. But sure as anything it isn't a Chanterelle. |
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"Lol" wrote in message om... I'm thinking Chanterelle, but how to be sure? http://www.ldwilmer.pwp.blueyonder.c...s/mushroom.JPG Any experts around here? thanks, Lol Wrong size, wrong colour, wrong shape - apart from that just like a Chanterelle - got it, thanks. (Think we need one of those guided walks in Epping Forest with a local society - we did a good one recently that showed how dog poo was destroying ecology of sparse grasses...here boy, Vetch, Vetch). Thanks to all, Lol Guessing Paxillus involutus, but just a guess of course. http://mycorance.free.fr/valchamp/champi154.htm A neighbor claimed to be able to eat nearly a kg before getting sick, but I'd definitely not try it! -E |
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On 2009-07-24 11:49:29 +0100, Emery Davis said:
Lol wrote: "Lol" wrote in message om... I'm thinking Chanterelle, but how to be sure? http://www.ldwilmer.pwp.blueyonder.c...s/mushroom.JPG Any experts around here? thanks, Lol Wrong size, wrong colour, wrong shape - apart from that just like a Chanterelle - got it, thanks. (Think we need one of those guided walks in Epping Forest with a local society - we did a good one recently that showed how dog poo was destroying ecology of sparse grasses...here boy, Vetch, Vetch). Thanks to all, Lol Guessing Paxillus involutus, but just a guess of course. http://mycorance.free.fr/valchamp/champi154.htm A neighbor claimed to be able to eat nearly a kg before getting sick, but I'd definitely not try it! -E Just think of what happened to Nicholas Evans & Family and they were expert fungi pickers! -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics. South Devon |
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A Good mushroom indentification link: http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/ |
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Martin wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:49:29 +0200, Emery Davis wrote: [] A neighbor claimed to be able to eat nearly a kg before getting sick, but I'd definitely not try it! You can eat a kg of any fungus. Death comes later. hehe. |
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Sacha wrote:
[] Just think of what happened to Nicholas Evans & Family and they were expert fungi pickers! wasn't that the false morel? http://mycorance.free.fr/valchamp/champi361.htm I know lots of people who eat these, I've never dared. Pretty cautious when it comes to the old fungi. Sorry for the Frenchie pages, I seemed to have lost the good site, but got it again. Here's the false morel: http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/galle...ydefault.a sp -E |
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On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:57:05 +0100, Martin wrote
(in article ): On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:54:30 +0100, Sacha wrote: On 2009-07-24 11:49:29 +0100, Emery Davis said: Lol wrote: "Lol" wrote in message om... I'm thinking Chanterelle, but how to be sure? http://www.ldwilmer.pwp.blueyonder.c...s/mushroom.JPG Any experts around here? thanks, Lol Wrong size, wrong colour, wrong shape - apart from that just like a Chanterelle - got it, thanks. (Think we need one of those guided walks in Epping Forest with a local society - we did a good one recently that showed how dog poo was destroying ecology of sparse grasses...here boy, Vetch, Vetch). Thanks to all, Lol Guessing Paxillus involutus, but just a guess of course. http://mycorance.free.fr/valchamp/champi154.htm A neighbor claimed to be able to eat nearly a kg before getting sick, but I'd definitely not try it! -E Just think of what happened to Nicholas Evans & Family and they were expert fungi pickers! What did happen to Nicholas Evans and Family, Sacha? I've never heard of them. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4660269.ece -- Sally in Shropshire, UK Posted through uk.rec.gardening |
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On 2009-07-24 11:57:05 +0100, Martin said:
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:54:30 +0100, Sacha wrote: On 2009-07-24 11:49:29 +0100, Emery Davis said: Lol wrote: "Lol" wrote in message om... I'm thinking Chanterelle, but how to be sure? http://www.ldwilmer.pwp.blueyonder.c...s/mushroom.JPG Any experts around here? thanks, Lol Wrong size, wrong colour, wrong shape - apart from that just like a Chanterelle - got it, thanks. (Think we need one of those guided walks in Epping Forest with a local society - we did a good one recently that showed how dog poo was destroying ecology of sparse grasses...here boy, Vetch, Vetch). Thanks to all, Lol Guessing Paxillus involutus, but just a guess of course. http://mycorance.free.fr/valchamp/champi154.htm A neighbor claimed to be able to eat nearly a kg before getting sick, but I'd definitely not try it! -E Just think of what happened to Nicholas Evans & Family and they were expert fungi pickers! What did happen to Nicholas Evans and Family, Sacha? I've never heard of them. Author of The Horse Whisperer, lives in a village near here. Up in Scotland (IIRC) he and his family gathered mushrooms and ended up on dialysis and lucky to be alive. I have no idea where or how they are now. But gathering mushrooms was a regular thing with all of them and they were said to be 'experts'. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics. South Devon |
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om: I'm thinking Chanterelle, but how to be sure? http://www.ldwilmer.pwp.blueyonder.c...s/mushroom.JPG Any experts around here? Really need - photos of the underside of the cap - photos of the complete stem - where it was growing (soil and nearby vegetation/trees) - colour of spores You can always try http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/ but continue to be aware of what you don't know! |
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On 2009-07-24 13:21:37 +0100, Sacha said:
On 2009-07-24 11:57:05 +0100, Martin said: snip Just think of what happened to Nicholas Evans & Family and they were expert fungi pickers! What did happen to Nicholas Evans and Family, Sacha? I've never heard of them. Author of The Horse Whisperer, lives in a village near here. Up in Scotland (IIRC) he and his family gathered mushrooms and ended up on dialysis and lucky to be alive. I have no idea where or how they are now. But gathering mushrooms was a regular thing with all of them and they were said to be 'experts'. Sorry to answer my own post but coincidentally there's a very nice letter from Nicholas Evans in our Parish Magazine this month. He's thanking people for their kind wishes and prayers. He says that it's almost a year since they were poisoned and that the first 6 or 7 months were awful. Since the spring they've started to improve but still have to do a lot of dialysis and are on the waiting list for kidney transplants. This was a horrible and shocking thing to happen to them but please, mushroom pickers, be very, very careful. A newspaper article written at the time says that they ate Cortinarius speciosissimus which a spokesman for the Association of British Fungus Groups said they might have mistaken for chanterelles which can grow in similar locations and can look very similar. The species Cortinarius is extremely toxic and has caused 'a smattering of cases across Europe where it was lethal. The liver is broken down into a pulp'. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics. South Devon |
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