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"Emery Davis" wrote in message
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On Mon, 27 Oct 2014 22:24:03 +0000, Tim Watts wrote:

I understand that much of naming a mushroom is recognition of where they
are growing as much as what they look like... I think I'm averse because
a nice one can look so much like a super toxic version.

Not any of the ones we eat. I'm cautious and experienced, we don't go
near anything that can be confused with something really nasty.

Picked what looks a lot like Suillus Luteus, except it's not growing near a
Scots pine, but birch instead, so it's probably a Leccinum of some kind, but
not one with a long slim stalk. Mone of those seem to listed as poisonous,
so I might risk it.

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"Emery Davis" wrote in message
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On Tue, 28 Oct 2014 20:48:50 +0000, Christina Websell wrote:

I now only eat mushrooms from the supermarket and I suggest that if
anyone isn't a specialist at fungi identification does the same.
My neighbours eat blewitts and they haven't died yet.

Was it a blewitt type mushroom you ran afoul of? The trouble with
blewitts is they can be confused with various Corinarius. And there are
a lot of them that will make you sick or even kill you.

Maybe you should have checked the mushroom with the neighbors! ;)

-E
No it was a white mushroom in my garden , looked fine, obviously wasn't .
There's one there now. I'm not going to eat it. unless I have serious
constipation.
which I haven't. Eat one of those and sh+t through the eye of a needle.
No. don't eat one :-(

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"David" wrote in message
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On 29/10/2014 12:35, Emery Davis wrote:
On Tue, 28 Oct 2014 20:48:50 +0000, Christina Websell wrote:

I now only eat mushrooms from the supermarket and I suggest that if
anyone isn't a specialist at fungi identification does the same.
My neighbours eat blewitts and they haven't died yet.

Was it a blewitt type mushroom you ran afoul of? The trouble with
blewitts is they can be confused with various Corinarius. And there are
a lot of them that will make you sick or even kill you.

Maybe you should have checked the mushroom with the neighbors! ;)

-E

What, feed it to them first?

LOL! Good idea for the ones on my right hand side who forced me to pay 1400
because they refused to share the drop kerb and because they thought I' d
agree to them putting up 2 metre wall in front of my kitchen window.if
they blocked me in. I said no and they tried to block me in.
I have a mushroom book but I don't know the name of the mushroom that made
me ill. It looked just like a field mushroom and there is another one here
right now (and I'm not going to eat it!}

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"FrankB" wrote in message
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"Emery Davis" wrote in message
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On Mon, 27 Oct 2014 22:24:03 +0000, Tim Watts wrote:

I understand that much of naming a mushroom is recognition of where
they
are growing as much as what they look like... I think I'm averse
because
a nice one can look so much like a super toxic version.

Not any of the ones we eat. I'm cautious and experienced, we don't go
near anything that can be confused with something really nasty.

Picked what looks a lot like Suillus Luteus, except it's not growing near
a
Scots pine, but birch instead, so it's probably a Leccinum of some kind,
but
not one with a long slim stalk. Mone of those seem to listed as poisonous,
so I might risk it.

Please don't.

Mushroom mushroom...
 

"Emery Davis" wrote in message
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On Tue, 28 Oct 2014 20:48:50 +0000, Christina Websell wrote:

I now only eat mushrooms from the supermarket and I suggest that if
anyone isn't a specialist at fungi identification does the same.
My neighbours eat blewitts and they haven't died yet.

Was it a blewitt type mushroom you ran afoul of? The trouble with
blewitts is they can be confused with various Corinarius. And there are
a lot of them that will make you sick or even kill you.

Maybe you should have checked the mushroom with the neighbors! ;)

-E

It looked exactly like a safe white mushroom that I could have got from the
fields. Except it was in my garden, that should have given me a clue. There
are some here now and I would not dream of eating them. Ever.again.
I'm not sure what they are, but I'm only going to use them to feed an enemy.