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From: Jaques d'Altrades Date: 10/10/03 00:20 Romance Daylight Time Message-id: The message from "Franz Heymann" contains these words: Since there is at least one non-edible species which has the same growth habit, please do check and make absolutely certain that your soecimens are true Fairy Rings befoere eating them. There will quite certainly be folk in your neighborhood who will know for certain what you have on your lawn. Did you look at the picture? Agaricus campestris or A. arvensis I'd say - certainly not Merasmius oreades. -- Rusty Hinge horrid·squeak&zetnet·co·uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm I think I will look that up. Looks a nice long Latin name! They were certainly tasty whatever their name. I don't know about maximising the crop as they seem to be COMMON here. I took some of mine over to my neighbour to check they were OK as suggested and they were even growing on the grass verge where I was standing! Another friend collected 7 kilos is as many minutes from a nearby field. The French though are VERY au fait with the different fungi though. I have a very pretty red one growing in the lawn as well...got white spots on................... Phil |
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from "Mary Fisher" contains these words: Edible mushrooms and puffballs are one of the things I certainly wouldn't mind having in my lawn. Perhaps I should have a lawn ... Or a cellar full of boxes..... When I were lad us air-raid shelter were full of mushrooms, 'appen. -- Grim Reaper Oh thou! Whatever title suit thee, Auld Hornie, Satan, Nick, or Clootie. (Burns) |
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On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 17:36:31 +0100, R. McGeddon
wrote: The message from "Mary Fisher" contains these words: Edible mushrooms and puffballs are one of the things I certainly wouldn't mind having in my lawn. Perhaps I should have a lawn ... Or a cellar full of boxes..... When I were lad us air-raid shelter were full of mushrooms, 'appen. trench foot or what? :-) -- Martin |
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Subject: Fairy Rings
From: Jaques d'Altrades Date: 11/10/03 18:43 Romance Daylight Time Message-id: The message from iljunk (Pen Phill) contains these words: Did you look at the picture? Agaricus campestris or A. arvensis I'd say - certainly not Merasmius oreades. -- Rusty Hinge horrid·squeak&zetnet·co·uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm I think I will look that up. Looks a nice long Latin name! They were certainly tasty whatever their name. I don't know about maximising the crop as they seem to be COMMON here. I took some of mine over to my neighbour to check they were OK as suggested and they were even growing on the grass verge where I was standing! (bit snipped) I have a very pretty red one growing in the lawn as well...got white spots on................... Unlikely. Amanite muscaria grows in and on the margins/clearings of woodland. -- Rusty Hinge horrid·squeak&zetnet·co·uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm No...Really.......I have..... Look... http://pageperso.aol.fr/Penphill/FA.jpg |
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Perhaps I should have a lawn ... Or a cellar full of boxes..... Would that I had a cellar ... When I were lad us air-raid shelter were full of mushrooms, 'appen. Aye ... I remember it well ... Mary -- Grim Reaper Oh thou! Whatever title suit thee, Auld Hornie, Satan, Nick, or Clootie. (Burns) |
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from iljunk (Pen Phill) contains these words: Unlikely. Amanite muscaria grows in and on the margins/clearings of woodland. -- Rusty Hinge horrid·squeak&zetnet·co·uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm No...Really.......I have..... Look... Coo yes - Amanita muscaria without a doubt. It was this mushroom the Norsemen took before going berserk. It is hallucogenic, and overuse can lead to madness, and an overdose can be fatal. I've never tried it and I have no intention of doing so, but it is said that after peeling it is safe to eat, which is probably where the old wives' tale of peeling as a test for edibility. (Amanita phalloides, A. verna and A. virosa all peel, and they are amongst the most deadly mushrooms known.) -- Rusty Hinge horrid·squeak&zetnet·co·uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm |
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Coo yes - Amanita muscaria without a doubt. It was this mushroom the Norsemen took before going berserk. Evidence? Mary |
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from "Mary Fisher" contains these words: Coo yes - Amanita muscaria without a doubt. It was this mushroom the Norsemen took before going berserk. Evidence? Learned tomes on the subject. Dr. John Ramsbottom (Onetime Curator of Dept. of Mycology, British Museum of Natural History) refers to it, though cautiously, in Mushrooms and Toadstools in Collins' New Naturalist series. I have about twenty mycological books and I'm not trawling through the rest to find references. I haven't visited the Shed yet, and it's nearly nine already! -- Rusty Hinge horrid·squeak&zetnet·co·uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm |
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On 10 Oct 2003 17:49:11 GMT, Pen Phill wrote:
French though are VERY au fait with the different fungi though. The Austrians too. I think it's more a case that the Brits are not "au fait" with mushrooms. -- Tim. If the human brain were simple enough that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. |
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On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:23:08 GMT, Tim Challenger
"timothy(dot)challenger(at)apk(dot)at" wrote: On 10 Oct 2003 17:49:11 GMT, Pen Phill wrote: French though are VERY au fait with the different fungi though. The Austrians too. Not forgetting the Italians I think it's more a case that the Brits are not "au fait" with mushrooms. Some Brits are, the others die. -- Martin |
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On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 12:35:52 +0200, martin wrote:
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:23:08 GMT, Tim Challenger "timothy(dot)challenger(at)apk(dot)at" wrote: On 10 Oct 2003 17:49:11 GMT, Pen Phill wrote: French though are VERY au fait with the different fungi though. The Austrians too. Not forgetting the Italians I think it's more a case that the Brits are not "au fait" with mushrooms. Some Brits are, the others die. :-) Like the two sorts of pedestrians: the quick and the dead. Come a damp day after a warm period in late summer here and you'll see loads of people out in the woods collecting baskets of "Schwammerl". I don't recall ever seeing anything like that in the UK. I'm sure some do, but nowhere near the scale it happens over here. -- Tim. If the human brain were simple enough that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. |
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from Tim Challenger "timothy(dot)challenger(at)apk(dot)at" contains these words: Come a damp day after a warm period in late summer here and you'll see loads of people out in the woods collecting baskets of "Schwammerl". I don't recall ever seeing anything like that in the UK. I'm sure some do, but nowhere near the scale it happens over here. No. A long time ago I had to physically defend my basket of mushrooms from some concerned woman who 'knew' that they were toadstools, and therefore poisonous. -- Rusty Hinge horrid·squeak&zetnet·co·uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm |
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Coo yes - Amanita muscaria without a doubt. It was this mushroom the Norsemen took before going berserk. Evidence? Learned tomes on the subject. Dr. John Ramsbottom (Onetime Curator of Dept. of Mycology, British Museum of Natural History) refers to it, though cautiously, in Mushrooms and Toadstools in Collins' New Naturalist series. Was Ramsbottom there then? Mary |
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On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 13:46:02 +0100, Jaques d'Altrades wrote:
The message m from Tim Challenger "timothy(dot)challenger(at)apk(dot)at" contains these words: Come a damp day after a warm period in late summer here and you'll see loads of people out in the woods collecting baskets of "Schwammerl". I don't recall ever seeing anything like that in the UK. I'm sure some do, but nowhere near the scale it happens over here. No. A long time ago I had to physically defend my basket of mushrooms from some concerned woman who 'knew' that they were toadstools, and therefore poisonous. The only edible fungus that grows in the UK is the supermarket champignon. Everything else is deadly poisonous. I thought everyone knew that? -- Tim. If the human brain were simple enough that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. |
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