Mushrooms - are these going to kill me

[lost in espace]

Been thinking about doing a bit of forraging since seening Jamie at it the other night, going to google just wondered if anyone could identify these? Or are the going to be lovely fried with a bit of garlic with slow scrambled eggs for lunch?

[JFReturns]

Not something I would chance by asking people on the internet.

[Podie]

Try them, and keep us posted.

[Du1point8]

If you really must, use this:

http://www.mycokey.com/newMycoKeySite/MycoKeyIdent...

or buy a book and learn something before wildly hacking up mushrooms and then asking people on the net if they are going to kill me.

[lost in espace]

Blimey its a bit more complicated than I thought having had a good luck. I need to find someone that picks mushrooms to give me some advice, eat a wrong-un and you are in for a liver transplant!

[Council Baby]

Or ask PHs resident mushroom expert Mobile Chicane. Unless you've upset her she'll know

[Du1point8]

from what I remember could it be a brittle gill which is edible... but someone else is more likely to know then I am.

If in doubt don't eat them

I take it back it could be these:

http://www.mycokey.org/result.shtml?genSpec=Genus&...

my memory and knowledge obviously needs a refresh... hence I use the OH as she gained lots of knowledge off her folks...

Edited by Du1point8 on Thursday 24th November 12:05

[lost in espace]

Mushrooms seem to be everywhere here, I have just raked the lawn and its covered in small brown ones. The woods seem to be full of them too just over the road.

I had no idea there were so varieties though!

[Mobile Chicane]

My guess is Collybia - not edible due to its bitterness. Try a piece and see.

As a very, very general rule, avoid anything with white gills and you'll bypass the most dangerous species.

Of course there are plenty of white-gilled fungi that you can eat - once you know how to identify them definitively. There are 48 main 'families' of fungi in Britain, and you need to know them all.

[LordGrover]

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Over to you MC...

[Podie]

Mobile Chicane said:

... not edible due to its bitterness. Try a piece and see.

[Tyre Smoke]

I've got a toad stool growing in my back garden that looks like a tall thin white dome with 'fluting' horizontally on the dome. It's about six inches tall, so far and is growing right in the middle of the lawn.

I've seen quite a few of these recently, they look like large (very large) versions of those mushrooms you get in chinese cookery.

Just wondering why they have become so prominent and big recently.

Actually my description was rubbish, here's a picture of the same variety:



So how deadly is it?

[Japveesix]

lost in espace said:

Blimey its a bit more complicated than I thought having had a good luck. I need to find someone that picks mushrooms to give me some advice, eat a wrong-un and you are in for a liver transplant!

A liver transplant or death...

Tyre Smoke said:

Actually my description was rubbish, here's a picture of the same variety:



So how deadly is it?

Shaggy ink cap, tasty when young (before the cap opens out and gills blacken). But then you probably already know this seeing as you've found a picture of it and have the internet

[Tyre Smoke]

No actually. I find fungi a bit sinister to be honest. One of those irrational fascinations, like a half sunken boat.