Don't know much about wild mushrooms. Only ever ate the white ones that grow in the fields around home silillar to the ones you buy in the shops. never ate the coloured ones.
Er, beefsteak is good to eat. Not fly agaric. Fly agaric is hallucinogenic. They say that the Lapps used to eat the dried fly agaric mushrooms, which grow abundantly near silver birch trees, and go into a sort of coma, vomit and then have dreams of flying. During the period of unconciousness they would urinate. Their reindeer also ate the mushrooms and had similar convulsions and, presumably, wild dreams. The Lapps somehow discovered that the toxins' strength was increased if the urine of an affected person (reindeer?) was drunk. It is said that the whole story of Santa in his red and white clothes with his flying reindeer comes from the effects of eating this mushroom.
Our expert told the Fly agaric story a little differently. It is hallucinogenic, but it also has unpleasant effects on the gastric system. The Lapps discovered that if the reindeer ate the mushrooms their urine would contain the hallucinogens which the Lapps could drink and 'enjoy' without the gastric upset. Dr Leech said he understood that this practice has been more or less discontinued since the improved availability of strong vodka!
Don't think anyone said Fly agaric is good to eat
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
These exotic looking mushrooms and there are a lot of them are not well known or understood. Even the older people always said not to eat them but they can't all be dangerous, can they?
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Not only edible, but good. Really.
It has the same sort of texture as cooked liver but a mushroom flavour like a cep.
Don't know much about wild mushrooms. Only ever ate the white ones that grow in the fields around home silillar to the ones you buy in the shops. never ate the coloured ones.
Glad you had a good day dove. Pics are good. Don't think I'd be brave enough to eat them tho
Er, beefsteak is good to eat. Not fly agaric. Fly agaric is hallucinogenic. They say that the Lapps used to eat the dried fly agaric mushrooms, which grow abundantly near silver birch trees, and go into a sort of coma, vomit and then have dreams of flying. During the period of unconciousness they would urinate. Their reindeer also ate the mushrooms and had similar convulsions and, presumably, wild dreams. The Lapps somehow discovered that the toxins' strength was increased if the urine of an affected person (reindeer?) was drunk. It is said that the whole story of Santa in his red and white clothes with his flying reindeer comes from the effects of eating this mushroom.
I'll have some of those Fly ones but not the chaser.
Our expert told the Fly agaric story a little differently. It is hallucinogenic, but it also has unpleasant effects on the gastric system. The Lapps discovered that if the reindeer ate the mushrooms their urine would contain the hallucinogens which the Lapps could drink and 'enjoy' without the gastric upset. Dr Leech said he understood that this practice has been more or less discontinued since the improved availability of strong vodka!
Don't think anyone said Fly agaric is good to eat
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
These exotic looking mushrooms and there are a lot of them are not well known or understood. Even the older people always said not to eat them but they can't all be dangerous, can they?
Oh, I see - there was a cross-posting resulting in a mis-communication!!! Could be a possible Columbo plot!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.