No expert - no they're not all dangerous - very few are really poisonous, but some can make you feel quite poorly and it's really unwise to eat any unless you really know what you're doing - and there are some that are bad for you raw but ok cooked.
I can identify a few well enough to feel safe eating them - ceps, chanterelles, puff balls, horse mushrooms, shaggy ink caps, parasols, wood blewit, beefsteak, chicken of the woods and honey fungus.
Most of the others are edible but not really worth eating - a few are toxic.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove you are the expert. can you tell me how to change my location. I don't now or have I ever lived in the borough of Tower Hamlets. Worked there in 1988/89 alright, nice place but not home. Any help.
Evening all. I went out to do a bit of pottering and ended up sitting enjoying the sunshine.it was really lovely. A wonderful gerbera has a flower for the first time, it's so beautiful. Lots of fuchsias still looking really good.
Then came in and was really good doing some marking. treated myself to a carvery for tea then back to more marking. Just finished it so now the delights of X factor.
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Got to watch these cross-posters.
I'm not cross just curious.
No expert - no they're not all dangerous - very few are really poisonous, but some can make you feel quite poorly and it's really unwise to eat any unless you really know what you're doing - and there are some that are bad for you raw but ok cooked.
I can identify a few well enough to feel safe eating them - ceps, chanterelles, puff balls, horse mushrooms, shaggy ink caps, parasols, wood blewit, beefsteak, chicken of the woods and honey fungus.
Most of the others are edible but not really worth eating - a few are toxic.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks Liz - maybe you'll meet Noreen one day - she likes to share
her home grown fruit and veg. with the locals over a large glass of red!
Don't worry Dove I won't be running down to the woods in the morning to gorge on funny fungi. I'll stick to the cornflakes.
Well that's a relief!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove you are the expert. can you tell me how to change my location. I don't now or have I ever lived in the borough of Tower Hamlets. Worked there in 1988/89 alright, nice place but not home. Any help.
Evening all. I went out to do a bit of pottering and ended up sitting enjoying the sunshine.it was really lovely. A wonderful gerbera has a flower for the first time, it's so beautiful. Lots of fuchsias still looking really good.
Then came in and was really good doing some marking. treated myself to a carvery for tea then back to more marking. Just finished it so now the delights of X factor.
Have a good evening
Just in case you are worried I'M not wanting to move house Dove. just the neighbourhood this forum has assigned me.