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About to eat these mushies. Safe?
surchrisman
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Soooooo, on this beautiful summers day we have almost eaten everything on the bbq. After laying some new turf some mushrooms have radically appeared in our sights. They look tasty.
What are they and can we eat them. Require prompt advice since we still have plenty alcohol and these are probably getting eaten anyway.
So what do you think?
Edit. With modern day phones 5MB limit is too low found it almost impossible to get it below 5MB
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Ok cant upload it. Will tell you tomorrow if we are ill
I hope we here from you
In the sticks near Peterborough
You could call A&E now and give them notice, plus a rough idea of numbers, so they can get the stomach pumps ready. hehe
Nice one AuntyRach
Most aren't poisonous but...
I can spell hear (see my last post)
In the sticks near Peterborough
Most large lawn mushrooms are safe and tasty. Not the small ones. Check the underside. If it is ribbed and greyish-pink, like the ones in the shops, it is okay. If there is any yellow or it is all white AVOID. Don't worry too much - death-caps are pretty rare...
PS If you are lucky this autumn you may get some ink-caps. So called because they go black and slimy when old. No, no. But when young they taste like asparagus! They are one of the commonest grass mushrooms yet most people don't know what they are. I do advise you to do some research, however, as some mushrooms, though not poisonous, are very Donald Trump + quite a few don't combine with alcohol ...........;-)
Hope you had a nice barbie. Ian.
Last edited: 12 August 2016 22:54:24
I've eaten wild mushrooms I've foraged on many occasions - but I've been taught how to recognise some of the safe ones (and the similar dangerous ones) and am pretty sure of what I'm doing.
I would never offer an edibility ID of a mushroom/fungi over the internet. If you don't know that a mushroom is safe then don't eat it.
If you're interested in foraging there are lots of places online that offer hands on foraying courses - just put mushroom foraging into Google and boo a course - the right time of the year is nearly here.
However, you may be in hospital by now......................
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I think you're scaremongering. All of the deadly mushrooms in UK are woodland species and deaths per year are in single figures. I have never heard of anyone getting severe poisoning from a lawn mushroom, though I agree it's best to know exactly what it is...My advice is good.
Not scaremongering at all - mushrooms are said to be growing in brought in turf - there's no knowing what soil/composot/soil conditioners have been used, let alone where the garden is - it could be on a woodland fringe - we get woodland species in this garden - house built in 1960s on old orchard.
To suggest that any fungus is edible over the internet, let alone without a picture is, IMHO totally irresponsible.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
If you're interested in fungi, I can recommend this website and Daniel's forays
http://www.fungiforays.co.uk/
and the regular newsletter is always full of good information.
I have no connection.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I think Dove is absolutely correct. Even if the mushrooms are not poisonous, they can still give the eater a VERY unpleasant stomach upset.