Fungi 2011

[daveyp1970]

Davey
On the line under the picture says April. I wonder, are the mushrooms photographed in April?
Grew one by one, or many together, in grass or forest.
The picture is similar Calocybe gambosa, but to eat a white mushroom, you have to be 100 percent sure. Some of the most toxic mushrooms are white.

Yes it was in April on a broadleaf wood floor,i trully would never eat a fungi that i have seen in the wild,its just too risky.
David that fair made me chuckle,leave a piece on the bedside cabinet,what a chuckle.

[Ulla Hansson]

Thanks for the reply. It is wise not to eat mushrooms that you are not completely sure of. It is a pleasure to go to the woods and pick mushrooms, and a welcome addition to cooking.

[jomowi]

When out for a walk yesterday, I got into a conversation with a couple who were foraging for fungi.  One of them was E. European and I commented on how  well the Europeans know  their fungi as they are taught to recognise them from childhood whereas we Brits generally are not.  Even as adults and armed with a book, we don’t have the courage to risk eating anything other than the field mushroom and (in my case) chantarelles.  She told me a way of being sure and that is to boil a sample with some chopped white onion.  If the onion turns blue, the mushroom is poisonous. It applies across the board apparently.  Can anyone confirm this, please?

We then got on to squirrels as I had witnessed a grey squirrel eating a ‘mushroom’ under my birch tree.  She said they also stash them away to eat in the winter.  They must have an innate way of knowing how to go about this i.e. so that the mushroom dessicates rather than rots. 

[Lesley Cox]

Presumably they also know which are toxic, or maybe the poisons which affect humans are squirrel-benign?

[Olga Bondareva]

Armillariella mellea spawn. 

[mark smyth]

Does anyone know this Fungus?
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=170580&d=1313226285

No comments from the boys or I'll set Maggi on you

[Maggi Young]

Now I've stopped laughing....  isn't that Enteridium lycoperdon the False Puffball... actually a slime mould, not a mushroom?

[ranunculus]

How is Ann Widdecombe these days?


O.K. ... I will sit on the naughty step ... but for how long?

[ranunculus]

To make amends ... an extraordinary fungi sp. from the Dolomites in July this year.

[Paul T]

Mark,

You're no fun!  Sooo many comments we could make. 

[Roma]

The fungi I find are usually nibbled by slugs, ?squirrels, ?deer or knocked over by ponies but I spotted this Fly Agaric in pristine condition so went back to the house for my camera and it was dry enough to lie on the ground.

[Lesley Cox]

You certainly did spot it Roma.

[Panu]

Yesterday and today we got loads of Albatrellus ovinus, Lactarius lignyotus, Lactarius repraesentaneus, Lactarius trivialis, L. utilis, Leccinum aurantiacum, Leccinum versipelle, Russula spp. and some  Boletus edulis and Cantharellus cibarius. Yummy :d, though maybe the species aren´t that familiar most of you.

[Stephenb]

Panu: I've used most of those but only use Lactarius with orange milk. Enormous amounts of Chantarelles in the woods at the moment. Here's a batch being dried in the oven (with a few Boletus edulis and Hedgehog Fungus:, Hydnum repandum and H. rufescens)

[Panu]

Awful set up, but some of the recent crop anyway. The Lactarius lignyotus were really delicious, it was the first time I´ve picked them. Still waiting for those two Hydnum species you mentioned Stephen and of course Cantharellus tubaeformis. Oh well, there´s many other wonderful species too.