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| Mr BlueSky |
Identification pleaseEdible - Inedible - or indifferent?
All found in and around the woods near here. |
| bingo |
Be carefull Simon.
A few of those look well dodgy. The big looks like a parasol, but you aslo have some well suspect maybe deadly ones in there. |
| cab |
You're not making it easy for us Simon 
Scan through this, might help: http://forum.downsizer.net/viewtopic.php?t=7371 |
| cab |
Oh, and almost certainly you can eat some of 'em. I'll hazard a guess at a couple of parasols, what looks like maybe a wooly milk cap, a little puffball, maybe a common funnel cap, a volvariella perhaps, one of them looks like a leccinium... But a bit of overload with different species there, and we need better pics of most of 'em and some more info about each to confirm ID's. |
| bubble |
one at a time and a bit of detail Simon ,please and then we''ll try our best to i.d them for you. |
| Truffle |
I echo all of the above~!
has anyone eaten woolly milk caps? I get loads around a few birch trees, but have never bothered due to the 'salting and pickling' to destroy the toxins line.... anyone tried them? |
| cab |
Ahh, yes, the reference to wooly milk caps being eaten in certain places after salting... Basically I think you're meant to ensilage them, and alledgedly thats done in some parts of Eastern Europe and Finland.
I'd be tempted to try if I could find an appropriate person from Finland or Eastern Europe to vouch for this, but no one I've asked had a clue what I was talking about. |
| Truffle |
I have a Friend visiting from Finland this week so I'll ask him- it just put me off that there are toxins which have to be removed. As we all know, there are certain toxins in fungi that whilst not causing immediate problems are quite carcinogenic. I might have a quick journal trawl and see whats out there... |
| cab |
Keep us posted on what you discover; its something that I've occasionally thought about looking in to, but never got round to (although I suspect if I kept finding loads of wooly milk caps, I might have done!).
The other one that always baffles me is the blusher. Boil it and throw away the water? Why not just pick something different? |
| Truffle |
yep- I haven't bothered with the blusher either. We get quite a lot in one of my prize lecinium spots- but I think I'm too risk averse |