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01 November 2009, 08:59 AM
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Mushrooms!
Mmmmmmm! Went out this morning and within five minutes had collected a huge pocketful of mushrooms from the field behind my house.
Came back and sauteed them with butter and a little salt and pepper. Had them on toast with a fried egg.
The bounty of a mild autumn. I have never seen so many mushrooms.
Does anyone else here collect them? I only collect the boringly safe big fat white ones.
Came back and sauteed them with butter and a little salt and pepper. Had them on toast with a fried egg.
The bounty of a mild autumn. I have never seen so many mushrooms.
Does anyone else here collect them? I only collect the boringly safe big fat white ones.
01 November 2009, 10:47 AM
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Mmmmmmm! Went out this morning and within five minutes had collected a huge pocketful of mushrooms from the field behind my house.
Came back and sauteed them with butter and a little salt and pepper. Had them on toast with a fried egg.
The bounty of a mild autumn. I have never seen so many mushrooms.
Does anyone else here collect them? I only collect the boringly safe big fat white ones.
Came back and sauteed them with butter and a little salt and pepper. Had them on toast with a fried egg.
The bounty of a mild autumn. I have never seen so many mushrooms.
Does anyone else here collect them? I only collect the boringly safe big fat white ones.
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01 November 2009, 05:29 PM
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If I knew what to pick I would take advantage of living in a semi rural village, However I get visions of me and the lovely Mrs Winner tripping our eyes out after picking the wrong ones.
01 November 2009, 06:04 PM
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Be careful. An old w*rk colleague I knew picked some once and had quite a scare. He regained enough consciousness to dial 999 and babble incomprehensibly before passing out again. The Plod had to break his door in and the ambulance crew revived him twice en-route. He died twice more in the hospital whilst they identified which mushrooms he'd consumed and it took him another 2 weeks to get right. There are 20 deadly species in this country, and some are almost visually identical to safe shrooms.
01 November 2009, 07:05 PM
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Be careful. An old w*rk colleague I knew picked some once and had quite a scare. He regained enough consciousness to dial 999 and babble incomprehensibly before passing out again. The Plod had to break his door in and the ambulance crew revived him twice en-route. He died twice more in the hospital whilst they identified which mushrooms he'd consumed and it took him another 2 weeks to get right. There are 20 deadly species in this country, and some are almost visually identical to safe shrooms.
There were some more already this evening when I walked the dog.
There are also a lot more of the 'brown' ones that are a lot more risky unless you really know what you are doing.
02 November 2009, 10:40 AM
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I love mushrooms, but i'd never pick them myself. Look at these innocent little ones, for example;
Look ok don't they. But no, that's your lovely Amanita phalloides, or "death cap" to most people. One of the most toxic plants in the world. No known antidode, and it dissolves your liver from the inside out, even after the initial vomiting and apparent recovery from its digestion. Growing happily under trees around the UK. Be careful!!
Look ok don't they. But no, that's your lovely Amanita phalloides, or "death cap" to most people. One of the most toxic plants in the world. No known antidode, and it dissolves your liver from the inside out, even after the initial vomiting and apparent recovery from its digestion. Growing happily under trees around the UK. Be careful!!
02 November 2009, 10:53 AM
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I found some growing in our back garden at the weekend but wouldn't be brave enough to eat them in case they made me sick
I'll just stick to picking them from the shops them I'm sure of what I'm getting
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I'll just stick to picking them from the shops them I'm sure of what I'm getting
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02 November 2009, 11:43 AM
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I love mushrooms, but i'd never pick them myself. Look at these innocent little ones, for example;
Look ok don't they. But no, that's your lovely Amanita phalloides, or "death cap" to most people. One of the most toxic plants in the world. No known antidode, and it dissolves your liver from the inside out, even after the initial vomiting and apparent recovery from its digestion. Growing happily under trees around the UK. Be careful!!
Look ok don't they. But no, that's your lovely Amanita phalloides, or "death cap" to most people. One of the most toxic plants in the world. No known antidode, and it dissolves your liver from the inside out, even after the initial vomiting and apparent recovery from its digestion. Growing happily under trees around the UK. Be careful!!
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02 November 2009, 11:51 AM
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We've just had a load of them pop up in the back garden, large brown type.
I was going to mow them to death but is there any better way of ensuring they don't pop up again?
I was going to mow them to death but is there any better way of ensuring they don't pop up again?
02 November 2009, 10:20 PM
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We've had a bumper harvest of Wood Blewits in the woods over the road.
Yum Yum!
No mistaking them, They're lilac coloured and smell of Apricots.
We had Parasols a few weeks ago. Giant shaggy things that fill a large frying pan by themselves (with bacon underneath of course).
Don't try this at home, children!
Yum Yum!
No mistaking them, They're lilac coloured and smell of Apricots.
We had Parasols a few weeks ago. Giant shaggy things that fill a large frying pan by themselves (with bacon underneath of course).
Don't try this at home, children!
02 November 2009, 10:34 PM
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The ones I have picking look just like this - and cleverly they do seem to grow more amongst the clumps of grass where I can't see them. When they are super fresh they have pink gills, fading to black if you leave them overnight.
They need to be picked first thing as they get maggoty very quickly. You can tell when you pull the stalk off if it looks 'pin pricked' underneath.
They need to be picked first thing as they get maggoty very quickly. You can tell when you pull the stalk off if it looks 'pin pricked' underneath.
29 August 2010, 07:46 PM
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This wet weather is a boon - there have been loads of mushrooms this week. I could not believe how many I found this evening when walking the dogs.
Unfortunately my dog has developed a taste for them and can find them a lot faster than I can so I have to keep my eyes peeled to see if I can beat him to it!
Unfortunately my dog has developed a taste for them and can find them a lot faster than I can so I have to keep my eyes peeled to see if I can beat him to it!
29 August 2010, 09:01 PM
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Anyone looking for a good book on this subject, I strongly recommend "Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain and Europe" by Roger Phillips (ISBN 0 330 26441 9). It's a bit pricey compared with some of the other tomes available, but about as thorough and well-illustrated an encyclopedia of mushrooms you could possibly hope to find. It's never failed me when I've brought a variety home that I've never seen before, or if I wasn't quite sure about something I only thought I recognized.
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