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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: mcginnis6010 on May 21, 2013, 12:09:49 pm

Title: mushroom find in the wifes flower garden
Post by: mcginnis6010 on May 21, 2013, 12:09:49 pm
Not sure what mushroom this is but my wife sent this pic to me since I'm out of town working. Any clue what type this is? The mushroom is completely white with completely white gills.
Title: Re: mushroom find in the wifes flower garden
Post by: Eric Krewson on May 21, 2013, 09:15:52 pm
I know very little about mushrooms but wouldn't eat that one with a gun held to my head.
Title: Re: mushroom find in the wifes flower garden
Post by: mcginnis6010 on May 21, 2013, 11:56:00 pm
Yea it just looks poisonous to me so I told my wife not to touch it and it'll eventually die.
Title: Re: mushroom find in the wifes flower garden
Post by: Dharma on May 26, 2013, 11:19:36 pm
It appears to be a Destroying Angel.
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Post by: adb on May 27, 2013, 11:59:43 am
Eating wild mushrooms isn't worth the risk IMHO.
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Post by: Dharma on May 27, 2013, 06:42:28 pm
Indeed. Unless one is highly skilled, one is running the risk of certain death. There is no antidote for the poisons in poisonous mushrooms (mostly Amatoxins.)
Title: Re: mushroom find in the wifes flower garden
Post by: Marc St Louis on May 29, 2013, 09:18:00 am
Looks like a Death Angel to me, certain death to eat it as from what I have heard and read there is no antidote.
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Post by: Dharma on May 30, 2013, 01:54:05 am
Not unless someone has a spare liver and a couple kidneys laying around, plus blood.
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Post by: nathan elliot on June 05, 2013, 05:59:15 am
Been picking and eating wild mushrooms for the past 20 years and if you know what you are doing it is well worth the effort. The one rule is - if in doubt DONT TOUCH. I guess you already know to not eat it, but to be sure that it is destroying angel it would have to have a ring on the stem and grow out of a vulva at the base. Mushrooms have been found to contain amazing cancer fighting compounds and have been a used by man for various purposes for thousands of years. On a more sinister note, it is believed that the death cap has been used to bump of old and unwanted relatives for centuries, odourless, tasteless and after the initial vomiting and diarrhoea most subjects seem to recover briefly, however the damage to the liver and kidneys is usually irrevocable. And evidence of the toxin is purged during the vomiting and diarrhoea stage.
Title: Re: mushroom find in the wifes flower garden
Post by: Buffalogobbler on June 05, 2013, 10:45:21 am
I have been foraging for wild mushrooms and plants for decades also, knowledge is the key, it's just like learning to identify trees, which make good bows and which don't, with mushrooms, which are edible and which are'nt.
There are many edible shrooms that are easy to identify and completely safe to eat with no risk of poisoning.

Kevin