Bad Mushrooms

That sucks. I try to avoid any white mushroom.

I think this is one of the bad ones.

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Its good to hear they will be ok.
There is a few good spots for mushrooms around there that are quite popular with locals.
I used to live about 30 mins from Forres :thumbup:
 
I stick to the few mushrooms that I know well. I can find so many of them that I don't need to experiment.
 
I gotta say if you go around eating mushrooms you "think" are safe you're asking for trouble. There is a whole lot more to identifying a mushroom that it's general appearance. I have a hard time feeling sorry for people that eat unidentified mushrooms.
 
I think that you need to absolutely positively ID something before you eat it.

Also a person can be sensitive to edible fungi or plants and anything you try for the first time you should eat near home and in small quantities.:thumbup:
 
There are lots of nasty compounds out there you don't want in your system. Like Orellanine for example. It can take three to fourteen days before symptoms appear and causes kidney and liver failure.

Coprine is another nasty one. It's an amino acid that blocks the mechanism that breaks down alcohol in the body. Consumption of alcohol as long as five days after consumption can cause accumulation of acetaldehyde in the body.

Anyone willing to gamble with these compounds isn't playing with a full deck.
 
I mainly search for Boletus edulis, Boletus badius, Leccinum aurantiacum (rare!) and Cantharellus cibarius.
There is no poisonous mushroom around that looks anything like these. They're easy to identify and there is only the non-poisonous false chanterellus and the Tylopilus felleus which looks almost like the Boletus edulis but which is also no-poisonous, it just has a disgusting taste that ruins the whole meal. But they have characteristics that make them very very easy to identify if you know them (pink tones and a very rough structure which the Boletus edulis NEVER has).

Finally it's mushroom season again and I spend much time in the forests at this time of the year. :)
 
Mushrooms aren't bad or good. Idiots are.
 
When i was in acadia there was a lady in the woods picking up every mushroom she saw and tasting it. That is a darwin winner right there.
 
i too have been poisend by a mushroom. i was living in florida at the time, i picked a few mushrooms that i swore were of a particular species that i ate before. I used to pick alot of shrooms and do spore prints and learn as much as i could. the next day after i ate the mushroom i was in the hospital. they could not identify the mushroom because there was no sample and my details fit too many descriptions. well for 3 days i was vomiting with severe diarhea. i felt like it was the end but i made it---taught me a lesson. it still kinda scary to think you positively indentified something and then that something be dead wrong. mark
 
Like my dad always use to say. Its not what you don't know that gets you in trouble. It's what you know that ain't so.

There are 3 mushrooms that I can identify and 2 are from the puffball category. They are the only ones I eat. If someone want to try one I only let them have a small piece to start. Even edible mushrooms in different countries can give people problems from what I have read. Fortunetly most mushrooms won't kill you but they can make you very sick. But there are some that can kill you, no question.

The other thing to remember is that mushrooms have very, very little nutrional value so eating them is not going to save your life so it certainly is not worth risking.

Keith
 
There are old mushroom eaters and bold mushroom eaters, but there are no old, bold mushroom eaters. Or so the saying goes...
 
Mushrooms have so little food value why bother. Of course I don't even care for the ones that come in a can.
 
I ate a large quantity of bad mushrooms one night. I forgot my name and was marching in a circle in my house yelling at a thunderstorm...oh...wait
 
Waitaminnit Mr. Toad. Sauteed mushrooms with finely chopped onions is an amazing taste sensation. One of my favorite things in the world. To each his own...
 
I've heard too many stories about people eating wild mushrooms and getting ill to even dare try one. On the other hand, I agree with PB that sauteed mushrooms with minced onions are quite good :)
 
HornyToad said:
Mushrooms have so little food value why bother.
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The ones I collect cost a fortune in a restaurant. They're a delicacy. Who cares about their food value? We use mushrooms mainly to make sauce for meat. Or we fry them in a pan with onions and eat them on toast.

And if you believe it or not, some sorts are totally safe to identify and eat. The sorts that I collect can't only be identified with 99,999% but with 100% certainty. Mushrooms are tree specific, every mushroom has it's own smell and last but not least they all have their own optical characteristics, like becoming blue when you cut them for example.
Also, they grow every year at the same place. The real fungus lives around the roots of the tree, the mushrooms are only it's fruits that release their spores.
 
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