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Thought you guys might enjoy this thread:

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=425239

I'm currently uploading other photos I took of fungii and animals. When those are done I'll post the links here. You guys might be interested in the photos and maybe could help me identify what I'm looking at as well. :)

EDIT: Here are the additional photos...

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I see online it says it's edible. Think it'd be safe for me to try out? Here's another photo, thanks for naming it for me. :)

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My take on mushrooms and fungi, they have next to nothing for food value and if you get it wrong they can kill you dead.

A family friend had a guy working on her house. He asked if he could pick the mushrooms he found out back, he seemed to know his stuff, so she said sure. He came back the next day said they were delicious, picked more. She asked him to pick her some and she would try them. That night she and her husband had them over steaks. They were great, he felt fine, she fell into a coma. It turns out she had a martini and he didn't. The alcohol dissolved something out of the shrooms that almost killed her.

It seems every edible mushroom has an evil twin that looks just like it. I won't even consider then for "survival". At best they're a condiment anyway.

Link and some quotes

http://www.mykoweb.com/cookbook/part_4.html

"What about the food value of mushrooms? Ninety percent of their weight is water. They are low in calories, but high in roughage. Some yellow and orange mushrooms, such as chanterelles, provide Vitamin A in the form of carotene. B vitamins are present, but not Vitamin C. Not much fat or carbohydrate is found. Mushrooms do not form starches. They do contain minerals such as potassium and magnesium, but not much sodium."

"Everyone is aware that often there are poisonous mushrooms growing among the edible ones, yet one or more people are poisoned every year, mostly as a result of carelessness. Remember this: the fact that you might have collected and eaten mushrooms from the same spot for the last twenty years does not in any way preclude the appearance of poisonous varieties in that area at any time. Do not eat any mushroom unless you are absolutely positive of its identity."

No fat, low carb, low cal, potentially deadly poison. Even if you get it right you don't win big. They seem like a huge gamble and I'm always surprised to see them in survival books. Be careful. Mac
 
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My take on mushrooms and fungi, they have next to nothing for food value and if you get it wrong they can kill you dead.
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My feeling has always been, I don't eat anything that's related to Athlete's Foot and Crotch Rot. :(

Make good coal extenders, though (Inonotus obliquus and Fomes fomentarius).

Doc
 
Different people can have vastly different reactions to mushrooms. My mother got violently ill after eating some odd ball variety of mushroom in an upscale restaurant. My step father ordered the exact same dish and suffered no effects whatsoever.
 
I'm probably going to go back and collect a small amount of it and play around with it some. Not sure that I'll eat it, but I'll boil it in water and see how it smells and reacts to being cooked and just take a good look at it in general. It's an extremely interesting looking thing. I've always stayed away from eating wild mushrooms because like you've said, they are quite a gamble.
 
I once asked a university professor, the leading authority on fungii in Ohio, about the wisdom of eating items collected in the wild. He said he would never do it. He also pointed out that there is a relatively high rate of violent allergic reactions to fungii which are otherwise "safe" to eat.

Sounds like poor poker to eat them in any situation, much less a survival situation.
 
Up here in northern New York, we get one that is quite safe, called a 'puff ball.' They grow from the size of a small golf ball to the size of a foot ball. I've sliced them into 'steaks' and sauteed them in butter. Not bad, but not satisfying as a meal by themselves. I agree, mushrooms are a condiment at best, not a vegetable I would survive on.

There's a theory that mushroom spores are something that landed on earth from outer space ;) Think about that.
 
Vivi said:
I see online it says it's edible. Think it'd be safe for me to try out? Here's another photo, thanks for naming it for me. :)

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Well, it's good to see that everyone who posted on this thread has a healthy respect for the seriousness of harvesting wild mushrooms. If you screw up, you'll either be sick, need a new liver, or die.

But let me assure you, hericium erinaceous is pretty damn hard to mis-identify. There just isn't another mushroom out there that looks like white icicles.

Lion's mane (hericium erinaceous) is delicious! Saute it lightly in butter, just a pinch of salt for taste. I used to grow it as a mushroom farmer and it was one of my favorites...

If you have access to that log, visit it after a cool rainy spell. The log is inoculated with the mycelium of the Lion's mane and will repeatedly produce a fruit body periodically until it has consumed the log as food.
 
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Those are great to move an ember around:
once they have caught the ember, they'll slowly burn for about an hour, even in full blowing wing.

If you have those dried for a while, top "hairs" can even catch a swedish fire steel spark... and then burn for about an hour.

All that without any complicated preparation.
 
Thanks for those tips, I'll experiment with them at some point.

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Anyone have info on this berry? As you can see, goes from a green stage with lines on the sides like a pumpkin, then fattens out into a blackish / purple colored berry.
 
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Thanks for those tips, I'll experiment with them at some point.

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Anyone have info on this berry? As you can see, goes from a green stage with lines on the sides like a pumpkin, then fattens out into a blackish / purple colored berry.
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ummmmmm i think its black po or hocash or pokeweed it i belive is poisoness but it makes a damn good dye
 
Yes, it is "Poke Salet". A mature plant, and the berries and leaves, stems are mildly poisonous in this mature plant. Mark the spot somehow, and in the spring new shoots will appear. They are edible until the stalk and leaf veins begin to streak with red. The young terminal buds are best, tenderest. Poke usually comes up in old burns and fencerows. Sometimes a fall crop of new sprouts will appear here. And old folks called it "inkberry", because it made a substitute for writing ink.

Codger
 
I like my poke scrambled in eggs with pepper sauce on top, just remember to boil it once and throw the water out, and don't eat the berries at all. Chris
 
Alright. If the berries make good dye, would I be able to crush them up and paint with them using my bare hands, or would the skin contact be enough to cause effects in me?
 
probably not the lethal dose could absorb through the skin but the ammounts required i belive are massive so you could get sick just not deathly ill but if you do just remember to wasgh your hands before doing anything else when you finish with the dye
 
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