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KirinChris

  • Joined Apr 2022
  • Bishop Auckland, Durham
Mushrooms
« on: October 02, 2022, 06:48:26 pm »
There are quite a few mushroom patches in our fields.

One group of field mushrooms which I managed to identify and eat without ill effect.

But there are several others. I suspect they are not edible and I’m not going to try but would be interested to know what they are please.


SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Mushrooms
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2022, 07:44:06 pm »
The second one looks like a puffball but you need to be sure!  (If it is, cut the top 2/3 off, leave the fruiting layer in situ to set spores.)

I suspect all the others will make you very ill indeed.  As Terry Pratchet said, "All fungi are edible.  Some of them only once." 
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

KirinChris

  • Joined Apr 2022
  • Bishop Auckland, Durham
Re: Mushrooms
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2022, 06:09:42 am »
Yes I think they are puffballs. Are they OK.

A couple of sites I looked at said anything with white gills was probably not good.

And the red ones, well yeah - just they look like something from a childrens story book illustration.

 

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