Which edible fungi

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

My dilema with the foraying edible scenario is that i just find them so naturaly artistic and wonderful, to take them and eat them would be a form of blasphemy or sacrilige.

 

Though having experienced first hand just how good it can be, i do fully appreciate why the europeans do it as though the woods where the supermarket.

 

we brits are a paranoid bunch of freaks who think meat comes as pink stuff wrapped in plastic and was NEVER a sweet faced lambikin! as for going into the woods and picking a wild shroom, heaven forbid no!

[Mesterh]

The apple scene from the John Travolta film Phenomenon would be quite fitting.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

is that the film where he has some sort of tumour that makes him super inteligent?

[Graham]

I poisoned myself when I was 18. Violently sick, convulsions and muscle spasms which lasted a day.

 

Picked a bag full of field mushrooms which my mom cooked for my tea. Never found out what was mixed in with them but it took me many years before I regained the confidence to pick and eat field mushies again.

[Mesterh]

is that the film where he has some sort of tumour that makes him super inteligent?

 

That's the one, quite a good film.

[Bob Rolfe]

My dilema with the foraying edible scenario is that i just find them so naturaly artistic and wonderful, to take them and eat them would be a form of blasphemy or sacrilige.

 

Though having experienced first hand just how good it can be, i do fully appreciate why the europeans do it as though the woods where the supermarket.

 

we brits are a paranoid bunch of freaks who think meat comes as pink stuff wrapped in plastic and was NEVER a sweet faced lambikin! as for going into the woods and picking a wild shroom, heaven forbid no!

 

We Brits have an in built nervousness where fungi are concerned ..I believe it dates back to pagans and Druids where fungi were given to the villagers namely psilocybes and and amanita which evoke hallucinating properties so the Druids propagated the story all fungi were under the control of the Druids which use them for tree own purpose

[combined tree services]

When i was at Merrist Wood one of the tutors was telling us how you can eat Beaf stake fungi !! so he devoured this lump of fungi and proceded to vimmit violently and was not seen for the rest of the week !!! come to find it was not beaf steak at all !!!!!! lmfao

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

When i was at Merrist Wood one of the tutors was telling us how you can eat Beaf stake fungi !! so he devoured this lump of fungi and proceded to vimmit violently and was not seen for the rest of the week !!! come to find it was not beaf steak at all !!!!!! lmfao

 

Yes, whilst there are many edible fungi, far more than toxic ones in fact its only a select few which are REALY worth the trouble!

 

Good example set by that tutor! Lucky it wasnt worse.

[David Humphries]

Going to have a scout about for some tasty mushrooms after seeing the thread on chicken of the woods.

 

Just wondering what types there are growing this time of year.

 

Any ideas?

 

 

Not this one

 

Laetiporus on Yew

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Not this one

 

Laetiporus on Yew

 

 

 

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good addition to the thread David:thumbup1: