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The Health and Safety mentality clearly reigns but my motivation was more along the lines of giving someone who perhaps picks mushrooms (very few of whom would refer to themselves as experts but they still pick them, usually sticking to familiar types with just the odd foray into something new) a chance to comment - I simply want to find out if anyone knows a similar and harmful mushroom because my book does not mention one. All I want is to invite the advice of someone knowledgeable, if AB harbours such an individual. I already know a few harmful fungi are to be found and there are certain mushrooms that exist whereby it is difficult to tell the really good ones from the almost identical really bad ones. Unfortunately, I have yet to find a book that lists edible fungi and contrasts them with those "not to be confused with" harmful or simply inedible ones. The books mostly seem to be a botanist's type of species collection rather than a truly useful practical guide - to me fungi are first and foremost of interest for eating. Perhaps know of a good book then ?