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Are these people daft????
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Why do people go wild mushrooms picking, not knowing what type of funghi they are, a woman in a fourties has died, and another is seriously ill, apparently they ate death caps, which are very toxic, why take the risk!!!!
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.We pick mushrooms out of the field and eat them but I wouldn't dare eat anything that I wasn't familiar with. The mushrooms that these women ate looked strange and were not your average looking mushroom so I don't know why they did it. My motto is : Always try them out on your hubby first lol.
Joke !!
Joke !!
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I bought one of the Chancellor Press Country Guide books on Fungi from a discount book store for a couple of pounds. It`s one of a series on birds, trees here is & wild flowers. It has illustrations of all fungi found in Britain & Northern Europe with extensive descriptions of characteristics, habitat, similar species & most importantly, wether they`re edible or poisonous. Having read it, I`m still very wary, as some good ones are very similar to the toxic ones, & as the author points out there is no hard & fast rule applying to all fungi regarding edibility. There is no substitute, he states for careful study of characteristics & habit. It`s not a large book, so can be taken easily "in the field".