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puddicat | 07:29 Thu 18th Sep 2008 | Food & Drink
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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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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 !!
On GMTV this morning they had an expert on to explain what to look for.

Since I live in central London, I am not gonna find many wild mushrooms, but even though, I am very wary of picking any fruit/mushroom that has grown wild and eat it!!!
I was watching it too funnygirl. I thought Andrew Castle was smirking slightly when that bloke kept talking about volva's ! Apparantly, that's the name of part of the stalk lol
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volvas or was it vulva lol!!!!
Ha ha !! That's what made me take notice but it was volva !!
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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".

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