Mmmmmmm! Went out this morning and within five minutes had collected a huge pocketful of mushrooms from the field behind my house.

Came back and sauteed them with butter and a little salt and pepper. Had them on toast with a fried egg.

The bounty of a mild autumn. I have never seen so many mushrooms.

Does anyone else here collect them? I only collect the boringly safe big fat white ones.

 

We have a little patch of wild mushrooms. Shame I can't stand them

 

If they were magic ones I would be pleased for everyone!

 

Mushrooms are satan's steaming turds

 

Can't beat them for taste.

Les

 

I love shrooms, grilled with garlic butter.

 

If I knew what to pick I would take advantage of living in a semi rural village, However I get visions of me and the lovely Mrs Winner tripping our eyes out after picking the wrong ones.

 

there are some in my garden but the dog pisses on them so id emagine they are pretty in edable lol

 

 

Be careful. An old w*rk colleague I knew picked some once and had quite a scare. He regained enough consciousness to dial 999 and babble incomprehensibly before passing out again. The Plod had to break his door in and the ambulance crew revived him twice en-route. He died twice more in the hospital whilst they identified which mushrooms he'd consumed and it took him another 2 weeks to get right. There are 20 deadly species in this country, and some are almost visually identical to safe shrooms.

 

Maybe you should lay off them then, seeing things ain't good you know?

 

There are plenty that will make you ill. There are analogues between edible and toxic ones as well - however these are typically the more obscure ones. That is why I stick to the big fat white ones.

There were some more already this evening when I walked the dog.

There are also a lot more of the 'brown' ones that are a lot more risky unless you really know what you are doing.

 

Deep fried in batter with Garlic and dipped in mayonaise is the way these beauties should be eating

 

Those little brown ones are probably liberty caps. Mildy hallucenogenic and grown everywhere. Google it.

 

This type of mushroom is the high risk to the uninitiated.

There are several similar to this. Some mild, some toxic!

 

I love mushrooms, but i'd never pick them myself. Look at these innocent little ones, for example;




Look ok don't they. But no, that's your lovely Amanita phalloides, or "death cap" to most people. One of the most toxic plants in the world. No known antidode, and it dissolves your liver from the inside out, even after the initial vomiting and apparent recovery from its digestion. Growing happily under trees around the UK. Be careful!!

 

I found some growing in our back garden at the weekend but wouldn't be brave enough to eat them in case they made me sick

I'll just stick to picking them from the shops them I'm sure of what I'm getting

windyboy

 

Normal field mushrooms are easy to identify and they do taste good.

Les

 

Are they the ones aka "Death Cap" and "The avenging angel"?

 

I think you mean the Destroying Angel?





Same family as the Death Cap, just one notch down on the nastiness scale.

 

We've just had a load of them pop up in the back garden, large brown type.

I was going to mow them to death but is there any better way of ensuring they don't pop up again?

 

We've had a bumper harvest of Wood Blewits in the woods over the road.
Yum Yum!
No mistaking them, They're lilac coloured and smell of Apricots.
We had Parasols a few weeks ago. Giant shaggy things that fill a large frying pan by themselves (with bacon underneath of course).
Don't try this at home, children!

 

The ones I have picking look just like this - and cleverly they do seem to grow more amongst the clumps of grass where I can't see them. When they are super fresh they have pink gills, fading to black if you leave them overnight.

They need to be picked first thing as they get maggoty very quickly. You can tell when you pull the stalk off if it looks 'pin pricked' underneath.

 

This wet weather is a boon - there have been loads of mushrooms this week. I could not believe how many I found this evening when walking the dogs.

Unfortunately my dog has developed a taste for them and can find them a lot faster than I can so I have to keep my eyes peeled to see if I can beat him to it!

 

So glad I don't eat fungi when I read some of the stories on here

 

Anyone looking for a good book on this subject, I strongly recommend "Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain and Europe" by Roger Phillips (ISBN 0 330 26441 9). It's a bit pricey compared with some of the other tomes available, but about as thorough and well-illustrated an encyclopedia of mushrooms you could possibly hope to find. It's never failed me when I've brought a variety home that I've never seen before, or if I wasn't quite sure about something I only thought I recognized.

 

Mushroom picking is dangerous! http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news...-1225911944360

 

Fortunately there are no rocky crevasses in my field

 

Field mushrooms are easy to identify once you have seen one and are very nice.

Les