Wild Mushrooms

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Malarkey

@Malarkey

@Julio_Geordio

How do you know if a mushroom is magic or just a disappointing tasteless fungus?

Jaysus, sin é tough one. But, first and foremost: never ever eat a mushroom about which you are not a million per cent.

I am not interested in magic mushrooms whatsoever. Other lads can give their tuppence.

There are books. But, short answer: you have to grow up with mushrooms – same as with a lot of other things. You learn more from your parents in one walk than ever from a book. Still, some books – and YouTube, increasingly – are not to be scorned.

I do not think you can confuse (delicious) field mushrooms with too much else – and not readily with poisonous items. The pink gills – running to brown as they age – are significant.

The main problem is a yoke called ‘yellow stainer’. I bring a penknife to snick stalks in the field, which eliminates a yellow stainer on the rare occasion I have run across them:

Yellow Stainer

That said, someone once gave me a package of mushrooms – later realized to include yellow stainers. As I fried the package’s contents, the smell of ink and muted urine – yellow stainers’ signature when cooked – was unignorable. Had to throw out the whole lot – still more acutely annoying because 2017 was a poor summer for mushrooms.

But this thread is not for such advice…

This post.

Found these lovely looking mushrooms under a tree in Waterford. Closer inspection revealed them to be yellow stainers as per the above post. Sadly confirmed my prejudices about the wisdom of eating wild mushrooms but thanks for the heads up in any event as otherwise I would have been tempted to cook them and feed them to the nephew.

[balbec]

Over hear you’d here of the odd person ending up with kidney or liver failure after eating some wild ones. Picking them is a national pastime here

[flattythehurdler]

@balbec

Over hear you’d here of the odd person ending up with kidney or liver failure after eating some wild ones

Disturbs grammar too

[balbec]

Meant to change that actually but you get my drift

[Malarkey]

@Fagan_ODowd

@Malarkey

@Malarkey

@Julio_Geordio

How do you know if a mushroom is magic or just a disappointing tasteless fungus?

Jaysus, sin é tough one. But, first and foremost: never ever eat a mushroom about which you are not a million per cent.

I am not interested in magic mushrooms whatsoever. Other lads can give their tuppence.

There are books. But, short answer: you have to grow up with mushrooms – same as with a lot of other things. You learn more from your parents in one walk than ever from a book. Still, some books – and YouTube, increasingly – are not to be scorned.

I do not think you can confuse (delicious) field mushrooms with too much else – and not readily with poisonous items. The pink gills – running to brown as they age – are significant.

The main problem is a yoke called ‘yellow stainer’. I bring a penknife to snick stalks in the field, which eliminates a yellow stainer on the rare occasion I have run across them:

Yellow Stainer (Agaricus xanthodermus) - YouTube

That said, someone once gave me a package of mushrooms – later realized to include yellow stainers. As I fried the package’s contents, the smell of ink and muted urine – yellow stainers’ signature when cooked – was unignorable. Had to throw out the whole lot – still more acutely annoying because 2017 was a poor summer for mushrooms.

But this thread is not for such advice…

This post.

Found these lovely looking mushrooms under a tree in Waterford. Closer inspection revealed them to be yellow stainers as per the above post. Sadly confirmed my prejudices about the wisdom of eating wild mushrooms but thanks for the heads up in any event as otherwise I would have been tempted to cook them and feed them to the nephew.

No bother…

I have rarely enough run across a yellow stainer and can usually tell one from looking at it, because they tend to have sort of scrunched gills. But those ones you picked are, to the eye, really like field mushrooms.

You would have known as well by the smell on the pan. They give off a horrible odour.

[Tassotti]

[Tassotti]

[Tassotti]

North Clare has the finest mushrooms in Ireland

[habanerocat]

@balbec

Over hear you’d here of the odd person ending up with kidney or liver failure after eating some wild ones. Picking them is a national pastime here

Ah, they’d be all over Cratloe Woods this time of year. And they’re not afraid to go off the beaten track to get their quarry. Buckets full of every colour and shape fungus they’d have.

[flattythehurdler]

That’s loose talk considering its cratloe woods

[habanerocat]

Mistake

[habanerocat]

@flattythehurdler

That’s loose talk considering its cratloe woods

What’s up with Cratloe Woods?

[flattythehurdler]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/four-boys-jailed-for-31-years-for-co-clare-rape-1.986389%3Fmode%3Damp&ved=2ahUKEwimlNHqt7HyAhUfhv0HHYVmATwQFnoECAUQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0S5jVYPeRE1TPXhGCiF4cB

[habanerocat]

2004. Nice while ago now.

We can guess what the couple were doing up there at 2am, but what the four boys were doing up there God only knows. It’s not exactly a place you’d be passing by.

Generally it’d be the last place you’d expect trouble.

[glenshane]

Early enough I suppose

[TheBird]

Magic Mushroom Map

[flattythehurdler]

They don’t look like magics to me.

[glenshane]

No wonder the space elves are laughing at me

[ironmoth]

Had a wild mushroom pizza at lunchtime. I’ve been staring out the window at beautiful shades of purple streaking across the sky since then.

[glenshane]

That looks outstanding