Is the mushroom poisonous?

drunkmonkey

Not sure what it is but plenty in the garden..

magicbastarder

golden rule - if in any doubt, don't attempt to eat it.

Bigus

magicbastarder wrote: »

golden rule - if in any doubt, don't attempt to eat it.

Yeah a friend of mine lost both kidneys over the wrong mushrooms.

Velvet shank

Brown roll rim, Paxillus involutus. I'm guessing you have some Birch trees nearby? it's poisonous, potentially deadly

padraig.od

Velvet shank wrote: »

Brown roll rim, Paxillus involutus. I'm guessing you have some Birch trees nearby? it's poisonous, potentially deadly

Is there an online guide for identifying mushrooms? We have a couple sprouting in the lawn currently and I'd like to know what type they are

evolving_doors

padraig.od wrote: »

Is there an online guide for identifying mushrooms? We have a couple sprouting in the lawn currently and I'd like to know what type they are

I wouldn't mess about relying on an online picture. There are just too many similar variants.

padraig.od

evolving_doors wrote: »

I wouldn't mess about relying on an online picture. There are just too many similar variants.

I'm not looking at messing about with them, just wondering how concerned I should be of one of the kids eating some. I pick one when it I see it currently but I can't walk the entire lawn every morning hunting mushrooms.

drunkmonkey

Velvet shank wrote: »

Brown roll rim, Paxillus involutus. I'm guessing you have some Birch trees nearby? it's poisonous, potentially deadly

Thanks, Yea i've 3 mature birch close to them, there growing a lot near a maple tree.
Can they poison just by touch as in lets say the kids pulled them up and then ate without washing their hands could they poison themselves.

Hocus Focus

Here is a link to an online guide that I found reliable in the past. The pictures are of sufficiently high definition .....depends on your device how clearly you see them.
http://www.wildfooduk.com/mushroom-guides/

Cordell

Some mushroom poisonings will show the first symptoms when it's already too late for anything to be done. And remember, all mushrooms are edible, but some only once.

padraig.od

Hocus Focus wrote: »

Here is a link to an online guide that I found reliable in the past. The pictures are of sufficiently high definition .....depends on your device how clearly you see them.
http://www.wildfooduk.com/mushroom-guides/

Thanks

padraig.od

padraig.od wrote: »

Thanks

I have attached pictures of two varieties that I found in the garden. I can't find either of them on the list. I suspect I know what the first one might be. I have no intention of consuming anything!

Can anyone confirm what they are?

padraig.od

padraig.od wrote: »

I have attached pictures of two varieties that I found in the garden. I can't find either of them on the list. I suspect I know what the first one might be. I have no intention of consuming anything!

Can anyone confirm what they are?

This is the final variety I found. It is more yellow than the others and has a much different shape.

CJhaughey

The last three look like psilocybin muchrooms, also known as magic mushrooms.
I would definately not recommend consumption.
Fungi are a fascinating field but not good for experimentation.
In France you can bring any mushrooms you pick to a pharmacist and they will tell you if they are edible or not, the issue is when you mix edible and non edible mushrooms together, it takes very little to accidentally eat some toxic mushroom and cause damage.

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Wrong season for magic mushies and there is a common poisonous mushroom that looks a lot like them - and a lot like your pics.

The only way to know for absolutely sure is to look at a spore print under a microscope.

Even experts can be fooled on just looking at the mushroom itself.

magicbastarder

a not so salutary tale:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmmk3RCz6SI

listermint

magicbastarder wrote: »

a not so salutary tale:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmmk3RCz6SI

Its better because of the soft matter of fact way he told it

padraig.od

Thanks everyone. I won't be consuming anything.

RiderOnTheStorm

Its very hard to identify a mushroom (in the hand) by looking at pictures in a book (or online). I got a field guide as a present many moons ago, and it said the best way was to follow a "key". This Key is a series of straightforward questions, like Does it have gills? Is it open or closed? What colour spores does it leave on a sheet of paper? And each question links to another, gradually narrowing it down until you have just 1 or 2 or 3 possibilities and only then you look at the pictures.

I am sure there must be Keys online, but dont have time to find a good one.

Graces7

think I'll stick with supervalu..;)

Although not too any years ago we would gather wild mushrooms in abundance ..

standardg60

Quite fascinating how the toxicity of some mushrooms is only brought on by alcohol consumption.

If it had happened in America Guinness would have been sued for millions!

Gloomtastic!

All mushrooms are edible, some of them only once. :rolleyes:

standardg60

Gloomtastic! wrote: »

All mushrooms are edible, some of them only once. :rolleyes:

Ah Gloomtastic you'll have to pay more attention, you were beaten to that quote a while back:)

beertons

You should see some of the ones my friend foraged in the Curragh.

standardg60

Do you have any recollection of your 'friend' before the forage?

beertons

standardg60 wrote: »

Do you have any recollection of your 'friend' before the forage?

He's still going. He gave them to his cousin, she made a tea with some of them and passed on the rest to her hippy friends. I go to tesco/aldi if I fancy mushrooms.

standardg60

beertons wrote: »

He's still going. He gave them to his cousin, she made a tea with some of them and passed on the rest to her hippy friends. I go to tesco/aldi if I fancy mushrooms.

Lol your use of the phrase 'passed on' might be quite appropriate here!

I meant that it was actually you who was foraging and your 'friend' appeared soon after:). Damn jokes never work through text!

beertons

I wouldn't know where to look. The Curragh is massive. I'm more of a coffee man anyway!

standardg60

I give up.

beertons

standardg60 wrote: »

I give up.

My bad. Sober 2 weeks. I'm kinda losing my mojo.

standardg60

beertons wrote: »

My bad. Sober 2 weeks. I'm kinda losing my mojo.

Stick with it, gave it up for six months last year (i'm due another break), after a month you realise that it is 99% habit and its easy then.

The getting of the jokes comes back!

Roen

Roger Phillips app is very dated now but emulates a 'key' quite well by allowing you to narrow down the options.
The photos could do with a serious overhaul. They weren't great when I got my first phone and that was about 8 years ago.
That said there's no substitute for hands on expertise.

I know one lad who lost a kidney by eating the wrong mushrooms. Had a severely impacted lifestyle and diet since the 80s.