Re: Weed


'Sacha[_3_ Wrote:
;814716']Well, to be honest, they've been collecting fungi for some time
by some
accounts. Some of them have spent years collecting mushrooms on NE's
brother in law's Scottish estate. All thought they knew what they
were
picking and all have been extremely ill. Just in case you haven't seen
the
papers: http://tinyurl.com/59n23k
The stories suggested that they had eaten some rare Cortinarius spp as
a mistake for chanterelles. As an expert said, it is a very odd mistake
to make. So they may have picked fungi often, but apparently without
knowing very much about what they were doing.

Given the known risks in mushroom collecting, it would be an unusual
person who thought to carry it out without the basics of being able to
distinguish what they are collecting from known poisonous species of
some similarity. For example, if we are picking mushrooms, we need to
know how not to pick death caps in error. Likewise, with chanterelles,
we need to know enough so as not to pick false chanterelles; but a
Cortinarius would be even less like a chanterelle than a false
chanterelle. Interestingly, they did discover that hard-to-find piece
of information, that the particular rare Cortinarius, although very
poisonous, is very tasty. Death caps are also very tasty: we know this
because they are fairly common and occasionally masquerade as field
mushrooms, so are the most commonly eaten fatal species.




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