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Mushroom Guides (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Don't go by any general rules. If you are unsure, take it home and sit down with your mushroom guide book and go through all the ways of identifying it and separating it from similar species until you are sure, or you give up and throw it away.

Just off the cuff here are a couple of examples that violate the advice given above, golden chanterelle is very spicy but perfectly edible; gyromitra esculenta ("false morel") does not have lamelles, is supposed to be mildly flavoured, but is deadly toxic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

And at the end of the day, if you have separated it but you're STILL not sure, throw it out. Not having mushrooms is preferable to being a corpse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yes but a morel does not have a porous underside, hence I'd be careful anyway. As for chanterelles, I feel like you don't really have much room to mistake it for something else. However it's been sometime since I went into the woods and I've always disliked the English naming for mushrooms and basically don't know any in English