help i know nothing.

[firebreather]

Help please I know nothing about mushrooms and when i was out walking the dogs i saw these and they looked like a shroom in my books but I cant find the book at the moment. Can somebody please Identify. So I can have them for my tea if that is possible.

I picked a couple as i saw a little old lady grabbing a load the other day.

I have to to clean out my kit as my books are in there somewhere.

Thanks in advance and s.orry if these are so obvious that they turn out to be a no brainer for people. Shrooms is something i really know nothing about.

Greg

 

[dave k]

Hi,
They look like inkcaps. You have to be tee-total to eat these, as if you drink withing 3 days of digesting them you'll have a very nasty reaction

I believe the only safe version of inkcaps to pick are the `shaggy` ones. I would however still not eat them as I'm not tee-total!

Also it's good to note down the location of the mushrooms. e.g. is it on grass, verge or woodland, types of trees etc. It all helps with the identification, as some speciese are specific to their environments.

 

[dwardo]

Hi,
They look like inkcaps. You have to be tee-total to eat these, as if you drink withing 3 days of digesting them you'll have a very nasty reaction

I believe the only safe version of inkcaps to pick are the `shaggy` ones. I would however still not eat them as I'm not tee-total!

Also it's good to note down the location of the mushrooms. e.g. is it on grass, verge or woodland, types of trees etc. It all helps with the identification, as some speciese are specific to their environments.

3 whole days without drinking ? Looks like ill never get to try one of those then.....

 

[xylaria]

they look like shaggy inkcaps Coprinus comatus. Supposedly only the C. atramentarius the common ink cap has an antibuse effect, but some books say differant. Personally i don't think either are much cop for eating. I don't drink much alcohol anyway. I advise anyone not to get to drunk after eating any unfamiliar foods as it hides poisoning symptoms.

You can eat them but as for a drink after I don't know. I have drunk 2 units (well it gets me drunk) the day after eating them and been fine.

Eat them quickly though they will turn to black mush overnight

 

[EdS]

Shaggy ink cap i'd say.

I quite like them - flash fry in butter or poached in milk. They need to be very fresh and no sign of black/ink.

You can definately drink with shaggys - go nice with a glass of white wine.

 

[xylaria]

You can definately drink with shaggys - go nice with a glass of white wine.

If you need help swallowing something the texture of squid but with less taste.

 

[commandocal]

i really dont see you can be that desperate to eat Shrroooooms, but if you are give them to the dog next time and wait an hour if the dog is still moving eat them, if the poor thing isnt - eat the dog, Works well for me after a few dogs you can make a bone stool, See productivity let nothing go to waste! , i should teach this stuff to schools

 

[spamel]

Does your dog actually eat mushrooms? i only ask as I heard that dogs don't eat them.

 

[commandocal]

He has no choice.....He knows what happened to his brother when he refused.

 

[decorum]

Ours will eat just about anything - the smellier the better :yikes: . I'll continue to refrain from eating poochies too if you end up with bone stools :aargh4:

 

[commandocal]

Taste like steak with a texture of liver yummeh doggy

 

[firebreather]

Cheers for the help. By the time i got home they had started to turn so i ended up binning them anyway.
Greg

 

[stardust]

I picked something almost identical to these and thought vaguely about eating them, but they also started to turn by the time I got them home.

Maybe they are only ment to be eaten if they are growing on your doorstep at the exact moment you're hungry, so you can cook them straight out the ground.

 

[spamel]

May be worth chucking the remnants on your garden, you never know what may happen!

 

[xylaria]

May be worth chucking the remnants on your garden, you never know what may happen!

Coprinus species are whats called copraphillious fungi and need nice warm scat to germinate the spore.