URGENT bushmoot deathcap

[xylaria]

I need pictures of the amanita that was at the summer bushmoot.

You know I said at the that deathcaps don't grow on poor sandy soils well the amanita dunensis does not grow in britian.

A mycologist at bridgend needs to see some pictures, and I could do with GPS of at least the fire circle or preferably the spot.

It is highly likely that they have expired at the location so no definite ID will be made this year. But the sooner I get information to him the better.

 

[seany boy]

Hi Xylaria,

don't know if this is culprit.......

Pic is from Biddlesby's post in the out and about forum...

"some photo's from the moot"

(hope it was ok to borrow your pic Biddlesby, i should have asked first )

 

[xylaria]

Yes thank you seany boy.

I will pm biddlesby and say why I need the photo.

if there are any more out there I would be grateful. Especially if they are fully opened up.

 

[Gailainne]

Fiona

heres a link to all the photos I took at the moot including that weird golfball one JP found

http://s161.photobucket.com/albums/t213/Gailainne/2007Moot/

Hope they can help.

Regards

Stephen

 

[spamel]

The Mushroom Lady after a heavy night drinking!

Edit: Can anybody ID the legs behind? I'm pretty sure I know who it is and I wasn't even at the bushmoot! Begins with a G!

 

[Gailainne]

Spam your bad, here was I responding to a lady in distress, and what do you do ? take the p*ss, shame mate, I think a tshk tshk is in order, sorry but there it is.



Stephen

 

[xylaria]

Thank you Gailainne, one of the piccys is just perfect as it shows the cap splitting and ring gone.

SPAMEL I WILL GET YOU LATER:twak:

I am not photogenic

 

[Goose]

Spam I think you better be careful what you eat next time at Delamere!:AR15firin
Fiona, what effect does Birch polypore have on the body?

 

[Toddy]

Actually you can chew slices of that one as a kind of anti hunger aid......and I get a green dye from it

cheers,
Toddy

 

[Goose]

Actually you can chew slices of that one as a kind of anti hunger aid......and I get a green dye from it

cheers,
Toddy

I thought it was a laxative

But Austrian microbiologists have identified the lumps as the fruit of the
birch fungus, Piptoporus betulinus, which is common in alpine and other
cold environments. If the fungus is ingested, it can bring on short bouts of
diarrhea. It also contains oils that are toxic to certain parasitic bacteria,
thus acting as a form of nature's own antibiotics.

From, http://www.newnation.org/NCR/reference/NCR-iceman.html

 

[Toddy]

I suppose it depends on how hungry you are. I've eaten it and had no side effects but it's like chewing, well what I *imagine* polystyrene would be like.

http://www.mushroomexpert.com/piptoporus_betulinus.html

Sometimes I think it'd be really intersting to have quantities mentioned on these sort of things.

cheers,
Toddy

 

[xylaria]

Birch polypore tastes like cotton wool soaked in TCP to me with a persitant bitter taste. I have given to others and there appears to be some people that can't taste anything at all. No bitter or chemical taste. I found it can cures a sore throat and clears a blocked nose. As Toddy said toxic effects are alot to do with dosage. I have no idea how much you have injest to get the runs, but I know I can't eat it.

 

[PJMCBear]

Fiona

heres a link to all the photos I took at the moot including that weird golfball one JP found

That would be PJ, Stevie :twak: , and I still haven't found out what it was.

 

[Gailainne]

That would be PJ, Stevie :twak: , and I still haven't found out what it was.

S0RRY Paul :sulkoff: but "Stevie" thats uncalled for

Now Fiona has the photo maybe she can identify it.

Stephen

 

[Toddy]

Birch polypore tastes like cotton wool soaked in TCP to me with a persitant bitter taste. I have given to others and there appears to be some people that can't taste anything at all. No bitter or chemical taste. I found it can cures a sore throat and clears a blocked nose. As Toddy said toxic effects are alot to do with dosage. I have no idea how much you have injest to get the runs, but I know I can't eat it.

I don't have much of a problem with bitter and neither does one of my sons, but the other looks in appalled horror at some of the things Jamie and I find palatable. I have a really good sense of smell and I find that this fungus is one that smells differently depending on where it's been collected. The local ones smell of mushroom, those gathered in Perthshire are defintely TCP smelling.
I've chewed on it a few times, and it does seem to kill off an incipient sore throat ....that was one inner slice about 5mm thick, maybe 7 or 8 cm long and 3cm deep, if that's of any help.....definitely not one to be eating much of, I know I struggled to swallow it.
I did try a very young one, smaller than a golfball, better texture but again no urge to swallow.....you know that feeling that this is okay as food? Well, this one doesn't give any of that.

cheers,
Toddy....whio wishes she lived nearer some folks to go walkabout

 

[xylaria]

The weird golfball looks like a sparassis crispa or cauliflower fungus that had had the stem eaten of early in its growth and then rolled around and dried. Cauliflower fungi are normally the same proportions as a giant puffball and grow in the same place year after year. They are very edible but not in the state that one was in. Next year we may all get a meal out of it.

Either that or it some mega rare fungi that is not is in any books, and nobody has found because it is on private land, but i am pretty sure that it is cauliflower fungi.

Toddy I know what you mean about the back of the throat telling you not eat something. Your body can tell alot if you listen very carefully to it. But I don't normally tell others to taste test fungi. The most toxic fungi also have a green aura. i used think it was down to me been weird like, but I have recently found out that the toxic chemical does glow slightly. But then going around saying I read the auras on fungi and I let my throat protect me from poisoning is recipe for a darwin award.