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Originally Posted by village wench  They taste really good in a nice meaty winter stew...........and give me no problems whatsoever,I also dry them and grind them up as an extra meaty flavour for soups and things.  I have to confess though to only eating what the old groundsman has confirmed he can eat,you don't get to be old enough to Methuselah's grandfather by eating the deadly ones
Thanks for the brittlestem ID Psathyrella multipedata,looking through my books I couldn't come to a decision.
As for the 'putty' I am watching it with a bit of a frown  ,there seems to be something a bit unhealthy about some of the really old trees round here and lots of them seem to be sporting something similar,it may just be that they are on their last legs,hope it doesn't turn out to be a nasty  |
Your'e lucky !
We had (and I'm sure, still get) quite a few poisoning enquiries in from various hospitals when I worked at Kew and several of them involved
Chlorophyllum rachodes !! I think it may be just personal idiosyncracy though with that species though !
But on your other comment re:the groundsman - it was at one time thought quite innocuous to eat both
Paxillus involutus and
Gyromitra esculenta (the latter even given the name
esculenta since it was so delicious)
but these are actually both deadly poisonous and the poisoning is cumulative !! Over a period of years !
Not being a scaremonger but if you really want to get to the age of Methuselah be selective and careful about what you do scoff !! And don't believe all of the literature either with regard to edibility !! There have been numerous poisonings from the supposedly wonderful esculent polypore
Laetiporus sulphureus (Chicken of the Woods) - some people get no symptoms, whilst other really suffer horrible gastrointestinal symptoms !!!
Nick
