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06-10-2009, 05:20 PM
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| | | Re: Help with identification - Yellow Stainer? - Agaricus xanthodermus?
The reaction doesn't seem right for Xanthoderma to me. Whenever I have found them a quick rub is all that is needed for a very quick reaction.
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06-10-2009, 05:25 PM
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| | | Re: Help with identification - Yellow Stainer? - Agaricus xanthodermus?
I find that you get a more reliable colour change if you crush the base of the stipe - right at the very bottom, the part that would have been touching or slightly buried in the earth.
Having said that, the smell is enough to point you to xanthodermus - once you have found one to compare it with of course.
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06-10-2009, 06:52 PM
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| | | Re: Help with identification - Yellow Stainer? - Agaricus xanthodermus?
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Originally Posted by flaxton  The reaction doesn't seem right for Xanthoderma to me. Whenever I have found them a quick rub is all that is needed for a very quick reaction. | I tried rubbing, and the reaction is better. It is yellow, but it is not as lurid as examples I've seen. It fades after a while - I read that this is a pointer to xanthodermus as other yellowing species will stay yellow.
The smell is faint: iodine, I would say, though I'm not good on smells. I will collect another tomorrow, but I'm somewhat confident about this one..... |
06-10-2009, 08:09 PM
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| | | Re: Help with identification - Yellow Stainer? - Agaricus xanthodermus?
If all else fails, just chuck them in the frying pan - within 1 minute you will know one way or the other - they smell awful, and if you have no sense of smell, they taste awful as well.
On the other hand, I know a tree surgeon who eats them raw - whether he was showing off, enjoys them, or thought they were field mushrooms, I just don't know, but he ate several in the afternoon.
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06-10-2009, 08:15 PM
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| | | Re: Help with identification - Yellow Stainer? - Agaricus xanthodermus?
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Originally Posted by fairplay If all else fails, just chuck them in the frying pan - within 1 minute you will know one way or the other - they smell awful, and if you have no sense of smell, they taste awful as well.
On the other hand, I know a tree surgeon who eats them raw - whether he was showing off, enjoys them, or thought they were field mushrooms, I just don't know, but he ate several in the afternoon. | My 'River Cottage Mushroom Guide' (which has much better descriptions than the more generalist books for those species it does describe) indicates that the toxicity is actually caused by cooking (but cautions that this hasn't been verified, for obvious reasons). It also says that some people can eat this species with impunity. | | | |
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