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11-11-2008, 09:46 AM
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hi , after spending the past 5 years sitting on my botty playing poker ive decided that id like to get out and about in the fresh air and searching for fungi seems as good a reason as any , ive always been interested in anything nature has to throw at u but these fungi are strange looking things and i'd like to learn more , ive bought a book "river cottage handbook" and obviousy need some kind of field guide to cross check any thing i may find , also a digital camera would be helpfull to post pics of my finds , does anybody know of anything else ill need for a good fungi finding identifying kit? I have 2 victims already sitting on white paper in my greenhouse ready for my 1st spore sample , 1 looks like a blewit quite large, tan covered with a lovely mushroomy smell and the other is a small blue toadstool covered in disgusting slime , both found on an area i'd covered in bark chppings last year and i'll endevour to name these 2 critters before i go out into the real world , a newbie question , im not the biggest fan of mushrooms to eat so no chance of me eating something toxic but i am a bit wary of touching them can u poison yourself just by touching some of these things?
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11-11-2008, 10:01 AM
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Hi there and welcome to WAB.
The short answer to your question is no although basic rules of hygiene apply i.e. washing hands.
This has been discussed at length in the Forum for Fungi so a search should get you some opinions.
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11-11-2008, 10:05 AM
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Welcome to WAB and the fungi forum Judge. Wouldn't be at all surprised if your finds turn out to be Clitocybe nebularis - Clouded Funnel and Stropharia aeruginosa - Verdigris Agaric, but no doubt all will be revealed when you've had time to check them out against some of the on-line references like Roger Phillips - Mushrooms: Rogers Mushrooms | Mushroom Pictures & Mushroom Reference
Keep us posted, and if you managed any pics then post to the forum with as much detail as possible by way of images of the relevant characteristics and descriptive notes, then any amount of help will be forthcoming.
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11-11-2008, 10:06 AM
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I would recommend Roger Phillips, Mushrooms.I would also recommend getting a camera as I've had many id's on this forum when I've struggled to id them myself. Plus you can also ask for a second oppinion so you know for sure.
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11-11-2008, 10:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Lance Morgan  Hi there and welcome to WAB.
The short answer to your question is no although basic rules of hygiene apply i.e. washing hands.
This has been discussed at length in the Forum for Fungi so a search should get you some opinions.
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11-11-2008, 10:27 AM
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Hi and welcome to WAB.
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11-11-2008, 10:28 AM
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Originally Posted by cybershot Welcome to WAB and the fungi forum Judge. Wouldn't be at all surprised if your finds turn out to be Clitocybe nebularis - Clouded Funnel and Stropharia aeruginosa - Verdigris Agaric, but no doubt all will be revealed when you've had time to check them out against some of the on-line references like Roger Phillips - Mushrooms: Rogers Mushrooms | Mushroom Pictures & Mushroom Reference
Keep us posted, and if you managed any pics then post to the forum with as much detail as possible by way of images of the relevant characteristics and descriptive notes, then any amount of help will be forthcoming.
Cheers
David | Dot't forget to try out our A-Z as well 
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11-11-2008, 10:40 AM
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Mal | Would you believe it The first two links in my post take you straight to the A to Z entries  http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/li...ientific_names
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11-11-2008, 10:47 AM
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ty all for your replies , i'll order the roger phillips book today , i'm looking forward to becoming a keen ( hopefully not too annoying with my newbie questions) member of this forum...J |
11-11-2008, 12:05 PM
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i've been looking at my 1st 2 specimens , indeed the blue toadstool 1 looks like the Verdigris Agaric its exactly the same colour with a more pronounced goldy yellow spot then the pictures ive found , i guess its just a young 1 , ive put some poor quality pictures into the album thing , they are only webcam pics so the quality is poor , the other 1 is very hard for me to tell what it is it really looks like a blewit but has no trace of any blue , in my book it looks like Lepista sordida but the gills are closer together like Lepista luscina but without the latters markings??? i'm not clever enough to know the latin names yet im just copying them from my book | | | |
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