I just went for a walk and Easter Mushrooms have broken out everywhere.
These ones have a very yellow underside.
I bet they are poisonous.

Yep. They are poisonous.

They may not be. They may however be magic.

Bobby. wrote on Mar 29^th, 2021 at 6:26pm:

Give it a go then, whats the worst that could happen?

rhino wrote on Mar 29^th, 2021 at 10:24pm:


Complete liver failure and/or death.


Like bobby, i only eat the supermarket 'varieties' of mushrooms.

Boil them in water and have a sip.

Bobby. wrote on Mar 30^th, 2021 at 8:30am:





.....something about, "Fools rush in...."

No mushrooms tonight on my walk.

I went for a walk tonight and found these unusual orange fruits on 5 trees.
See pics.
What is that fruit? – it smells nice when I cut it open.

I suggest you take samples to the Royal Botanical Gardens.

lee wrote on Mar 31^st, 2021 at 8:46pm:



No - I think it's a common plant - I've seen them before
- I can't remember the name.
Maybe someone here could identify them?

A friend of mine is a genius and he found it:








https://edibleoz.com.au/products/southern-kangaroo-apple-solanum-laciniatum-seed...




Fruit - raw or cooked, must be thoroughly ripe because unripe fruit is poisonous. It can be used as a sweet fruit or as a vegetable. Fruit is sickly sweet and often bitter.

I ate one last night - the one pictured -
the Kangaroo Apple -
and I'm still here today so it wasn't poisonous.
They taste very nice and sweet.

freediver wrote on Apr 1^st, 2021 at 6:05pm:



Thanks FD,
I think it's just good to know that you
can find such fruit in the wild even as you go for a walk.
The ripe fruit is not poisonous.


Green tomatoes are poisonous too but we still grow them:
https://www.farmzy.nl/en-gb/are-tomato-plants-poisonous

freediver wrote on Apr 1^st, 2021 at 6:16pm:



I wouldn't want to eat even one green tomato.

Ordinary looking field mushrooms were there today.
These ones were out on grass fields and looked
exactly the same as supermarket mushrooms.



Then there are also plenty of Kangaroo Apples.

The NSW Poison Information Centre has reported that
this week 8 people have been hospitalised as a result
of eating poisonous mushrooms.



    Stephanie Bailey

Local News
They're popping up all over, so we reached back two years to an article that dishes the dirt on mushrooms, good and bad...



https://www.southernhighlandnews.com.au/story/5995350/do-you-fancy-some-fungi-fi...

Bobby. wrote on Mar 29^th, 2021 at 5:34pm:
Did the stems turn blue when you picked them.

No, the first mushrooms you posted.

Poisonous. The yellow ones.

No Im not sure. Thats why you need to treat it as poisonous.

I only know how to pick out the medicinal ones. 

Bobby. wrote on Apr 25^th, 2021 at 11:00pm:
Not for a long time. I remember though. They are all over the world if you know where to look. They grow in cow and buffalo poo. Occasionally you would find them in mulch or woodchips. They are big business selling to the tourists in parts of Asia.

Tribal shamans use them in traditional medicine for anxiety and depressive illnesses.

There is an old Ozpolitic thread on it:

https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1295890001

rhino wrote on Apr 26^th, 2021 at 12:11am:


I'm not sure about that -
they look scary but
I heard it depends on the actual mushroom.
Most don't do anything if you fry one
up in butter and eat it.
Maybe cooking them in butter destroys the chemical in them?
Perhaps you have to eat many of them to get any effect?

All my friends are too scared to eat them -
they say that I could die but they look
like ordinary field mushrooms.
They were about 3 meters from a gum tree on a grass field.
Here's a close up.

rhino wrote on Apr 26^th, 2021 at 3:38pm:


Actually it says:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria



a tall red mushroom with a few white spots on the cap
Mature. The white spots may wash off with heavy rainfall.

Amanita muscaria poisoning has occurred in young children and in people who ingested the mushrooms for a hallucinogenic experience.[16][45][46] Occasionally it has been ingested in error, because immature button forms resemble puffballs.[47] The white spots sometimes wash away during heavy rain and the mushrooms then may appear to be the edible A. caesarea.[48]

Amanita muscaria contains several biologically active agents, at least one of which, muscimol, is known to be psychoactive. Ibotenic acid, a neurotoxin, serves as a prodrug to muscimol, with approximately 10–20% converting to muscimol after ingestion. An active dose in adults is approximately 6 mg muscimol or 30 to 60 mg ibotenic acid;[49][50] this is typically about the amount found in one cap of Amanita muscaria.[51] The amount and ratio of chemical compounds per mushroom varies widely from region to region and season to season, which can further confuse the issue. Spring and summer mushrooms have been reported to contain up to 10 times more ibotenic acid and muscimol than autumn fruitings.[45]

A fatal dose has been calculated as 15 caps.[52] Deaths from this fungus A. muscaria have been reported in historical journal articles and newspaper reports,[53][54][55] but with modern medical treatment, fatal poisoning from ingesting this mushroom is extremely rare.[56] Many books list Amanita muscaria as deadly,[57] but according to David Arora, this is an error that implies the mushroom is more toxic than it is.[58] The North American Mycological Association has stated that there were "no reliably documented cases of death from toxins in these mushrooms in the past 100 years".[59]

rhino wrote on Apr 26^th, 2021 at 5:22pm:



It also implies that if you ate only one mushroom
in Autumn then it wouldn't do anything which
is exactly what I heard on the grapevine.
Apparently they taste very nice -
delicious fried in butter and bacon.

rhino wrote on Apr 26^th, 2021 at 5:27pm:



I didn't find any of those:
You sound like the Indian here -  LOL

I found plenty more field mushrooms today
that I'm sure are safe and edible.

Video showing how to tell if mushroom is OK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OusLbOYb58c





But  then I found these under trees -
the top sides of what I'm sure are poisonous mushrooms.
The one on the top left
was being devoured by insects.



bottom side

I cooked 2 of the field mushrooms last night
in butter and olive oil -
they were delicious.
I'll eat some more today.

I dont like the look of the ones with the white gills,

the ones we used to pick when I was a kid were the dark grey gills as in your fry pan.

I think I would steer clear of that middle one as well.

The only way is to grow your own mushrooms, I intend to start doing that soon. They are great as a meat substitute.

Im trying to get as vegetarian as possible for health, cutting out meat means cutting out B vitamins, mushrooms are high in those.

I can control the environment, Ive been doing a bit of research, plenty of hobby farmers growing all year round. Its not difficult to make spore prints.

Bobby. wrote on Apr 30^th, 2021 at 11:37pm:
Thats not the type of mushroom I was looking at growing, those things already grow wild on my property .

Next batch I see I will post a picture.  They come up in the compost.

Interesting green colour.  I'd avoid it like the plague, myself.  The middle brown one looks OK, there is obviously something eating it.  Any dead birds/animals in the vicinity, Bobby?   

On my mobile phone  the mushroom does have  a green tinge.
It doesn't in real life.

Wow - when uploading it to here:
https://fungusid.com/
with just that slight colour change it gives this:

12.14% Tricholoma equestre
11.80% Lactarius volemus
10.42% Tricholoma sejunctum

Bobby. wrote on May 6^th, 2021 at 12:57pm:


Still looks greenish to me, Bobby.

Bobby. wrote on May 6^th, 2021 at 6:57pm:

Still looks greenish to me, Bobby.

Another one today.
All 4 pictures are of the same mushroom.
Unfortunately it's a yellow stainer  -
a yellow stain appears when it's rubbed with a thumb nail
and it smells of chemicals instead of a nice mushroom smell.

same as this one here:
Yellow staining mushroom (Agaricus xanthodermus)

Neferti wrote on May 12^th, 2021 at 5:15pm:



Yes - little orange mushrooms sure look like toadstools.

Today - this one looks like another Tricholoma equestre.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricholoma_equestre
but I can't be sure.

Today I searched instead at the market.
Check out the prices of them. 

I found another type today.
There were many at the base of a healthy large eucalyptus tree.
I can't identify it properly.
It has an offset stalk on all the mushrooms seen.

I did a spore print for one of the mushrooms just above

Re: Easter mushrooms
Reply #94 - May 21st, 2021 at 12:00pm

That is done by cutting the stalk off and laying it flat
on some paper for a day or so.
The spores drop out and make a pattern.
As you can see the spores are coloured brown.