I love mushrooms but I don’t want to die. I keep finding these in a half bag of Shamrock Potting Compost that I’d forgotten about in the greenhouse. I’m tempted. (Aldi lighter for scale because I can’t grow bananas)
I love mushrooms but I don’t want to die. I keep finding these in a half bag of Shamrock Potting Compost that I’d forgotten about in the greenhouse. I’m tempted. (Aldi lighter for scale because I can’t grow bananas)
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Even if I knew anything about mushrooms I would be too scared to give the wrong advice. Get some from Aldi !!
As the saying goes: “you can eat every mushroom once”
You would risk death to save money, rather than buy mushrooms at the store?
Instead of dropping dead to save 2 euros, maybe check for online coupons?
Yes mate they look like mushrooms to me
Take half now then, if you don’t feel anything after 30 mins, take the other half 🤘
I eat random mushrooms all the time. I just make sure I do it in the A&E lobby
You should crosspost/repost this in r/beacain. Just like magic mushroomies you must follow a simple rule when considering eating a fungus:
You never, ever, EVER ingest any wild mushroom without a positive ID, ideally from multiple sources. Posting it on a mushroom subreddit, or a mushroom website/forum is the way to go. Don’t even consider chancing your arm eating these unless you’re cool with annihilating your internal organs/dying a horrible death.
Looks to be an agaricus type mushroom
I know nothing about mushrooms, but I highly doubt anyone can tell you what these are just based on the picture with enough confidence for you to eat them.
But ya looks good, go for it
My old boss (environmental charity) was amazing at identifying plants and foraged regularly. He said not to bother with mushrooms – for every edible one there’s about three poisonous that range from bad stomach to dead. So sounds like a 1 in 4 chance. Then again, edible doesn’t equal tasty…
Fuck um in the bin and sleep soundly at night you’re not gonna die!
Let me check the Skyrim wiki and get back to you…
This is what children are for.
I wouldn’t trust random opinions from a picture, even if they turn put right it’s a risk
/r/mushroomid
Throw it onto r/mycology you’d get an answer there
Take them to a chemist, a pharmacist might be able to tell you if they’re poisonous.
You won’t be tripping but you might be shitting, choose wisely
Wouldn’t touch them. They look like porcini at a glance, but the shape of the cap is different, and their colour is a shade of slight pink instead of brown and white.
Remember, all mushrooms are edible….
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Some only once!!
Take the ‘hat’ of the leg and see how the under hat looks like – if it is like a sponge it is eatable (try it with your tong, if it is sour throw it out then) – if it has like razors you shouldt touch them. Looks bit like boletus edulis which is tastiest forest mushroom.
Porcini
Why is nobody sniggling at the shape of the mushrooms rather than the trivial matter of whether they might kill you or not? So many willy jokes and so little time……
Do you want a liver transplant?
Could be the Boletus genus since it doesn’t really have any visible gills there. Or maybe it is something else entirely and it just hasn’t opened up yet. Either way, would need to do a spore print to know it’s safe.
Definitely get a positive ID before hand. But chances are the aldi compost is ex-mushroom factory stuff or a mix with that in it…. bur again… don’t take any chances
They are average sized
I ve spent my whole life forging and picking up shrooms, i am still here :). It isnt true that most mushrooms are killing people – very few do but when you pick up the bad ones it is really nasty because of toxins in them – liver goes and thats it, few hours of pain and you are gone. Basically most mushrooms are non-eadable because it lacks taste, tecture, has bad smell or are hard to digest, however in times of hunger times it was forged and cooked for like 24h and then consumed.
So again general rule is – if it has sponge under the hat and when touched with tonge it isnt extremly sour it is edible and tasty. When it has gills, like champinions, you shouldnt be picking them cos most are bad. Some mushrooms have muscimol in them, like this red shroom with white dots (amanita muscaria) – this is psychoactive fun and it was widely used in shamanism.
If you dont have spare liver around do not try mushrooms you are not sure about!
My dad’s big into mycology, I’ll send the picture to him in the morning and ask him.
We’ve always eaten wild mushrooms