Hello, I returned to Lithuania for the second time and I found a lot of these mushrooms close to trees and in a lot of places close to home. I wanted to know if are edible or not, getting some mushrooms from outside was always my dream.
Hello, I returned to Lithuania for the second time and I found a lot of these mushrooms close to trees and in a lot of places close to home. I wanted to know if are edible or not, getting some mushrooms from outside was always my dream.
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No never pick them in cities. If u have a chance go to a forest and pick the ones u know
Every mushroom in Lithuania is edible, but some of them you can eat only once
You need to look from the bottom of the mushrooms cap. That usually tells me if its an edible mushroom anyhow this doesnt look like one if I had to guess but then again I am just an amateur at this.
Don’t risk it. There are a lot of mushrooms that can make you very sick or even kill you. If you want fresh wild mushrooms then buy them from local gatherers and farm markets.
These are probably dog pee mushrooms. If I were you I wouldn’t even attempt to pick the mushrooms myself, rather find someone who’s experienced and go to a forest with them.
Even if those are edible, I wouldn’t pick in the middle of the center. Go to the forest
All mushrooms are edible.
Some are multiple times, some only once
IDK if edible, but don’t pick mushrooms in the city or next to a road, go into the forest.
The only mushroom that would be edible and theoretically grow in city is Macrolepiota procera. Seen them growing myself but those mushrooms taste like chiken when cooked so they get picked by those who know it and not fully grown…
Never eat shrooms from the city. They are known to absorb polution.
Also never eat shrooms which u are not 100% sure are edible. There are a lot similar species which might be poisonous.
This doesn’t look like any edible mushroom I know. (But, to be fair, I only pick Boletus and Chanterelles, since they are easy to recognise and tasty. But November is a bit late for them). While these might not be poisonous, they could be bitter, or otherwise inedible. Also, like other people said, don’t pick mushrooms in cities, they tend to collect all the toxic parts from car fumes, etc. All in all, not worth the risk.
Thank you so much everyone! Now I learn a value lesson about mushrooms, guess I will have to collect them… from a supermarket 🥲 Thank you for saving me from appearing in the news like the foreign girl who died tried to eat some city mushrooms haha
This year was bad for mushrooms. Usual foraging spots were very completely dry during the season and then quicly it was cold and wet.
would rather just go to market and buy some there. wont be poisonus ones and they will be from forest, not city. they aint that expensive.
If they are spongy on the bottom of the cap then they are boletus, if they have gills avoid them.
All mushrooms are edible but some of them only once
Mushrooms often look the same – edible and inedible versions, so even if you know them, you need to make sure that they are really the right ones. If such a mushroom has a very thin stalk – it will not be edible. Fly agarics have a tubercle at the bottom of the root (a small one does not have a skirt on the stem), similar-looking edible mushroom the stem ends without an extension, so you should not collect only mushroom caps if you do not know the mushrooms yourself.
If the bottom of the mushroom is made of leaves, grandma said that when most of the edible mushrooms are cut into these leaves (perpendicular to them), juice – milk (white) will appear. Inedible ones will not have juice or will be transparent.
If the mushroom has a sponge under its head – take only the ones you know, if you are not sure that it is the real one – put it to your tongue, if it is bitter – throw it away. We have one growing in light green color – they are very poisonous.
With edible mushrooms, everything still depends on the preparation. Some can be cleaned of dirt, baked and eaten. Others have to be boiled, cleaned, then they can be fried and eaten. Others need to be boiled at least twice, changing the water, then they can be fried or pickled and eaten. There are mushrooms that have to be soaked in water for 6 hours, then boiled three times to be edible.
There are also mushrooms that are edible, but contain toxins that remain in the human body for a month, and when combined with alcohol can cause fatal poisoning.
One thing to be aware of with mushrooms is that picking one poisonous mushroom will make all others poisonous during the cooking process. It is not recommended to use alcohol together with mushrooms.
The simplest – buy champignons in a store, fry onions in a pan (in pieces slightly smaller than mushroom pieces), as many as there are mushrooms, add chopped mushrooms, salt, pepper, add several chopped cloves of garlic, fry thoroughly, add fat cream – will be an excellent mushroom sauce. Garlic, together with onions, enhances the taste. It should be noted that the mushrooms remain a little smaller when fried, so do not chop them too finely.
It’s probably Hebeloma crustuliniforme. Definitely non edible.
Every mushroom is edible. It’s just that some of them are only edible once.
Now I feel like mushroom hunting… But damn it comes with spiders and tics… :/
Rule of thumb for edible mushrooms is that bellow the cap there should be not layers but like a sponge which is quite firm and the shtoom should not have “skirt”.
If you’re new to mushroom hunting, only pick chanterelles. They are easy to recognize and don’t have a poisonous lookalike in Lithuania. They are out of season though. You can also pick boletus, but those require more experience and have a poisonous lookalike Rubroboletus Satanas. I would suggest finding someone experienced that can take you mushroom hunting.
And never pick mushrooms in or near cities. They absorb pollutants.
All mushrooms are edible some only once tho
Its a bit too late for mushrooms now, next year go to forest and try to find some, they are good, check up on the internet which ones can be eaten, if you dont know
smoke it
Idk I am only smart enough to pick Chantereles because they are easy to recognise. Those shrooms in your photo looks like something we call “Šungrybiai”-dogshrooms. So that sound unedible.:’)
Lithuanian here, these are not edible
There’s a rule: if you don’t know that mushroom, don’t eat it.
I can’t identify the species of this one, but it definetly looks like a “šungrybis” (dog-mushroom, we call any unedible mushroom so).
However, it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try mushrooming at forests.
I reccomend getting a mushroom book (can be found at any bookshop I think) and collecting **only edible mushrooms that you are sure you can identify**, because some are not only unedible, but **deadly poisonous**. Some edible mushrooms that are most common: tikrinis baravykas (most valuable and popular mushroom, just don’t mistake it for aitrusis baravykas ((not poisonous, but unedible because of it’s taste), luckily, it’s quite rare), raudonviršis baravykas, baravykas lepšė, voveraitė.
Another important thing is that mushrooms don’t grow anywhere, so you can either find a nice forest yourself or somehow find out good places.
After all, it’s best when someone experienced introduces you to mushrooming, or at least find someone who could check your mushrooms before you prepare them, **if that’s unavailable, I don’t reccomend mushrooming at all**. Also check for holes and larvas while chopping and discard severely affected pieces or entire mushroom if necessary (or better have someone show you how to clean and prepare them).