Subject: : Edible wild mushrooms

From: [email-masked] (Gene Miller)
Date: 14 Aug 1995 19:41:31 GMT

My wife and I are trying to identify edible wild mushrooms, but
we don't have the confidence to start eating them. Please let
me know if you know any good information sources, or if you know
someone with the right experience who lives in the Catskills or
Hudson Valley region of New York.

Thanks,

Gene Miller
Phone:  914 644 2834
Fax:    914 997 4997, 914 644 2260
Email:  [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Dennis Bednarek Mfg 4-6971 ~BHOSVWZ#097)
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 95 07:39:56 GMT

Gene Miller ([email-masked]) wrote:

Gene:

I know where your comming from.  My dad every fall used to bring home
bushel baskekets full of mushrooms, and then my parents would boil them
with onions prior to canning them.  We would have that great mushroom
sause for months to come.  Wish I could still get the suff.

They always went by some premise that if the onions turned black there
was some poison in the mushrooms.  I'm not sure if there is any truth
to this.  But I remember going with my  dad when I was young and him
explaining the best ones were the buttons as he called them and explaining
how to tell a button mushroom.

If you find any good refrences please forward them to me as well.

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From: [email-masked] (Hammel_Christian)
Date: 16 Aug 1995 15:27:39 +0200

>how to tell a button mushroom.

WARNING !

I hope youre still alive. The trick with the onions is definitely wrong 
and it is very dangerous to take such methods for serious. There is a
lot of similar methods like this which are not better. The worst book
about mushroom identification is better than trusting into stories like
that of the onions. There is definitely no method for identification
of poisons by onions nor by taste or colour. It is a better idea to
look for an expert living in the region where you found the mushrooms
and ask him about edibility.

Christian Hammel
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From: [email-masked] (Carol Jacobs-Carre)
Date: 16 Aug 1995 14:08:52 GMT

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Dear folks:  Please, please, whatever you do, do not rely on folklore like
this.  Your parents obviously had more knowledge about mushrooms than you
remember.  Try contacting a mycological society in your state:  they
usually include avid mushroom hunters who will gladly teach you about
mushrooms.  ven the best books cannot be as good as you would like.  A
good mushroom hunter will show you the various phases of a few easily
recognized fungi, so that you too can find edible mushrooms.  Most toxic
msuhrooms won't kill you, but will make you extrememly sick.  Those that
will kill you are so nasty you don't even want to chance making a mistake.
 So once again, get a knowledgeable guide connected with a mycological
society to start you off.  If you can't easily track down a mycological
society, contact the biology department at a nearby college or university.
 There is frequently a faculty member whose avocation is mushrooms.  Best
regards, Carol

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From: [email-masked] (Dennis Bednarek Mfg 4-6971 ~BHOSVWZ#097)
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 95 10:50:52 GMT

Hammel_Christian ([email-masked]) wrote:

WARNING !

Christian Hammel

Precisely why I limit my mushroom intake now to those store bought cans.
They certainly do not have the taste but I feel a lot safer with them.

dennis

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From: [email-masked] (darin)
Date: 22 Aug 1995 00:36:54 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Gene

> Hudson Valley region of New York.

as in the previous posts, i strongly discourage 'experiments'. 
get a good book on mushrooms and get familiar with identification
first.  i like 'Mushrooms Demystified ' by David Arora; but i 
usually have several other books for comparison.
its tempting sometimes. i brought home a beautiful 'Lepiota' one time
and was almost ready to melt the butter ... then i double checked the
spore print which was light green - it was the poisonous 'green-spored
lepiota', Chlorophyllum something. 
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 darin
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"cogito cogito ergo cogito sum" - ambrose bierce

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From: [email-masked] (Ian B Staples)
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 11:42:49 GMT

>> me know if you know any good information sources, or if you know
[...]
>get a good book on mushrooms and get familiar with identification
[...]

Yes, I've heard of one species which can be eaten *apparently* with
no ill-effects, but which does permanent, often (usually?) fatal
damage to the liver.  You just don't know you're dead for a day or
two it seems.

Cheers,  Ian S.

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From: [email-masked] (N.Y.Fidler)
Date: 30 Aug 1995 07:50:53 GMT

>damage to the liver.  You just don't know you're dead for a day or

Hi Ian,
As Dr Val Boughton (UQ mycology lecturer) used to say, if you must expt.
leave a sample in the fridge with a dated note.
Nicki

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From: [email-masked] (Erik Westlin)
Date: 31 Aug 1995 22:05:40 GMT

Is there any publicly available data on edible/(nonedible) mushrooms
I mean data in electronic form of course.

Erik