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| Posted By,
geoff on
September 1,2010 |
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Angela,
Thanks for letting them grow! The sheer size these have grown to helps with the ID. I think these are Agaricus xanthodermus, commonly known as the yellow stainer. They are a poisonous relative of shop mushrooms, famed for giving unwary foragers stomach cramps, but listed as "vulnerable" on the UK red data list for mushrooms. You've done the environment a service by leaving them, but you may have given some careless future foragers an uncomfortable evening!
Geoff |
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| Posted By,
Angela on
September 1,2010 |
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| Oh well - I hoped you were going to say A. arvensis.. If we cut them now they are fully open and they don't stain is that a possibility? |
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| Posted By,
geoff on
September 1,2010 |
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No harm in cutting one open and seeing how yellow it goes, but I wouldn't get your hopes up if I were you... :-D
Do they smell like aniseed or like chemicals? |
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| Posted By,
Boden Obrien on
September 2,2010 |
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| Hi Angela - I just want to echo what Geoff said, well done for not just blindly picking them to start with :-) conservation is important with fungi |
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