Comments on: Potentially toxic fungus, anyone? http://idrewthis.tenpm.com.au/index.php/archives/353 I reserve the right to edit comments for correct spelling and grammar Thu, 27 Oct 2011 03:19:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Stephen http://idrewthis.tenpm.com.au/index.php/archives/353/comment-page-1#comment-4329 Stephen Thu, 31 May 2007 20:26:45 +0000 http://idrewthis.tenpm.com.au/?p=353#comment-4329 Some of these mushrooms in our area look OK and we get a lot of them down at St John's. I took a huge bag home one day and by the timeI got them back to Blackwood in a supermarket plastic bag there was this yellow liquid oozing in the bag. It didn't seem like a good idea to cook them. Incidentally on our honeymoon my wife fouind she was allergic to mushrooms and vomited all over me as I cleaned up her shoes.....it's all been down hill from there. Some of these mushrooms in our area look OK and we get a lot of them down at St John’s. I took a huge bag home one day and by the timeI got them back to Blackwood in a supermarket plastic bag there was this yellow liquid oozing in the bag. It didn’t seem like a good idea to cook them.
Incidentally on our honeymoon my wife fouind she was allergic to mushrooms and vomited all over me as I cleaned up her shoes…..it’s all been down hill from there.

]]> By: Pavlov's Cat http://idrewthis.tenpm.com.au/index.php/archives/353/comment-page-1#comment-4195 Pavlov's Cat Sat, 26 May 2007 14:00:24 +0000 http://idrewthis.tenpm.com.au/?p=353#comment-4195 Death caps are <i>amarinta something-or-other</i> and have red caps with white speckles (I think) -- they're the mushrooms you see in old children's book illustrations of bunnies and gnomes and such. Dorothy L. Sayers wrote a crime novel (for once not featuring Lord Peter Wimsey) using them as the murder method, called <i>The Documents in the Case</i>. Didn't know we had 'em here in Adders. But I saw some gigantic field mushrooms today too, in the excellent independent fruit & veg on Semaphore Road. Must be all the rain. Death caps are amarinta something-or-other and have red caps with white speckles (I think) — they’re the mushrooms you see in old children’s book illustrations of bunnies and gnomes and such. Dorothy L. Sayers wrote a crime novel (for once not featuring Lord Peter Wimsey) using them as the murder method, called The Documents in the Case. Didn’t know we had ‘em here in Adders.

But I saw some gigantic field mushrooms today too, in the excellent independent fruit & veg on Semaphore Road. Must be all the rain.

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