Hi Neil, Nice picture set of larger mushroom kinds, Am yet to see mushrooms of that size. Toad stool are known to be poisonous and inedible, As always, I wonder, how do farmers learn/test if a wild mushroom is edible or not.
1. One practice I heard, being followed by villagers in Mysore dist. Cook mushrooms with Brinjal. If the brinjal turns black its inedible. [To be validated] 2. small mushrooms turned blue are inedible 3. Mushrooms growing under certain known trees like saalu dhoopa are consider edible. 4. The milk (latex) of certain trees are known to burn the skin. If mushrooms grow under such trees they are considered inedible. Each family in Agumbe pick go mushrooming during the season and pick upto 3 gunny bags of edible mushrooms in the forests. They then have to consume within 2 days. Regards Raghu ________________________________ From: Neil Soares <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, 28 October, 2010 10:42:39 PM Subject: [efloraofindia:52250] Please identify this Toadstool Hi, Please identify this Toadstool photographed at my farm at Shahapur last weekend. It measured more than 5 inches in diameter. Thanks, With regards, Neil Soares.
