Beautiful pictures....TOADSTOOL, I have never heard that name before.... Thanks for sharing. Pankaj
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:58 PM, raghu ananth <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > -- *********************************************** "TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!" Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) Research Associate Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project Department of Habitat Ecology Wildlife Institute of India Post Box # 18 Dehradun - 248001, India
