Thanks Raghu ji for interesting details. *-- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ * On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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 >
