Dear Tanay We used to eat a lot of fleshy fungi (not to say just mushrooms) in childhood days collected from woods especially after a thunderburst when they come out of ground, much before we started going to College, and trust me never fell ill. May be we could identify edible fungi which we called Kan dolle (looked like and had texture of ear- now as botanist we know as Sarcosphaera), Guchhi (Morchella esculenta) and Khumb (Agaricus bisporus). On one occasion I happen to collect one button mushroom that was large enough to provide one cup full of cooked vegetable.
-- 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 9:21 PM, mani nair <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Raghu ji, thanks for the info. In Kerala I have seen mushrooms > growing under Tamarind Trees. Are they edible? > > Regards, > > Mani. > > > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:34 AM, tanay bose <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Neil Ji, >> Mushroom is a very broad term used to describe macroscopic sporulating >> bodies belonging to higher group of fungi i.e Basidiomycota and Ascomycota, >> though the members from both the phylum doen't essentially have such fruit >> bodies. Members from Basidiomycota are known to have the cap (pileus) and >> stalk ( stipe) but there are many exception such as genus *Auricularia , >> Tremella* e.tc which lacks caps and stalk. Members from Ascomycota never >> have stalk and cap. Kindly take a look at the links below......... >> >> 1. Different parts of a mushroom- >> http://www.toxinology.com/generic_static_files/images_generic/MD-fig1A-annulus-volva.gif >> 2. Basidiomycota- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basidiomycota >> 3. Ascomycota- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascomycota >> 4. *Auricularia*- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auricularia >> 5. *Tremella- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremella* >> 6. General Fungi- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungus >> >> Regards >> Tanay >> >> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:04 AM, raghu ananth <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> >>> Toadstool is the common name for an inedible or poisonous mushrooms in >>> some countries. Mushroom experts/communities discourage the usage of >>> this particular word as there is no scientific classification/description. >>> >>> This means - a wild mushroom or a wild toadstool could be poisonous. >>> >>> >>> Thanks / Regards >>> Raghu >>> ------------------------------ >>> *From:* Neil Soares <[email protected]> >>> *To:* Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>; tanay bose < >>> [email protected]> >>> *Cc:* Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]>; raghu ananth < >>> [email protected]>; [email protected] >>> *Sent:* Fri, 29 October, 2010 8:35:53 AM >>> >>> *Subject:* Re: [efloraofindia:52291] Please identify this Toadstool >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks Tanay for the id and the long and detailed explanation. Rest >>> assured I had no intention of eating it ! >>> >>> >>> >>> My thanks also to Raghu, Prof. Singh & Dr. Pankaj for their inputs. >>> >>> >>> >>> As far as I remember – fungii that bear a cap & a stalk are called >>> ‘mushrooms’. Poisonous mushrooms are called ‘Toadstools’. >>> >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Neil Soares. >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> *Tanay Bose* >> Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant. >> Department of Botany. >> University of British Columbia . >> 3529-6270 University Blvd. >> Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada) >> Phone: 778-323-4036 (Mobile) >> 604-822-2019 (Lab) >> [email protected] >> >> >
