Thanks Rico, This reply was sent within 17 minutes of receiving joeGoauk's query.In my previois promt reply it was exaplined to him that the mushrooms appearing in the images are toxic Chlorophyllum molybdites. The following additional email had an attachment of a research paper on the subject.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dr.Nandkumar Kamat <nandka...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 2:04 PM Subject: Re: You have photographed toxic Chlorophyllum molybdites mushrooms To: JoeGoaUk <joego...@yahoo.co.uk> For further information and to create awareness I am attaching one of the paper on poisoning from Chlorophyllum molybdites. see the pdf attachment. People unfamiliar with mushrooms should never collect mushrooms for consumption. There is a huge amount of literature on this subject. besides there is a fashion in Goa to attack anything from wild for consumption without any consideration to its' conservation status. All my efforts to create awareness on local wild edible Termitomyces species have been wasted. Checkhttp:// www.scribd.com/doc/11518620/Ecoconservation-of-Goas-Termitomyces-biodiversity This was presentation in a National seminar at Mangalore University. All mushrooms have ecological role and be left untouched in nature unless one collects samples for research. we are working on getting useful biochemicals, enzymes, natural pigments, drugs, antibiotics from Goa's mushrooms in our lab. We have so far catalogued 500 species of higher fungi of which 300 species are mushrooms. See my blog on Goa's mushrooms at http://mushroomsofgoa.blogspot.com/ where I have uploaded images of collection amde for research till July end... more images would follow... also check our mushroom research work at http://precedings.nature.com/documents/2835/version/1 http://precedings.nature.com/documents/4215/version/1 and a paper on a new strain of edible oyster mushrooms which we have developed at http://precedings.nature.com/documents/4213/version/1 perhaps you could send me images of mushrooms for research and teaching purposes. The location and date (possible georeferenced with Google earth) would be very useful. On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:44 PM, JoeGoaUk <joego...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > thank you Sir > > > > > --- On *Fri, 20/8/10, Dr.Nandkumar Kamat <nandka...@gmail.com>* wrote: > > > From: Dr.Nandkumar Kamat <nandka...@gmail.com> > Subject: You have photographed toxic Chlorophyllum molybdites mushrooms > To: joego...@yahoo.co.uk > Date: Friday, 20 August, 2010, 1:43 PM > > > Your photographs show Chlorophyllum molybdites a toxic species. we have > documented it since 1988 in Goa and it is very common on well manured ground > and comes in fairy rings (full or half circles) . its' gills (underside) is > pale green turning white. > Do not consume it. > > > -- > Dr. Nandkumar Kamat, GOA > > > -- Dr. Nandkumar Kamat, GOA -- Dr. Nandkumar Kamat, GOA