Poisonous Mushrooms

[user_1919]

Hello all,

As the mushrooms hunting season is coming up, I thought it would be appropriate to compile a topic on just poisonous mushrooms, with photos and descriptions. I believe there is not a very big list of poisonous mushrooms, but rather a few that we should focus on. I am no expert on mushrooms, but rather starting out. So everyone, please add to the list. I will start off with a few that I am familiar with. Also if you believe you have a better site, than me, or someone else, please provide it. There is never to much information.

Death Cap---> http://americanmushrooms.com/deathcap.htm
Just a good site---> http://academic.evergreen.edu/projects/mushrooms/phm/

So everyone, please add, so we can compile a big list, and keep everyone safe this year, including myself!

PEACE & LOVE

 

[magickpencil]

Roger's Mushrooms - a good site on general mycology

 

[user_1919]

Wow! That is an excellent site, thanks a lot!

 

[druglessdouglas]

http://www.kingdomoffungi.com/

some good quality photos

http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/fungi/sci.html
good for cross-referencing

there are some good mushroom guides available if you look for them. get one relevant to your area. learn the terms some things[structures] are very important.

 

[user_1919]

Beautiful! Thanks drugless.

 

[magickpencil]

Mushrooms Demystified - David Arora - supposedly the best book out there on general mycology, recommended to me by an expert mycologist

 

[druglessdouglas]

im self taught in identifying mushrooms though i worked as a biological surveyor for a year (1991-2) and learned a bit more. ive still eaten the wrong one from time to time (eg False Chantrelle) and count myself lucky to still be alive. you have to be SURE

 

[magickpencil]

that Hygrophoropsis is admittedly quite close in appearance to the golden chanterelle..
how would one know?, looks substantially larger, but that's judging from one photograph

 

[druglessdouglas]

they are quite different. the stem ifs brittle, hollow and whit inside, they smell completely different too. sometimes you get one in among the Chantrelles.

 

[magickpencil]

we should really start an edible mushroom picking thread

 

[Meduzz]

I think it was Paul Stammets who told us in a lecture that the best test is to take a spore print and look for blueing. They should have purple to black spores and turn blue. And indeed if you check the site given by magickpencil the only ones that also do those 2 things that are deadly are agaricus species. Not easily confused with psilocybes.

 

[matt86es]

Mushrooms Demystified - David Arora - supposedly the best book out there on general mycology, recommended to me by an expert mycologist

Yes, this is a required read for anyone interested in mycology in general as well as knowing what mushies to avoid. My Mycology professor, who I'm still friends with, used this book as his primary source of reference. BTW, he has been doing research and crossbreeding to restore the American Chestnut. Pretty cool stuff.