Come on you fungalists
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Mobile Chicane said:
I've never found a magpie fungus, but according to Roger Phillips' book, they're found on alkaline soil, usually beech woods, and have an unpleasant smell.
Older examples are brown with whitish flecks - are there any nearby?
Yeah, in the garden.Older examples are brown with whitish flecks - are there any nearby?
I had a go with some last year but I might have left it a bit too late, they went very black & slimey in the pan. The smell wasn't exactly unpleasant, but didn't inspire confidence so I though better safe then sorry.
These are shaggy ink caps and should be good to eat at that stage. They used to be used for ink in ye old days hence the name 
I love picking and eating my own mushrooms. Extreme caution should be exercised when picking and eating mushrooms, and so focus on getting to learn or 2 and go from there.
Show a few pics of them in the pan, your plate and conclusions please
I love picking and eating my own mushrooms. Extreme caution should be exercised when picking and eating mushrooms, and so focus on getting to learn or 2 and go from there.
Show a few pics of them in the pan, your plate and conclusions please
Tis a very early start this year!
Lots of recent rain down here in the South, paired with relativly warm, humid conditions has helped.
The Central European mushroom season always starts off a month or two earlier than ours and they are finding "huge" volumes of good quality, which bodes well for us.
I only hunt out 6-7 varietys and leave the rest for other folk.
Heres to a bumper crop.
Lots of recent rain down here in the South, paired with relativly warm, humid conditions has helped.
The Central European mushroom season always starts off a month or two earlier than ours and they are finding "huge" volumes of good quality, which bodes well for us.
I only hunt out 6-7 varietys and leave the rest for other folk.
Heres to a bumper crop.
I've just been reading there is an unprecedented crop in northern Italy.
16 people dead and one missing!
This is due to the heavy rain making the steep ground unstable and, because the competition is so fierce, people are sneaking about at night so others don't find their "hot spots" resulting in them literally stepping off a cliff!
I'm sure it is much more civilised down South.
No real sign of much up here yet.We haven't had the heat.Plenty rain though.
Good hunting everyone.
16 people dead and one missing!
This is due to the heavy rain making the steep ground unstable and, because the competition is so fierce, people are sneaking about at night so others don't find their "hot spots" resulting in them literally stepping off a cliff!
I'm sure it is much more civilised down South.
No real sign of much up here yet.We haven't had the heat.Plenty rain though.
Good hunting everyone.
Hmm, my wife is actually a bit 'mushroom mental' and goes out mushrooming every day when she walks the dog. Last weekend I decided that my time had come and actually went with her, I even had just the tool for the job and retrieved a very sharp mini penknife from the glovebox of my car, went into the house and proudly declared 'I have the perfect mushrooming knife'. My wife fell about laughing, reached into her handbag and said, 'you call that a knife?' 
Oh and then whilst in the woods she got into 'mushrooming fever' mode, and wandered deeper and deeper into the woods, whilst listening to her iPod, hence she didn't hear me shouting that I wanted to get back for the F1 at Spa. So I walked all the way back home, with the dog, and she had the bloody dog lead and the house keys. Bloody Mushroomer nutters
Oh and then whilst in the woods she got into 'mushrooming fever' mode, and wandered deeper and deeper into the woods, whilst listening to her iPod, hence she didn't hear me shouting that I wanted to get back for the F1 at Spa. So I walked all the way back home, with the dog, and she had the bloody dog lead and the house keys. Bloody Mushroomer nutters
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