Mushroom experts is this a Death Cap?
MoonCircuit
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I have been chestnut picking and found this in a Beech wood. I'm dead excited is it a Death Cap?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2978434 ... rooms.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2978434 ... rooms.html
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Yep, I think it is! If has pure white gills, stem and ring (skirt) then will be an amanita, and looking at the cap looks to be a death cap.0
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Not that I needed another reason to avoid mushrooms, but thanks!0
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Found a bunch of these in the woods once:
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I've been wanting to find one of these for 20 years. Oh hell what to do with it. I'l takesome pictures and bin it,Cycling, it has it's ups and downs.0
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Hehe. Don't think I have ever found one, but plenty of other nasties.
Some good chestnut spots near here too, might have a wonder out tomorrow.0 -
a lady down the road in ventnor eat one of those, she was only 40 :shock: her younger relative? at 20 survived.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_a ... 776387.ece
they're all over the place in the local woods, death caps, massive huge flat mushrooms?, red ones too.0 -
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Certainly looks like one. Had you have left it a little longer, the cap would've opened up to form the classic mushroom shape. Surprised anyone could take 20 years to find one, amanita phalloides (as she's known to her friends) is a common mushroom. I'd tell you how to safely find out what it tastes like, but chances are you'd get it wrong and I'd be in deep manure. There's a nice death cap article here - http://www.amanitashop.com/amanita-poisoning/deathcap.htmMusic by me: Drum and bass http://www.myspace.com/johntechno
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