Mashroom question

[gcp]

Gang, what kind of mushrooms are these and are the eatable? One has what appears to be animal bites on them and they grow in certain areas of my property. Not portabelo but hey, they might be tasty.

 

[KPark]

Gut reaction is "not edible". Err on the side of caution - if you make a mistake, you could end up dead. Some edible mushrooms are difficult to tell apart from their evil counterparts without looking for some very fine details. Easiest way is to invite a mushroom guy over to take a look. Have him try it if he says it's edible, and see if he gets sick before you eat any yourself. A professor in college was fairly astute in this field, but he still killed some family members by making a mistake one day. I don't want to be a killjoy, but consider the consequences.

 

[k0ua]

Here is a good rule to live by. Mushrooms are poisonous, unless you know they are not. You do not know that those mushrooms are not poisonous, so therefore they are. So don't eat them.

 

[Gary Fowler]

Land turtles and Terrapins can eat mushrooms (likely the bite marks you see) that are poisonous to a human. As said, even highly knowledgeable folks have been fooled, forget eating them and stick with produce at the market.

 

[TCJatko]

What they said!

 

[brin]

What they said!

Absolutely.....don't even think about eating them....

 

[Midniteoyl]

Kids friend went 'shrooming for years.. He went with them several times. One year, they all ended up in the ER.

Not worth it..

 

[gcp]

Thank you for your input guys, so, I think I'll take a bite and see what happens........NOT