MUSHROOMS

Thanks to my father we enjoyed a delicious meal of batter fried mushrooms. And they were mighty good. He collected them yesterday and I was the proud recipient. Thanks Purple-spored Puffball -- Calvatia cyathiformis This mushroom grows in grassy areas -- pastures. As with all puffballs do not eat if there is any trace of color outlines of a cap with stem when cut open. The large one in the center was a little past its prime for food as the spores were already maturing.

How can you tell which mushrooms are edible and which are not ?

Poison Mushroom Soup Kills 2 Elderly Women By Eli MacKinnon, Life's Little Mysteries Staff Writer | LiveScience.com – 4 hrs ago Amanita phalloides Two residents of an elderly care center are dead and four people are in the hospital after a caregiver allegedly served soup made from poisonous wild mushrooms. The deceased victims are 86-year-old Barbara Lopes and 73-year-old Teresa Olesniewicz, who lived at the Gold Age Villa in Loomis, Calif., according to the Sacramento Bee. A caregiver reportedly foraged mushrooms on the grounds of the senior living center before using them in a meal. The poisonings are believed to be accidental, and the caregiver who allegedl…

This one is especially for Meg - CDs mushroom expert.

so.. i found these walking around today and was wondering if anybody knows what they could be..... jennifer

Restaurateur Buys Most Expensive Truffle Mon Nov 8, 6:19 PM ET Strange News - AP ROME - New York restaurateur Francesco Giambelli dished out a record $41,000 for a 2.4-pound prize Italian white truffle, auction organizers said Monday. The 85-year-old, who owns Giambelli 50th on New York's East Side, beat off an unnamed opponent in Moscow to claim the largest truffle ever to be sold at an auction, auction director Davide Paolini said. "It was very aggressive," he said. "No one has ever paid this much for a truffle." Considered a delicacy since Roman times, truffles are a fungus that forms in symbiosis with tree roots. Italy's white truffles se…

Man Finds 56-Pound Mushroom in Missouri Thu Oct 27, 6:31 PM ET KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The mushroom Ty Whitmore found on a relative's farm near the northwest Missouri community of Maysville this week tipped the scales at 56 pounds — and that was only part of it. Whitmore, 19, of Kansas City, was cutting firewood Monday when he saw the orange and yellow mushroom growing from the base of a maple tree. He cut it off with a saw and said the biggest half of it fell into a creek. "I wanted to see if I had a world record," said Whitmore. "It was so heavy, and I was trying to carry it without damaging it, which was hard because I had to wade across creeks, and the brush i…

Rain-sodden Swedes consoled by mushroom mania By Stephen Brown Thu Aug 18, 8:24 AM ET STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - When Prime Minister Goran Persson wanted to cheer up Swedes enduring the wettest summer for 13 years, he first tried promising more jobs. Then, he hit upon their weak spot: mushrooms. "We are having a fantastic mushroom year," he enthused. He may need a more traditional slogan for next year's elections but Persson knows that Swedes' fondness for picking mushrooms -- a summer and autumn hobby shared with other Nordic, Baltic and Russian nature-lovers -- verges on the obsessive. This summer's weather has been disastrous for sun lovers who normally …

DISCOVER Vol. 26 No. 07 | July 2005 | Biology & Medicine In His Own Words: Dr. Mushroom As Told to Cal Fussman Fungi finally have their own PR man: Greg Mueller of the Field Museum By Cal Fussman Photography by Michele Abeles “How can you tell if a mushroom is poisonous? Well, there are a lot of old wives’ tales out there. Boil them with a silver dollar. If the coin turns black, they’re poisonous. This is one that can really get you into a lot of trouble. It’s edible if it’s growing on wood. Nope, there’s a deadly species of Galerina that grows on wood. Watch the deer and squirrels and eat what they eat. Au contraire. There are different dig…

Oddly Enough - Reuters UK First truffle museum no trifle in Italy Thu Nov 11,11:03 AM ET By Shasta Darlington ROME (Reuters) - Italy's warty white truffles, once aphrodisiacs for the ancient Romans and now the most expensive funghi in the world, are finally getting their own museum. The tiny Tuscan village of San Giovanni d'Asso, one of the main producers of the "white diamonds of Italy", will throw open its doors on Italy's first truffle museum on Saturday. "It's going to be more than a museum, it's going to be an assault on the senses," said Enzo Francini, head of finances for the medieval town of 950 people. A pharmacist, a botanist and a chef…