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Re: Wild Edible Plants
Nice pic retro. I'll try to identify these mushrooms in the woods (I don't find many mushrooms usually, I have to go on the right day, I guess if the weather has been rainy the past few days?).
For beginners, I think it's crucial to not try to find mushrooms to eat, so much as to familiarize yourself with their characteristics... Even for seasoned mushroom hunters, there are cases where someone makes one careless error, and ends up getting poisoned, even dying. So it's always important to familiarize oneself with the class of mushroom, its characteristics and how they are expressed by the different species. Do your research and learn about all the lookalikes, and always make sure you can positively identify what you want to eat based on this.
From what I've been reading, maybe the morphology of Boletus Edulis is reliable enough to distinguish it from all other species if you really know what you're doing, but in other cases, an edible species is too similar to a toxic species to trust oneself with eating. In extreme cases, where the morphology of a fungi is practically indistinguishable from another species, only a genetic test can identify a particular species. When a theoretically edible of mushroom (or type of mushroom) has potentially toxic lookalikes that are too similar to distinguish from, it's best to leave them alone.
I don't want to scare people, or over-complicate mushroom hunting though, I just want to express my idea of how to be safe vs how to take chances (or even guarantee an event of poisoning).
Haykakan, I looked into the wolverine being dangerous to humans, though it's a killing machine towards its prey and can do serious damage to people if provoked and cornered, they are normally timid of humans and will only attack if they feel they cannot escape us. As long as they're given plenty of space, and aren't suddenly startled by us, they generally aren't a threat.
Nice pic retro. I'll try to identify these mushrooms in the woods (I don't find many mushrooms usually, I have to go on the right day, I guess if the weather has been rainy the past few days?).
For beginners, I think it's crucial to not try to find mushrooms to eat, so much as to familiarize yourself with their characteristics... Even for seasoned mushroom hunters, there are cases where someone makes one careless error, and ends up getting poisoned, even dying. So it's always important to familiarize oneself with the class of mushroom, its characteristics and how they are expressed by the different species. Do your research and learn about all the lookalikes, and always make sure you can positively identify what you want to eat based on this.
From what I've been reading, maybe the morphology of Boletus Edulis is reliable enough to distinguish it from all other species if you really know what you're doing, but in other cases, an edible species is too similar to a toxic species to trust oneself with eating. In extreme cases, where the morphology of a fungi is practically indistinguishable from another species, only a genetic test can identify a particular species. When a theoretically edible of mushroom (or type of mushroom) has potentially toxic lookalikes that are too similar to distinguish from, it's best to leave them alone.
I don't want to scare people, or over-complicate mushroom hunting though, I just want to express my idea of how to be safe vs how to take chances (or even guarantee an event of poisoning).
Haykakan, I looked into the wolverine being dangerous to humans, though it's a killing machine towards its prey and can do serious damage to people if provoked and cornered, they are normally timid of humans and will only attack if they feel they cannot escape us. As long as they're given plenty of space, and aren't suddenly startled by us, they generally aren't a threat.
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