How to Safely Identify The Edible Puffball Family of Mushrooms Puffball mushrooms overall are a very common and easy to identify family, one of the safest for beginners. It’s one of the first species that I remembered the Latin name for. Lycopodium roughly translates to ‘Wolfs Fart’ I guess it’s…
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Some of the Most Deadly and Toxic UK Mushrooms Sometimes learning the most deadly plants and fungi is a good starting point, if you can avoid them you’ll stay safe. This blog post is supposed to instill a little fear in the learning and budding forager, but only in so much that…
Mushrooms are in abundance at the moment. Any walk through a green space or forest will have you tripping over some sort of Fungi and there is so much variety! Here I want to outline five mushrooms you will definitely come across this November and whether they are safe or…
Death cap / Summer/Autumn/ Deadly Common Name Death Cap None Edible Deadly Toxic!! Botanical Name Amanita phalloides Meaning of Botanical Name Phalloides refers to the shape of the young mushroom emerging from its egg sack. Family Amanitaceae Known Hazards DEADLY, this mushroom contains amotoxin, which in the first 6-12 hours…