thedudefresco
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Good Morning Mycelium?
I've been trying to figure out what kind of "fruiting bodies" these are.
Now that's what I call organic.
What kinda cultivars are the two colas?
Agaricus, meadow mushroom, those are the ones you buy in the store.
are mine unusually big, or is it another species ?
they're bigger than 10 cm, more like 15 cm, 6 inches.
would love to "just eat them" - sauteed in butter - other than the fact that they could be poison ... I don't know much about mushrooms, other than SOME are poisonous.
Agaricus, meadow mushroom, those are the ones you buy in the store.
I'm pretty sure the mushrooms in the OP are Lepiota lutea...Which is found commonly in flower/plant pots.
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They get huge sometimes, same mushroom small sold as white button, medium as cremini, large as portobello.
Always try 1-2 small bites and wait 24 hours to see if you get sick before eating a full helping of a new wild mushroom.
Learn how to do a spore test before you eat any white wild mushrooms.
There are several "safe" wild species to gather without deadly lookalikes that are safer to start with ...
I just have to add some toxic mushroom can give kidney failure that doesnt show before a week or two...
I think so too!
Lepiota Lutea is a different way of naming the same mushroom, leucocoprinus birnbaumii.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucocoprinus_birnbaumii
These things are insanely speedy and last night they completely overtook the pot lol. I should have taken a photo. From barely visible to the size of a half dollar overnight. If it happens again I'll snap a pic.
Personally, I'd be way too paranoid of fucking up to eat a mushroom I collect.
However, I know some folks who bring the shrooms they collect to the local university, and the students in the lab help them determine if it is indeed edible or not.
That's the waay!