Facts

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Facts Fiction

• Rumor and belief undone

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Fiction

• Poisonous or safe

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Poisonous when

• Stains when bruised
• Secretes milky juice
• Turns garlic blue or black when cooked
• Tarnishes silver
• Has scales, warts, or other types of rough
  surfaces

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Not poisonous when

• Growing on wood
• Eaten by others animals rabbits, squirrels,
  slugs, insects
• Is dried, boiled, salted, or pickled
• Has no annulus
• Is pure white

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Facts

• Or the truth behind all the nonsense

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The facts

• Some fungi are poisonous
• People vary in their response
• Some people are allergic even to safe fungi
• Some are poisonous only when eaten in large
  amounts
• Some are poisonous when raw, but safe when cooked
• Some are poisonous regardless
• Some are poisonous when consumed with or within a
  few days of imbibing alcohol

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More Facts

• Some are considered poisonous due to
  hallucinogenic compounds
• Some become poisonous after freezing, decay, or
  with increasing age
• Some are poisonous in part of their range, but
  not in others
• Some are poisonous to animals but not humans, and
  vice versa

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EDIBLES

• 5
• easy to recognize fleshy fungi for beginners

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MORELS

• Several species in a number of habitats
• Typically spring fruiting
• Ascomycete
• Hollow interior

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PORCHINI or KING BOLETE

• Mycorrhizal with conifers
• Fall fruiting
• pored

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CHANTERELLES

• Mycorrhizal with conifers
• Late summer/early fall
• Slow to develop
• Ours more apricot colored
• Folds truly gilled

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SHAGGY MANES

• Black spored
• Deliquescing gills
• Fruits spring and fall, but most abundant in fall
• Associated with rich organic soils

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SULPHUR SHELF

• Pored, pore surface usually yellowish to whitish
• Ours on conifers (other species on hardwoods)
• Wood rot
• Annual
• Reports of some people being sensitive