i lesson learned.
i lesson learned.
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knocked my confidence a bit.
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Chaps - any idea what this is?
It was on a fallen silver birch in the New Forest this weekend. I wondered if it was edible ~ out of curiosity only you understand.
I used to work with a chap who was very knowledgable about fungi. He (after consultation) quashed my father's "rule" that if you can peel the skin of fungi from the rim to the crown in one go it is edible. I suspect the reverese is true (that if it won't peel in one go, it's definately going to harm you)!
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Birch polypores cant really see because I'm viewing on my phone. Dont eat fungi if you cant positively identify it, just not worth the risk.
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Yep. Definately Birch Polypore. Not really edible. But it does have a ton of other uses such as plasters, tinder, knife sharpening etc etc
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It is better to have your confidence knocked a bit than being a bit over-confident when the game is foraging for wild fungi.
The problem with fungi is that there are SO many of them. The species you got mixed up with Jew's Ear is just one of countless species you might have got mixed up with Jew's Ear, some of which won't be in any of your reference books. That means you've got to be uber-careful when you are collecting something self-identified for the first time. If it looks a lot like something you were hoping to find, but not quite, then it is probably something else.
The best way to avoid ending up dead is to make absolutely certain you know all of the seriously poisonous species (of which there aren't actually that many.) They fall into the following genera: Amanita, Cortinarius, Clitocybe, Lepiota, Inocybe, Galerina. It is pretty hard to kill yourself if you know what these look like and avoid them.
I was about to say the same thing - that IS NOT Jew's Ear!
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