Getting Started

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• What kind of things will help me to find mushrooms fast?
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  There are a few special techniques to finding mushrooms especially when a person has never found a particular type that they are looking for
  
  
• The Wild Mushroom Pickers' Code of Conduct
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  The Wild Mushroom Pickers' Code of Conduct
  
  
• How do I make a sporeprint?
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  It's simple to make a spore print from a mushroom.
  
  
• Can one tell the edibility of a mushroom by taste?
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  told that if you place a small piece of mushroom under the tongue and there is no burning or reaction within an hour, that the shroom is probably OK. Is this correct?
  
  
• Outline for describing your find
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  What characteristic marks you should include when describing an unknown mushroom in order to identify it.
  
  
• What can I do if a bull charges me?
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  In your outings through cow fields you may stumble upon a bull, or it may stumble upon you.
  
  
• Why is consuming unidentified mushrooms dangerous?
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  Consuming an unidentified mushroom is like playing Russian Rolette.
  
  
• I'm completely new to mushroom hunting, where do I start?
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  One of the best things you could do would be to get yourself a book on mushrooms.
  
  
• Is mushroom hunting dangerous?
  
  Yes.
  
  
• Which toxins can be found in poisonous mushrooms?
  
  Mushroom poisoning is caused by the consumption of raw or cooked fruiting bodies of a number of species of higher fungi.
  
  
• Are all mushrooms that bruise blue safe to eat?
  
  No.