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Coraltrout
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Re: Finally had a good hunt in the UK [Re: Ololorat]
#22166419 - 08/30/15 08:25 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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beautiful & enchanting, some of those forests are craving a magical presence
-------------------- 'For it's the end of history, it's caged and frozen still, there is no other pill to take, so swallow the one that makes you ill'
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Untitled
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Re: Finally had a good hunt in the UK [Re: Coraltrout]
#22167247 - 08/30/15 11:41 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I like that you called it 'Russula forest' lol. I like Russula's (i like their range of colours and delicate gills which when you find undamaged (not very often) are quite an impressive sight, to me anyway), and they are probably the one mushroom i see the most of,especially when there is nothing else around. Although in my case i don't usually see red ones. They are mostly the purple/pink ones, and second in line of commonness are yellow. I like the yellow ones (which i assume to be Russula ochroleuca), and they don't taste too bad.
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Ololorat
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Re: Finally had a good hunt in the UK [Re: Untitled]
#22167661 - 08/31/15 04:22 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Coraltrout said: beautiful & enchanting, some of those forests are craving a magical presence 
Thank you. I actually felt like I was watched but I usually don't feel ok when I am alone in the forest, so I prefer to think it was my imagination 
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Untitled said: I like that you called it 'Russula forest' lol. I like Russula's (i like their range of colours and delicate gills which when you find undamaged (not very often) are quite an impressive sight, to me anyway), and they are probably the one mushroom i see the most of,especially when there is nothing else around. Although in my case i don't usually see red ones. They are mostly the purple/pink ones, and second in line of commonness are yellow. I like the yellow ones (which i assume to be Russula ochroleuca), and they don't taste too bad.
They are pretty! And actually, when I was a child and when me and my father were hunting, we picked all the russulas (even red) around and cooked them and never got sick. But maybe I just didn't notice those my father didn't want to take or we were lucky with the local varieties. After I moved to the USA and realized that people dont pick russulas because there are lots of toxic ones and they are hard to identify I stopped picking them. Now I am afraid to take any because there are dozens kinds of of them of every single color and I am unable to identify correctly. Yesterday in the forest I have seen tons of yellow russulas as well (but of course the sickener was significantly more abundant). But I don't know if they are safe to eat. I just have this photo which isn't very informative. Is this Russula ochroleuca?
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Untitled
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Re: Finally had a good hunt in the UK [Re: Ololorat]
#22167828 - 08/31/15 06:03 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I assume so. It looks the same as all the yellow ones i see. I find them all in the same habitats and they always look the same and as far as i know there are no poisonous yellow ones (and for the most part no seriously poisonous Russulas), so i eventually tried eating them, assuming that they were indeed what i suggested (which apart from ID'd by microscopy, should be), and they were fine. I wouldn't have bothered if it wasn't for the fact that, as the common name suggests, they are very common. If I'd also ever seen different kinds of yellow ones it would be a different story. There is also Russula claroflava, the 'Yellow Swamp Russula' which is supposed to be a choice edible but I've not found it yet. The one thing i like about Russula's is that because they don't retain a lot of water to begin with, they don't reduce in size when cooked. The same thing also means you can wash them and they don't absorb water.
Edit: This is an observation of the ones i am talking about (also perfectly unbroken gills!): http://mushroomobserver.org/144671?q=2dJxK
Edited by Untitled (08/31/15 02:03 PM)
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Untitled
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Re: Finally had a good hunt in the UK [Re: Untitled]
#22167835 - 08/31/15 06:11 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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But still, since it's never really possible to 100% identify a Russula by sight, maybe it's best to leave them alone anyway. Check this out: https://blog.mycology.cornell.edu/2013/12/30/a-deadly-russula/
Edited by Untitled (08/31/15 06:22 AM)
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Ololorat
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Re: Finally had a good hunt in the UK [Re: Untitled]
#22169912 - 08/31/15 04:24 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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omg, that deadly russula. I didn't even know there is one... well, I am not a big fan of mushrooms as food, so I better stay away from russulas so far. Why should I take them when there are lots of other more traditional and safe mushrooms 
Found those today. It was raining quite a lot all day long so I didn't take my camera with me, only a phone. Caloboletus radicans (Boletus radicans) I suppose. I have never seen them before.
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