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Peteza34
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Delicious Agaricus?
#22382364 - 10/15/15 08:11 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Just making sure before I fire up the omelette pan. These were found next to a parking lot near hardwood trees. I didn't print it but you can see brown spores on the ring of the one stem that is there.

Oh and I didn't see any yellowing, nor did I notice a foul smell. They smell yummy.
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Edited by Peteza34 (10/15/15 08:12 AM)
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Alan Rockefeller
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Re: Delicious Agaricus? [Re: Peteza34]
#22382641 - 10/15/15 09:54 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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With that thick veil and cap texture, it could go either way.
When you smell it, scratch the hell out of it, especially around the base of the stem to break as many cell walls as possible.
Sometimes the smell is very faint or only at the stem base, same for the yellowing.
When in doubt, try a small piece first and if you are fine after an hour eat larger amounts. Agaricus toxins kick in quickly and if it is toxic you won't require medical attention.
When you fry it up, heat some oil in a pan and toss in the mushrooms before you add any other ingredients - if it is a toxic Agaricus, the toxin is really noticeable when it starts heat up.
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fry day


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Not to contradict the ineffably sexy and brainy Mr. Rockefeller, but I'm calling augustus based on size. Should be almondy smelling. If they've got no worms you've scored. The fall flush on my patch is completely infested, buttons already full of 'em. Wah.
They're okay when the gills are completely brown, but the younger ones and buttons are best. I dry the more mature ones or ones with critters.
Hold 'em over the sink and rap the tops of the caps sharply, let the sowbugs and critters fall out. Or you could do that outside to give those critters a fair chance to escape back into the wilderness rather than washing them down the sink. Or hold 'em upright and bounce the stem on a solid surface. You'll be amazed at what's in there. ;-)
-------------------- "Shrub, 30-90 cm. Leaves 2.5-) 4-9 cm, sessile or amplexicaul, broadly ovate to ovate-oblong, obtuse or rounded to subapiculate or subacute, when crushed not smelling of goats." "The initial quake was a 6.6 but fairly shallow. I felt it as a prolonged up and down vibration followed by a jolt forward and then to the left, like square dancing."
Edited by fry day (10/15/15 11:45 PM)
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elprawn
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Re: Delicious Agaricus? [Re: fry day]
#22386510 - 10/15/15 11:56 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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I don't think it's A. augustus. The stem texture looks wrong and I find the caps tend to be a bit squarer.
Cook a little bit and eat it. The toxic ones tend to taste utterly revolting, but I guess if you have very atypical taste then you may disagree.
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Alan Rockefeller
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Re: Delicious Agaricus? [Re: elprawn]
#22398034 - 10/18/15 02:29 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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It's not Agaricus augustus, could be the undescribed species that goes under the name Agaricus moelleri on the west coast.
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