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hypermale
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blue bruising Boletes
#5972220 - 08/17/06 07:33 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Please forgive me if I have put this in the wrong forum. I understand that the blue bruising Bolete is poisonous; however, does this feature indicate that it contains psilocin/psilocybin?
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xmush
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Re: blue bruising Boletes [Re: hypermale]
#5972245 - 08/17/06 07:53 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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The blueing seen in many boletes occurs via a mechanism that is totally different from the blueing that is seen in hallucinogenic mushrooms. It is just a coincidence. Many of the poisonous boletes are blue-staining. Some blue-staining boletes are not poisonous and are even edible. There are no known hallucinogenic boletes to my knowledge.
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RogerRabbit
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Re: blue bruising Boletes [Re: xmush]
#5972264 - 08/17/06 08:09 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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The non-edible boletes will have an extremely bitter taste, so just take a very small piece and sample it on your tongue. If you have the urge to spit it out because it's so nasty, you have your answer. The non-edible ones are only mildly toxic, so there's not a major danger other than the horrible taste. RR
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ToxicMan
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Re: blue bruising Boletes [Re: RogerRabbit]
#5972410 - 08/17/06 10:13 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Not all poisonous boletes are bitter or bad tasting. I know of many cases where someone was poisoned by a bolete and reported that it was good tasting.
Relying on taste to keep from being poisoned will not work, unfortunately. Lots of poisonous mushrooms are even really good tasting.
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allelopath
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Registered: 08/17/06
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Re: blue bruising Boletes [Re: ToxicMan]
#5972944 - 08/17/06 01:50 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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This is interesting to me because I have been collecting many B. edulis and slicing them to dry in the past weeks. I noticed that one of the buttons turned blue. The cast doubt on the species for me, so I threw it out, but I'm still mystified.
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ToxicMan
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Re: blue bruising Boletes [Re: allelopath]
#5974290 - 08/17/06 08:55 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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If it turned blue, then it definitely wasn't Boletus edulis. We'd need a lot more information to make an ID, unfortunately.
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