A guided Foraging Walk has been organised starting at 10.30am on Saturday 27th October at Tiger Hill Nature Reserve, postcode CO8 5BW.
Directions: From
Assington, opposite Arger Fen, turn right through the gate with white sign. Parking available on grass.
Children welcome and well behaved dogs on leads.
Please
feel free to bring any foraged items you might have to discuss and any
donations will be split between Tiger Hill and the Transition group.
Places are limited, to book please contact Jane Hatton on 01787 468634.
Even the freezing weather couldn't spoil this visit - thanks to all at Tiger Hill for their enthusiasm and willingness to impart so much knowledge.
ReplyDeleteHello everybody,
ReplyDeleteI read the write up in Monday's EADT about this event, and while it is good to see fresh interest in fungi, there are a number of points in the article which need addressing - firstly the photo does not clearly show the snakeskin pattern on the stem of those fungi in the photo. This suggests to me these may in fact be SHAGGY parasols, (either Chlorophyllum rhacodes or C.brunneum) both of which can give some people stomach problems.
Also, to regularly eat fungi which grow by the roadside is asking for trouble as even though cars are a lot cleaner these days there is still a huge amount of lead and cadmium still remaining which fungi readily take up. Naturally, the odd one or two will not harm you.
The most disturbing point though is the reporters error: "For example, there is a type of amanitus mushroom, which is poisonous, that resembles the field mushroom, which you can eat. And telling the two apart can be difficult. " The name 'mushroom' should ideally be restricted to the edible shop bought mushrooms and all the rest referred to as 'fungi' but the use of the word 'amanitus' is frankly appalling - you were obviously referring to Amanita phalloides and the reporter should have asked how do you spell that. Better still, you should simply have said the 'Death Cap' as the reading public can better equate to that - but even then, I cannot see how a sensible person can mistake the Death Cap as this has a distinctive brownish/OLIVE cap colour whilst the edible members of the Agaricus genera (mushrooms) have white to light brown caps.
Right, that's got that off me chest ! Pleased you all seem to have had a great day.
Neil Mahler.
County Fungus Recorder for Suffolk.