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Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

It's that time of year again when fungi suddenly spring up - and often disapperar again as quickly.

Here are a few I found yesterday.  Most seem to be growing on or near old tree roots.  Maybe someone (Ed Taylor?) can tell me what they are:

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Someone once told me that 'any fungus that grows on a tree [in the UK] is not going to kill you'.

Do you know if this is true Dick as I saw something recently that indicated something as toxic, and I thought it was a tree growing fungus.

I wasn't thinking of eating any of these.  On the general point you raise, I think that, leaving aside the few varieties that are really dangerous, the main problem is to know which of the other hundreds of varieties are palatable and to know where to find them. I don't know whether growing on trees is a positive indicator.  Apart from the odd field mushroom, the only fungus that I have found in the garden and eaten was a giant puffball.  It was cut into thick white slabs and fried.

We had some Sulphur Tufts sprouting on a length of logroll edging at the bottom of the garden recently, they smelled nice and mushroomy but are apparently poisonous. I wish I'd taken a picture they were quite pretty.

 

Sorry can't help with your question though.

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