black shroom

[Nick]

BEWARE - the black shroo is lureing or howeve r you spell it? be carefull............. I have experienced mjushroom poisoning and it is not fun at all no FUN NO fUN ok? just take the amanitas or psilocybes you know well.

[mesq]

Riiiiight good call. I'll remember not to eat unidentified black mushrooms thank you :D

[mescalito]

Dunno what shroom it was that I had(see earlier thread), but it turned to mush with the aid of little maggoty(is that a word?) things

[spiders]

Certainly there arent many mushrooms native to Australia or introduced that are black in colour. And certainly none of the seriously poisonous mushrooms here are black.

Also, since the Death Cap, Amanita Phalloides is the most poisonous mushroom known to man, your post is a little misleading.

[Nick]

trust me there are mushies out there that are highly toxic - all different shapes and sizes and colours. And sometimes it's not the mushroom itself that causes poisoning, it can be microscopic stuff growing on them. There's more than death caps to look out for

[Rev]

or it can be a case of indigestibility causeing cramps and flatulence <___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_smile.png

there are a whole suite of easily identifiable edibles out there - if you must add to it at least know the ID of what you are about to try

so if you die we can strike it off as a definite 'no'

Then At least you died in the pursuit of knowldege not just became a candidate for a darwin award <___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_smile.png

[Torsten]

Originally posted by reville:

not just became a candidate for a darwin award <___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_smile.png

Hey, lets not underestimate the value of the Darwin Awards. Eating undidentified black shrooms and getting an unidentified poisonous reaction would definitely get my vote.

[Thelema]

did you end up getting any spores from that blackie?

its a sexy shroom...i for one would take bets to ingest 1/8th of one.

PLS PM me if you have a sporeprint etc

[Tryptameanie]

Hygrocybe conica is waxy, bright orange and red, staining a beautiful charcoal black instantly on even mild bruising. ( One I took home was completely black by the time I got there).

Didn't eat it though.....

[Anodyne]

Found a lovely black bolete (think it was a native, given the location) once - shaggy scales on the cap, very dark brown sponge, ink-black stem. Couldn't ID it, but then again three-quarters of the fungi I find aren't in my book. (Anyone know of a good book for Australian species?)

[spiders]

Nick if you could name one microscopic bacteria or mold that grows on any mushrooms that would harm me i will give you twenty dollars.

Sure there are many seriously poisonous mushrooms - Amanita, Gallerina, inocybes, paxillus, Leptiota, Hypholoma, chlorophyllum, Agaricus Xanthoderma as well as some mildy poisonous species of the stropharia/hypholoma complex, russula to name a few.

Hygrocybe Conica certainly stains black with damage among other colours, but in other countries it is considered harmless.

If you had serious liver of kidney damage then you had serious poisoning - if your talking about stomach upsets then you can get those from countless mushrooms.