And a few more mushrooms ...
Like shaggy manes, they turn black and oozy as they mature, but these have relatively smooth caps. These are buttons. They're edible, as long as you stay away from alcohol for two days after eating them. They deactivate a human enzyme that protects us from the effects of alcohol, so that the alcohol, not the innocent mushroom, gives us a batch of nasty symptoms; a hangover amplified.
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| More inkies, maturing. |
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| An amanita button, possibly Amanita muscaria, as found, ripped up and left to die on fallen leaves. |
Don't try eating these! Hallucinogenic, poisonous, sometimes lethal. They do look tasty, though!
From my mushroom guide: "It has been calculated that a single large specimen of artist's conk can produce 30 billion spores a day during the summer months, for a total of 4.5 trillion spores annually! This is the source of the brown dust-like coating that often covers the surface of this conk.
You can try to eat these; I hear that the flavour is "mild", but really, they're tough as old-growth lumber.
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