Mushrooms

[assateague]

Anybody good with ID? No, I'm probably not going to eat them on the recommendation of someone on here, but I'd like to know, just in case. These are growing in the middle of the front yard, under a maple tree. They smell like "regular" mushrooms. I've googled, but can't find much that's close.

[assateague]

It's bugging me more and more. For no apparent reason, I keep imagining them sliced up and sauteed in butter and garlic. But I'd like that to not be followed by a painful, peeing down my leg, drooling death.

[Tomkat]

Fry 'em up Assateague! Party on Dude!

[assateague]

That I'd be sort of ok with. It's this that I'm afraid would happen:

[FlintRiverFowler]

if they were attached to the tree theres a good chance that tree has heart rot.

[assateague]

No, they're growing out of the lawn. Only in that one spot, no tree roots above ground. And no, the dog never goes in the front yard Although I could probably make a pretty penny selling the ones that grow on the horse manure pile. Not going to eat those, but I know what they are. Figures, the ones I want to eat I can't figure out what they are, and the ones that we can't stop from growing are all too familiar.

[Westie25]

Make tea. Enjoy.

[assateague]

It's been 25 years. Don't think I could handle it anymore. And we generally put them in mashed potatoes. Easier coming back up.

[FlintRiverFowler]

watch out assa, theres a certain member here who may start calling you a drug addict.

[Westie25]

It's been 25 years. Don't think I could handle it anymore. And we generally put them in mashed potatoes. Easier coming back up.

It's always been quite mellow for me. Never seen things. Never was intense.

[assateague]

watch out assa, theres a certain member here who may start calling you a drug addict.

[Tomkat]

Two men who ate poisonous mushrooms surviv


By Joe Stephens,


With the rainy weather recently, lawns are producing bumper crops of mushrooms. And doctors at Georgetown University Hospital are offering some advice :

No matter how tempting the fungi, don’t yank them out of the ground and pop them into your mouth.

http://washingtonpost.com/wherewelive


Physicians offer the cautionary tale of Frank Constantinopla, 49, who after a Sept. 12 rainstorm looked in wonder at his backyard in Springfield, Va. “Oh, there’re so many mushrooms,” Constantinopla recalls thinking. “They look so lovely; I’m so lucky.”

Constantinopla plucked a handful and stir-fried them with noodles.

“They tasted good.”

Problems set in within hours and continued for days. Constantinopla and his wife grew weak, their stomachs ached, they vomited. Two days later, Constantinopla went to a local emergency room and was transferred to Georgetown University Hospital for a possible liver transplant.

Doctors broke the news: Those lovely mushrooms were Amanita phalloides, a toadstool commonly known as the Death Cap.

No federally approved treatment exists for mushroom poisoning, but doctors won permission to give Constantinopla an experimental drug made from milk thistle, a flowering plant used in holistic remedies. It seemed to do the trick. By Saturday, Constantinopla was well enough to speak at a news conference.

“I’m lucky to still be alive,” he said, smiling. His wife recovered without the drug.

About a week after Constantinopla’s stir-fry mishap, Walter Lantz Jr., 82, a retired farmer, snacked on some fungi plucked near his home in Frederick, Md. On Wednesday, he also ended up at Georgetown University Hospital, where the same experimental drug, silibinin, seemed to stem the damage to his liver. Lantz remains hospitalized, but he is expected to recover fully.

Doctors believe Lantz ate Amanita bisporigera, a.k.a. Destroying Angel. Hospital officials said it was rare for them to see two mushroom poisoning victims within a week.

Many toadstool victims don’t associate their illness with mushrooms, because symptoms are delayed and progress through three stages, experts said. The first begins six hours to a day after ingestion and may include stomach pain, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. After a day or two, victims often see symptoms abate. But three to five days later, liver and kidney damage can lead to jaundice and coma. Up to a third of people who eat poisonous mushrooms may die.

Constantinopla, who has yet to return to his job at a hardware store, looked robust on Saturday but vowed to never eat another mushroom — store-bought or otherwise.

“Don’t eat those things,” he said. “They might kill you.”

[Westie25]

I had a real nice body high and colors were real bright. But I didn't see things.

[Olly]

I had a real nice body high and colors were real bright. But I didn't see things.

Exactly what shrooms do. TK is thinking of LSD

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[Westie25]

What I figured. That's jehlers expertise.

[assateague]

TK, those stories were enough for me to not try anything. I read today while researching about one mushroom which won't exhibit any symptoms for a WEEK, then you get sick and die. Screw that noise.

(As a side note, I found it irritating that the cure that worked wasn't "govt approved", and they had to get permission like a bunch of third graders to give a guy who was most certainly dying something which the FDA doesn't "approve of". The fact that it saved his life probably means nothing, either. But the FDA is busy approving pecker pills as fast as they can get to market. Screw the government.)

[TNAL45]

Always heard gills= bad on wild shrooms. While not universally true, it holds true enough that I wouldn't touch those.

[vincentpa]

My uncle picked wild mushrooms once and fed them to his wife and father in law. My aunt and uncle were in their 70's and the father-in-law in his mid 90's. They were magic mushrooms! They tripped hard! They all had to go to the hospital and fortunately weren't harmed physically by the poison. I still get a good laugh at a 94 year old tripping on shrooms.

[Tomkat]

TK, those stories were enough for me to not try anything. I read today while researching about one mushroom which won't exhibit any symptoms for a WEEK, then you get sick and die. Screw that noise.

(As a side note, I found it irritating that the cure that worked wasn't "govt approved", and they had to get permission like a bunch of third graders to give a guy who was most certainly dying something which the FDA doesn't "approve of". The fact that it saved his life probably means nothing, either. But the FDA is busy approving pecker pills as fast as they can get to market. Screw the government.)

Thats kind of where I am at....no mushrooms, and screw the gubment! LOL