I am trying to identify some mushrooms growing along a tree stump in my yard. know of any good sites?

Answer 1

sure try this site wildmushrooms.com it tells you all about the different varieties and has great information give it a look sometime

Answer 2

If you are trying to identify them fine, but do not eat the mushrooms even experts make mistakes!! They could be deadly!!

I clipped this from the New York Times Website:

How safe is it to pick and eat wild mushrooms? The dangers were underscored last week with the death of Sam Sebastiani Jr., 32, a member of one of California's most prominent wine-making families, who ate mushrooms gathered near his home in Santa Rosa, Calif.

''Sometimes even experts need to examine spores under a microscope to know what they are doing,'' said Roseanne Soloway, the administrator of the American Association of Poison Control Centers, a nonprofit educational corporation in Washington, which maintains that most people should not pick and eat wild mushrooms at all. ''A level of presumed expertise is not enough to save your life.''

Answer 3

If you are asking out of idle curiosity there are a lot of good library books that kind of resemble them I am sure. BUT if you think that you can look at a picture in a book and tell whether it is safe to eat some mushrooms you see around you are in for a load of problems (like vomiting ,diarrhea, and maybe death). The consequences of misidentifying are so severe that you should not even handle those unknown ones, no matter how many books you look at.

Answer 4

The forums on www.shroomery.org have a mushroom hunting thread on there. granted the site is geared to the Psilicybin mushrooms, the can and wiil help you there

Answer 5

They are probably the Jew's ear mushroom.They grow on dead trees and are orange in colour.They are poisonous too.

Answer 6

If they are orange- red with white spots they are Amanita Muscaria, poisonous.

Answer 7

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