Do not eat fall fungi unless you are a witch

Would you dine on this? I don’t mind eating morel mushrooms in the spring, but I surely don’t trust my judgment or knowledge or lack of skill in selecting mushrooms in the fall for eating. " “Fall Fungi - a...

White Shrooms

Image of the day: White mushrooms in Pulau Ubin island, Singapore.Source: http://www.schahryar.com/photoblog/491

Don’t eat the mushrooms

Poison There is a story today about a couple that picked mushrooms from the yard and put them into their stir fry. They got sick and nearly died. How many times do people have to be told not to try this unless you...

Irene delivered

Popping fresh As anticipated, Irene delivered mushrooms quickly and we expect more. (Not that I am going to do anything with them except look.) " “"Psychedelic mushroom" redirects here. It is not to be confused...

Mushroom watch

Irene angel dust This very well could become a MUSHROOM WARNING! CNN will have charts and graphs to plot their arrival. Irene has seeded mushrooms throughout her path, laying a carpet of fungus that could be...

10 Poisonous Foods We Love to Eat

10 Poisonous Foods We Love to Eat Everyday we chow down on Food Produced from Plants that carry Deadly Poisons.Most of the time we do not need to be concerned with this as the mass production of Fruit and Vegetables ensures that we are usually Safe.But from time to...

G20 leaders get a 'Best of British' dinner at 10 Downing Street

Jamie Oliver cooked up a 'Best of British' feast for the G20 leaders tonight in Downing Street, ahead of the Summit meeting tomorrow morning. Oliver, along with young chefs from his 'Fifteen' restaurant, used produce from all over the country, and started with organic salmon...

The Maggots in Your Mushrooms

"You are what you eat" –right?––After reading this alarming report, I'll never be able to buy packaged / processed foods again! This information is relevant to all of us everywhere around the world, since most packaged foods are made up of 'imported and local' produce....

Fungi on the Oregon Coast

I hike around the Coos Bay Area from time to time.  This day, I was hiking with my dog Joanna in the Charleston area.  I came across a small patch of extraordinary Fungi/mushroom type on the side of the trail....

Wild mushrooms

Wild mushrooms growing on the lawn.

Candy Shop Busted for Selling Drugs

A Berlin chocolate shop had a special menu, it seems: candies laced with magic mushrooms or cannabis. That sort of thing tends to attract law-enforcement attention."The 23-year-old owner of the shop in the trendy east Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg, an area known for its...

Horse Whisperer author poisoned by mushrooms

The author of the best-selling book "The Horse Whisperer" is in the hospital in Scotland after eating some poisonous mushrooms. He had cooked the mushrooms himself after finding them in the woods."Bestselling...

Deadly mushrooms kill 61-year-old

Mushrooms prove to be unsuspecting and as deadly as ever. Be wary of what you eat, even if it is pretty. "Westchester County's health department says Zoila Tapia found the pure-white mushrooms July 6, in a wooded...

Scientists Find Long-term Benefits in Psychedelic Drug

"A study revealed that an illegal drug psilocybin has long-term positive effects on an individual's well-being. Psilocybin is a hallucinogenic substance derived from certain types of mushrooms and is considered illegal, claimed to have a high potential for abuse in the...

No Fungi: Netherlands Bans 'Shrooms

Netherlands, famed for its tolerant stance on "soft drugs", is beginning to shift its official views in light of recent incidents involving tourists. Psylocibin, aka magic mushrooms, are legally sold from licensed...

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