You have it backwards!
Chantarelles have gills!
Posted on 03/17/2013 7:22:25 PM PDT by neverdem
You have it backwards!
Chantarelles have gills!
LOL! I sure miss Benny Hill. The poor guy basically got run off the BBC. Broke his heart.
I just go for morels in the Spring.
My dad grew up on a farm in Poland. Whenever we went camping, he would go foraging for mushrooms. He never got sick. Scared the hell out of all of us.
Morels......no better mushroom.
Where do you live?
“Never ever eat any mushroom that you have not positively identified. Eating even 1 gram of either the Destroying Angel or the Death Cap will be enough to destroy your liver and kidneys and the onset of symptoms might take two or three days to occur.”
Wow. Are you sure you don’t mean 1 ounce (28 grams)?
But yes, nobody should eat mushrooms if not 100% sure. That’s why I said “crazy”
A Jack o' lantern mushroom has gills.
http://students.cis.uab.edu/Kitta/poisonous.html
Between Cleveland and Akron, Ohio.
According to this link, they don’t actually glow in the dark as advertised either.
I’ve gathered chanterelles for years and have never found anything that was bad, when I first began I gathered some that looked just like chanterelles, and fortunately a cousin from the woods looked over my ‘catch’ and threw them out.
I don’t know what they were, but they had a spongiform underside much like the Bolete. Otherwise, they looked just like a chanterelle.
From what I know about the Jack O’Lantern - it grows out of tree stumps and in rotting wood, while Chanterelles do not. They do not grow in my region (Central Europe).
There is also the “False Chanterelle” which can cause stomach upset, although some regard it as edible.
Here is an interesting mushroom story from a famous mycologist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVx9R7nNe4A
It’s a clip from a great documentary film, “Know Your Mushrooms”. Worth looking for!!!
There is a French doctor who cured himself three times when he deliberately ate the deadliest mushroom known.
http://injectablevitaminc.com/images/Ch28.pdf
That is the cure, I was unable to find an article about the French doctor who deliberately ate deadly poisonous mushrooms on three occasions and then cured himself.
I read the original article in a non-English book on the subject.
His name was Dr. Bastien.
The Bastien Treatment.
A French physician, Dr. P. Bastien, has developed a new treatment for Amanita poisoning. It has three parts:
(1) intravenous injections of 1 gram vitamin C twice a day;
(2) two capsules of nifuroxazide three times a day;
(3) two tablets of dihydrostreptomycin three times a day.
The treatment is supplemented by measures to control fluid and electrolyte balance, and by penicillin.Bastien successfully treated 15 cases of A. phalloides poisoning between 1957 and 1969. In 1974 he ate 65 grams of A. phalloides and survived. In 1981 he ate 70 grams of A. phalloides and again successfully treated himself. It is reported that the Bastien treatment is now used throughout France, where it saves the lives of all those whose treatment has not been delayed until massive liver and kidney damage has occurred. This method should obviously be widely publicized and tested in North America.
ping - see my previous post - though it might interest you.
FRegards
Benny Hill’s “El Cheapo Films” is his ultimate classic, IMO.
My husband has just planted 100 hazelnut trees and their roots have been infused with truffle spores. In about 3 years we will be interested in finding a good truffle dog...... or a truffle pig. :)
Thank you.
Interesting that he would use antibiotics since they are metabolized and excreted by the liver and kidneys, which are already being damaged by the mushroom toxins - I would think he would more likely build up toxic levels of the antibiotics!
Apparently the treatment must be started before the second critical stage sets in, and many people might be more embarrassed than frightened by the first stage - I am so stupid, and I have diarrhea, they think. Oh good, I’m feeling better, well, I’ll stay away from THAT mushroom in the future.
As a youngster living in northern Michigan, my grandfather used to take me out mushroom hunting in the spring.....
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