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   From: rusty.hinge@gruel.invalid.co.uk   
      
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   from kathy.doyle@btconnect.com contains these words:   
      
   > This year and last year there has been a large number of what look   
   > like Agaricus Campestris, field mushrooms in some local fields.   
   > However all the guides I have checked describe them as growing in   
   > pasture or lawn, but these are all in fields where oilseed rape has   
   > been grown and now harvested, and they appear amongst the remains of   
   > the crop. They grow only where the crop was, and not in the grassy   
   > verges around the fields.   
   > can anyone tell me whether this is usual? The farm is a conventional,   
   > ie non organic one, and I am amazed that whatever they are they can   
   > survive the spraying etc. I have harvested parasols etc, in other   
   > areas locally, but I will not be eating any of these as despite being   
   > told that they are field mushrooms I am not fully convinced about.   
      
   I've sometime found hundreds - perhaps thousands - of a white-capped   
   Pluteus, probably P. semibulbosus. One year I could have walked out of   
   my front door, crossed into the field opposite and picked enough to fill   
   several chest freezers. Unfortunately, Roger Phillips says 'edibility   
   unknown'.   
      
   They have pink gills and are listed as 'rare'.   
      
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