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   From: rusty.hinge@invalid.zetnet.co.uk   
      
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   from Sdraeger  contains these words:   
      
   > I am posting from the U.S. in Ohio.   
      
   Ah, then you'd better wait for someone from your own area to recommend   
   books, etc, as the varieties of mushroom you will see are substantially   
   different from those seen in Europe.   
      
   BTW, Gyromytra species are pretty deadly in any quantity if eaten raw,   
   and when cooked, are believed to be highly poisonous over the long term   
   - though many books label them as 'edible if cooked'.   
      
   (Likewise old books often say that Paxillus involutus is edible, but in   
   WW2 when there was terrible famine in Eastern Europe, all there was to   
   eat in some places was a bumper crop of P. involutus.   
      
   'Bumper' is an apt word, for it bumped-off many, many people, and it was   
   only then that it became well-known that the mushroom was deadly in   
   cumulative doses.   
      
   I have the 1978 reprint of the second edition of the Collins Guide to   
   Mushrooms & Toadstools - a handbook published in 1963, second edition   
   1965 and reprinted up to 1978 (at least) which labels P. involutus as   
   "Harmless if cooked, of little value; slightly poisonous to some when   
   raw" - which is completely unforgivable, especially as the authors are   
   Morton Lange and F. Bayard Hora.   
      
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