From: snag_one@msn.com   
      
   riburr wrote:   
   > Snag wrote:   
   >>   
   >>    Hey , I've seen that cortinarius or one very much like it growing   
   >> next to the camper  . Looked   
   >> like a small orangy-tan almost-flat parasol , growing in the grass   
   >> last fall . One of the things that got me interested in looking for   
   >> wild 'shrooms . Hey , the land has a bountiful amount of edibles ,   
   >> if we know what when and where to look !   
   > The author of "The Horse Whisperer" (made into the popular movie   
   > starring Robert Redford), Nicholas Evans, along with his wife and some   
   > of her relatives had to go on kidney dialysis after misidentifying and   
   > eating a poisonous Cortinarius species (large genus including many   
   > species).  He eventually got a kidney transplanted from his daughter.   
      
     Definitely one to leave alone , especially for a beginner . A couple of   
   the others look easy enough to identify , I might risk one of the   
   cauliflower or others you mentioned .   
   --   
   Snag   
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   you young !   
      
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