g'day steffen,

i would say not then i'd most likely always err on the side of caution when suggesting what mushy may or may not be edible. you need to either source a very good book on your local scene(local library comes to mind), or join a mushroom hunters club whatever they call them last i knew there was one in the melbourne area somewhere.

and then join them and go out on some field trips you will become very wise to what you can eat.

do you have a picture of those mushies fully open the underside being the one i am looking for.

len

Here is a link that might be useful: lens garden page

Hi Len,

thanks for your response. Here the picture:

http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc4/Steffen595/mushroomshead.jpg

Could be the wild variety of champions, no idea. Smell tempting.

Interesting webpage you have (if its your that is)

Have one of these push lawn mowers, same effort to move as a engine one, plus no cables, no endless pulling to start it...

Cheers,

Steffen

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It is certainly not Agaricus campestris, "common field mushroom", which is the "wild" mushroom that is most commonly eaten. (It's not native, and therefore ethically respectable for people to pick and eat.)
It looks like an Amanita. Some Amanitas are deadly.
There are probably some native mushrooms which are edible but the field is poorly studied, and it's a pity to find yourself dropping dead from eating wild food when there's plenty of safe stuff to eat in the supermarkets.
Snacking on bush tucker is ethically unacceptable anyway. It was OK when Australia had its full complement of native flora, and only supported half a million people. With our current population, people who eat wild food plants are just another force for destruction of our biodiversity.
There are so many reasons for just leaving those poor little toadstools alone!
Trish

Have to say I completely disagree with you Trish, in fact in all respect I think that to say that eating bush tucker is unethical, is absolutely ridiculous. native plants should be eaten above all else as they have evolved to conditions of Australia and are thus better suited to the conditions here than introduced species, aka agriculture - I would say that it is unethical to eat anything else given the destruction that is inflicted upon the environment to grow anything that isn't 'bush tucker". And besides, the with mushrooms, the "mushroom" is only the fruiting body, underground is were the fungus actually is, so eating a mushroom is doing no more harm to the fungus than is eating an apple from an apple tree.

having said that, does anyone know any good mushroom Identification books for Australia? particularly for south east Queensland, of even just the east coast of Australia?