Russian shrooms (1 Viewer)

Foraging is very big here in Russia and people are coming back from the forest 'bagged up' so I thought I'd give it a go. The only problem is, I have no idea what I'm doing!

The last two days, I've come back with about 2kgs of fungi with very little effort, however, after scrutiny by my wife who is a third or fourth gen forager, I ended up with about 100g of edible stuff but it is fun.

Here's the most interesting thing I found today Purple Webcap Cortinarius violaceus. Edible but not a favourite and said to turn anything else cooked with it, purple.

Hi Andy,

Please be careful! These are obviously not Cortinarius violaceus, which is easily identifiable by its scaly, deep purple cap.

No Cortinarius species should be eaten IMO, there are some fatally poisonous ones.

Best regards,
Nick

Trichia said:

Hi Andy,

Please be careful! These are obviously not Cortinarius violaceus, which is easily identifiable by its scaly, deep purple cap.

No Cortinarius species should be eaten IMO, there are some fatally poisonous ones.

Best regards,
Nick

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Many thanks again Nick,
we don't eat anything that my wife isn't absolutely certain is edible but thanks for the waning!

Perfectly illustrated my incompetence, ID was based on Josephine Bacon's 'ID guide to Mushrooms of Britain and Northern Europe', they are purple, pale admittedly and they have the 'veil'?

Hi Andy,

I would look in the area of Cortinarius traganus for this (I believe species in this group can be toxic).

I don't have access to the book you mention, but beware there are mistakes even in popular guides :eek!:

Cheers,
Nick

Thanks again Nick.