It's a Russula for sure, but I very much doubt it's the Russula Emetica.
Just red Russulas you have hundreds of them, it's one of the hardest species to identify (when you exclude LBMs), good news is, to identify if they are edible you taste the gills close to the stem, if it's not spicy it's edible.
to identify if they are edible you taste the gills close to the stem, if it's not spicy it's edible.
You're absolutely correct.
Hence I added the "probably", as identifying by picture alone is not at all precisely possible.
I guess I should have added the spicy taste test. Just didn't want to invite anyone reading this to go out licking mushrooms all willy-nilly. ;-)
For how many groups(?) of mushrooms does the 'try if it tastes toxic' approach work? That'd definitely make things easier haha
Unfortunately just this one that I know of.
But it's always safe to do the taste and spit test with any mushroom, I made a video for my colleges taste testing a death cap, I would post it here but I don't want to show my face.
It's a Russula for sure, but I very much doubt it's the Russula Emetica.
Just red Russulas you have hundreds of them, it's one of the hardest species to identify (when you exclude LBMs), good news is, to identify if they are edible you taste the gills close to the stem, if it's not spicy it's edible.
You're absolutely correct.
Hence I added the "probably", as identifying by picture alone is not at all precisely possible.
I guess I should have added the spicy taste test. Just didn't want to invite anyone reading this to go out licking mushrooms all willy-nilly. ;-)
For how many groups(?) of mushrooms does the 'try if it tastes toxic' approach work? That'd definitely make things easier haha
Unfortunately just this one that I know of.
But it's always safe to do the taste and spit test with any mushroom, I made a video for my colleges taste testing a death cap, I would post it here but I don't want to show my face.
Looks like this: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CvE6Q_3QjQI
Well, would you look at that... Definitely learned something today!