Easter mushrooms

[Bobby]

I went for a walk tonight and found these unusual orange fruits on 5 trees.
See pics.
What is that fruit? – it smells nice when I cut it open.

[Bobby]

A friend of mine is a genius and he found it:

SOUTHERN KANGAROO APPLE
(Solanum laciniatum)





https://edibleoz.com.au/products/southe ... ucker-food


Fruit - raw or cooked, must be thoroughly ripe because unripe fruit is poisonous. It can be used as a sweet fruit or as a vegetable. Fruit is sickly sweet and often bitter.

https://www.daleysfruit.com.au/Kangaroo ... culare.htm

Specifications of Kangaroo Apple




An attractive small shrub with purple flowers, that are follow by bright orange to red fruits that are edible when fully ripe, but caution should be taken with them as they are poisonous when green. It gets its name from the shape of the lobed leaves which resemble the shape of a kangaroo foot. Found on rainforest margins, it makes an excellent pioneer. Kangaroo apple also make a good rootstock for grafting other solanums onto such as eggplants and tamarillos.

[Black Orchid]

Did you try it?

[Bobby]

Did you try it?

I ate one last night - the one pictured -
the Kangaroo Apple -
and I'm still here today so it wasn't poisonous.
They taste very nice and sweet.

[Neferti]

Did you try it?

I ate one last night - the one pictured -
the Kangaroo Apple -
and I'm still here today so it wasn't poisonous.
They taste very nice and sweet.

What about the mushies? Did you try those?

[Bobby]

Did you try it?

I ate one last night - the one pictured -
the Kangaroo Apple -
and I'm still here today so it wasn't poisonous.
They taste very nice and sweet.

What about the mushies? Did you try those?

No - I couldn't get a good enough identity on them.
Mushrooms can look OK but kill you.
There is one dangerous type that looks exactly the same as
the normal field mushrooms sold in supermarkets
but is fatal from just one small mushroom.
The one I found was so bright yellow that it was suspicious.

[Neferti]

Every year I see something in the Canberra Times warning people NOT to touch/eat the "mushrooms" that they find. Chinese people in Canberra have died in past years for doing this.

As a kid we used to go "mushroom picking" out in the farming areas and come home with buckets full. I remember Mum putting a silver spoon in the pan and if it turned black, there was supposed to be a poisonous mushroom in there. Never happened though. Fresh mushies for breakfast, yum.

[Bobby]

Every year I see something in the Canberra Times warning people NOT to touch/eat the "mushrooms" that they find. Chinese people in Canberra have died in past years for doing this.

As a kid we used to go "mushroom picking" out in the farming areas and come home with buckets full. I remember Mum putting a silver spoon in the pan and if it turned black, there was supposed to be a poisonous mushroom in there. Never happened though. Fresh mushies for breakfast, yum.

Yes - my Mother used to take us all out to the farms to get mushrooms.
The rule was to pick ones in a field well away from any tress -
it's generally so that the ones in touch with tree roots can be poisonous.
Field mushrooms are OK.

( now someone will find an exception)

[Neferti]

Every year I see something in the Canberra Times warning people NOT to touch/eat the "mushrooms" that they find. Chinese people in Canberra have died in past years for doing this.

As a kid we used to go "mushroom picking" out in the farming areas and come home with buckets full. I remember Mum putting a silver spoon in the pan and if it turned black, there was supposed to be a poisonous mushroom in there. Never happened though. Fresh mushies for breakfast, yum.

Yes - my Mother used to take us all out to the farms to get mushrooms.
The rule was to pick ones in a field well away from any tress -
it's generally so that the ones in touch with tree roots can be poisonous.
Field mushrooms are OK.

( now someone will find an exception)

Yes, not allowed to pick mushies from under trees. I had forgotten that.

[Gordon]

Did you try it?

I ate one last night - the one pictured -
the Kangaroo Apple -
and I'm still here today so it wasn't poisonous.
They taste very nice and sweet.

You're not out of the woods yet

Symptoms occur 6 to 24 hours after eating and include nausea, stomach cramps, vomiting and diarrhoea. The toxin can fatally harm the liver and kidneys, and death can occur within 48 hours. Other mushrooms that have a similar effect to the death cap include some species of Galerina, Lepiota and Conocybe.

https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/hea ... -poisoning