Spike,
I was thinking the same thing until a few years ago when a bunch of "experts" from Portland had a mushroom hunting party and a gourmet meal afterwards.
2 of them died, and 2 needed liver transplants within hours. I'm sworn off wild mushrooms ever since. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />- Sheister
Sheister, IIRC, those folks from Portland were SE Asian immigrants. The reason that is significant is that SE Asia is home to a "safe" mushroom that is widely harvested from the wild, but looks a lot like the deadly amanita. They just didn't know....
One very safe mushroom is the puffball. A quick web search will give you enough info to bag them safely - without ever confusing them with something else.
-FreeMe
