Food

Never seen them before but I found some parasol mushrooms a few weeks ago and spent about an hour in paranoia identifying them across three books to make sure they where the edible variety and they where lovely fried up with some butter. Defiantly a new one for me and one I'll keep an eye out for next year.

http://www.mushroomexpert.com/macrolepiota_procera.html

also found a chanterelle and some other mushroom I was unable to identify confidently but I think was edible despite it's waxy cap and bright colouring

There are two varieties of parasol in the UK the smaller one "shaggy parasol" (rhacoides) stains pink / red when damaged, both are safe to eat however the shaggy can cause stomach upsets in some...not me thankfully.

careful of the "false chanterelle", looks very simliar but once you know what to look for you won't mistake the two....though I have only ever found chanterelles in Scotland ....at SSWC 07 in fact!...

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