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Edibility unknown yet its taste is mild... hmmm

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Edibility unknown yet its taste is mild... hmmm. 124.176.80.182 (talk) 13:40, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, that was my first thought. 192.12.184.2 (talk) 14:20, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Me, too. At best, the edibility is uncertain, I'd say.--Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 14:48, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
This site [1] gives some useful information about tasting mushrooms. Gary (talk) 14:29, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
yeah... I've found most of the factoid tidbits on the "Did You Know" section of the main page to be odd sometimes. Thomas Dzubin (talk) 15:32, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
In mycophagy, "taste" is distinct from "edibility". Taste is determined by putting a very small piece in your mouth, letting the juices contact the taste buds, and spitting out the piece. Edibility implies consumption to obtain nutrients. Sasata (talk) 17:39, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

just to take the mystery out: I ate a bunch of these to test whether or not they're edible. I don't recommend them, I died soon afterward.

WP:ORIG says you died for nothing. Gary (talk) 19:21, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Great minds eh.. Happily I read that and gesticulated wildly too. By the bye, I gurn when people say titbit instead of tidbit. Typical American over-censorship. Apologies for bringing race into it. Love from an English person. Oops nearly forgot my tildes! Willarveschoug (talk) 20:25, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
All joking aside, getting this kind of info right in a wikipedia entry is important. If you look under the edible section in this article, Boletaceae, you can see that some speciies within this large family can be quite deadly. I believe the info we are seeking could be found in the book MUSHROOMS DEMYSTIFIED by David Arora. Unfortunately, the pages that would cover this species don't appear to be available for viewing thru the Google Books tool although most of the rest of the book is. Drat! if anyone has a copy, could you be a dear and look this up for us? In the meantime, some statement could be inserted that would clarify things a bit, for example, this safety of this species for consumption by humans or animals is not yet an established fact. Within this family there are both edible and poisonous types" and then maybe find a reference from some wild mushroom picker dude who wrote a book that contains a statement to the effect of "better be safe and avoid ingesting ones we aren't sure about so you don't die." I'll see if I can find something like that. Just as an aside, one of my grade school teachers and his wife went wild mushroom picking in upstate NY. They cooked up what they found and she died while he barely survived. Therefore, I feel pretty strongly about making sure we don't give readers any false sense of safety when it comes to edibles including spices. LiPollis (talk) 20:30, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, that book is on fungi of the western United States. This fungus is a native of Australia, Indonesia and Africa. I will find something which says unknown - the taste is not otherwsie explained specifcially but Sasata's note is the usual reason. The edibility of very few Australian fungi is known. Casliber (talk · contribs) 01:54, 24 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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