They cooked longer than a normal mushroom to remove the slightly grainy and faint bitter aftertaste but tasted a little like chicken. Oozes a bright ornage latex ( milk ) when squeezed - check Squat orange stipe which is often hollow - check We found an incredibly useful website for identifying Australian fungi.Ĭoncave cap with concentric circles - check But we were on the hunt and two weeks after a good soaking and sunny days was bound to have encouraged something up! Being on the side of caution we picked only about 6 or so and we Googled them when we returned by looking through images of orange coloured mushrooms. If you weren't looking for mushrooms you would have walked right on over them. We found the saffron mushrooms around the periphal base of a group of pines, on a sloping site and tucked flat in the grass, not really in pine litter at all. I merely took a pic of this newly emerged Agaric Amanita muscaria. I didnt eat this beauty below which looks so sweet, but is so terribly bad for you. I was going to let the bloke try these on his own, better to lose just one parent than both, but the waft of the smell of them frying in olive oil and garlic after Id been out for a run, with no lunch behind me, threw my caution to the wind.
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