RE: Edible, wild fungi of South Australia post #1 Intro to Agaricus Mushrooms
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easily hybridises with other, closely related, edible species
This is one of the reasons I'd be really cautious about picking wild mushrooms of this genus. Is the staining as obvious in a hybridised one?
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It took me a couple of years to get confident enough to explore this genus. A lot of the differences are quite subtle to the untrained eye.
Yes, the staining is with the hybridised ones too, that's where the problem comes in - lots of folks have been going to their favourite patches, where they have foraged for years, only to become sick from the stainers that have made their way into the genome of the local mushys.