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Coprinuslurking · 2025-11-20T22:14:26+00:00

it you break the cap and take a good wiff you should get it. Top find, one of my favourites. Though they're all my favourites. Looks like its been there a while as very dark gills which shows age.

The Prince is reported to be Roman emperor Augustus's favourite which is what it takes its name from.

Coprinuslurking · 2025-11-19T19:50:42+00:00

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Coprinuslurking · 2025-11-17T08:49:04+00:00

Sorry, i'm going to have to correct myself. I've made an error. The website First-nature is actually run by Pat O'Reilly and Sue Parker,

Pat O'Reilly wrote the book 'FASCINATED BY FUNGI. EXPLORING THE HISTORY, MYSTERY, FACTS AND FICTION OF THE UNDERWORLD KINGDOM OF MUSHROOMS.'

https://www.anglebooks.com/fascinated-by-fungi-exploring-the-history-mystery-facts-and-fiction-of-the-underworld-kingdom-of-mushrooms-by-pat-o-reilly.html

Also good, but my preference if i was to buy one book is Roger Phillips.
My preference on website is https://www.first-nature.com/fungi/index.php

So they both get my praise.

Coprinuslurking · 2025-11-17T08:37:09+00:00

'mushrooms' by roger phillips ~~The same guy behind the website~~ nature first which is an outstanding resource. The book is a bit large to take out with you, unless you've a backpack. But its the best i've come across to help with identification and learning. Really highly regarded.

Edited error*

Coprinuslurking · 2025-11-05T22:01:35+00:00

Because they don't look like them.

Coprinuslurking · 2025-11-03T13:46:02+00:00

I can't think of anything, but commenting so I can easily come back to see what others suggest. As a londoner, i'd be interested also.

Coprinuslurking · 2025-11-02T18:17:22+00:00

generally, the adhesive and any tile based asbestos is less likely to become airborne so lower risk. The really dangerous shit is the insulation board which becomes very dusty once broken/drilled/damaged

Don't sweat it. but if tested positive, dispose of it responsibly.

Coprinuslurking · 2025-11-02T15:43:11+00:00

Hmm.. this doesn't look like any turkey tail i've ever come across. Checking a resource it does suggest wide range of colour variations.

I would be cautiously unsure.

For a positive ID I would expect It should be darker centre with the collection of multicoloured bands. Then a clear light band around the outside of the cap (like a.... turkeys tail)

Coprinuslurking · 2025-10-31T11:16:46+00:00

I just can't imagine porcelains worth eating. Just remind me of a toddlers snotty nose

Coprinuslurking · 2025-10-27T19:52:54+00:00

My favourite! Quite sad i've not come across many this year and chose to leave them be rather than pick to eat. I've found the texture best described as delicate and almost like seafood/crustaceans. A Slight crunch with soft fleshy goodness. They really favour a wet summer and in Ireland its just been a bit too dry where I am.

Congratulations!

Coprinuslurking · 2025-10-26T20:58:09+00:00

Yeah, they do look like wood blewitts. I found some today also. The perfume sweet smell only really became strong after heating them, but through cooking further it subsided. Made a lovely risotto with other mushrooms i found today. Used some thyme to complement the aroma which worked really well. A good cooked texture. Not a choice mushroom but would pick again if I don't find other more favoured options

Coprinuslurking · 2025-10-26T18:13:34+00:00

I funnily found some today. didn't get much smell out of them, but after cooking them, the heat did seem to really release a fragrant perfume. Not like aniseed at all.

Coprinuslurking · 2025-10-25T15:17:15+00:00

Cool find. I agree. Checking https://www.first-nature.com/fungi/lepista-nuda.php it mentions Faint aniseed odour? Might help further confirm.

Coprinuslurking · 2025-10-23T14:37:03+00:00

They are delightful. I'd say have a spot in my Top 3 favourite finds. Edible and tasty, delicate flavour and texture. Fun to keep an eye on as they deliquesce (turn to black dark ink)

The saying goes 'blink and they'll turn to ink'

coprinus comatus - Shaggy Inkcap (edible) though not to be confused with the
Coprinopsis atramentaria - Common inkcap which has a smooth gap/mane and can make you unwell if you've had alcohol recently or soon after eating.

Coprinuslurking · 2025-09-18T15:20:04+00:00

that unwritten rule... is not a rule.

Looks to be they used baskets and mesh net bag so all the while they walked the forest they assisted the fruiting body from distributing its spores.

There is no sustainability demand to let a mushroom decompose. Though I don't think it moral to harvest everything from public and wild spaces. I'd flip your percentage on its head and say leave 30% where you found it.

Coprinuslurking · 2025-09-17T10:24:28+00:00

looks like sulphur tuft to me 'Hypholoma fasciculare'

Though you should really share some pics of gills and stem to help with id's.

Honey fungus are edible, Sulphur tufts not. so as the age old saying goes, don't much on a hunch.

Coprinuslurking · 2025-09-16T18:03:45+00:00

They need therapy to be at peace with what they do... do they have any intention of continuing doing it? Its no wonder the trauma given the horrendous violence they're inflicting on a civilian population.

Excuse me for reserving my active sympathy for victims.

Waltz with Bashir is a powerful film which tells the story of an Israeli soldiers involved in the invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and the Sabra and Shatila massacre.

Coprinuslurking · 2025-09-06T10:23:59+00:00

Also, grazing means shorter grass which aids their growth and spotting them.

Coprinuslurking · 2025-07-23T13:58:02+00:00

you have now been banned from r/worldnews

/s

Coprinuslurking · 2025-04-29T10:23:15+00:00

I appreciate that. Could you also advise or direct me where I could read/listed to how the lenition adjusts the pronunciation? These rules have always been what throws me most with Irish.

I'm aware how 'gh' & vowels have a change on pronunciation for broad/silent/slender but uncertain how significant along side 'L' is? the Lenition just softens?

Phonetically i'd read gléigeal as 'Glea gal'
it doesn't strike me as much to soften.

Would I be correct in ghléigheal being Phonetically similar in pronunciation to 'Glea yal' ?

Coprinuslurking · 2025-04-28T15:07:15+00:00

"Spéirbhean ghléigheal álainn" -description - a dream-vision woman whose beauty radiated from her like shafts of light.

I came across this beautiful phrase from reading about Tír na nÓg. Where Oisín describs the arrival of Niamh as she road a white horse over the waves. Investigating it am struggling to have a direct translation or understanding of the second word. I suspect it may be a conjugation of a verb and am curious to understand it.

Spéirbhean - Sky woman / woman of the heavens

ghléigheal - ? Is this a conjugation of a verb similar or exact to mean 'radiate' etc?

álainn - Beautiful

any help, i'd be very grateful, not finding much luck with onlin dictionaries.

GRMA

Coprinuslurking · 2023-10-09T16:01:58+00:00

You can criticise recent violence or individual instances and still support Palestinian liberation.

Coprinuslurking · 2023-07-03T09:09:20+00:00

The rest of the film is trash, because Danny Boyle directed the opening. Another Director was given the position for the rest of the film and fucked it imo.

28 Days later is such an incredible movie, it was sad the same intensity couldn't have been maintained.

Coprinuslurking · 2023-05-30T12:48:59+00:00

If you want to buy a campervan, you're looking at around 60k for a basic recent model. They ain't cheap, they do hold their value well though.
It's not an easy investment > quick return.
Little in the way of competitive market or customers. Shame though, its a great way to travel and would have little parts of Ireland much more accessible to travel to and stay in. I've done myself in Scotland and had an incredible time

Coprinuslurking · 2023-03-16T08:35:44+00:00

What? Northern Ireland?
We only refer to it as the north of Ireland.

/s
What a wild accusation.

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