Part XII
32 named mix-ups — tea leaves, white umbels, autumn cups, and two plants that share a common name. A comparison is not a forage license.
Foxglove for comfrey in a kettle is the worst garden story in this folio. Poison hemlock for parsley is the worst roadside one. If a plant is not in flower and you cannot name it, it is not tea, salad, or a wild carrot.
Pairs involving Button mushroom.
Amanita for a grocery cap
A white or orange cap in grass is not Agaricus. Fly agaric and its deadly cousins still get eaten by people who trusted a photograph.
Amanita often keeps a volva at the base, a ring, and white gills that do not bruise brown. Button mushrooms (Agaricus) have pink-then-brown gills and a grocery smell. Never eat a wild cap on an app’s word — especially not a mushroom.
A lawn cap for supper
Little brown mushrooms are a legal and medical problem, not a pizza topping. This catalog will name them for education. It will not tell you to eat them.
Grocery Agaricus has pink-then-brown gills and a clean stem. Psilocybe species are small, often bruising blue, and legally restricted. A photograph is not a permit, and it is not a meal.
