purple mushrooms

I have never seen these before, Charl found them.

I have not changed the colour, this is what it really is, charl and chris (see the link below) also have photos. Though I might have increased the saturation a little (5 or 10%). I cannot remember.

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These mushrooms are of unknown edibility. All the people who probably once knew are dead. But eating wild mushrooms just needs the appropriate knowledge about which ones to collect. When I was a kid living in West Sunshine, Melbourne, we had Yugoslav neighbours. The would go and collect wild mushrooms. I can tell you, the bug round yellow-orange ones they brought home where as well as the others were a million times better than the ones you get in the supermarkets. There are still many people of middle European origin that maintain this tradition of collecting wild mushrooms. It is tragic the misinformed people who try to destroy these traditions.

www.forest.nsw.gov.au/publication/forest_facts/mushroomin...

www.weedyconnection.com/blog/2007/03/20/mushrooms/

and here is a recipe using wild mushrooms:

www.stephencooks.com/2006/06/absorption_past.html