On the not safe front, I recently learned that volunteer squash can be very bad for you - I guess the poisonous varieties are genetically close to the edible ones.
Oh and my grandfather foraged and ate Gyromitra esculenta mushrooms. (I've eaten them as a child, I would not eat them now.) They are very bad news. The way he processed them made them safe. But he said he soaked them in salted water to "get the bugs out" - he did not know they were toxic.
On the not safe front, I recently learned that volunteer squash can be very bad for you - I guess the poisonous varieties are genetically close to the edible ones.
Oh and my grandfather foraged and ate Gyromitra esculenta mushrooms. (I've eaten them as a child, I would not eat them now.) They are very bad news. The way he processed them made them safe. But he said he soaked them in salted water to "get the bugs out" - he did not know they were toxic.