Today’s Bing wallpaper features a very pretty blue mushroom – Entoloma hochstetteri mushroom at Mahinapua Lake, New Zealand. Entoloma hochstetteri can be found in India, Brazil, and New Zealand. One might wonder with such a distinctive all-blue colour, is this kind of mushroom poisonous?
According to the wikipedia, whether Entoloma hochstetteri is poisonous or not is still unknown, I suppose nobody dares to try it. While using keywords “edible”, “recipe” with Entoloma hochstetteri, there isn’t any result. And using keywords “edible”, “blue mushroom”, there are some results. So there is this blue mushroom called Lactarius indigo, also commonly known as the indigo milk cap or blue milk mushroom. One of the results, a wisc.edu webpage writes that Lactarius indigo mushrooms are edible and quite delicious. The author even suggests that if you use Lactarius indigo to make omelet, it can turn your eggs green, that is interesting even it would look horrible. However, from its wikipedia page, it says that the blue colour would disappear with cooking. Hmm, so which one is telling the truth? I guess I couldn’t try and wouldn’t know because I haven’t seen any of these in the local markets yet, but that’s fun to know.
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