Could this be eaten

@Zigs
This started to grow, it's in a pot with some ivy, looks like button mushroom

 

Looks like a Destroying Angel to me

Let me know if the gills are white when it opens

 

Thank you Zigs,

Will do

 

It opened and it's white
Can't get a good pic so this will have to do

 

Thought as much, not got my books here but it looks like an Amanita, probably right with my first guess, don't eat it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destroying_angel

 

Remember this?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ing-mushrooms-kidney-transplant-daughter.html

 

Nasty

 

As I understand it, the answer is basically not to eat any mushroom unless you are an expert or it came out of a packet. It's just not worth the risk.

 

Speak to us Jiffy, speak to us....

 

It's ok, i haven't eaten it, I just wanted to make sure of what it was
as it can be hard to tell, before it open up it looked like a nice button mushroom,

 

I've eaten a few things which have given me (the you know what's) but i wouldn't eat any mushroom i didn't know

 

Phew!

You are in good company with the you know whats. I was told a tale by an Oxbridge botany professor who tried to get high with his mates as an undergrad. They tried it with nutmeg, having read it was hallucinogenic. Which it might well be. The trouble was that were concentrating too much on the toilet for the next couple of days to notice any other effects.