Deadly Webcap - Foraging Mushrooms UK (Cortinarius rubellus)

Through this video, we're going to take a look at the identification keys used for discovering wild Deadly Webcaps mushrooms (Cortinarius rubellus) This is important as it's a deadly toxic mushroom and when we get confident in identifying it we know how to avoid picking it.
This mushroom is a member of the Cortinarius family, also known as the webcap mushrooms as you can often find significant webbing around the area between the stem and cap edge in young mushrooms of this family.
The deadly webcap isn't found that often throughout the whole of the UK but it is found in significant numbers when it gets a good footing and the conditions are just right. This huge group of them was found in a woodland in Dumfries, south Scotland.
For a full written guide for the deadly webcap mushroom head over to our site.
Happy Mushroom Foraging,

[@robcodsall]

If only the late Nicholas Evans, author of The Horse Whisperer, had watched this informative video, or one similar, before he went foraging for mushrooms on his brother-in-law's estate in Scotland. Fortunately, for those of us who live further south, these Deadly Webcaps are uncommon - but well worth knowing about. The first rule about picking wild mushrooms is to know like the back of your hand, the few which are deadly.

[@totallywilduk6228]

Fantastic advice there :)

[@Sedgehun]

Very interesting. Have you found any Atropa Belladonna in these forests? AKA Deadly Nightshade? I study poisonous plants, but mushrooms also interest me quite a bit.

[@totallywilduk6228]

Hey - not in the forest when I was finding the webcaps sorry

[@Sedgehun]

@@totallywilduk6228 All good! This cortinarius is a scary find!

[@Blozé-pjskfan]

What happens if i tocuhed it but only for under 5 seconds

[@Blozé-pjskfan]

Because im panicking and crying because i dont know what to do please answer

[@nathanmcgrath9038]

Wouldn't the best way to identify be to eat it and if you died well hell you where right

[@totallywilduk6228]

haha well that's certainly one way :) a bit like russian roulette

[@igorkusnirik635]

long intro.pls just made your mind!!!what in f u find

[@totallywilduk6228]

Thanks for the comment