J'ai des doutes sur mes chances d'avoir une réponse à cette question exotique!
On n'y connait rien aux champignons mais on se dit qu'on pourrait peut-être améliorer l'ordinaire si on en trouvait : y a-t-il un risque de tomber sur un champignon toxique?
On n'y connait rien aux champignons mais on se dit qu'on pourrait peut-être améliorer l'ordinaire si on en trouvait : y a-t-il un risque de tomber sur un champignon toxique?
C'est une blague? juste pour le fun, vous croyez vraiment que l'écosystème est le plus favorable pour la chasse aux champignons? 🤪😉😛😄😏 Avant d'en trouver un toxique il faudrait deja en trouver un qui soit comestible autre que la mousse de mycelium trouvée sur des rochers 😛 Deja quand on y connait rien aux champignons, on en ramasse pas 😠
C'est pas dans ma carte de visite, a vous de comprendre le reste, j'ai cru avoir a faire a des plaisantins. Me serais-je trompé et votre question était-elle sérieuse? ma réponse sera la même car je ne comprends pas votre question par rapport aux champignons, vous allez faire un stage de survie? 😛
Je croyais sans doute naïvement qu'en toute logique pour répondre à cette question tu étais évidemment allé au Groenland!
Est-il besoin d'être en situation de survie pour manger des champignons? (sans doute pas et heureusement car tu sais sans doute que leur apport calorique est quasi nul)
J'aaaadore les champignons, ne m'en veuillez pas ma réponse se voulait humoristique 😉 mais je doute que le Groenland soit la région la plus propice pour la cueillette d'après ce que j'en sait. En tout cas c'est une belle destination, bon voyage 😎
Merci Platypus pour cette péponse constructive: je viens de recevoir ce mail de Pierre Arthur Moreau, mycologue et universitaire lillois à qui j'avais envoyé un mail ce WE.
Bonjour Marie,
Merci pour votre aimable courriel. Puisque vous sollicitez l'avis d'un
universitaire, je me permets de vous conseiller d'être extrêmement
prudente avec les champignons, et si vous n'y connaissez rien, surtout
en prenez aucun risque ! Il y a des champignons toxiques au Groënland
(contrairement à ce que j'ai pu lire sur un site touristique idiot), pas
d'espèce mortelles à ma connaissance mais beaucoup d'Inocybes et de
Clitocybes qui provoquent des intoxications très sévères nécessitant
hospitalisation, sous peine d'être alité pendant plusieurs semaines. Les
indigènes ne ramassent pas les champignons, les danois non plus, et à
moins de tomber sur un connaisseur passionné je ne pense pas que
quelqu'un pourra vous confirmer ceux qui ne présentent pas de danger.
Vous verrez sans doute beaucoup de bolets dans les buissons de bouleau
nain, ils semblent tous inoffensifs (groupe du "bolet rude", à tubes
sous le chapeau et pied couvert d'écailles noires), mais ils sont très
mous, sans goût et souvent plein de larves. Il n'y a ni cèpes ni
girolles, ni autres "classiques" européens là-bas, sauf peut-être dans
les forêts plantées dans l'extrême sud du pays.
Il existe un petit livre très bien illustré, écrit par le seul mycologue
local, "Svampe i Grönland" par Torbjorn Borgen, que vous trouverez sans
doute dans les librairies locales (en danois). Ne vous fiez pas aux
ouvrages européens, ce ne sont pas les mêmes espèces que chez nous !
Méfiez-vous de la même manière des baies... L' "instinct" n'est pas un
bon guide, ne consommez rien que vous ne connaissiez pas parfaitement.
Je vous souhaite un excellent voyage et de belles aventures sur place.
N'hésitez pas à me solliciter à nouveau si vous avez besoin d'autres
informations naturalistes.
Bien cordialement,
Pierre-Arthur
Je crois que les choses sont claires.
Dommage aussi pour les baies...
Bah, il reste la pêche!
ah oui, c'est vrai, PA Moreau est à Lille (depuis 2 ans, je crois).
il connait bien la toxicité des champignons et a travaillé au Groenland (ce qui n'est quand même pas fréquent)
bon voyage!
P.S.: Il y a peut-être des poissons toxiques ? (un fugu des glaces 😕) Mais la, les gens du coin savent ce qui se mange ou pas ...🙂
C'est pas dans ma carte de visite, a vous de comprendre le reste, j'ai cru avoir a faire a des plaisantins. Me serais-je trompé et votre question était-elle sérieuse? ma réponse sera la même car je ne comprends pas votre question par rapport aux champignons, vous allez faire un stage de survie? 😛
Je trouve ta réponse un peu indélicate et innoportune à tout point de vue : la question à bien l'air sérieuse et pour cause :
a/ le Groenland n'est pas qu'un tas de glace et de cailloux, il y pousse des baies et des champignons et il y vit des animaux et même des êtres humains .. si, si !!
b/ Il n'est pas nécessaire de faire un stage de survie pour s'alimenter en partie sur le terrain lors d'un trek long de plusieurs jours sans ravitaillement possible, ce qui est bien souvent le cas au groenland.
au Groenland par exemple, pour changer du lyophiliser : il est possible de pêcher 😉 il est possible de ramasser des myrtilles 😉 IL EST POSSIBLE DE RAMASSER DES BOLETS et de les faire cuire au réchaud avec un peu d'huile 😎
Il existe un dicton dans l'arctique : "Dans l'arctique rien n'est toxique"
a bon entendeur 😉
"les récit se rapportant à l'Arctique sont tissés de rêves qui nous sont utiles à tous" Barry LOPEZ
http://passiongrandnord.com
Lis tout avant d'insulter les gens 😠, il était dit: On n'y connait rien aux champignons, quand tu connais rien aux champignons tu en ramasses? Chaque années des centaines de gens sont intoxiqués pour ne pas avoir compris qu'on ne ramasse pas n'importe quoi. Voila pourquoi ma 1ère réponse était ironique. Après j'ai relativisé car ils ont eu la bonne idée et fait les bonnes démarches pour s'informer auprès de sources fiables sur les conseils d'un forumistes. Le Groenland fait partier des destinations qui m'intéresse donc je me suis un peu renseigné et je sais bien que ce n'est pas qu'un petit rocher aride, alors si tu n'as aucun sens de l'humour et que des reflexions aussi peu intelligentes et amènes, abstiens toi!
Sinon la prochaine fois apportes des infos et réponds a la question initiale, tu te rendras plus utile et moins opportuniste 😛 C'est ton intervention une semaine après le débat qui devient déplacée dans ce contexte.
je confirme ce message il y a des bolets au groenland et délicieux et bien d'autres champignons que je n'ai pas osé gouté .Mais si pas de champignons reste la salade de campanule, c 'est délicieux sans compter dans un autre registre les poissons !
Bonjour,
Pour ma part j'ai déjà mangé des "amanita vaginata" au Groenland sur l'ile de Sukkertoppen. Très très bon à la poelle.
Il y avait aussi pas mal de ceps, nous en avons mangé à Illulissat.
Je conseille d'y gouter, mais uniquement avec un connaisseur.
AD
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For several years now, increased aggression has been observed in Cape fur seals.
At least 70 unprovoked attacks on humans.
It was recently confirmed that this is due to rabies.
The suspected origin is contamination in Namibia by jackals.
The contagion seems to be spreading.
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Rabies affects all mammals.
Once symptoms appear—sometimes weeks or even months later—death is inevitable.
It’s the bite that transmits the disease.
There are so-called "furious" forms with aggression, but also forms without aggression.
In case of a bite, in addition to standard wound care, tetanus prevention… rabies prevention is essential.
Stay careful out there…
Seeing seals from a boat along the coast isn’t rare in these parts…
