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Nigel Farage has donned a flat cap and gilet and wandered off into the English countryside to indulge his love of foraging.

The Reform UK chief, 60, shared a video on the X social media web site of himself resplendent in rural apparel, together with a Tattersall-style shirt and a pair of sun shades, as he prowled by way of a subject at an undisclosed location.

The maverick MP, whose occasion secured a powerful six seats on the final General Election, captioned his submit with the phrases: “Foraging with Farage on a Sunday morning”.

Lowering himself to at least one knee, Mr Farage whipped out a small knife as he defined what he was out looking edibe fungus this Sunday morning.

He stated: “It’s mid-October, it’s mushroom time. Now look, people don’t seem to want to go out foraging anymore, but I really do.”

Taking his blade to the tops of some massive mushrooms at his toes, Mr Farage provides “Have a look at look at these little monkeys”.

Lifting the cap of the fungus to indicate the digital camera after which sniffing it, the Member of Parliament for Clacton continued: “That is magnificent. Now look, if you don’t know what you’re picking, be careful.

“But you’ll be able to inform a mushroom by how simply it peels, by the way it smells, that is going to be my lunch.”

Autumn is a key time for mushroom harvesting with many people taking to woodlands and fields hoping to find a tasty morsel.

According to the Woodland Trust, there are “over 100 good, edible species rising within the UK”, but it adds there are also “toxic fungi on the market, similar to there are toxic crops, so should you’re pondering of meals, it’s worthwhile to know precisely what you are doing.”

Varieties of mushroom growing in the UK which can be fatal if eaten, include the aptly named, death cap and deadly webcap, as well as the destroying angel, fool’s conecap, fool’s funnel, funeral bell, panther cap and angel’s wings.

According to the BBC, last month on the island of Jersey three people were have been poisoned after eating a death cap mushroom.

Death caps can be mistaken for edible fungus because they look similar to many safe varieties, save for a greenish tint the tops. Eating a piece of the fungus the size of a coin can be enough to kill an adult and there is no known antidote to the poison.

Mycologist, an expert in fungi, Charlotte Shenkin, told the BBC foraging had risen steadily in Jersey in recent years.

She said: “While everybody can profit from spending extra time in nature and studying extra about fascinating organisms like mushrooms and different fungi, it’s important to concentrate on the true and doubtlessly lethal dangers of consuming wild fungi with out information and warning.”

For extra data on essentially the most toxic mushroom varieties within the UK, go to the Woodland Trust web page right here.