Don't use mushroom ID apps and don't trust random guidebooks from Amazon, they're probably AI-generated crap.
The deadly mycotoxin orellanine, which is present in Cortinarius rubellus, the deadly webcap, may not cause symptoms in those who ingested the mushroom until one or two weeks have passed – after detectable traces of the toxin are already gone, and late-stage kidney failure has already begun. Connecting the sickness with certainty to a misidentified wild mushroom that was eaten weeks earlier with no obvious ill effects is not always possible.
Yeah, nope.
This is basically vegan rabies
Many refugees from Syria got poisoned by mushrooms because a common edible Syrian mushroom looks very much like a poisonous German mushroom.
Happens to some SE Asians in North America too, because the edible straw mushroom from SE Asia resembles one here called "death cap". Amanita phalloides. What's fucked up is right before it kills you your symptoms actually improve, so people get discharged from the hospital and think they are going to be ok. I forage mushrooms but I stay away from white gilled mushrooms completely.
Yeah I had my yard full of destroying angels last summer, when they first showed up I was all "sweet! Mushrooms!" Because they look real similar to agaricus. But then I saw the white gills, and was all :(.
And I made sure to tell my kids not to mess with them and why.
I never thought about this being possible and now I can't help but laugh at how deceptive nature is.
Just follow standard survival advice. Don't forage for mushrooms. Starving to death is better than poisoning yourself and starving to death.
There are over 400 spp of mushroom in my area, but only 23 or so are edible. I'll pass.
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All you really have to do is remember one mushroom and find it a lot.. you don't have to know all of them
Even some of the ones that are edible still secretly want to kill you. From the Wikipedia entry for "chicken of the woods":
In some cases eating the mushroom "causes mild reactions ... for example, "swollen lips" or in rare cases "nausea, vomiting, dizziness and disorientation" to those who are sensitive. This is believed to be due to a number of factors that include allergies to the mushroom's protein or toxins which are only somewhat stable at high temperatures.
I'll eat portabellos if they come on pasta or pizza (though I've started taking them off the latter because they turn to rubber in the microwave) but I sure as hell am not going out of my way to order any dish that features them (mushrooms) as the main protein.
pizza
microwave
I don't think the mushrooms are the problem in that situation
Started foraging mushrooms previous year. I'm alive so far.
Also met a deer while foraging. Didn't know they could bark. Scared the shit out of me.
Interesting how "scared shit out of me" sounds so much more literal than "scared the shit out of me".
Thanks, English is not my first language 😂
My favorite version of this is
Well thank god I absolutely hate the taste of mushrooms.
I would put these in my D&D campaign.
lemmy.world/c/mushrooms
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !mushrooms@lemmy.world
Thanks to both of you! I really miss the mycology sub from the other place but not enough to go back.
Shout out to that particular sub losing any and all meaning to what it's purpose was over the years
Fungus amongus
Foongus Amoonguss
(This is an actual pokemon evolution line)
(used for a mushroom-like pokemon that looks like a poke ball to fool trainers into grabbing it)
When the pokeball is sus
I plucked these in my brother in laws backyard yesterday, and this post is now giving me doubts...
Edit: the picture of the morels I found is not uploading for some reason... But yeah, I'm like 99.99% sure they are morels.
Bruh it can be so dangerous, I search for poisonous mimics of (mushroom). And honestly if a mushroom has too many poisonous mimics or toxic species of the same family, I just won't try to harvest it.
So far Oyster mushrooms are just about the safest to spot and harvest, I don't live in an area with chicken or hen of the woods, which is also pretty easy to identify.
https://www.manisteenews.com/news/article/Don-t-get-fooled-by-these-morel-look-alikes-17062084.php
Morels do have a few toxic cousins, so be careful.
When I was a kid we would have yearly morel hunts. My uncles were always scouting the neighbors' woods, and once morels were sighted we'd sneak onto their property and gather bags of 'em. We'd usually get about 10 pounds between the six of us cousins. Then Grandma would fry them up and we'd feast.
One year I ate at least a pound by myself. That night I got so violently ill I thought I would die. I never ate morels again.
Now you have me wondering if one of us picked a not-morel and I was the unlucky one who ate it.
Don you maybe have a mushroom consultation in your town? Don't know where you are from, but in Europe many countries have them and they can help you not to kill yourself.
You could try uploading to imgur and then just linking it.
You can DM the picture to me if you like.
Could always get into growing them instead.
Locally I know like five brown mushrooms that look similar, but I think I know which one’s the psychedelic one and which is going to kill you. Maybe I’m naive, and I haven’t put it into action.
Mushrooms are awesome and delicious. Foraging them is awesome too if you know your shit. Which i do not, so i buy mushrooms.
What would be the absolute worst mushroom I could find and eat, as far as effects?
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Thanks! That was an interesting read.
