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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Can be confused with these deadly mushrooms too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinoderma_asperum (they are much closer looking than wiki suggests).

Still, one of my two most favorite mushrooms.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Honestly even if I happened to eat a mildly poisonous shroom (which never happened) it would be fine for me personally. There is huge amount of edible mushrooms but we stick to few select safe ones that are hard to mistake.

I have done much worse things to my body with drugs and alcohol poisoning every other day. One instance of light poisoning per year or something like that would be like nothing. Not that it ever happened because I stick to the rules my parents teached me and their parents teached them and so on.

I had food poisoning more times (above zero) than mushroom poisoning.

I wouldn’t dare to pick mushrooms abroad. I wonder if climate change will fuck us one day though.