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shrooms? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 111 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Many refugees from Syria got poisoned by mushrooms because a common edible Syrian mushroom looks very much like a poisonous German mushroom.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

I never thought about this being possible and now I can't help but laugh at how deceptive nature is.