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Context: after eating a death cap (Amanita phalloides), you'd notice a few of the symptoms at first, but these usually resolve after a day or two. After this, you'll enter a latent phase where you feel fine, but your liver and kidneys slowly start to fail. By the time you notice, it's usually already too late.

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[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 64 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (13 children)

Don't forage for mushrooms unless you identify them in multiple ways, from multiple guidebooks, and ask locals what's around, first.

There are quite a few types of mushrooms that don't have any poisonous lookalikes, that is once you know what to look for.

Oyster mushrooms, golden (and winter) chanterelles, puffballs (IFF you slice them and make sure there's no 'mushroom' outline within!!!), hedgehogs, boletes.

My knowledge is restricted to the PNW (Pacific North-West) however, so also read on regional variations.

https://northernbushcraft.com/mushrooms/britishcolumbia.php

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I wouldn't trust books when it comes to hunting mushrooms, slop or not.

Don't go hunting mushrooms unless your family's taken you hunting mushrooms since you were a kid (and even then only in regions you're familiar with, and even then don't pick any mushroom you're not 110% certain of, and if you're not an idiot), or accompanied by someone with that experience verifying every single mushroom you find before picking it up, and telling you why and how it'd've killed you or why it wouldn't've tasted good.

[–] the_artic_one@programming.dev 3 points 6 days ago

Nothing wrong with picking a mushroom to ID at home or at an ID clinic run by your local mycology club. You should individually inspect each specimen as you're cleaning them anyway so you can throw out any which might be going bad, chock full of bugs, or misidentified.

When in doubt, throw it out.

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