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.

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

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.

Yeah, I'm just staying away from that. There are enough other things that can end up in my frying pan with less crawling through the woods while hanging my continued existence on my ability to read and memorize two books worth of not-plant-descriptions.

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.

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.

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

Fungus amongus

Shout out to that particular sub losing any and all meaning to what it's purpose was over the years

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.

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.