Re:Fungi Foragers Freaked
by duskwuff on Sunday October 16, 2022 @01:01AM
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Incidentally, I've heard that a significant number of people get poisoned by mushrooms when they learned to recognize edible mushrooms in another country (often China or Eastern Europe), then move to the US and try to forage for mushrooms here. Knowing one region's edible/poisonous mushrooms doesn't make you an expert on anything outside that region.
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There was a spate of mushroom poisonings among south east asian immigrants in the 1980's in California for that exact reason.
Ugh. That happened to me when I dated a Chinese girl. She poisoned us both. I was too young and callow to put my foot down.
It it worse than not being an expert on local mushrooms.
You can get fooled because you can find mushrooms that resembles mushroom from you home region, that you know to be edible.
E.g: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvopluteus_gloiocephalus#Edi... == In the United States, there have been several cases of Asian immigrants collecting and eating death caps (Amanita phalloides), under the mistaken assumption that they were Volvariella. ==
That has also happened here in Denmark.