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[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes I wonder how awful it would be to be a hungry prehistoric man looking for a bite to eat. It's either starvation, a delicious treat that will sustain the life of you and yours, or nerve-searing hyper-poison that gives you acute scrote-rot. Roll the fucking dice, Thogg.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago

Don’t forget the ones that make the gods speak to you

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago

The mushroom hunting guide I use is not too far off from this

Let's just say I don't actually eat what I find

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If it's got blue it's for you

If not let it rot

That's my motto

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Chinese rules of thumb have killed many Chinese Australians and Americans via death cap (truth in naming) mushrooms that look like paddy straw mushrooms

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

The amatoxins in deathcap and its relatives is so incredibly scary... Like, picograms of the stuff in an adult human will just basically turn them off...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I mean, it’s a decent survival strategy for the mushroom, especially depending on where the animal dies.

Imagine that boost of nutrients

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Apex predator mushrooms.

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

A decent survival strategy would be to be poisonous and recognizably colored. If you look like any other mushroom, it's just revenge-poisoning. Possibly with the side effect of animals not eating any mushrooms, but that doesn't sound like something that's in a given mushroom species' interest.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Sneaky death mushrooms get to break down the body, potentially

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Incredibly poisonous, food-colored, and with spores that can survive/germinate in a digestive tract.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Deleted, duplicate

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Obviously there are mushrooms like this, but i feel like a lot of forageables are pretty easy to id

( and generally would just give you an upset stomach vs killing you)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

And that's why I prefer to stay the fuck away from mushrooms.