- HipsterTenZero ( @HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone ) 63•23 days ago
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.
- NoIWontPickAName ( @NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth ) 36•23 days ago
Don’t forget the ones that make the gods speak to you
- LinkOpensChest.wav ( @LinkOpensChest_wav@midwest.social ) 29•23 days 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
- gamermanh ( @gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English9•23 days ago
If it’s got blue it’s for you
If not let it rot
That’s my motto
- psud ( @psud@aussie.zone ) 15•23 days ago
Chinese rules of thumb have killed many Chinese Australians and Americans via death cap (truth in naming) mushrooms that look like paddy straw mushrooms
- Jojo, Lady of the West ( @Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 7•23 days ago
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…
- NoIWontPickAName ( @NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth ) 10•23 days ago
I mean, it’s a decent survival strategy for the mushroom, especially depending on where the animal dies.
Imagine that boost of nutrients
- Hugucinogens ( @Daxter101@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 7•23 days ago
Apex predator mushrooms.
- rumschlumpel ( @rumschlumpel@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 3•23 days ago
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.
- NoIWontPickAName ( @NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth ) 6•23 days ago
Sneaky death mushrooms get to break down the body, potentially
- Jojo, Lady of the West ( @Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 3•22 days ago
Incredibly poisonous, food-colored, and with spores that can survive/germinate in a digestive tract.
- Jojo, Lady of the West ( @Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•22 days ago
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- PhatInferno ( @PhatInferno@midwest.social ) English8•23 days 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)
- hungryphrog ( @hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 5•23 days ago
And that’s why I prefer to stay the fuck away from mushrooms.