And that’s why I prefer to stay the fuck away from mushrooms.
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)
If it’s got blue it’s for you
If not let it rot
That’s my motto
Chinese rules of thumb have killed many Chinese Australians and Americans via death cap (truth in naming) mushrooms that look like paddy straw mushrooms
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…
I mean, it’s a decent survival strategy for the mushroom, especially depending on where the animal dies.
Imagine that boost of nutrients
Apex predator mushrooms.
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.
Sneaky death mushrooms get to break down the body, potentially
Incredibly poisonous, food-colored, and with spores that can survive/germinate in a digestive tract.
Deleted, duplicate
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.
Don’t forget the ones that make the gods speak to you
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
