Australian police have launched an investigation after three people died and a fourth was left needing a liver transplant after eating what authorities suspect were death cap mushrooms.
  • cybervseas@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Deadly poison mushrooms, not what people normally refer to as “shrooms”, i.e. psychedelic mushrooms.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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        1 year ago

        It’s the difference between drugs and poison, literally the same.

        Some mushrooms have psychedelic properties, others just contain poison that will kill you. Pro tip don’t eat the poisonous ones, they all look very similar, although I think death caps actually do warn you by being giant and red, but this sounds like a murder rather than accident.

        Mushrooms in general are one of those things you should stay away from unless you are 100% certain you know what you are doing.

        • Jesus_666@feddit.de
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          1 year ago

          Death caps aren’t red, they’re more like a pale green or even entirely white. You’re probably thinking of fly agaric, which is also poisonous but not nearly as much so as death cap.

          There is a wide variety of poisonous fungi and some of them can look deceptively similar to edible ones. “All poisonous mushrooms look similar” is really not true so yes, never eat anything that you can’t identify with 100% certainty.