• CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Idk if op meant to fearmonger, but mushrooms are hardly ever toxic and hardly ever fatal.

    It is now thought that of the approximately 100,000 known fungi species found worldwide, about 100 of them are poisonous to humans.[14] However, by far the majority of mushroom poisonings are not fatal,[15] and the majority of fatal poisonings are attributable to the Amanita phalloides mushroom

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom_poisoning

    That said, definitely be safe and if you arent sure, dont eat it.

    • Whelks_chance@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I’m less interested in the total number of species, and more interested in my likelihood of holding one

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      3 months ago

      That didn’t sound right, my experience that depending on luck and season, somewhere between 50 and 90 % of big mushrooms I come across in a forest are poisonous or at least disgusting. I admit it’s a very wild estimate and I’m very far from knowing all the mushroom I come across, but still, that seems like a big contradiction. So I followed your link to the primary article.

      I suspected that they might only count potentially lethal mushrooms, but no, it indeed seems they count even those that only make you nauseous. The problem is in the other number. The 100 000 means all funghi, it includes for example all yeasts. Most funghi don’t create mushrooms that anyone would consider picking. So the ratio you calculated below is WAY off.

      I would also like to note that the number 100 seems to come from a very simple PubMed search. Basically, if nobody wrote a paper about someone being sick after eating a mushroom, they wouldn’t find it. I don’t think that would mean that many foraged mushrooms would be missed, but it is a limitation worth knowing about.

      • psud@aussie.zone
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        3 months ago

        That seems unlikely to be murder, people really don’t generally murder friends who are close enough to invite to lunch

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          3 months ago

          She’s in jail right now.

          I don’t think there has been a verdict yet though.

          Edit: she’s