The 6 Deadliest Mushrooms

[@hughcaldwell1034]

My mum likes to tell the story of when I, a very small child, excitedly told her about eating some wild mushrooms I'd found. Seeing that she was not exactly thrilled, I hastened to reassure her that I'd shared them with my little brother.

[@mothtree7730]

I did something similar lol, I thought that I found some secret hack for free mushrooms and ate one from my lawn then bragged about it to my parents, turns out it was psychedelic and I started seeing Komodo dragons

[@daftwulli6145]

See that is where you went wrong. You give them to your little brother first, then you wait a while and see how he is doing. Then you eat some yourself.

[@hughcaldwell1034]

@@daftwulli6145 You have the mind of a true scientist.

[@hughcaldwell1034]

@@mothtree7730 Damn, you got the cool version. The one time I took psychedelic mushrooms I overdid it and threw up before anything could happen.

[@saytaylor3603]

This has to be more common than we give it credit for

[@ulogy]

General rule: If you can't identify it without a shadow of a doubt, don't eat it. The overwhelming majority of poisonings by funghi are amateur foragers.

[@Gothmog222]

That’s not a pro tip, that’s just common sense. “Pro tip: don’t eat anything potentially poisonous, then you will never be poisoned” who would do that? EDIT: OP edited post to make it sound less foolish. This has clearly been on your mind, everything OK there mate?

[@ulogy]

​@@Gothmog222You don't seem to understand; positive ID is quite possible, but requires more than a cursory glance.

[@justayoutuber1906]

90% of people think their skills are above average.

[@ulogy]

@@justayoutuber1906 The stat sounds sus, but the notion of folks getting ahead of themselves is correct. It's easy to think you're good at something if you're so new that folks encourage you without clarifying you're doing good for a newbie.

[@northernsnowberry]

Positive ID = "I know for sure it is Mushroom A". This is in contrast to "well, it looks like mushroom A and it probably isn't the poisonous lookalike, so let's go". So, make sure any mushroom you can identify ALL of the characteristics of the edible mushroom, and if you got like 7/8 don't do it. Also, honestly, just look for an experienced forager and take it low and slow. If you don't know an expert, a lot of places have mushroom foraging groups. You can often find them run out of nearby universities or nature centres, and events are often advertised online during peak mushroom season (late summer - fall usually).

[@RGF19651]

When I was a kid growing up in the 1950’s - 60’s, my family would go into the Northeastern Pennsylvania woods in the early Fall to harvest mushrooms. My Uncle Andy was the expert. No one was allowed to harvest any mushrooms they found until Uncle Andy examined them and gave the OK. We collected the “good” ones in cotton sacks and took large quantities of them home where my Grandmother examined each and every one of them as the second and final arbiter of their safety. After this final inspection, some were dried, some were put up in canning jars, some were made into mushroom soup, and we all had a delicious supply of mushrooms throughout the winter.

[@TimYoshi]

Love that! I have absolutely the same memories albeit from a much more recent past - like 5-15 years ago. I'm originally from Ukraine and there this practice is still very common. I've been foraging with my family and everybody enjoyed then my signature mushroom soup...

[@RGF19651]

@@TimYoshi Glad to hear about your “mushroom” experience in the Ukraine. My Grandmother & Grandfather were from the “Old Country”, Slovakia. Our typical Eastern European custom was to have mushroom soup along with other dishes for the Christmas Eve dinner (Holy Night).

[@TheKompromissi]

I was taught to forage for mushrooms since childhood. I thought this was a universal thing here in Finland, but now talking to people apparently not. Love me a mushroom omelette and chantarelle sauce. Picking mushrooms does seem to be popular in Eastern/Northern Europe?

[@osk4r99]

​@@TheKompromissikantarell and karljohan are the best

[@professionalpookie]

No one cares about your life story bro

[@kirb942]

I appreciate you saying "not just a component in rocket fuel" because too many people go crazy about things being "chemicals"

[@AndrewGillard]

Yeah, agreed @ "omg chemicals!" 🙄 and _most_ common rocket fuels aren't all that scary on their own anyway: hydrogen, methane, kerosene (RP1), oxygen... Similar to the various hydrocarbon fuels already in widespread public use. I wouldn't recommend _drinking_ any of them - especially the cryogenics - and they have their own hazards of course, but they're manageable easily enough. But the hydrazine propellants - monomethylhydrazine (MMH), unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) - are bad news simply to be near 😅 They're still used because they have some very useful properties (e.g. simplicity/high reliability, and very "shelf stable"), but no one _likes_ using them...

[@just_kos99]

My boyfriend in the late 70s always loved an ad from DuPont that said, "Remember -- without chemicals, life itself would be impossible." just 'cause it was so stupid, lol!

[@justastranger6564]

Fun Fact: Fly agarics can be cooked to eliminate the toxic substances and increase the muscimol content. Muscimol is the primary psychoactive component and led to the development of Ambien and related pharmaceuticals. The substance that breaks down into muscimol, ibotenic acid, is a fairly potent neurotoxin and so it's very important not to eat them raw. Muscimol itself is widely regarded as a fairly safe substance, though.

[@jcoffland]

This is not true. You can eat fly agarics raw. Ibotenic acid breaks down in the body into muscimol.

[@tom2581]

Was looking for this comment

[@BirdNerd52]

Could this have the potential to help treat depression, etc? A neighbour of mine is part of a pilot study using "magic mushrooms' to treat PTSD. So far, so good. He's microdosing, and there's no side effects. Do yo think one day maybe the substance you mention be used in a simialr way?

[@tom2581]

@@BirdNerd52 not sure about treating depression but there are definitely some benefits of taking amanita muscaria

[@coinpurse6414]

heat, and citric acid will convert even more ibotenic acid to muscimol. like a lemon agaric tea (still tastes like booty... sorry). there's a way to ferment them in milk too that apparently will convert nearly all of the remaining ibotenic acid to muscimol, but that just sounds gross so i've never tried it

[@LordZeebee]

Honorable mention to the LBMs, or Little Brown Mushrooms. There are just soooooooo many different types of mushroom that are both small and brown that any experienced forager will dismiss the vast majority of them outright. It's just not worth the risk. Remember kids, if you cannot be 1000% sure you're looking at the right mushroom then do not eat it. It's easier than you think to just go through the checklist of features, mushroom foraging is honestly super fun. But if you're not entirely sure it's better to toss it than to get violent diarrhea...

[@garou9335]

Well to be honest, there arent that many deadly LBMs, the majority of them just do nothing. The notable LBMs like galerina marginata, and conocybe filaris should absolutely be known and able to be identified by any forager/mycologist. I live in kentucky though, so learning galerina marginata is a must. Conocybe filaris really only appears near the west, but should still be kept in mind.

[@FLPhotoCatcher]

@@garou9335 There's the classic saying about mushrooms you are not sure about: "When in doubt, throw it out."

[@albinoman13bt]

@@garou9335 Not only are there actually relatively few deadly mushrooms, quite a lot of those taste bad. Lots of mushrooms grow up where I am in Alaska. Most of the deadly ones either look gross or will taste hot. As far as I know, while not all deadly mushrooms taste hot, all hot ones are deadly.

[@johnsykes9623]

We have 5 books which we use for cross checking any not on our regular list and even then, we will pick a few over 2 to 3 seasons to ensure they are what we think

[@cyan_oxy6734]

​@@garou9335These general statements are really stupid especially on the internet. Mushrooms are vastly different depending on your location, so while where you live this might be true, it doesn't need to be true someplace else

[@SpadajSpadaj]

The problem with death cap is that people tend to pick young specimens of mushrooms. And while fully grown, death cap is distinctly different from field mushroom and parasol mushroom, very young specimens do look very similarily to one another and it's very easy to mistake them. So the simplest way to avoid poisoning in this case is to never pick young ones. Period.

[@dziooooo]

In Poland they are often confused with young parasol mushrooms, which are a delicacy.

[@scottmalcolmson4584]

Yep, I know thus all to well. I ate a small giant puffball once and got WICKEDLY sick, I was terrified it was an amanita "egg". Long story short, it wasn't and I didn't die, but GS was it terrifying. Did discover that my pick spot was no Bueno tho lol

[@HeleneWheatfield0549]

Thanks for the advice.

[@johnsykes9623]

Very good advice. Always allow all the id features to fully develop

[@pierrecurie]

@@scottmalcolmson4584 They're called giant for a reason...

[@venomous7321]

I fear a world where people can hear “disintegrate your muscles” and think it’s not serious

[@chrisklugh]

Have you looked at the News? How many things do you see now that 2 decades ago you'd think were impossible?

[@venomous7321]

@@chrisklugh if someone told me “your muscles are disintegrating” 2 decades ago I would still understand that I’m dealing with a life threatening situation. It’s that simple

[@VoxAstra-qk4jz]

​@@chrisklughDon't see how thats related in the slightest. Poisonous mushroom aren't new.

[@MrGemaxos]

I mean you are living in a world with "atomic warhead, handle with care" signs thats not too far from "desintegrate your muscles aw not too serious" if you ask me. I had a customer that thought his blood cough would go away from nothing because it came from nothing. I really had a hard time convicing him that an ambulance is the right thing now. And we are in germany here, there is no "i cant pay the doctor" thing here. Ive seen alot, in particular in the mental health field. Watch Idiocracy and then be enlightened(its a movie)

[@venomous7321]

@@MrGemaxos “atomic warhead” is something I would also hope doesn’t need “handle with care” next to it. Some people just shock me and it something we should all fear

[@Serenity_Dee]

"Rhabdomyolysis" my brain: "PRESENTING ☝️ to the emergency room"

[@quailypoes]

Same 😂 "TS was an amateur forager, and chef. I know what I'm doing, he thought, and so he was sure the mushrooms could not have been the cause of his distress. The doctors have no idea just how many of these poisonous mushrooms he consumed. It isn't until six hours later, when his girlfriend--who did not eat the mushrooms--brings them up to his nurse that the story comes out. "After treatment, TS is able to make A recovery."

[@mehmetgurdal]

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[@TheBodo]

I love how the deathcap has such a deserved dramatic name in english, while in German it is called "Knollenblätterpilz" basically meaning bulb-leaf mushroom. Perfectly innocent :)

[@ffarkasm]

Wanna learn about the meaning of its latin name? Guess where "phalloides" comes from.

[@EzekielBrockmann]

​@@ffarkasmDude. C'mon now. We're all _way_ too lazy (because we have real jobs) to follow you down your rabbit hole, why don't you just explain it to us here. Criminals leave clues. Teachers teach.

[@ffarkasm]

@@EzekielBrockmann 8====D

[@ahoj7720]

A French mycologist said: "All fungi are poisonous. Some are just more toxic." About amanita phalloides, it's quite common in Europe. The problem is that symptoms take some time to appear (24 to 48 hours) and are commonly followed by a period of remission. The patient then swears he will never again eat mushrooms. Which is quite true as the final stage of the poisoning (fatal liver and kidney failure) follows shortly.

[@mikedavey1996]

Amanita phalloides has become common in the Pacific Northwest of North America too.

[@boscorner]

Yep I THINK galerinas also cause you to get sick, recover, then die in a week. It sucks cuz people are like oh I'm better I don't need to go to a doc

[@YunxiaoChu]

@@ahoj7720 really, anything has some amount of toxicity

[@evilsharkey8954]

That remission is when they pump the patient full of silibinin, charcoal, and other treatments to prevent the toxin, which was collected by the liver and dumped back into the top of the intestine via the gallbladder, from being absorbed through the gut a second time and destroying the liver.

[@The_Savage_Wombat]

Death Caps are probably the first mushroom you should be able to identify when foraging.

[@jiioannidis7215]

"All mushrooms are edible; some mushrooms are edible only once" 😂😂😂

[@bolaxamaria930]

I was looking for this sentence.

[@garethtudor836]

GNU

[@MissingRaptor]

💖 🍄 💀 👻

[@pazopazo21]

no at all some mushroom arent edible some are too bitter or spice .... example Caloboletus calopus if you add 1x1x0.5 inch in a 8galoon pot the whole soup will turn bitter

[@monetrandolph2619]

😂😂😂

[@thegreatpugtato1823]

Les Stroud has always said if your not trained in identification of that specific regions flora please don't eat it. Probably bad.

[@geoffreyparker5775]

Alexis Nikole (blackforager) says the same thing. Mushrooms are so much more dangerous than plants, on average.

[@TheAnticlinton]

@@geoffreyparker5775 Not really, plants are far more difficult to identify, and theres a good chance over 80% are deadly toxic, while theres only 4-5 deadly toxic species of mushrooms in the US. Finding the difference between deadly poisonous hemlock vs edible wild parsnip is far more difficult than finding the difference between a death cap and field mushroom.

[@geoffreyparker5775]

@@TheAnticlinton Over 80% of plants may be deadly toxic is rather hyperbolic, and if you can't tell parsnip from hemlock, just don't eat parsnip. Personally, I find identifying plants much easier than mushrooms. On the east side of the US, at least, there are only a handful of plants that can kill you if you eat a meal's worth, and they're pretty easy to avoid.

[@TheAnticlinton]

@@geoffreyparker5775 how is identifying hemlock vs wild carrot or parsnip easier than identifying a death cap vs a field mushroom or Caesars mushroom?

[@geoffreyparker5775]

@@TheAnticlinton I find it so because I encounter hemlock and carrot so commonly, and I encounter most mushrooms much less often. I also just think plants look more different than mushrooms, but that may be a matter of opinion.

[@nerdlingeeksly5192]

Like a good hitman, the worst mushrooms to look out for aren't the flashiest or the most toxic, it's the ones you can't pick out of a crowd before it's too late.

[@andrejg4136]

I kinda want to see a mushroom get the nickname "hitman" now...

[@seanrosenau2088]

​@@andrejg4136More likely a hot pepper would be named Hitman. Ghost, Reaper... Hitman.

[@mackdog3270]

We used to go to the mountains and pick morels when I was a kid. Recently, my mom found something astonishing. At my grandparents house she found a single morel mushroom growing next to the foundation of my grandfather's shop. What makes this so amazing is that we live in the desert, and I doubt my grandmother would have been mushroom picking as she's 93 years old. I was flabbergasted to see it.

[@julianjaffe8739]

maybe they accidentally transported some spores with them during their move?

[@rainpooper7088]

Did the foundation involve bark mulch by any chance? Sometimes morel spores get wrapped up alongside the shredded tree bark and since the bark is the right environment for them to grow, they do for as long as the nutrients last them.

[@mackdog3270]

@@rainpooper7088 nope, no bark mulch just gravel, and the spot is in direct sunlight for most of the day. My grandpa was a hunter for his whole life and I suspect he somehow brought some spores back with him from the mountains. Since it appeared a couple of years after he passed away, I assume the spores were just waiting for the right conditions. Which brings up another question, what was the fungus living on? There aren't any pine trees nearby. It's a puzzle.

[@lexington476]

I used to work with a man who was an immigrant from the Soviet Union, he'd come over in the late 80s or so. he knew everything about mushrooms, he was always bringing mushrooms to work and what not, he had good stuff. He told me one time that the way he knew so much about mushrooms is they had to go mushroom hunting when he was a kid to simply have enough to eat.

[@MegaPompoen]

Also those who were bad at identifying save mushrooms disappeared soon enough

[@norfabatonas]

​@@PondScummer I'm from Eastern Europe and I think people mostly forage for mushrooms as a hobby. It's just fun and you get to eat something delicious afterward. I dislike the soviet union greatly, but I don't think people were starving here so badly that they had nothing else to eat. It's more like the food was just very boring. Also, mushrooms are insanely low in calories, so you probably wouldn't be able to sustain yourself with them alone.

[@pierrecurie]

@@norfabatonas Nobody was starving in 1943 Leningrad? (I guess they didn't get the chance to pick mushrooms either)

[@d3thkn1ghtmcgee74]

​@@pierrecurie yes sieges are the same as peace time *sarcasm* 🙄

[@FoxxyFire-HellFrost]

That's kind of tragic, knowing that he and his family were in such dire straits. But, I'm glad his family was able to use their knowledge to get by. And what a cool skill to have learned.

[@iivaripaakkonen2699]

False morels are considered a delicacy in Finland. They are boiled three times for 5 minutes, each time in different water.

[@honodle7219]

"There are old mushroom hunters. There are bold mushroom hunters. But there are NO old, bold mushroom hunters."

[@choccolocco]

“There are bold mushroom hunters, and old mushroom hunters, but there are no old, bold, mushroom hunters.”

[@cecesoclean4591]

i really really like the switch to a physical set! really updates the vibe of the show

[@merleaddison8293]

Rule # 1. If you eat any wild mushroom, keep one fresh in case you have to go to the hospital, so they can identify it

[@filonin2]

But what if I'm still hungry?

[@Equivocal-squiggle]

And probably a photo of the location of where it was found, yeah?

[@M63Tod]

Rule # 2. If you need to keep a fresh one to possibly help save your life, don’t eat them in the first place.

[@petertomo95]

Rule 1 is if you're doubting your I.d. on a mushroom don't eat it? Keeping 1 is showing how little you actually know.

[@DarkEnt1ty]

​@@filonin2nom🤤

[@marilynlucero9363]

Next time I go out mushroom hunting I will ask myself. "Do I want to keep my face? or want to shed a new one?"

[@Snarethedrummer]

Lizard person, confirmed!

[@randomjapsi]

here in finland the false morels are actually actually a delicacy. After theyre boiled for around 3*15mins they become safe and delicious.

[@vilukisu]

This managed to confuse me, as I thought morels refer to the thing we know as korvasieni, so I was concerned when Hank did not mention they need to be specially prepared to not be toxic.

[@TheJugiChan]

@@vilukisu Huhtasieni on se mitä mietit

[@ihmehiitaja]

False morel (Gyromitra esculenta) has to be boiled at least 3 times for 5 minutes in ratio of 3:1 of water to mushrooms, discarding the water each time and rinsing well. This should be done in an open pot in a well ventilated area. Drying isn't enough so you have to boil them in the same manner after re-hydrating. The process is a bit tedious, but well worth it as they are delicious.

[@pazopazo21]

in our country is a unwriten roule if you pick little Gyromitra esculenta they arent poisonous. Only older one are. the ppoison is on the outside the cap in the folds. There are better mushroom to pick as like this one

[@ihmehiitaja]

@@pazopazo21 Better be safe than sorry and treat them as if they were poisonous.

[@Hartahim]

​@@ihmehiitajaon ne vaa aivan helvetin hyviä

[@shuikkanen]

As others have pointed out, better safe than sorry. And older ones can get really big, and are still extremely delicious after proper handling, so you'll lose a lot of edible mushroom if you just pick the small ones.

[@pierrecurie]

Are they still tasty after all that boiling though? Allegedly, a similar process can detox amanita muscaria. However, at least 1 person died from eating the soup, instead of dumping the water.

[@spamware5984]

0:12 "And that snack becomes a trip" I see you SciShow ;)

[@spacekid9680]

? Please explain

[@jeffreyyoung4104]

@@spacekid9680 What's to explain? If you eat the santa claus mushroom, you will swear the reindeer are flying, and tiny elves are leaving presents under the tree... But the trip also comes with vomiting and other bad health risks, that you will swear never to eat them again.

[@seanstewart8942]

Space kid looking for some tips 😅​@@spacekid9680

[@stevehiggins1263]

​@@jeffreyyoung4104 only if improperly prepared

[@caroljo420]

A friend of mine was out looking for mushrooms, and one mushroom she found looked so appealing, she wanted to eat it right away. But when she checked her book, there was a picture of the same mushroom with a skull and crossbones superimposed over it. She didn't eat it.

[@lachouette_et_le_phoque]

Eating right away would have been a terrible idea anyway, most wild mushrooms must be cooked to be safe for consumption.

[@justayoutuber1906]

At work, I am a mushroom: Kept in the dark, and fed BS all day.

[@karlharvymarx2650]

That's what some of us call "home."

[@Snarethedrummer]

Are you The Depahted?

[@johnsykes9623]

LOL. That is funny

[@EmilyJelassi]

I'm deathly allergic to mushrooms, which makes it incredibly difficult for me to go out to eat without playing 20 questions with the kitchen staff

[@kamimoros]

Oh that sounds fun! I'm also allergic to a couple of things, so when I worked as a waiter I made sure the kitchen would definitely not accidently put things in the customer would be allergic to. I got annoyed looks from them, but hey I know how annoying the trip to the ER is

[@MusicalBotany]

Like... All of them? Or just the most common culinary mushrooms? Are you allergic to molds and yeasts, too? Sorry if I'm being too pushy. This has just piqued my curiosity, because fungi are so diverse; they are a kingdom on the tree of life. Being allergic to all fungi would like being allergic to all plants or all animals-which would be absolutely wild!

[@jk-76]

​@@MusicalBotany I would love to know also.

[@jenson1569]

U need some stem cells for your immune system

[@Yamayeehaw]

That doesn’t make sense, you’re allergic to common mushrooms. So many different mushrooms have vastly different genomes. There’s a 0% chance you’re allergic to all mushrooms, if that’s true you need to be studied in a lab

[@MangaBottle]

So apparently it made international news, but here in Australia there was a big story about a 3 people dying after eating a dish made with wild mushrooms the host had picked. The host claimed it was a mistake, but cops were suspicious because the host was the only one not to get sick. The case is still ongoing.

[@JamesDavy2009]

I remember that time. It happened in Victoria.

[@kathiehope]

yeah she apparently tried it on her ex husband FOUR TIMES before this time. she’s charged for three counts of murder and FIVE counts of attempted murder but claims she’s not guilty.

[@gabby222themoon]

@@kathiehopewhat’s her name?

[@lachouette_et_le_phoque]

@@gabby222themoon Erin Trudi Patterson, there's even a wikipedia article about the case apparently (2023 Leongatha mushroom poisoning)

[@grandmothergoose]

Keep an eye on the news about that in coming weeks, the court case is happening later this month.

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

“All mushrooms are edible, Some of them just the once.”

[@Fr00tcups]

Monomethylhydrazine is a good cat name

[@svenmorgenstern9506]

I was thinking indie rock band. 🎸

[@joshyoung1440]

I don't know that word, did you mean monomethylhydrazine?

[@quiestinliteris]

As a person with cats who have over-the-top names... Cat names can get truly wild, man. Met a kid on the bus, apparently pre-med, who showed me pics of her cats, Subdural Hematoma, Ruptured Aneurysm, and Tachycardia. O_o Apparently so named because they constantly stress her out.

[@Fr00tcups]

@@joshyoung1440 lol yes!

[@Fr00tcups]

@@quiestinliteris that’s amazing, I have cats named fruitcup and bagels!

[@mikeymikemike275]

Definitely should have put Deadly Galerina and Destroying Angel in there. I've found them both in Colorado many times.

[@kiyoshikusama4178]

Actually, isn't the first photo of #1 most likely A. virosa or similar? Does not look like a death cap to me

[@3BlueHaze]

I’m not surprised with that stuff about touching a mushroom being poisonous. Every mushroom forger knows that touching mushrooms doesn’t hurt you.

[@filonin2]

0:35 Those mushrooms have killed less people.

[@mattjones5105]

Definitely should have put these two in before the fly agaric

[@milosstojanovic4623]

Well from what i remember learning, the ones growing on trees were never edible (at least when i was young we always picked mushrooms from the dirt). The other one i saw in many places, always looked "wrong" to consider it edible.

[@mdelles]

I'm a little sad they didn't put my favorite weird little mushroom. The inky cap isn't directly poisonous but it does block your body's ability to process alcohol for several days so you can get alcohol poisoning if you drink within a couple days of eating it

[@Piloulegrand]

Only Coprinopsis atramentaria does that, the vast majority of " inky cap " (which is a really vague term that encompasses 100s of mushrooms) does not contain the compound that causes this reaction.

[@harrycampbell7594]

I'm incredibly sad that he made a deadly mushrooms video , included a bunch of mushrooms that aren't actually deadly , and left out the destroyer angel mushroom , the 2nd most fatal and deadly alongside the death cap

[@Darkfyyre]

@@harrycampbell7594 he explained right at the start what definition of "most deadly" they were using, and it had nothing to do with toxicity. these 6 mushrooms are the ones responsible for the most deaths, not necessarily how hard and fast they can cause death. even if the title baited your interest, the video is immediately upfront about its contents within like, the first minute or two.

[@dziooooo]

I never understood the whole "eating mushrooms is like a lottery!" idea. Like, if you want berries, nuts or leafy greens, do you just go chomping on every tree and shrub you encounter and hope for the best? It's not LUCK, it's KNOWLEDGE, it's 100% possible to just learn things. If you can figure out what blackberries look like and don't confuse spinach with random weeds, you can also learn to confidently recognize chanterelles.

[@christianhoffman7407]

I have never heard of the "eating mushrooms is like a lottery!" idea. Who does this? So you have met people who openly admit to that they do not know what they are doing but go and regularly eat wild mushrooms anyway just depending on luck that they will not be poisoned - enough even to where it is known to you as the "eating mushrooms is like a lottery idea" ?

[@dziooooo]

@@christianhoffman7407No, I haven't met people who "openly admit" that they just grab random mushrooms and hope for the best. I've met people who avoid any and all wild mushrooms because "you can never really know" if you actually got the safe and delicious ones instead of the poisonous ones. Like there's always the element of risk and luck involved. Fairly common attitude for some Americans and Western Europeans in my experience. Multiple people in this comment section are saying this.

[@robertwilloughby8050]

False Chanterelles exist and they are pretty nasty... If you eat them raw. Cooked, nowhere as bad, but some poor souls are SERIOUSLY allergic. Edit: Not the webcaps, the tubelegs.

[@jessica_in_japan]

Those red fingery ones at #3 are found here in Japan. They're called "flame mushrooms" or "blaze mushrooms" here (both for their appearance and their effect). Most cities and towns, especially ones with a lot of forests and nature, have signs and notices up telling people not to touch or eat them because they are highly dangerous and toxic. When I worked in the countryside at elementary schools, they had signs up in the schools about it.

[@vanessaryan3103]

They've also been fairly recently found in northern Australia.

[@echognomecal6742]

10:10 Somehow I was unaware of kidneys' gnome hats.

[@MySerpentine]

Yeah, I was wondering who put dunce caps on them LOL

[@theprof73]

Adrenal glands

[@lindsay6518]

This year someone died from eating undercooked morels as well! You must cook them very very well apparently to eliminate the toxins that are in real morels.

[@anyascelticcreations]

Yep. 💯 true.

[@kiyoshikusama4178]

The whole family Morchella contains some level of toxin. Thorough cooking is definitely the only way, although drying and cooking works great, too

[@isaiahdooley5953]

I wonder how someone just figured this out

[@pattheplanter]

Most mushroom fanciers would advise never eating raw mushrooms.

[@sooperman05]

@@pattheplanterwhat about button?! I eat them raw every time 😨

[@thomasleathrum7156]

The ads (in the US) for statin drugs all contain a warning saying that if you experience muscle pain or weekness, see a doctor because that could be a sign of a "rare but serious side effect." Yeah, statins can cause rhabdomyolysis, the same effect this video describes with yellow knight mushrooms -- muscle cells break down. My wife had that reaction to statins, so she has been told never to take one again. She has to find other treatments for cholesterol.

[@oscarinacan]

She could put down the fast food, that might help

[@SteveCirelli]

I had muscle weakness and arthritis feeling when I was out on them. I had read the side effects which said call your Dr immediately. I did, and he just told me to stop taking them for a week then start again. I was like wtf?

[@joshyoung1440]

*weakness

[@joshyoung1440]

​@@oscarinacan you have zero idea about this person's health issues. Is there a problem in your personal life that makes you lash out at others like that?

[@evilsharkey8954]

@@oscarinacanMost cholesterol issues are not related to diet.

[@wwondertwin]

Fun fact: the false morel is a Finnish delicacy and you can sell not only dried but also fresh false morels in Finland. The fresh ones come with preparation instructions to remove most of the toxin, and it's legally required to sell them with instructions. They're quite delicious. You can even eat them at restaurants that specialise in traditional food.

[@ZaDussault]

The angel of death symptoms are also often like you said, nausea and digestive issues, but the problem, is that often, they go away after a while, and the people are just like "oh I'm fine now I'll go on with my day" and a week later, their organs start to fail and it's too late

[@TheCrazyb56]

Hank seems like a really fungi.

[@Hexsyn]

Get out :p

[@saytaylor3603]

He definitely saw that, and he definitely smiled. He’s a nerd like that

[@xbbjdf8]

There isn't mushroom for improvement for this comment.

[@seanb3516]

Fly Agaric - We had a SPLOOSH of these things and I have pictures of ones close to the size of garbage can lids. These things were easily hitting 50cm in diameter. Biggest ones of that type I ever have seen.

[@pierrecurie]

oh wow, that's huge

[@K0sm1cKid]

Man I'm jealous. I love Amanita tea

[@Tru7hiness]

2:22 don't worry, Hank, the REAL fun rocket fuels don't need any oxygen at all!

[@DeputatKaktus]

…and before you know it: *T H E C O N C R E T E I S O N F I R E ! *

[@Ornithopter470]

What about when the rocket fuels exhaust is just toxic compounds that are ALSO hypergolic?

[@shanerorko8076]

Except for the oxygen in the compounds......

[@helplmchoking]

​@@shanerorko8076No need for oxygen when you've got liquid fluorine 😉

[@soylentgreenb]

@@shanerorko8076 If the concrete is on fire, it's not oxygen; it's fluorine. Chlorine pentafluoride, chlorine trifluoride or liquid fluorine have been tried. But it could also be FOOF which does have oxygen; but that's not why the concrete is on fire, it's still the fluorine.

[@hashbrown777]

Fly Agaric can be made safe by cooking, and as you might guess from your list of 'poison symptoms' it's for that very reason; it's psychoactive and used as a psychedelic drug.

[@K0sm1cKid]

Not exactly psychedelic, but definitely psychoactive. Depends on how one wants to define psychedelic I suppose. Most people think of seratonergic substances when they think of psychedelics. Amanita is Gabbaergenic and Dissacociative, depending on how much Muscimol/Muscarine vs. Ibotenic acid is present based on preparation.

[@hubsonn5778]

Not true, by cooking you destroy psychoactive substance which is muscimol, only by drying the mushroom you do so

[@MrCmon113]

@@K0sm1cKid Yep, people use the world psychedelic differently. People definitely get some changes to perception. Like a friend of mine seeing everything bigger and feeling touch and taste more. So it can resemble the classical psychededelics in some respects.

[@pohjanakka4992]

I like false morels. You just have to boil them thoroughly before eating. They are commonly sold in my country (Finland), both as freshly picked and canned, so if one wants to play safe you can always just buy them in cans. When sold fresh the sellers are required to check that the buyer knows how to deal with them before eating them. The evaporated water from that boiling seems to be somewhat poisonous too though, once I got a bit nauseous after breathing that in, so keep your distance when boiling them and be careful with the water that is left. And clean that pot well before using it for something else.

[@b6983832]

Muista kuitenkin ryöpätä ne ainakin kahteen kertaan. Virossa ja Liettuassa suositus on kolme kertaa. Suomen Ruokaviraston suositus on kaksi ryöppäystä.

[@pohjanakka4992]

@@b6983832 Yleensä 3 kertaa. Yhden kerran tuli huono olo pelkästä ensimmäisen ryöppäyskerran höyrystä kun tein muuta kattilan vieressä joten aika hyvä idea niiden vaarallisuudesta.

[@fungoidal]

Some things about the species in this video I'd like to touch on: Amanita muscaria is most definitely not one of the "deadliest" mushrooms, especially when compared to other Amanita within the section Phalloideae (such as the Death Cap). You would be very hard pressed to eat a lethal dose of them and would likely feel the poisoning effects before you got to that point, likely deterring you from eating more, although yes it is possible to die from eating too much (but exceptionally more difficult than many other species considered to be truly deadly poisonous); you can even prepare Amanita muscaria to be edible and safe to use recreationally. Trichoderma cornu-damae (as is the new name for the species) is also not truly known to do anything when you touch it, the vast majority of evidence for the claim is anecdotal and decently opposed within the mycological community; it is still definitely fatal when eaten, though. I would definitely consider just changing the video title to "6 Poisonous Mushrooms" since there are quite a few truly deadly species left off the list, such as Galerina marginata for example.

[@zosoknight]

34 second mark they make it clear that these are not deadliest by toxicity, but deadliest by number of people killed by consuming them accidentally.

[@salvadorpalma8173]

makes me wonder about the videos on subjects I don't know much about. This was not well researched at all...

[@omnirath]

Also while muscarine is present in the mushroom as traces it isn’t really relevant to the toxicity of Amanita muscaria, the most bioactive compounds are muscimol and ibotenic acid, which are still dangerous but pretty safe when compared to most poisonous mushrooms. Muscarine is present in others species of mushrooms like some Inocybles or Clitocybes in which it can be deadly

[@millertime7891]

Yep, I was surprised they had the Amanita Muscaria on this list. It’s toxic to a degree, but not enough to stop indigenous people from using them in ceremonies. Recreational use of Amanita Muscaria *allegedly* inspired Alice in Wonderland & the development of Ambien

[@wombatkins]

Yeah. There's plenty of people who have eaten Amanita muscaria.

[@tyrant-den884]

Gabba sounds like something 40k Orks would say. "'dis 'ere mushy gives yo' brain too much gabba."

[@ObadiahtheSlim]

HOL' UP DERE YOU GIT! 'OW DOEZ IT GIVE YOUZ BRAINZ GABBA IF YOU AINT GOT NO BRAINZ?

[@MostlyPennyCat]

It's also a really fast dance music

[@fleeb]

I can't help but think of Yo Gabba Gabba, and the episode "There's a party in my tummy!"

[@SrirachaChugChallenge747-jq7by]

@@fleeboh god i remember that show😭😭😭

[@Limrasson]

@@fleeb For me it's Gabba Gandalf from that one German LotR parody.

[@kristahutchinson6519]

Golden teachers has been my go-to mushroom for months, it has helped in my recovery journey

[@ShawnPearson-l2o]

After my trip yesterday, I did understand why GT mushrooms are praised... you can have some beautiful experiences on them..

[@Joe-bh7pf]

I remember having some minor surgery years ago and at that point I had never done any kind of drug at all. I didn't even drink small amounts of coffee or alcohol. They hit me with an intravenous dose of Demerol and I felt worst so after my mushroom hit I found a better part of myself.

[@chaemchoiaromdee2229]

The insights I've gained from golden teachers mushrooms have been invaluable. They've helped me understand myself and the world in a new way.

[@MandyMensior]

y'all talk about the benefits of mushrooms, but no one talks about where to fetch from.

[@chaemchoiaromdee2229]

𝕴𝖓𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖌𝖗𝖆𝖒

[@RussellJuan-q9v]

My recovery journey was greatly enhanced by the therapeutic benefits of mushrooms. Other psychedelics like DMT and LSD have also proven to be remarkable.

[@NeilOman-x1s]

Hey mate, do you know where i can source one?

[@MarcusBillie]

doctorcyruss is your guy, got all kinds of psychedelics and the most knowledgeable that i know.

[@TristanYves-p4r]

Is he on telgram?

[@MarcusBillie]

Yes and tiktok, highly recommended.

[@OakleyRowan]

It's amazing how they work better than antidepressants and serve as recreational purpose as well.

[@kartaiss]

Lithuanian here. Yes, we are all superheroes impervious to poison. On a serious note, I'm from South Lithuania, famous for its mushroom and berry foraging culture, and I've picked and ate a lot of yellow knights since I was a kid. The soil in South Lithuania is almost all sand, so not much grows here, so people have been living off berries and mushrooms for centuries and know a lot on how NOT TO DIE from them, and this knowledge is passed from generation to generation. So to me, the main rule when picking mushrooms, is: if I don't know what I found, I ask my dad :) He knows all of them. To all other peoples: be careful and pick only the mushrooms you know well, no matter how good they may seem at first glance :)

[@pierrecurie]

What's the rule for yellow knights? Not eat too much continuously?

[@kartaiss]

@@pierrecurie They're actually not that abundant, as they are the last mushroom to grow in the forest before winter, picked in late October, sometimes even November. Also, they hide under the moss, so they're hard to find. It's really unusual to find enough of them to be eating a lot of them continuously, they're more of a delicacy :)

[@quadrilaturalSamurai]

11:00 "And another part, is that because they're called the 'death cap', so of course it kills you -- it's in the name."

[@tylanwatts8341]

“When in doubt, throw it out!” Been collecting wild mushrooms for 40+ years. I collect boletus, puffballs, morels, and a couple agaricus ONLY. There are lots of edible mushrooms I won’t touch (i.e., Caesar’s mushrooms) as they are too similar to bad ones. Learn from a old forager and grab a guidebook - that’s how I did it!

[@Darknimbus3]

The “hollow” rule is not fool-proof. There have been reported morels with a solid stem and Gyromitra esculentas with a hollow stem. There are better ways to discern the two. For instance, no Morchella species has any reddish cap. Morel caps resemble honeycombs while G. esculentas resemble brains. Also fly agarics are not usually deadly, and can even be rendered perfectly edible when prepared properly. But even then, only the immunocompromised would be seriously threatened by this mushroom.

[@garethtudor836]

The writing for this is brilliant, but Hank's delivery is what pushes it into epic territory

[@artworksbycrystine]

"and again, YOUR FACE" 😂 that really got me Hank

[@verdatum]

Hank is bringing Jeans-Jackets back to dad-chic, and I approve.

[@casjean8904]

he looks so adorable!!!

[@tyrant-den884]

"Hmm, delicious umami, or deadly poison?"

[@88icryspy]

The Iroh of mushrooms

[@piggyatbaqaqi]

Why not both? I hear that Amanita bisporigera is delicious.

[@AlmachtigeDikke]

Plenty deadly species are delicious, or at least, lack a flavour that would deter from eating. Amanita phalloides has this mildly sweet, nutty flavour, not unlike A. pantherina. Amanita muscaria has a slight tang to it, though. Lepiota brunneoincarnata, L. subincarnata, L. brunneolilacea, L. castanea, and several other deadly Lepiota all have a very mild flavour. Clitocybe dealbata (rivulosa) has a mealy flavour, and Pholiotina rugosa and Galerina marginata taste remarkably mushroomy.

[@88icryspy]

@@piggyatbaqaqi check out amanita dreamer

[@rainpooper7088]

I literally posted that gif in our chat while mushroom hunting lmao

[@Blewlongmun]

6:27 It's honestly so cool that the thing to do us in is either heart failure or kidney damage. The fact our body can go through something like muscular deterioration and will just go "ok I guess I gotta clean that up now" literally to no end but it's own. I often think of us as fragile and sensitive but our bodies are surprisingly hardy.

[@jacobfreeman5444]

Both are true. Our bodies are very sensitive and can be made to not work properly or at all with the slightest thing. However your body really wants to keep living. So it can keep going even in extreme situations so long as it has at least the bare minimum to function. Not for long but sometimes that can be enough to make it past the trouble.

[@tachywubdub2469]

@Blewlongmun humans are the one animal I can think of that habitually poisons itself to such an extent. Look at medicine, alcohol, and caffeine XD those are just dosed poisons.

[@shuikkanen]

I have picked thousands of false morels for sale and for personal consumption knowing very well they are deadly poisonous UNLESS you handle them properly. Unlike most poisonous mushrooms their poison can be removed by boiling them at least 10 minutes, rinsing thoroughly and repeating. They are extremely delicious and are commonly picked for consumption in Finland.

[@b6983832]

Yep, but the recommendation of boiling just once is at least 40 years old. Finnish food authority recommends boiling them at least twice for 5 minutes, while in Estonia and Lithuania the recommendation is to do this at least thrice.

[@shuikkanen]

@@b6983832 I did say rinsing throughly and repeating. So I recommended to boil twice.

[@jjuliuzzful]

I'm from Lithuania, and indeed, yellow knights are picked by lots of people, including me, during the later months of autumn. False morels are also popular, one of the first mushrooms we pick in early spring. Of course you usually boil them three times while changing the water every time.

[@floffycatto6475]

I've heard that white caps can also be confused with liberty caps, the difference being that white caps are much wider. One will get you high, and the other will kill you. Have fun foraging!

[@daftwulli6145]

In this economy that is called a win win

[@floffycatto6475]

I think I meant "death caps" by this. Alas I am no expert.

[@YunxiaoChu]

White cap?

[@incandescentwithrage]

​@@floffycatto6475They don't look even remotely similar

[@floffycatto6475]

@@incandescentwithrage Yeah sorry I meant death caps. At least that's what I've heard.

[@genatzvali]

"You should go to the doctor" is a common theme in this video.

[@radio671]

In sweden and finland false morels are considered a delicacy

[@Ksrwilhelm]

Gyromitra Esculenta used to be considered a delicacy in scandinavia. By soaking and drying them repeatedly it's possible to remove most of the toxins. Nowadays the Swedish Food Agency discourages eating them whatsoever, but some people still seek them out.

[@Mattle_lutra]

As a seasoned forager in Scandinavia, I found this video a nice look into the world of poisonous mushrooms. However I feel the video plays up the fear a lot regarding some mushrooms, and mentioning you should just buy them at the supermarket might be a mistake here!*** ***The poisonous analogues of chanterelles are terrible, and have even appeared in supermarkets amongst chanterelles. When buying wild foraged mushrooms, please inspect every single fruiting body you plan to eat, and discard the ones you're uncertain of. If it doesn't feel, look or most importantly SMELL lke a chanterelle it should not be put into your food.*** Champignons and oyster mushrooms are generally safe from the store and the chance of poisoning is near zero. This is likely due to the mushrooms being easily farmable. The false morel is commonly eaten, and can even be bought canned in supermarkets across europe, readily prepared to contain less gyromitrin. The fly agaric is quite common to enjoy in certain cultures, once prepared correctly it's effects (in lower doses) can be similar to the light buzz of a few beers without any significant hangover and a lower neurotoxicity than alcohol offers for the same therapeutic effect. The preparation process turns the ibotenic acid (strong irritant poison which makes you vomit A LOT) into muscimol, which as mentioned affects the GABA system with a relatively safe therapeutic index. There are many documented cases of fly agaric poisoning, and so far there has only been 1 or 2 reported deaths depending on sources, resulting in a 0,04% death rate from the reported poisonings. Thanks to whoever reads this! And may your foraging trips be bountiful! 💜

[@trygvetveit4747]

"Santa Claus Musrom" It used to be saved for the long dark winters here in Scandinavia.... ;)

[@druvor]

People in Scandinavia should definitely be careful this time of the year. My SIL's sister and her partner recenrly ate (what we believe based on the time of the year and symptoms) deadly webcaps. They may have looked for funnel chanterelle and accidentally picked some webcaps as well. From what I remember, the partner is on dialysis (hopefully it's only temporary). Update: The partner has had permanent organ damage and will need a transplant.

[@Mattle_lutra]

@@trygvetveit4747 Du kjenner også julenissen? ;D

[@SailingSoWhat]

As a kid I was afraid of champignons and even later I always tried to get the brown variety. But the ones from the supermarket are farmed mushrooms and it's impossible to grow amanitas on a substrate even if you tried since they are symbiotic with trees.

[@Mattle_lutra]

@@druvor I'm so sorry to hear this. Hopefully the recovery goes well! It's quite rare that this happens, and sadly preventable. I have sorted out 2 webcaps myself from batches I've picked in low sunlight a few years ago. The best way to learn is to handle each individual fungus, even put on some gloves and pick the poisonous ones just so you can get the feel of them. Best of luck, and again I hope your friend finds their quality of life again soon. ❤️

[@JoelMathew-qk1qh]

Psychedelics are just an amazing discovery. It's quite fascinating how effective they are for depression and stress..saved my life.

[@calebsarah9985]

Psychedelics definitely have potential to deal with health issues like anxiety and depression, I would like to try them but it's just hard to source out here.

[@Heisenberg-35]

I'm feeling the same way too. I put so much on my plate and it definitelv affects mv stress and anxietv levels

[@JordanRike]

I was having this constant and unbearable anxiety because of university stress. Not until I came across Ted Winston, a very intelligent mycologist, He saved my life honestly.

[@anitaknothy7572]

Is he on telegram?

[@Edgarasmiskinis]

HE’S MOSTLY ON TELEGRAM, USING THE USERNAME

[@Hexsyn]

I've never understood how somebody could mistake a false morel for the real thing...

[@NitrEmo]

There are all kinds of folk out there for whom sense of logic just wasn't part of the birth deal.

[@piggyatbaqaqi]

I always felt that Verpa is a better candidate for False Morel. I've had a fellow mycologist identify Verpa bohemica as Morchella semilibera. I needed a hand lens to see the collapsed pith, so it was a very plausible error.

[@YunxiaoChu]

@@Hexsyn models can vary quite a bit

[@LifeLostSoul]

Well if you're just reading about them a book that has no pictures then the descriptions could be kind of similar. Or if someone is new to 🍄🍄‍🟫 nature has a lot of variation so you can think maybe that's just a weird looking one.

[@woodfur00]

Or if you don't have a picture in front of you and think you remember what they look like.

[@thinking_toomuch]

False morels are named esculenta (edible) because they are edible, you just have to prepare them right! You need to boil them couple times before eating and they are in fact considered a delicacy in their own right in many places. I have personally had false morel sauce in restaurants many times

[@phi1394]

Fun fact. I eat and make sauce with false morel mushroom. In Sweden it's boiled to remove most of the toxin, and if you eat them past this step they are not more dangerous to your health than smoking or other unhealthy habits. There are people who have eaten this mushroom since they were kids without any issues. (And in Finland it's even more popular and served at restaurants.)

[@suvi7641]

false morels are often eaten here in finland, you just have to boil them twice for 5 minutes in a large amount of water to remove the poison.

[@Steamrick]

I love chanterelles. I'll endeavour to not to confuse them with webcaps. The chanterelle has even managed to convert a devout mushroom hater to the point of saying 'not bad'.

[@NitrEmo]

It has now become the only mushroom I will bother to pick. Easy to distinguish, easy to clean, easy to process and tastes great.

[@98Zai]

They smell good but don't taste nearly as good, just like coffee.

[@Snarethedrummer]

Mushrooms at home are notoriously cooked the wrong way. My (now young adult) cousin said the same thing until she happened to pop by when I was cooking some. I asked if she wanted to try, just in case, she obliged and said what I cooked was actually good and that her mom doesn't cook them like that. Here's where I learned: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jn2zfXajrKd_eLs

[@johnsteel5347]

You'll love chicken of the woods and it has no poisonous look a likes.

[@gps831coast]

Beware of false chanterelles. The gills are different. Chicken of the woods and much better than oyster mushrooms.

[@AnjeloValeriano]

Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.

[@APOLLINAIREBARTHOLOMIEU]

Can you help with the reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. Very hard to get a reliable source here in Australia. Really need!

[@Jennifer-bw7ku]

Yes, dr.sporees I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.

[@steceymorgan814]

Anxiety happens when you think you have to figure out everything all at once. Breathe. You're strong. You got this Take it day by day.

[@APOLLINAIREBARTHOLOMIEU]

Is he on instagram?

[@Jennifer-bw7ku]

Yes he is. dr.sporees

[@unlisteda7779]

10:11 Kidneys actually look like that? You're telling me I have not one, but TWO gnome fetuses inside me??

[@wyverndragonborn4063]

To be fair the hats are the adrenal glands xD

[@murrrr8288]

Some people consider the false morels a delicacy in Finland. You need to boil it several times to make it edible. I've never eaten it myself, though.

[@elisabethkronqvist3987]

The recommended procedure for false morels used to be to blanch them three times in lots of fresh water before using them for food. While this certainly removes most of the poison, it doesn't remove all of it, and the remains of it have been shown to cause long-term effects too. Maybe not eat them every year...

[@c4sh3w]

0:14 ... or to the cemetry

[@extrullorgd4444]

...or just that 😂

[@VavNikTonik]

3:30 important to note, that fly agaric, or amanita muscaria is not a deadly mushroom. Contrary to popular belief, there're no registered deadly cases of intoxication by those mushrooms in the last 100 years, except just few anecdotal cases. In contrary, amanita muscaria is widely used for microdosing purposes, since drying them decarboxylates ibotenic acid into muscimol, which is hallucinogenic drug which is non-addictive and pretty safe, and in small doses can cure insomnia and other sleep disorders, and in other doses can be used for recreational purposes

[@vahvek5602]

Honestly, this is the first time I've seen him spread misinformation like this.

[@Nawtyloach1001]

As soon as I turn 21, weed and shrooms are on the top of my to-try list.

[@b6983832]

Russians even traditionally eat this mushroom, because the poisons (mostly hallucinogenic) are soluble in water. It can be made edible by boiling. That said, in most other mushroom-eating cultures it is not eaten, and has been traditionally considered as a symbol of poisonous mushrooms - although it is not deadly poisonous.

[@nsv674]

Bring a field guide AND a local expert. Better yet, bring them both to your local pizza joint, buy the expert a mushroom pizza, and sit and discuss the field guide while you wait.

[@martinfalkjohansson5204]

Eh.. Foraging for mushrooms is extremely common on several parts of the world, and yet, it's very uncommon people die from it. Generally people here only pick stuff they know is edible. Most of deaths are by non-natives or by really old people who have bad eye sight.

[@nsv674]

@@martinfalkjohansson5204 good news everyone, you might not die! Amanita phalloides (death cap mushrooms) are non-native in North America, and yet they're here. Learning about mushrooms before you harvest and eat them is a really good idea.

[@alexwithletters3215]

Here we regularly eat false morels. You have to parboil them a couple of times. Calling them toxic is like calling meat toxic because you got food poisoning from eating raw meat. Also something worth mentioning, if you eat something with mushrooms in it or just mushrooms and it tastes bitter in any way then spit it out and trash it.

[@gunnarthegumbootguy7909]

The false morel is absolutely edible and tasty (they don't really taste like any other mushrooms though, but kinda sweet and slightly nutty) if you are careful to cook it and pour off the water a few times and don't breathe in the water vapor, we eat them in sweden. it's still possible to die from leftover traces of the toxic substance but it's super rare and nothing really to worry about.

[@Elyza404]

False Morel is actually also extremely tasty and used often in food! Here its a mushroom you can sell for a nice price to the fine dining restaurants. You just need to boil it trice to get rid of most of the poisonous compounds, in a well ventilated room so you dont accidentally breathe in the vapor. I used to pick it with my grandfather to sell when I was a kid

[@krashd]

10:10 "Miss, I'm pleased to report that you are pregnant with twin gnomes."

[@pierrecurie]

adrenal glands

[@sterling0heart]

My father used to suffer a terrible stomach flu every Christmas, turns out my aunt and uncle were picking a mildly toxic variety of mushrooms for the gravy but they were somehow resistant to it. My brother and I didn't like mushrooms, nor did my mother. It wasn't until we went over extra early one year that someone asked about the unfamiliar mushrooms that they were able to piece it together. Though my aunt mostly admonished my dad for not eating enough wild food to be healthy enough ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[@YunxiaoChu]

@@sterling0heart was it a bolete? There are many boletes that cause tummy aches in some people but are fine for others

[@92Pyromaniac]

@@YunxiaoChu I would have guessed the yellow stainer, my Dad does not get symptoms from these and ate them for years thinking they were field mushrooms.

[@YunxiaoChu]

@@92Pyromaniac I believe it contains carcinogens though so best to avoid it regardless

[@miroaja1951]

Another delicious mushroom with plenty of gyromitrin is the gyromitra esculenta. Its a very common delicacy in finland and other nordic countries. The gyromitrin can be mitigated or even removed entirely via boiling multiple times as it evaporates easily and solutes in water. Though you really shouldn't breathe in the steam or forget to throw out the water after every boil as both are poisonous

[@attekinnula4406]

False morels are a delicacy. We eat them all the time here in Finland. Trick is, you boil them - twice, for minimum of 5 minutes at a time, in a lot of water (1:3 of mushroom-to-water ratio). Boil them, throw away the water, rinse them well in cold water, boil again (don't use the water from the previous one!), throw away the water and rinse well again. It is also advisable to chop them before boiling, but that has really nothing to do with toxins and more to do with the fact that they tend to be found in sandy places and hence there's lot of grit inside the folds. Boiling them chopped has the extra bonus of getting rid of most of the grit :). But yeah, don't pick up and eat mushrooms if you aren't really sure you know what they are. Like REALLY sure.

[@oliviascherber2674]

The Asian fire coral mushroom is almost certainly safe to touch. That matters a bit because we're regularly advising beginners in the mushroom world that all mushrooms are safe to touch/even taste(and spit out). It's fairly common to get pushback because of this and a few other misunderstood mushrooms. The slime on Suillus mushrooms can rarely cause allergic reactions though.

[@arcanacapra9792]

"..and that snack becomes a trip" yay :D "...to the emergency room." oh D:

[@Ai_Ayumi]

Im confused on the Fly Agaric. Cant you buy it to make tea with? Theres even youtube videos on its effects being not terribly worse then alcohol. Would love to hear more about it.

[@OutOfNameIdeas2]

Pretty much nothing is worse than alcohol for your body. But yes if prepared right it's not dangerous.

[@tachywubdub2469]

So, I'm not an expert on fly agaric, but I'm familiar with the biological mechanism of GABA. Increasing GABA *slowly* is used as seizure medication. Quick Increase of GABA (like the poison) is used in things like specialist administered anesthesia. Overdose of either will make you lethargic and slow your breathing. Overdose of the latter (which is most likely how the mushroom works) will kill you similarly to the way Micheal Jackson died. When given as an anesthetic, you have a guy constantly monitoring you to make sure you don't suffocate/ have your heart slow down b/c this stuff will shut you down. Also alcoholic effects here are superficial, your body metabolize alcohol pretty well, I wouldn't tempt fate with ubdosed GABA self medication

[@tachywubdub2469]

Undosed* aheheh

[@tachywubdub2469]

Mind you, I'm not am expert in any way

[@oxoniumgirl]

it has to be prepared correctly first, that's the issue why lots of people get sickened, but it's really not potent enough to kill someone unless they eat a ton unprepared. the problem is that most people have almost no education when it comes to mushrooms so they'll put something in their mouth right off the forest floor unless you tell them not to. amanita muscaria has to be dried or roasted a specific way before it is made safe to eat or safe for medicinal use, and even then, you have to take a measured dose, like with a gram scale, and not just chomp away like it's umami candy. I used to eat AM all the time, it's quite delicious!

[@TheChirix999]

To be honest there in Latvia we have False Morel and i have lot of friends who eat them a lot... but the key is they boil them 3 times each time for 15-20 min and drain water and change to new one each time and none of them died...

[@djp1234]

I’m so glad I don’t like mushrooms. Don’t need to play mushroom roulette.

[@rainbowkenz]

Ba dum pum …. *ting*

[@squintsyadams8463]

I love Hank's new hair.

[@fhm21]

Chemotherapy has curled his hair. I'm not joking.

[@TheStickCollector]

I would rather pass on all of them then risk it.

[@thekwjiboo]

Lol there really isn't a risk. You aren't going to get poisoned by grocery store portobellos.

[@benegg86]

Your loss

[@briandoolittle3422]

Lots of berries are also poisonous, and can often be harder to differentiate from safe ones than mushrooms. Are you going to avoid store bought blueberries because of that?

[@jursamaj]

@@briandoolittle3422 ​ @thekwjiboo The video is quite clearly about wild mushrooms, not store-bought.

[@daftwulli6145]

look all mushrooms are edible, and some you can even enjoy more then once

[@Masuteri_]

Do note that false morels are actually edible and can be used in cooking but they need to be prepared by boiling them 2-3 times for 5 minutes, amounts being 3 parts water 1 part mushroom. Between each time the water must be changed

[@BLT1538]

Silibinin comes from the plant St. Mary’s thistle and is normally used as a liver tonic but when isolated it can actually reverse damage done to liver like with the death cap and it’s also been studied for paracetamol overdose

[@markconley9279]

Mushrooms can also be fun.

[@goosenotmaverick1156]

I've eaten my fair share without experiencing much any of the times. Lol so meh for me. Guess my chemistry isn't right

[@spacecat8511]

Fun-guys if you will

[@MostlyPennyCat]

Yep 😏

[@kasnitch]

Golden Teacher and Golden Emperor are two of my favourites .

[@_MikeJon_]

​@@goosenotmaverick1156 you either didn't eat enough or they were bunk or old

[@elmurcis1]

Stick to ones you know very well and avoid rest. Works for mushrooms too! =))

[@lorrygoth]

I've been eating Amanita Muscaria for years, in small amounts, it is the most effective antidepressant I have ever used.

[@TimYoshi]

Try "regular" magic mushrooms. Much safer and potentially better...

[@lorrygoth]

@TimYoshi I've used psilo, but I've been taking Amanita for at least 4 years with no complaints. And after trying to get off them and my depression coming back so hard I couldn't do anything I'm not really looking to switch to anything else. Thank you though. I do hope some of the trials going on eventually get them approved for medical use both here and in the states.

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

@@TimYoshi- Heard good things about the medical benefits of magic mushrooms, including relief of acute OCD. Be interesting if they ever get medical approval.

[@oxoniumgirl]

@@TimYoshi in addition to what Lorrygoth said, many of us out there actually do not respond well to psychedelics or serotonergics at all. If a person benefits from muscimol / amanita muscaria, then they're not likely to tolerate magic psilocybin well as adding more serotonin which has an opposite effect of muscimol is unlikely to be beneficial if muscimol is beneficial. I'm all for promoting psychedelics but they're NOT the answer for everyone. I used and enjoyed amanita muscaria for years with no ill effects. They just have to be prepared properly and dosed as a medicine not as a food. That's where most people get harmed, by treating them as umami candy.

[@oakstrong1]

False morsel was an expensive delicacy when I was a kid. The advice was to boil it 5 or 6 times in plenty of water for 10 minutes (obviously, the water was thrown away and the shrooms rinsed in between . Drying the mushroom only reduced the number of times you'd have to boil it. So, not really worth it when you have a choice. (I tasted them once. They were nice but not that impressive.)

[@mrharvest]

False morels are commonly eaten in east Europe and the Nordic countries. You boil them twice in fresh water to get rid of the gyromitrin. Delicious mushrooms, my personal favourite.

[@anyascelticcreations]

Many years ago I went to a mushroom dinner. Everything served contained mushrooms of some kind. Even desert! While we ate our dinner a mushroom expert gave us all a presentation similar to this on how to enjoy mushroom gathering and preperation without killing yourself. At the very end he gave us his best piece of advice. Don't do it. Just don't. Even he considers mushroom gathering just too dangerous for anyone but the very best of the best mushroom foragers out there. As someone from several generations of wild food foragers even I have avoided all but puffballs and morels. My family does the same. Also: Wild plants can be just as delicious but also just as potentially deadly. Water hemlock and poison hemlock are actually surprisingly common. And either can and will kill a person with only a tiny amount unless medical intervention happens pretty quick. And both have very edible look alikes for a novice. And poke weed, though extremely edible and delicious if gathered at the right growth stage and cooked properly, is extremely dangerous even to touch later in the season. That being said there is a ton that I do forage. Some of my favorite foods are from the wild. So the moral of the story: yes, there's a lot out there to enjoy. But learn what you're doing first. Learn well. And if there is a shadow of a doubt just don't eat it at all.

[@kiyoshikusama4178]

...the Morel of the story? 😅

[@TheRedKnight101]

Depending on where you are chicken of the woods and chanterelles are easy to identify and forage, small puffballs can be confused with potentially deadly amanita mushrooms before they fully open.

[@anyascelticcreations]

@@kiyoshikusama4178 Ah, I missed an opportunity there for sure! 👏 😁

[@anyascelticcreations]

@@Toxicpoolofreekingmascul-lj4yd Yes, easy for someone experienced they're easy to identify. Then again, so are most of the edible vs deadly mushrooms. I think it really comes down to stick with what you know well. And don't eat what you don't know.

[@anyascelticcreations]

@@TheRedKnight101 It really does make a difference where a person is. And whether or not they know the plants and mushrooms there. For example, my family ate puffballs because we knew them without doubt. And because nothing similar grew where we gathered ours.