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be careful when you collect shrooms in the wild

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tryptonaut

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I recently watched a show on mushrooms (they were talking about edible mushrooms and mushrooms in general, psychedelic mushrooms were not more than a side note).

They had this mushroom expert on the show, she was a mycologist (I can't remember her name, sorry) and she said that even she as an expert on mushrooms can sometimes be fooled by mushrooms in the wild.
They also showed a film of a woman who had almost died from a mushroom poisening - that woman had been collecting mushrooms since she was a kid, and she had picked them at the same places over years - what she didn't know was that due to climate change, new mushrooms were growing now that had not been growing in these woods ever before.
I can't remember the species, never heard of either the edible nor the poisonous one. But well, she ate a mushroom omelette, and 12 hours later she was in immense pain. They took her to the hospital and had to transplant her liver and she almost died.

I always thought that the people who know mushrooms can safely identify the right ones - what the expert on the show said was that with some species you can be relatively sure, with others you can't, and so she wouldn't eat some species of mushrooms at all, no matter who had picked them.

They also pointed out that a lot of mushrooms listed in older books as "edible" might indeed be poisonous in the long range - i.e. they won't kill you now, but they will damage your organs in the long run.


This just as a reminder to be extra safe when picking mushrooms in the wild (I wouldn't do it).
I have seen many many threads on this forum titled "I think I found psilocybe" and even I can see on the first picture that these are certainly not.
My advice: buy a growbox. You will be sure these are the right shrooms!
 
Psilocybe semilanceata are exactly like that :

http://images.google.fr/images?hl=fr&so ... 2&aq=f&oq=

If you only take those ones, you can't merge with others and there will be no problem. Don't hesitate to post pictures of your crop here.

(read about them, they change of colour while drying, from brown/grey to white/yellow)

I can't stop myself from defending those beautiful mushrooms.

(it's easy to find toxic mushrooms in woods, but difficult in fields and in the two cases, you can't merge them with pilocybe semilanceata)
 
I agree be careful. But with any logical sense one should be able to identify the mushroom and not mistake it. You just can't be dumb, thats all.
 
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