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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1247075
Archived version: https://archive.ph/dJJGi
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230809131335/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/09/australia-poisonous-mushroom-lunch-police/
What? The article is about shrooms?! Worst clickbait offender I’ve seen in a while. Screw this news outlet.
Deadly poison mushrooms, not what people normally refer to as “shrooms”, i.e. psychedelic mushrooms.
Right, sorry. Not a native speaker, didn’t know about this distinction.
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.
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.
Death caps actually don’t look obvious at all.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_phalloides
Can easily be mistaken as edible.
Edit: just clarifying, I agree with everything else you said.
No, that isn’t really a great summary. A mushroom poisoning is suspected, but not confirmed to be the cause of death of the people at the party. The article goes on a bit of a tangent.