From the responses, the team learned that the ALS patients were not the only mushroom foragers in town, but they shared an affinity for a particular species that local interviewees without ALS said they never touched: the false morel.
From the responses, the team learned that the ALS patients were not the only mushroom foragers in town, but they shared an affinity for a particular species that local interviewees without ALS said they never touched: the false morel.
Or maybe he thought that was the wisest thing to tell a group of 18-20somthings. Not a demographic known for cool deliberation or self preservation. There’s a reason the draft starts at 18 but you can’t rent a car til you’re 25.
So they decided to lie about not foraging for mushrooms?
Doesn’t really make sense to me.
Honestly, a professor of mycology not being able yo to forage mushrooms? Just where do these people live that there’s no solid edible shrooms which have no fatal similar looking ones, like chanterelles or winter chanterelles?
Idk, maybe in the US there’s similar species in areas with them so it’s kind of a gamble, but we don’t, so foraging is a-okay.
As long as you know how and what to forage for in the specific area you are, you should know whether you can or can’t forage edible shrooms easily.
I wouldn’t be certain I’ve found penny buns although I know how to ID them, roughly, but because of the phenotypical variation and not remembering all the strains which are similar, I wouldn’t confidently forage those. I don’t recall there being anything too poisonous that’s close to it, but still.
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