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angroro t1_j6lxvsn wrote

Reply to comment by brownc6830 in Good mushroom harvest results in poisoning boom by Octavus

More mushrooms growing wild, more people harvesting those mushrooms, more people mistaking edible varieties for toxic ones.

This is why multiple subreddits have rules against identifying plants as edible. People make mistakes. Frequently.

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TheLastStop03 t1_j6nqcup wrote

I know a man who is a leading fungal expert in a couple different states and he insists on trying everything that he identifies as edible, before anyone else. So that he doesn't take that chance with someone else. It is easy to mistake.

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