Mycology is a complicated field
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But before they kill you, would they taste good with pasta?
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It could be both.....
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The name destroying angel applies to several similar, closely related species of deadly all-white mushrooms in the genus Amanita.[1] They are Amanita virosa in Europe and A. bisporigera and A. ocreata in eastern and western North America, respectively.[1] Another European species of Amanita referred to as the destroying angel, Amanita verna—also referred to as the "Fool's mushroom"—was first described in France in 1780.[2]
Destroying angels are among the most toxic known mushrooms; both they and the closely related death caps (A. phalloides) contain amatoxins.[1]
Destroying angel mushrooms (Amanita virosa and Amanita bisporigera) are highly poisonous fungi that are often mistaken for edible species. They are white or pale in color and have a distinctive bulbous base, a ring around the stem, and a volva (a sheath-like structure at the base of the stem). They can resemble other edible mushrooms, such as meadow mushrooms or button mushrooms, which can make them difficult to identify. >
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Lol You'd think we'd have some sort of easy test strips or something for these, but ig not
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Based on this guy's experience, no.
I survived the “Destroying Angel”
I took three home with me. I couldn’t find my Mushroom book, was in a hurry, so I trusted my judgment, fried them up in olive oil, and ate them as a side dish. I should have recognized then that they weren’t inky caps, because inky caps exude a black substance when you fry them.
They honestly did not taste that good, rather bland in my opinion. I thought to myself, “Gee, I don’t think I’ll ever pick and eat these again.” (Little did I know the truth of my thought at the time).
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the best meal you'll ever have in the rest of your life
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I've no idea whether it would be useful for specifically mushroom identification, but I have before wondered before whether maybe future cell phones could incorporate some kind of hyperspectral imaging camera and light to permit for identifying things that look identical to humans.
Foliage that looks fairly-indistinguishable to human eyes can look different if you can sample at more points on the spectrum than the three that human eyes can check for; this has been used to find marijuana plantations with hyperspectral imaging from the air. But if you can get right up next to something and can control the light that it's exposed to, I would guess that it'd be an easier task to identify something.
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All mushrooms are edible once.
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The ones in the comic don't look like death caps, but those are responsible for 90% of mushroom-related poisonings, so we'll assume artistic license.
Death caps probably would go well with pasta. Here is an article from The Atlantic with someone who has tasted one.
Britt Bunyard, the founder, publisher, and editor in chief of the mycology journal Fungi, has tasted a death cap. “Very pleasant and mushroomy,” he told me. “A nice flavor, and then you spit it out.”
“There’s nothing in the taste that tells you what you are eating is about to kill you.”
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And you can look at the Sun through a telescope twice in your life
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Which ones go well with pasta and will kill me the in-laws are visiting and I need an excuse not to be here
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I tolerate mushrooms on food from restaurants but I would never just eat one from the wild unless I was extremely desperate, the risk/reward is just insane.
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Everyone needs a Paul Stamets on speed dial for emergency mycological classification.
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Read a mushroom textbook 30-years ago, so take this as you will, but it's damned easy to test.
Chip a tiny chunk off with your tooth. Wait 45-mintues. Heart burn, feel weird? Stop. No? Take a bigger chunk. Rinse and repeat.
People act like the tiniest bit of fungus will kill them dead. Not unless your liver has failed, and then you got worse problems.
Anybody know how to trip on Aminata Muscaria? Sure is a lot in the woods around here.
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Mycophobia is too real y’all.
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That's a fucking badass idea, but I got stuck on this:
identifying things that look identical to humans
I hope we don't have trouble identifying things that look identical to humans!
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destroying angel
Tf this is like the most badass name
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I would never eat one even if I were extremely desperate, unless I had a mushroom identification book with me.
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Such applications already exist. iNaturalist also helps identify vertebrates and invertebrates.
