Mycology is a complicated field

[draegur@lemm.ee]

the best meal you'll ever have in the rest of your life

[tal@lemmy.today]

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.

[negativelookbehind@lemmy.world]

All mushrooms are edible once.

[vaguerant@fedia.io]

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.”

[jve@lemmy.world]

Source

[rockerface@lemm.ee]

And you can look at the Sun through a telescope twice in your life

[heythisisnttheymca@lemmy.world]

Which ones go well with pasta and will kill me the in-laws are visiting and I need an excuse not to be here

[chronographs@lemmy.zip]

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.

[tootsweet@lemmy.world]

Everyone needs a Paul Stamets on speed dial for emergency mycological classification.

[shalafi@lemmy.world]

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.

[libertylizard@slrpnk.net]

Mycophobia is too real y’all.

[yarharsuperstar@lemmy.world]

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!

[thebat@lemmy.world]

destroying angel

Tf this is like the most badass name

[grue@lemmy.world]

I would never eat one even if I were extremely desperate, unless I had a mushroom identification book with me.

[vandals_handle@lemmy.world]

Such applications already exist. iNaturalist also helps identify vertebrates and invertebrates.

[ramblingpanda@lemmynsfw.com]

Which one? Eh, forget the question. It doesn't really matter, I'd take both the Star Trek or the real-life Stamets anytime.

[stoy@lemmy.zip]

Some will go excellent with pasta and kill you...

[stoy@lemmy.zip]

Some taste excellent and will kill you!

[custardfist@feddit.nl]

So not mushroom for error. 🫤

[garbagebagel@lemmy.world]

Jokes on you, they'll all kill me.