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> I dabbled in mycology and identifying mushrooms is super hard, probably one of the hardest taxonomy things. There are a lot of mushrooms that are very easy t
by Alex3917 6y ago
> I dabbled in mycology and identifying mushrooms is super hard, probably one of the hardest taxonomy things.
There are a lot of mushrooms that are very easy to identify, and learning edible mushrooms is imho a lot easier than learning edible plants. But if you pick up mushrooms at random then yeah, it's generally extremely difficult.
- heavyset_go 6y agoA big part of learning what mushrooms are edible is identifying the ones that can harm you.
- Alex3917 6y agoI mean out of the 2,000 mushrooms in North America, there are all of 20 or 30 that are seriously poisonous. So it doesn't take all that long to learn the most harmful ones. Especially since you don't even need to know whether or not a mushroom is harmful, only if it looks vaguely like one of the harmful ones.