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There are VERY few (if ANY) mushrooms that can kill you after taking a test bite and waiting 20 min to see how you feel. This story is warning against people p

• vintermann 3y ago
  That is definitively not the way to test mushrooms. Yes, there are mushrooms that can kill you that way, and a lot more that can seriously harm you. False morels, funeral bells, deadly webcaps, a bunch of different amanitas... in the case of deadly webcaps, you won't notice until a few days. But then you're going to need new kidneys. Basically every webcap is suspected of being carcinogenous too, and look up Julius Schäffer if you think there can't possibly be long-term effects of eating mushrooms that "seem fine" after 20 minutes.
• dagw 3y ago
  of unknown origin or type Very few people end up in hospital because they are randomly eating mushrooms of unknown origin or type. They end up in hospital because they 'know' the type of mushroom they are eating, and just happen to be wrong.
  • vintermann 3y ago
    Yes, overconfidence is the big killer, and OP is definitively at risk if he thinks eating a bit of it is a good way to ID edibility.
• kaycebasques 3y ago
  This is a risky idea to spread in public. A single Destroying Angel [1] can kill, and the onset is 2-3 days IIRC. So for you to say "just wait 20 mins" is way too short of a timeframe. It also seems plausible to take a test bite, decide not to eat anymore because you feel bad, but you've already done a little damage to your organs [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_ocreata https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_ocreata