I just refuse to pick anything white/brown unless it's morphologically distinct. Amanita is the big toxic mushroom around here and some of them look exactly like puffballs at their most delicious.
The mycologist dude took the whole class to a field trip where we picked like 100 different fungi and the trip started with him saying "hey let's go check that oak, ah cool Amanita phalloides. This single little guy can kill us all here if we shared a smoothie with this guy in it"
I just refuse to pick anything white/brown unless it's morphologically distinct. Amanita is the big toxic mushroom around here and some of them look exactly like puffballs at their most delicious.
Lol
The mycologist dude took the whole class to a field trip where we picked like 100 different fungi and the trip started with him saying "hey let's go check that oak, ah cool Amanita phalloides. This single little guy can kill us all here if we shared a smoothie with this guy in it"