Don't use mushroom ID apps and don't trust random guidebooks from Amazon, they're probably AI-generated crap.
The deadly mycotoxin orellanine, which is present in Cortinarius rubellus, the deadly webcap, may not cause symptoms in those who ingested the mushroom until one or two weeks have passed – after detectable traces of the toxin are already gone, and late-stage kidney failure has already begun. Connecting the sickness with certainty to a misidentified wild mushroom that was eaten weeks earlier with no obvious ill effects is not always possible.
Yeah, nope.
Started foraging mushrooms previous year. I'm alive so far.
Also met a deer while foraging. Didn't know they could bark. Scared the shit out of me.
Even some of the ones that are edible still secretly want to kill you. From the Wikipedia entry for "chicken of the woods":
In some cases eating the mushroom "causes mild reactions ... for example, "swollen lips" or in rare cases "nausea, vomiting, dizziness and disorientation" to those who are sensitive. This is believed to be due to a number of factors that include allergies to the mushroom's protein or toxins which are only somewhat stable at high temperatures.
I'll eat portabellos if they come on pasta or pizza (though I've started taking them off the latter because they turn to rubber in the microwave) but I sure as hell am not going out of my way to order any dish that features them (mushrooms) as the main protein.
Foongus Amoonguss
(This is an actual pokemon evolution line)
(used for a mushroom-like pokemon that looks like a poke ball to fool trainers into grabbing it)
Locally I know like five brown mushrooms that look similar, but I think I know which one’s the psychedelic one and which is going to kill you. Maybe I’m naive, and I haven’t put it into action.
