Edibility scale of mushrooms:

[pjf@cloudisland.nz]

Edibility scale of mushrooms:

- Choice
- Edible
- Not recommended
- Poisonous
- Deadly
- Deadly but consumed in Finland

Gyromitra esculenta - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

#foraging #mushrooms #Finland

[waltman@hachyderm.io]

@pjf I'm wondering how good these mushrooms could possibly taste to risk eating them.

[pjf@cloudisland.nz]

@waltman : Apparently some of them are… an experience when it comes to taste.

Lactarius torminosus - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

[waltman@hachyderm.io]

@pjf One wonders how the Finns are the happiest nation on earth when they eat this kind of stuff. Not to mention their licorice!

[alfredon996@livellosegreto.it]

@pjf Considering its appearance, I don't understand how anyone could want to eat this, even if edible.

[pogohandshake@sportloto.company]

@pjf “Deadly in hot climates” would be accurate, but would spoil all the fun

[muddle@infosec.exchange]

@neoluddite @pjf and also "talk to the little people"...

Experts Explore New Mushroom Which Causes Fairytale-Like Hallucinations

Between traditional folklore and modern biology, the wild forest floor and the sterile scientific laboratory, lies the story of the lilliputian mushroom.

Natural History Museum of Utah (nhmu.utah.edu)

[gemelen@mammut.moe]

@pjf
Not only in Finland.
I didn't like these particular ones, but we picked and ate them too - usually there were more of the tastier mushrooms.
(On the other hand, my birthplace is at about the same latitude as Helsinki).

We also picked amanitas, though to make an ointment against the back pain.

[barubary@infosec.exchange]

@pjf Oh, cool: "... thorough cooking does not eliminate all toxins ... may be chronically toxic and linked to regional clusters of ALS ... possible there is a carcinogenic risk for people who ingest these types of mushrooms ..."