It's mushroom season in the southern hemisphere, and I'm rediscovering just how much *worse* foraging resources are compared to even a few years ago.

There's a terrifying number of LLM-written mushrooming books and guides out there, and they just straight make stuff up.

Fungi are a particular risk to foragers, because humans straight up don't have the ability to taste some of the most deadly toxins. The fungi that cause the most poisonings are the ones that taste good.

As always, do not eat any fungi unless you are absolutely sure what it is, and just as importantly absolutely sure what it is not. Learning to identify dangerous species is even more important than being able to identify edible ones. There are just too many look-alikes.

Stay safe. Be extra cautious of books and guides written in this decade. Happy mushrooming!

#foraging #foragingAustralia #mushrooms #mushrooming

#BrunswickME - Science for #SelfReliance: Integrating #MedicinalMushrooms into your Life

In-Person
Thursday, April 9, 2026
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Morrell Meeting Room, Curtis Memorial Library

For Adults and Seniors

"Join #MOFGA and #CurtisMemorialLibrary for a special talk on mushrooms. In an age of increasing stress and increasing health care costs, people seek healthy self-care practices in order to achieve and maintain optimum health. complement mainstream medicine for improved health maintenance or during those times when our health is compromised by illness, stress or disease. We benefit from generations of traditional healers around the world who have walked before us and utilized mushrooms and plants for their healing potential. Now western science is confirming the value of mushrooms as healing agents. Integrating medicinal mushrooms into our normal diet or as dietary supplements can help us all maintain good health. Join mycologist and author Greg Marley for a medicinal mushroom talk focused on the common Northeastern wild and cultivated mushrooms providing health benefits in our lives and available in the woods or foraged in a good market.

#GregMarley has been studying, growing, collecting and cooking #WildMushrooms for more than 45 years. He teaches #MushroomIdentification and ecology to hundreds of new #foragers as well as consulting in cases of mushroom poisoning. Greg is the author of Mushrooms for Health; Medicinal Secrets of Northeastern Fungi (2009) and Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares, The Love Lore and Mystique of Mushrooms (2010). Marley lives and mushrooms along the coast of Maine. When not #mushrooming he works as a mental health trainer and consultant in suicide prevention and response after a loss."

Source:
https://curtislibrary.libcal.com/event/15947333

#SolarPunkSunday #MushroomForaging #MushroomIdentification #Mushrooms #SpendTimeInNature #HealingWithNature #LibrariesRule #MaineEvents

Harmillista!

Että pussi tulee täyteen, vaikka vielä olisi miten ja paljon sieniä.

#kantarelli #kantarellit #suppilovahvero #suppis #suppilovahverot #suppikset #sieni #sienet #sienestys #satokausi #lenkillä #FunnelChanterelle #yellowfoot #MushroomHunting #mushrooming #luonto #nature #syksy #autumn #höst #svampplockning #svamp #svampar #kantarell #keltavahvero #trattkantarell #natur

https://youtu.be/_rAecV8lArE

A really fun find! My best guess is the aptly named lurid bolete (Boletus luridus) is working it's color changing magic for us.

Spotted on a night walk in September once the hunters leave the forest, in France.

Mushroom features:
nearly 15 cm across
Brownish top,
yellow-green tubes
Turns very blue on cutting
habitat - mixed beech + hornbeam woodland on calcareous soil, autumn
Edible when cooked but can cause belly upsets.

#mushroom #mushrooms #fungi #boletus #forage #forager #mushrooming #autumn #fall #forestlife

Día de hongos en el Monte Tláloc.
🍄💕

#funghi
#mushrooming

Potential antidote found for toxin in world’s most poisonous mushroom | Australia news | The Guardian

#Fungi #Fungiverse #Fungus #FungusAmongUs #Mushrooming #Mushrooms #Mushroomstodon #Mushtodon #Mycology #Pilze #Shrooms #Spores #Sporespondence #Toadstool

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/may/17/potential-antidote-found-for-toxin-in-worlds-most-poisonous-mushroom