I’ve been on a few mushroom forays recently. The advice is clear: if you’re in California (especially north and central coast) do not put any wild mushrooms in your mouth especially this year

We have many lookalikes that look ‘safe’. More than 40 people have been poisoned, 3-4 dead, since Nov. many of them immigrants who are misled by some of our deathly mushrooms looking exactly the same as the ones they know

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-02-08/california-mushroom-poisonings-are-on-rise-heres-whats-being-done-to-curb-exposure

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