Chinese rules of thumb have killed many Chinese Australians and Americans via death cap (truth in naming) mushrooms that look like paddy straw mushrooms

[–] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The amatoxins in deathcap and its relatives is so incredibly scary... Like, picograms of the stuff in an adult human will just basically turn them off...

[–] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I mean, it’s a decent survival strategy for the mushroom, especially depending on where the animal dies.

Imagine that boost of nutrients

[–] Daxter101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 months ago

Apex predator mushrooms.

[–] rumschlumpel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

A decent survival strategy would be to be poisonous and recognizably colored. If you look like any other mushroom, it's just revenge-poisoning. Possibly with the side effect of animals not eating any mushrooms, but that doesn't sound like something that's in a given mushroom species' interest.

[–] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 6 points 5 months ago

Sneaky death mushrooms get to break down the body, potentially

[–] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months ago

Incredibly poisonous, food-colored, and with spores that can survive/germinate in a digestive tract.

[–] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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